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THE COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO
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six months or a year for wealth. Would he not have accepted liberty without riches if it had been offered to him? Besides, were not those riches chimerical? — offspring of the diseased brain of the poor Abbé Faria, had they not died with him? It is true, this letter of the Cardinal
Spada was singularly circumstantial, and Dantès repeated to himself, from one end to the other, the letter, of which he had not forgotten a word.
The evening came on, and Edmond saw the island pass through every change of tint that twilight brings with it, and disappear in the
