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THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
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child of my captivity. My profession condemns me to celibacy. God has sent you to me to console, at one and the same time, the man who could not be a father and the prisoner who could not get free."
And Faria extended the arm of which alone the use remained to him to the young man, who threw himself around his neck and wept bitterly.
