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THE COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO
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half full — than Marseilles began to rekindle the flames of civil war, always unextinguished in the south, and it required but little to excite the populace to acts of far greater violence than the shouts and insults with which they assailed the royalists whenever they ventured abroad.
Napoleon's Return From Elba
Owing to this natural change, the worthy shipowner became at that moment — we will not say all-powerful, because Morrel was a prudent and rather a timid man, like all who have made a slow success in business; so much so, that many of the most zealous partisans of Bona-
