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industry. Another person was confined in the chateau at the same time, but he was not wicked, he was only a poor, mad priest."
"Ah, indeed!—mad!" repeated Monte-Cristo: "and what was his mania?"
Dantès' Cell.
"He offered millions to any one who would set him at liberty."
Monte-Cristo raised his eyes, but he could not see the heavens; there was a stone veil between him and the firmament. He thought that there had been no less thick a veil before the eyes of those to whom Faria offered the treasures.
