Before he could arrest me I had finished the extract.

My auditors were all convulsed with laughter, except the judge, who was convulsed with rage.

As soon as he could articulate he addressed me as follows: Mr.Justice North: Now, Foote, I am going to put a stop to this.
I will not allow any more of these illustrations of what you call permitted blasphemy in cheap publications.

I decline to have any more of them put before me.
Mr.Foote: My Lord, I will use them for another purpose, if you will allow me.
Mr.Justice North: You will not use them here at all, sir.
Mr.Foote: May they not be used, my lord to show that an equally free use of religious symbols, and religious language, prevails widely in all classes of literature and society?
Mr.Justice North: No they may not.

I decline to hear them read.