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only, I trust, relate the little I do know, but also a great deal I do not know."
"It seems to me," returned the count, smiling, "that you played a sufficiently important part to know, as well as myself, what happened."
"Well, you promise me, if I tell all I know, to relate, in your turn, all that I do not know?"
"That is but fair," replied Monte-Cristo.
"Well," said Morcerf, "even if my conceit suffer by the confession, for three days I believed myself the object of the attentions of a mask,