No harm would come to the old woman that night from the loss of her crown, and it was too near supper-time for any attempt at restoration, just then.
"Only to think of it!" said Mrs.Chipperton.

"After all we did for her! I don't believe she was queen more than an hour.

It's the shortest reign I ever heard of." "And that Priscilla!" cried Corny.

"The girl we trusted to do so much, and----" "Paid every night," said I.
"Yes," she continued, "and gave a pair of mother's shoes to, for the coronation! And to think that _she_ should deceive us and do the usurping!" The shorter yellow-legs, who had been standing by with his friend, now made a remark.

He evidently remembered Corny, on the Oclawaha steam-boat, although he had never become acquainted with her or her family.
"Did your queen talk French ?" he asked, with a smile; "or was not that the language of the Court ?" "No, it wasn't," said Corny, gravely.