“With all my heart,” said she.
No sooner were these words uttered than a tremendous hurrah rang out from the box in which the witness was enclosed, and John Doe proved the upstart character Victoria had given him, by bursting the lid of the box open and starting up in the air, sending the ushers upon it flying, and, jumping out on the floor, he rushed up to the dock and gave the prisoner a great hug.
To this she replied by giving him a tremendous box on the ear.
“What!” said he, “did you not say you would give me all your heart with my own?”
“Well, you have me there,” said she; “but you must take the whole or none. When you asked for my heart, you asked for my hand as well, and you must take the one with the other,”—giving him another box on the ear.
OH GOODY!
The curious thing was, that from each box a number of little round things fell with a clatter and scattered themselves on the floor.
The noise woke the Clerk, who, starting up, called out, “Silence in the court!”
The hubbub still continuing, he shouted, “What is all this?”