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Yes, we must pity the poor young lady; but it will be well that the offender should be made subject to the outraged laws of his country. Mrs. Smirkie, as she listened to these eloquent words, closed her eyes and hands in token of her thankfulness for all that Providence had done for her.
'You will be a married woman almost before you have seen him, said Georgiana, the second, 'and so it won't matter so much to you. We must get over it as we can. Julia had been thought by her sisters not to bear the Smirkie triumph with sufficient humility; and they, therefore, were sometimes a little harsh to her. 'I don't think you understand it at all, said Julia.
'I might just as well take upon myself to say that I didn't look upon you and Smirkie as man and wife in the sight of God. 'Papa! screamed the married daughter. 'Sir! ejaculated the married son-in-law. 'My dear, that is a strange thing to say of your own child, whispered the mother. 'Most strange! said Julia, lifting both her hands up in an agony. 'But it's true, roared the squire.
One epithet came out after another, very clearly spoken, with a pause between each of them; and the speaker, as he uttered them, looked his victim close in the face. Then he walked slowly away, leaving Mr. Smirkie fixed to the ground. What had he done? He had simply made a gentle allusion to the next world, as, surely, it was his duty to do.
Smirkie, with much eloquence, averred that that had nothing to do with the question. Mr. Bromley opened his eyes very wide. 'Nothing at all, said Mr. Smirkie. 'It is the verdict of the jury, confirmed by the judge, and the verdict itself dissolves the marriage. Whether the verdict be wrong or right, that marriage ceremony is null and void.
Mr. Smirkie, no doubt, had had a former wife, but no one would call him a bigamist. In what a condition might her poor Julia have been but for that interposition of Providence! For Aunt Polly regarded poor Hester Bolton as having been quite a providential incident, furnished expressly for the salvation of Julia. Hitherto Mr.
He was not, therefore ill-disposed to resent on the part of Mr. Smirkie the spirit of persecution with which that gentleman seemed to regard his nephew. 'Is Mr. Smirkie in the house, he asked the coachman. 'He came by the 3.40, as usual, said the man. It was very much 'as usual, thought the squire. 'There isn't a doubt about it, said the squire to his wife as he was dressing.
Then it became plain that delirium tremens was not written on his face quite so plainly as Mr. Smirkie had at first thought, and there was nothing left but his trousers to condemn him. But Mr. Smirkie was still confident. 'I don't think you can go beyond the verdict, he said. 'There may be a pardon, of course; though I shall never believe it till I see it.
'She says that, let the law say what it may, these people are not to be regarded as man and wife. 'Not by me, said Julia. 'Who are you that you are to set up a tribunal of your own? And if you judge of another couple in that way, why isn't some one to judge of you after the same fashion? 'There is the verdict, said Mr. Smirkie. 'No verdict has pronounced me a bigamist.
And at last, after much persevering assiduity, Mr. Smirkie succeeded in reaching Mr. Caldigate himself, and expressed himself with boldness. He was a man who had at any rate the courage of his opinions. 'You have to think of her future life in this world and in the next, he said. 'And in the next, he repeated with emphasis, when Mr. Caldigate paused.
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