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him to encourage feelings of dislike to me, which I am determined to conquer, whatever they may be, by my devotedness."
And without listening to Villefort, he rose and followed Valentine,
who was running downstairs with the joy of a shipwrecked mariner who finds a rock to cling to. Villefort followed them. Château-Renaud and Morcerf exchanged a third look of still increasing wonder.