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THE COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO
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of vessel very similar to those employed upon the occasion of public illuminations.
"But how do you procure a light?"
"Oh, here are two flints and a morsel of burnt linen. I feigned a
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disorder of the skin, and asked for a little sulphur, which was readily supplied."
Dantès laid the different things he had been looking at gently on the table, and stood with his head drooping, as though overwhelmed by the persevering spirit of such a character.
