THE COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO.
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"What you say is absurd, and I cannot see why M. Debray's name is mixed up in this affair."
"Because if you do not possess the one hundred and seventy-five thousand francs I reclaim, you must have lent them to your friends, and M. Debray is one of your friends."
Monte-Cristo's Interruption.
"For shame!" exclaimed the baroness.
"Oh! let us have no gestures, no screams, no modern drama, or you will oblige me to tell you that I see Debray leave here, pocketing nearly the whole of the five hundred thousand livres you have handed over to
