will he turne Bigamist?

"Your feeling?" "It's nothing to you that we have a brother who's a bigamist?"

" "Bigamy is an ugly word," he continued, "but I meant to be a bigamist.

A bigamous marriage is invalid, but the bigamist is punished.

She had often heard of bigamy, and that her husband should prove to be a bigamist did not throw her into a swoon.

You are a bigamist, sir; a deceiver of women!

Who could deny now the reiterated statement that he was a bigamist?

Why, since this day last week he has saved three pick-pockets, two Salvationists, one bigamist and a Roman Catholic.

This occurred in Cambridge on the Wednesday after the christening; and before the Saturday night following, all the Boltons were thoroughly convinced that this wretched man, who had taken from them their daughter and their sister, was a bigamist, and that poor Hester, though a mother, was not a wife.

Robert Bolton, when the charge was first made, when the letter from the woman was first shown to him, had become aware that he had made a mistake in allowing this trouble to come upon the family; and then, as from point to point the evidence had been opened out to him, he had gradually convinced himself that the son-in-law and brother-in-law, whom he had, as it were, forced into the family, was a bigamist.

Mr. Smirkie, no doubt, had had a former wife, but no one would call him a bigamist.

Indeed, there had been a little misunderstanding among the Babingtons on the subject, which was perhaps strengthened by the fact that Mr. Smirkie had more endeared himself to Julia's mother than to Julia's father or sisters, and that Mr. Smirkie himself was very clear as to the criminality of the bigamist.

How can any juryman believe her after that?' 'Mr. Seely says that twelve men will not be less likely to think me a bigamist because she has expressed her readiness to commit bigamy; that, if alone, she would not have a leg to stand upon, but that she is amply corroborated; whereas I have not been able to find a single witness to support me.

If the law declared him a bigamist, she could not then be his wife.

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.

That the wicked bigamist had falsely and fraudulently robbed her of her daughter was a religion to Mrs. Bolton;and, as the matter had proceeded, the old banker had become ever more and more submissive to his wife's feelings.

Sometimes, as he had heard Mr. Smirkie inveigh against the enormity of bigamy and of this bigamist in particular, he had determined that some 'odd-come-shortly,' as he would call it, he would give the vicar of Plum-cum-Pippins a moral pat on the head which should silence him for a time.

'No verdict has pronounced me a bigamist.'

The pardon in that case would not do away with the verdict,and the pardoned man would be a convicted bigamist.

I am a bigamist!" Tutt regarded him with obvious curiosity.

" "Now I'm a bigamist!" answered Mr. Higgleby.

I know a man who at one and the same time is legally married to one woman in England, to another in Nevada, is a bigamist in New York, and" "What else could he be except a widower in Pittsburgh?" pondered the elder Tutt.

"But he don't look like a bigamist," he concluded.

"What does a bigamist look like?" meditated Mr. Tutt as he lit another stogy.

With perfect articulation, enunciation and gesticulation Mr. Caput Magnus went on to inform his hearers that Mr. Higgleby was a bigamist of the deepest dye, that he had feloniously, wilfully and knowingly married two several females, and by every standard of conduct was utterly and entirely detestable.