Well--said my father, with a full aspiration, and pausing a while after the word --Was I a judge, and the laws of the country which made me one permitted it, I would condemn some of the worst malefactors, provided they had had their clergy-------- ----_Yorick_, foreseeing the sentence was likely to end with no sort of mercy, laid his hand upon my father's breast, and begged he would respite it for a few minutes, till he asked the corporal a question. 
'Well,' said my father, 'if I was a judge, and the laws permitted it, I would condemn some of the worst malefactors-'
Yorick, foreseeing the sentence was likely to end with no mercy, laid his hand upon my father's breast, and begged he would wait for a few minutes, till he asked the corporal a question.
