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THE COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO
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"Well, well!" returned M. Morrel, "we shall see! But now hasten on board; I will join you there ere long."
So saying, the shipowner quitted the two allies, and proceeded in the direction of the Palais de Justice.
Mercédès and Edmond's father
"You see," said Danglars, addressing Caderousse, "the turn things have taken. Do you still feel any desire to stand up in his defense?"
"Not the slightest, but yet it is a shocking thing a joke should lead to such consequences."
"But who perpetrated that joke? let me ask; neither you nor myself, but Fernand: you know very well that I threw the paper into a corner of the room, indeed, I fancied I had destroyed it."
