THE COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO.
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"That which you have just heard."
"Oh, it is admirable as the production of a human composer, sung by a party of bipeds without feathers, as Diogenes styled mankind."
"Why, my dear count, you speak as if you could at pleasure enjoy the seven choirs of paradise?"
Monte-Cristo and Ali.
"You are right, in some degree; but when I wish to listen to sounds so exquisitely attuned to melody as mortal ear never yet listened to, I go to sleep."
"Then why not indulge yourself at once? Sleep, by all means; for what else was the opera invented?"
