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"It is true," said the baroness, with that strange simplicity sometimes met with among fashionable ladies, and of which plebeian intercourse can never entirely deprive them, "it is very true that had not the Morcerfs hesitated, my daughter would have married Monsieur Albert. The general depended much on it; he even came to force M. Danglars. We have had a narrow escape."
"And for this very reason," said Danglars with a smile, which he tried to make sardonic, "I prefer M. Andrea Cavalcanti to M. Albert de Morcerf." "Still, I should not think the Morcerfs would yield to the Cavalcanti?" "The Morcerfs! Stay, my dear count," said Danglars; "you are a man of the world, are you not?" "I think so." "And you understand heraldry?" "A little."
Danglars burst out laughing. "What a Puritan you are!" said he; "that happens every day." "But you cannot break it off in this way; the Morcerfs are depending on this union." "Indeed." "Positively." "Then let them explain themselves; you should give the father a hint, you are so intimate with the family." "I? where the devil did you find out that?" "At their ball; it was apparent enough.
Albert de Morcerf, Espérance and M. and Mme. Morrel, Mercédès and the Morcerfs having come post-haste to Rome to take part in the auspicious event. Monte-Cristo gave his daughter the dowry of a Princess and his liberality was fully matched by that of the Count Massetti who settled upon Giovanni a fortune equal to that of some oriental potentate.
When I perceived you, I was just asking myself whether I had not wished harm towards those poor Morcerfs, which would have justified the proverb of 'He who wishes misfortunes to happen to others experiences them himself. Well, on my word of honor, I answered, 'No! I wished no ill to Morcerf; he was a little proud, perhaps, for a man who like myself has risen from nothing; but we all have our faults.
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