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Rh approach after having struck your father, your wife, perhaps your son."

Villefort, suffocating, pressed the doctor's arm.

"Listen!" cried he; "pity me,—help me! No, my daughter is not

guilty. If you drag us both before a tribunal I will still say, 'No, my daughter is not guilty;—there is no crime in my house' I will not acknowledge a crime in my house; for when crime enters a dwelling, it is like death; it does not come alone. Listen!—What does it signify