CHAPTER IV.
There was one person in the establishment of Dr.Riccabocca who was satisfied neither with the marriage of his master nor the arrival of Violante,--and that was our friend Lenny Fairfield.

Previous to the all-absorbing duties of courtship, the young peasant had secured a very large share of Riccabocca's attention.

The sage had felt interest in the growth of this rude intelligence struggling up to light.

But what with the wooing and what with the wedding, Lenny Fairfield had sunk very much out of his artificial position as pupil into his natural station of under-gardener.

And on the arrival of Violante, he saw, with natural bitterness, that he was clean forgotten, not only by Riccabocca, but almost by Jackeymo.