Read to the end for a plot twist I guarantee you won’t see coming:
A man who had committed bigamy was to-day acquitted at the Paris Assizes. He had married a woman twenty years older than himself, but she turned out to have a very bad temper, and refused to live with him. Then he met a young woman, with whom he fell violently in love, and not being able to wait for a divorce married her.
When the jury heard the story and saw the behaviour of the two women in court they decided to acquit the man. “But he is my legal husband,” protested the elder woman. “No,” said the younger woman, kissing the man, “the court says my poor darling is not guilty, and I am therefore his wife.”
Thereupon the two women began fighting with their umbrellas, and had to be separated by the police.
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