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Rh Monte-Cristo is, whence he comes, where he goes, and why he speaks in our presence of children which have been disinterred in a garden."

Villefort pronounced these words with an accent which would have made the count shudder had he heard him. Then he pressed the hand

the baroness reluctantly gave him, and led her respectfully back to the door. Madame Danglars returned in another hackney-coach to the Passage, on the other side of which she found her carriage, and her Coachman sleeping peacefully on his box while waiting for her.