And may the Lord have mercy on your soul!" "Noah Poke, or No.

1, sea-water-color," put in Baron Longbeard, without giving the culprit breathing-time, "you have been indicted, tried, and found guilty of the enormous crime of charging the queen-consort of this realm of being wanting in the ordinary, important, and every-day faculty of a memory.

Have you anything to say why sentence should not be forthwith passed against you?
No; I am sure you are very right in throwing yourself altogether on the mercy of the court, which is quite disposed to show you all that is in its power, which happens, in this case, to be none at all.

I need not dwell on the gravity of your offence.

If the law should allow that the queen has no memory, other females might put in claims to the same privilege, and society would become a chaos.