THE COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO.
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"Ah! you have a noble heart," said the count; "so much the better."
This exclamation, which corresponded to the count's own thought rather than to what Albert was saying, surprised everybody, and especially Morrel, who looked at Monte-Cristo with surprise. But, at
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the same time, the intonation was so soft that, however strange the exclamation might seem, it was impossible to be offended at it.
"Why should he doubt it?" said Beauchamp to Château-Renaud.
"In reality," replied the latter, who, with his aristocratic glance and his knowledge of the world, had penetrated at once all that was pene-
