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"Yes; the discovery, the discovery!" demanded the others, impatiently. "Well," said Bouche-de-Miel, "I went to the Rue du Helder this morning, as agreed upon, and made a survey of Monte-Cristo's mansion.
Her curiosity was unworthy of her, she knew, unworthy of Monte-Cristo's daughter. What right had she to pry into the heart secret of one of her school companions? Still she gazed; she could not help it. Suddenly she stooped and took the envelope from the ground. The address riveted her eyes like a magician's spell. Great heavens! it was her own name Zuleika!
Charles Albert, the king of Sardinia, will betray you as soon as his ends have been served. Do you still desire to carry out your ideas?" Monte-Cristo's words sounded prophetic. The patriots could not dissimulate the impression they made. But their opinions did not change. "And if the worst should come!" said one, courageously, "I would rather die than hesitate any longer. To arms!"
"It amounts to so much that I cannot go with you to Monte-Cristo's house and run the risk of meeting that woman!" Waldmann gave vent to a loud laugh; the others smiled. "I never before heard of a Frenchman who was afraid to meet a woman!" said Siebecker, much amused. "I tell you I cannot go; you must let me off," said Bouche-de-Miel, obstinately. "What!" cried Peppino.
You need not fear recognition, even if you should meet the woman you have spoken of face to face, for you will be masked like the rest of us. If you are anxious about her safety, I will tell you now that we only want Monte-Cristo's millions; we do not mean murder." "But what if murder should be necessary, if it cannot be avoided?" Waldmann shrugged his shoulders.
I prefer not to have as a neighbor a thief and an assassin, even if he did shine so brilliantly once in aristocratic Parisian society as the Prince Cavalcanti!" "What is the matter, my lord?" asked Haydée, noticing the expression on Monte-Cristo's countenance. "From whom is the letter?" "Oh! it is nothing," answered the Count, with a smile.
The strict seclusion in which she had lived in Paris had necessarily excluded her from all personal knowledge of the Count's subtle war upon his enemies; true, she had emerged from her retirement to testify against Morcerf at his trial before the House of Peers, but at that time she was ignorant of the fact that by causing the foe of her family to be convicted of felony, treason and outrage she had simply promoted Monte-Cristo's vengeance on Fernand, the Catalan.
Absalom, even though he be a charlatan as you maintain, but which, if you will pardon me, I must decline to admit, could not make a more conspicuous and complete failure!" "M. the Count," said the director, coldly, evidently not relishing Monte-Cristo's bluntness, "all that the most advanced science can do has been done.
The husband hastened to the spot, and Valentine, making him seat himself beside her and Monte-Cristo's daughter, told him all she had just learned. She also communicated to him the offer she had made to Zuleika, adding: "You will consent to it, I know, Maximilian!" "Gladly," answered the young soldier. "Had you not made the proposal, I should have made it myself!"
Madame Caraman responded respectfully to the Count of Monte-Cristo's kind salute; the count walked along the street and hailed a passer-by. Immediately a beautiful carriage with two splendid horses approached, and after the count had ordered Ali, who sat in front, "to drive around the town," he and Coucou got inside, where began the conversation in a friendly manner.
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