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THE COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO
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could just recollect having visited during his earliest youth in a voyage he made to Guzerat and Golconda.
"Come," said he to the abbé, "show me the wonderful inventions you told me of."
Faria in His Chamber
The abbé, proceeding to the fire-place, raised, by the help of his chisel, a stone, which had been the hearth, beneath which was a cavity of considerable depth, serving as a depository of the articles mentioned to Dantès.
"What do you wish to see first?" asked the abbé.
"Oh! your great work on the monarchy of Italy!"
