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THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO.
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they had been doing; yet you said nothing, though you were present when Dantès was arrested."
"Yes, sir, I was there, and very anxious to speak! but Danglars restrained me. 'If he should really be guilty,' said he, 'and did really
put in to the isle of Elba; if he is really charged with a letter for the Bonapartist committee at Paris, and if they find this letter upon him, those who have supported him will pass for his accomplices.' I confess I had my fears of the police in the state in which politics then were,