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Jessop, much broken in health because of her daughter's terrible end, has gone back with her husband to live at his house in Stowley." "What," shouted Beecot senior, "is that she-devil to go free, too?" "I don't think she was so bad as we thought," said Paul. "I fancied she was a thoroughly bad woman, but she really was not. She certainly committed bigamy, but then she thought Jessop was drowned.
"I don't believe it; and, besides, we shall soon see! And if you don't die in three weeks, perhaps I sha'n't get five years for bigamy, and perhaps Flora won't marry a fair man with millions of money and motor-cars." "No; perhaps she is wrong after all, mother," said Mr. Dowson, hopefully. Mrs.
Should she institute a prosecution against him for bigamy, thereby acknowledging that she was herself no wife and that her child was illegitimate? From such evidence as she could get, she believed that the Italian woman whom the Earl in former years had married had died before her own marriage.
Amelia delivered herself on the subject of second marriages with much eloquence and great good sense; but when Mrs. Bennet came to give her opinion she spoke in the following manner: "I shall not enter into the question concerning the legality of bigamy. Our laws certainly allow it, and so, I think, doth our religion.
Notwithstanding the multitude of petty offences for which a slave is severely punished, it is singular that one crime bigamy is visited upon a white with severity, while no slave has ever yet been tried for it. In fact, the man is allowed to form connections with as many women, and the women with as many men, as they please. At St. Louis, William was employed as coachman to Mr.
The name was familiar to me. I asked questions, found he was married and had a son, yourself. "Mr. Ravenel," Dermott changed his tone of recital to a more intimate one, "to speak truth, the matter is inexplicable to me. Your father was a brilliant man; a man of the world who, if he had no religious scruples on the subject of bigamy, must have had respect for law.
The archbishop on his part was also careful to procure himself allies. As Elector of Cologne he summoned the Landtag, and its members declared themselves in his favour. The landgrave, Philip of Hessen, to whom Luther had given licence to commit bigamy, and other Protestant princes naturally promised him their support, and the Schmalkaldian League did likewise.
'Men were deceivers ever. Not long ago, a Lovelace whose history is given in the New York Reports conducted himself in a manner that would be precisely analogous to that of your late husband, were it not that, instead of dying, he did what was less judicious, he married again and was sent up for bigamy. He too had omitted to secure a license. He also entertained a lady with a fancy-ball.
No, no, my dear; I can get all the temperance talk I want without committin' bigamy for it. 'An' you couldn' marry me, says the merrymaid, with a kind o' sob, 'because I'm married already, an' the mother of two as pretty children as ever you wished to see.
"You've been committing bigamy," cried Mrs. Gimpson. "Over and over agin," assented Mr. Boxer, cheerfully. "It's got to be a 'obby with me." "Was the first wife alive when you married my daughter?" demanded Mrs. Gimpson. "Alive?" said Mr. Boxer. "O' course she was. She's alive now bless her."
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