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THE COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO
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coat, buttoned up to the chin; rosette of an officer of the Legion of Honor in his button-hole; a hat with wide brim, and a cane."
"Ah! ah! that is it, is it?" said Noirtier; "and why, then, have they not laid hands on the individual?"
"Because yesterday, or the day before, they lost sight of him at the corner of the Rue Coq-Héron."
"Didn't I say your police was good for nothing?"
"Yes; but still it may lay hands on him."
"True," said Noirtier, looking carelessly around him, "true, if this
