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"
Well
,
"
said
Franz
with
a
sigh
,
"
do
as
you
please
my
dear
viscount
,
for
your
arguments
are
beyond
my
powers
of
refutation
Still
,
in
spite
of
all
,
you
must
admit
that
this
Count
of
Monte
Cristo
is
a
most
singular
personage
.
"
"
He
is
a
philanthropist
,
"
answered
the
other
;
"
and
no
doubt
his
motive
in
visiting
Paris
is
to
compete
for
the
Monthyon
prize
,
given
,
as
you
are
aware
,
to
whoever
shall
be
proved
to
have
most
materially
advanced
the
interests
of
virtue
and
humanity
.
If
my
vote
and
interest
can
obtain
it
for
him
,
I
will
readily
give
him
the
one
and
promise
the
other
.
And
now
,
my
dear
Franz
,
let
us
talk
of
something
else
.
Come
,
shall
we
take
our
luncheon
,
and
then
pay
a
last
visit
to
St.
Peter
's
?
"
Franz
silently
assented
;
and
the
following
afternoon
,
at
half-past
five
o'clock
,
the
young
men
parted
.
Albert
de
Morcerf
to
return
to
Paris
,
and
Franz
d'Epinay
to
pass
a
fortnight
at
Venice
.
But
,
ere
he
entered
his
travelling
carriage
,
Albert
,
fearing
that
his
expected
guest
might
forget
the
engagement
he
had
entered
into
,
placed
in
the
care
of
a
waiter
at
the
hotel
a
card
to
be
delivered
to
the
Count
of
Monte
Cristo
,
on
which
,
beneath
the
name
of
Vicomte
Albert
de
Morcerf
,
he
had
written
in
pencil
--
"
27
,
Rue
du
Helder
,
on
the
21st
May
,
half-past
ten
A.M.
"
In
the
house
in
the
Rue
du
Helder
,
where
Albert
had
invited
the
Count
of
Monte
Cristo
,
everything
was
being
prepared
on
the
morning
of
the
21st
of
May
to
do
honor
to
the
occasion
.
Albert
de
Morcerf
inhabited
a
pavilion
situated
at
the
corner
of
a
large
court
,
and
directly
opposite
another
building
,
in
which
were
the
servants
'
apartments
.
Two
windows
only
of
the
pavilion
faced
the
street
;
three
other
windows
looked
into
the
court
,
and
two
at
the
back
into
the
garden
.
Between
the
court
and
the
garden
,
built
in
the
heavy
style
of
the
imperial
architecture
,
was
the
large
and
fashionable
dwelling
of
the
Count
and
Countess
of
Morcerf
.
A
high
wall
surrounded
the
whole
of
the
hotel
,
surmounted
at
intervals
by
vases
filled
with
flowers
,
and
broken
in
the
centre
by
a
large
gate
of
gilded
iron
,
which
served
as
the
carriage
entrance
.
A
small
door
,
close
to
the
lodge
of
the
concierge
,
gave
ingress
and
egress
to
the
servants
and
masters
when
they
were
on
foot
.
It
was
easy
to
discover
that
the
delicate
care
of
a
mother
,
unwilling
to
part
from
her
son
,
and
yet
aware
that
a
young
man
of
the
viscount
's
age
required
the
full
exercise
of
his
liberty
,
had
chosen
this
habitation
for
Albert
.
There
were
not
lacking
,
however
,
evidences
of
what
we
may
call
the
intelligent
egoism
of
a
youth
who
is
charmed
with
the
indolent
,
careless
life
of
an
only
son
,
and
who
lives
as
it
were
in
a
gilded
cage
.
By
means
of
the
two
windows
looking
into
the
street
,
Albert
could
see
all
that
passed
;
the
sight
of
what
is
going
on
is
necessary
to
young
men
,
who
always
want
to
see
the
world
traverse
their
horizon
,
even
if
that
horizon
is
only
a
public
thoroughfare
.
Then
,
should
anything
appear
to
merit
a
more
minute
examination
,
Albert
de
Morcerf
could
follow
up
his
researches
by
means
of
a
small
gate
,
similar
to
that
close
to
the
concierge
's
door
,
and
which
merits
a
particular
description
.
It
was
a
little
entrance
that
seemed
never
to
have
been
opened
since
the
house
was
built
,
so
entirely
was
it
covered
with
dust
and
dirt
;
but
the
well-oiled
hinges
and
locks
told
quite
another
story
.
This
door
was
a
mockery
to
the
concierge
,
from
whose
vigilance
and
jurisdiction
it
was
free
,
and
,
like
that
famous
portal
in
the
"
Arabian
Nights
,
"
opening
at
the
"
Sesame
"
of
Ali
Baba
,
it
was
wont
to
swing
backward
at
a
cabalistic
word
or
a
concerted
tap
from
without
from
the
sweetest
voices
or
whitest
fingers
in
the
world
.
At
the
end
of
a
long
corridor
,
with
which
the
door
communicated
,
and
which
formed
the
ante-chamber
,
was
,
on
the
right
,
Albert
's
breakfast-room
,
looking
into
the
court
,
and
on
the
left
the
salon
,
looking
into
the
garden
.
Shrubs
and
creeping
plants
covered
the
windows
,
and
hid
from
the
garden
and
court
these
two
apartments
,
the
only
rooms
into
which
,
as
they
were
on
the
ground-floor
,
the
prying
eyes
of
the
curious
could
penetrate
.
On
the
floor
above
were
similar
rooms
,
with
the
addition
of
a
third
,
formed
out
of
the
ante-chamber
;
these
three
rooms
were
a
salon
,
a
boudoir
,
and
a
bedroom
.
The
salon
down-stairs
was
only
an
Algerian
divan
,
for
the
use
of
smokers
.
The
boudoir
up-stairs
communicated
with
the
bed-chamber
by
an
invisible
door
on
the
staircase
;
it
was
evident
that
every
precaution
had
been
taken
.
Above
this
floor
was
a
large
atelier
,
which
had
been
increased
in
size
by
pulling
down
the
partitions
--
a
pandemonium
,
in
which
the
artist
and
the
dandy
strove
for
preeminence
.
There
were
collected
and
piled
up
all
Albert
's
successive
caprices
,
hunting-horns
,
bass-viols
,
flutes
--
a
whole
orchestra
,
for
Albert
had
had
not
a
taste
but
a
fancy
for
music
;
easels
,
palettes
,
brushes
,
pencils
--
for
music
had
been
succeeded
by
painting
;
foils
,
boxing-gloves
,
broadswords
,
and
single-sticks
--
for
,
following
the
example
of
the
fashionable
young
men
of
the
time
,
Albert
de
Morcerf
cultivated
,
with
far
more
perseverance
than
music
and
drawing
,
the
three
arts
that
complete
a
dandy
's
education
,
i.e.
,
fencing
,
boxing
,
and
single-stick
;
and
it
was
here
that
he
received
Grisier
,
Cook
,
and
Charles
Leboucher
.
The
rest
of
the
furniture
of
this
privileged
apartment
consisted
of
old
cabinets
,
filled
with
Chinese
porcelain
and
Japanese
vases
,
Lucca
della
Robbia
faience
,
and
Palissy
platters
;
of
old
arm-chairs
,
in
which
perhaps
had
sat
Henry
IV
.
or
Sully
,
Louis
XIII
.
or
Richelieu
--
for
two
of
these
arm-chairs
,
adorned
with
a
carved
shield
,
on
which
were
engraved
the
fleur-delis
of
France
on
an
azure
field
evidently
came
from
the
Louvre
,
or
,
at
least
,
some
royal
residence
.
Over
these
dark
and
sombre
chairs
were
thrown
splendid
stuffs
,
dyed
beneath
Persia
's
sun
,
or
woven
by
the
fingers
of
the
women
of
Calcutta
or
of
Chandernagor
.
What
these
stuffs
did
there
,
it
was
impossible
to
say
;
they
awaited
,
while
gratifying
the
eyes
,
a
destination
unknown
to
their
owner
himself
;
in
the
meantime
they
filled
the
place
with
their
golden
and
silky
reflections
.
In
the
centre
of
the
room
was
a
Roller
and
Blanchet
"
baby
grand
"
piano
in
rosewood
,
but
holding
the
potentialities
of
an
orchestra
in
its
narrow
and
sonorous
cavity
,
and
groaning
beneath
the
weight
of
the
chefs-d'oeuvre
of
Beethoven
,
Weber
,
Mozart
,
Haydn
,
Gretry
,
and
Porpora
.
On
the
walls
,
over
the
doors
,
on
the
ceiling
,
were
swords
,
daggers
,
Malay
creeses
,
maces
,
battle-axes
;
gilded
,
damasked
,
and
inlaid
suits
of
armor
;
dried
plants
,
minerals
,
and
stuffed
birds
,
their
flame-colored
wings
outspread
in
motionless
flight
,
and
their
beaks
forever
open
.
This
was
Albert
's
favorite
lounging
place
.
However
,
the
morning
of
the
appointment
,
the
young
man
had
established
himself
in
the
small
salon
down-stairs
.
There
,
on
a
table
,
surrounded
at
some
distance
by
a
large
and
luxurious
divan
,
every
species
of
tobacco
known
--
from
the
yellow
tobacco
of
Petersburg
to
the
black
of
Sinai
,
and
so
on
along
the
scale
from
Maryland
and
Porto
--
Rico
,
to
Latakia
--
was
exposed
in
pots
of
crackled
earthenware
of
which
the
Dutch
are
so
fond
;
beside
them
,
in
boxes
of
fragrant
wood
,
were
ranged
,
according
to
their
size
and
quality
,
pueros
,
regalias
,
havanas
,
and
manillas
;
and
,
in
an
open
cabinet
,
a
collection
of
German
pipes
,
of
chibouques
,
with
their
amber
mouth-pieces
ornamented
with
coral
,
and
of
narghiles
,
with
their
long
tubes
of
morocco
,
awaiting
the
caprice
or
the
sympathy
of
the
smokers
.
Albert
had
himself
presided
at
the
arrangement
,
or
,
rather
,
the
symmetrical
derangement
,
which
,
after
coffee
,
the
guests
at
a
breakfast
of
modern
days
love
to
contemplate
through
the
vapor
that
escapes
from
their
mouths
,
and
ascends
in
long
and
fanciful
wreaths
to
the
ceiling
.
At
a
quarter
to
ten
,
a
valet
entered
;
he
composed
,
with
a
little
groom
named
John
,
and
who
only
spoke
English
,
all
Albert
's
establishment
,
although
the
cook
of
the
hotel
was
always
at
his
service
,
and
on
great
occasions
the
count
's
chasseur
also
.
This
valet
,
whose
name
was
Germain
,
and
who
enjoyed
the
entire
confidence
of
his
young
master
,
held
in
one
hand
a
number
of
papers
,
and
in
the
other
a
packet
of
letters
,
which
he
gave
to
Albert
.
