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"The count will come, of that you may be satisfied." "You know that he has another name besides Monte Cristo?" "No, I did not know it." "Monte Cristo is the name of an island, and he has a family name." "I never heard it." "Well, then, I am better informed than you; his name is Zaccone." "It is possible." "He is a Maltese." "That is also possible. "The son of a shipowner."
Do you know the Count of Monte Cristo?" "You mean Monsieur Zaccone, I presume?" "Zaccone? is not his name Monte Cristo?" "Monte Cristo is the name of an estate, or, rather, of a rock, and not a family name." "Well, be it so let us not dispute about words; and since M. de Monte Cristo and M. Zaccone are the same" "Absolutely the same." "Let us speak of M. Zaccone." "Agreed."
It was there Wilmore had first met him and fought against him; and in that war Zaccone had been taken prisoner, sent to England, and consigned to the hulks, whence he had escaped by swimming. Then began his travels, his duels, his caprices; then the insurrection in Greece broke out, and he had served in the Grecian ranks.
"It's somewhere in the Chaussee d'Antin; but I know neither the street nor the number." "Are you at variance with the Englishman?" "I love Zaccone, and he hates him; we are consequently not friends." "Do you think the Count of Monte Cristo had ever been in France before he made this visit to Paris?"
M. de Monte Cristo may have heard it, and to enlighten himself but why should he wish to enlighten himself upon the subject?" asked Villefort, after a moment's reflection, "what interest can this M. de Monte Cristo or M. Zaccone, son of a shipowner of Malta, discoverer of a mine in Thessaly, now visiting Paris for the first time, what interest, I say, can he take in discovering a gloomy, mysterious, and useless fact like this?
"Exactly, he is a Quaker, with the exception of the peculiar dress." "Has he any friends?" "Yes, every one who knows him is his friend." "But has he any enemies?" "One only." "What is his name?" "Lord Wilmore." "Where is he?" "He is in Paris just now." "Can he give me any particulars?" "Important ones; he was in India with Zaccone." "Do you know his abode?"
"Are you sure of what you assert?" "What do you mean by that question?" "Understand, sir, I do not in the least suspect your veracity; I ask if you are certain of it?" "I knew his father, M. Zaccone." "Ah, indeed?" "And when a child I often played with the son in the timber-yards." "But whence does he derive the title of count?" "You are aware that may be bought." "In Italy?" "Everywhere."
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