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Rh The president called for the deed of accusation, drawn up, as we know, by the clever and implacable pen of De Villefort. During the reading of this, which was long, and would have crushed any one else, the public attention was continually drawn toward Andrea, who bore

the burden with Spartan unconcern. Villefort had never been So concise and eloquent: the crime was represented under the liveliest colors; the former life of the prisoner, his transformation, a review of his life from the earliest period, were set forth with all the talent that a knowl edge of human life could furnish to a mind like that of the procureur du