The Count of Monte Cristo

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"Ah, because your ambassadors and your consuls do not tell you of
them--they have no time. They are too much taken up with interfering in
the affairs of their countrymen who travel."

"Now you get angry, and attack our poor agents. How will you have them
protect you? The Chamber cuts down their salaries every day, so that now
they have scarcely any. Will you be ambassador, Albert? I will send you
to Constantinople."

"No, lest on the first demonstration I make in favor of Mehemet Ali, the
Sultan send me the bowstring, and make my secretaries strangle me."

"You say very true," responded Debray.

"Yes," said Albert, "but this has nothing to do with the existence of
the Count of Monte Cristo."