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After a while she recalled with a start the events of less than an hour ago events that ought to have seemed wildly exciting, arousing the deepest and strongest emotions. Yet they had made no impression upon her. Absolutely none. She had no horror in the thought that she had been the victim of a bigamist; she had no elation over her release into freedom and safety.
Then there came a request from Babington that Dick Shand would go over to them there for a day. At Babington opinion was divided. Aunt Polly and her eldest daughter, and with them Mr. Smirkie, still thought that John Caldigate was a wicked bigamist; but the Squire and the rest of the family had gradually gone over to the other side.
One can almost subscribe to America's claim that Holmes is the "greatest criminal" of a century boasting no mean record in such persons. In the remarkable character of his achievements as an assassin we are apt to lose sight of Holmes' singular skill and daring as a liar and a bigamist.
"What does a bigamist look like?" meditated Mr. Tutt as he lit another stogy. "Good morning, Mr. Tutt," muttered the Honorable Peckham from behind the imitation rubber plant in his office, where he was engaged in surreptitiously consuming an apple. "Um be with you in a minute. What's on your mind?" Mr. Tutt simultaneously removed his stogy with one hand and his stovepipe with the other.
Thereafter he conceived successively a Marie Touchet, a tragedy in prose entitled Don Philip and Don Carlos, a farce comedy, Prudhomme Bigamist, a drama, The Courtiers, written in collaboration with Emmanuel Arago and Jules Sandeau, and a high-class comedy, The Grande Mademoiselle, also in collaboration with Sandeau.
"Because your father was what's commonly known as a bigamist, and his marriage with your mother was not legal. I thought I'd take this opportunity of telling you. You needn't say anything to your mother unless of course you feel you must." To which George had replied: "No, I won't. But if Cannon was my father's name I think I'll have it all the same." And he did have it.
Power and opportunity and purpose righteous purpose! The circumstances had come to her in a flash; she brought them up again steadily and scrutinized them. The case was absolutely clear. Frank Prendergast had been dead just seven months. Colonel Innes imagined himself married four years. Violet Prendergast was a bigamist, and Horace Innes had no wife.
Fortunately, he had returned to the house by the front hall and was in the hall inventing a story of burglars to the agitated Lady Sybil when they heard the shot which ended the wretched life of the bigamist. That had saved him from being suspected of actual complicity in the crime. Suppose they had he sweated at the thought.
"Do you know the man, Caleb?" he demanded suddenly. "No, I do not. I have never seen him. Nan wrote me when they were married, and told me his name, of course." "Then there was a marriage, Caleb?" "So Nan wrote me." "Ah! Has Nan a marriage certificate?" "I have never seen it. Seems their marriage wasn't legal. The name he gave wasn't his own; he was a bigamist." "Then Nan knows his real name."
"That is what a bigamist should tell the jury," retorted La Briere, laughing. This epigram made another disagreeable impression on Canalis. He began to think La Briere too witty and too free for a secretary.
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