"Then, Princess, will you relieve us by sentencing him yourself, as you best will?" craved the four.
"No," she answered, "that I cannot do, I might be too harsh—I have convicted him; let His Majesty, who is ever lenient, name his punishment."
Then they all turned to the King, who said—
"I command that he be banished from this land for ever, and any property that he has, or is likely to have, be confiscated."
THE QUEEN'S MONASTERY.