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Rh happiness, struck a sympathetic chord in his own bosom;—he also was on the point of being married, and he was summoned from his own happiness to destroy that of a man who, like himself, had happiness at his grasp.

"This philosophic reflection," thought he, "will make a great sensation at M. de Saint-Méran's." And he arranged mentally, whilst Dantès awaited further questions, the antithesis by which orators often create those phrases which sometimes pass for real eloquence. When this speech was arranged, Villefort turned to Dantès.