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THE COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO.
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"And I can well understand," said the countess, shrugging up her beautiful shoulders as though a shudder passed through her veins, "that those who have once seen that man will never be likely to forget him"

Haydée at the Opera

The sensation experienced by Franz was evidently not peculiar to himself, since another felt the same.

"Well," inquired Franz, after the countess had a second time directed

her lorgnette at the box, "what do you think of our opposite neighbor?"

"Why, that he is no other than Lord Ruthven himself in a living form"