Had the prizes been of my choosing, she should have had a gift more poetical than a guinea." Haward opened the coach door, and stood gravely aside while she entered the vehicle and took her seat, depositing her flowers upon the cushions beside her.

The Colonel stirred, uncrossed his legs, yawned, pulled the handkerchief from his face, and opened his eyes.
"Faith!" he exclaimed, straightening himself, and taking up his radiant humor where, upon falling-asleep, he had let it drop.

"The way must have suddenly become smooth as a road in Venice, for I've felt no jolting this half hour.

Flowers, Evelyn?
and Haward afoot?
You've been on a woodland saunter, then, while I enacted Solomon's sluggard!" The worthy parent's eyes began to twinkle.

"What flowers did you find?
They have strange blooms here, and yet I warrant that even in these woods one might come across London pride and none-so-pretty and forget-me-not"-- His daughter smiled, and asked him some idle question about the May-apple and the Judas-tree.