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Rh loathes the idea of blood;—not only the laws of social life, but the laws of his nature, recoil from murder."

Dantès remained confused and silent by this explanation of the thoughts which had unconsciously been working in his mind, or, rather,

soul; for there are two distinct sorts of ideas,—those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

"Since my imprisonment," said Faria, "I have thought over all the most celebrated cases of escape recorded. Among the many that have failed, I consider there has been precipitation and haste. Those escapes that have been crowned with full success have been long meditated upon, and carefully arranged; such, for instance, as the escape of the Duke de Beaufort from the Château de Vincennes, that of the Abbé