The Count of Monte Cristo

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less of alloy?"

"Sir," said Villefort, "upon my word, you overcome me. I really never
heard a person speak as you do."

"Because you remain eternally encircled in a round of general
conditions, and have never dared to raise your wings into those upper
spheres which God has peopled with invisible or exceptional beings."

"And you allow then, sir, that spheres exist, and that these marked and
invisible beings mingle amongst us?"

"Why should they not? Can you see the air you breathe, and yet without
which you could not for a moment exist?"

"Then we do not see those beings to whom you allude?"