THE COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO.
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This precaution taken, they went to the theater, and installed themselves in the count's box. During the first act, the Countess G entered hers. Her first look was at the box where she had seen the count the previous evening, so that she perceived Franz and Albert in
The Opera-Box
the box of the very person concerning whom she had expressed so strange an opinion to Franz. Her opera-glass was so fixedly directed toward them, that Franz saw it would be cruel not to satisfy her curiosity; and, availing himself of one of the privileges of the spectators of the Italian theaters, which consists in using their boxes as their draw-
