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was again about to plead for Dantès. Alas! she was thinking only of Villefort's departure.

She loved Villefort, and he left her at the moment he was about to become her husband. Villefort knew not when he should return,

Mercédès and Fernand

and Renée, far from pleading for Dantès, hated the man whose crime separated her from her lover.

What had Mercédès to say?

Mercédès had met Fernand at the corner of the Rue de la Loge;