illustrious

Cavalcanti, his father, had been seen in Paris, and it was expected that he would re-appear to claim the illustrious outcast.

“I have not seen a man who, if he turns his talents that way, was more calculated to fill the gap left by the illustrious Moriarty.

“Everything,” he said, “proves me to be under the protection of some powerful person,—this sudden fortune, the facility with which I have overcome all obstacles, an unexpected family and an illustrious name awarded to me, gold showered down upon me, and the most splendid alliances about to be entered into.

“Moriarty himself is enough to make any letter illustrious, and here is Morgan the poisoner, and Merridew of abominable memory, and Mathews, who knocked out my left canine in the waiting-room at Charing Cross, and, finally, here is our friend of to-night.”