The Count of Monte Cristo

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"Leave you? Why should I leave you?"

"That is not for me to say; but we are now about to mix in society--to
visit and be visited."

"I don't wish to see anybody but you."

"And should you see one whom you could prefer, I would not be so
unjust"--

"I have never seen any one I preferred to you, and I have never loved
any one but you and my father."

"My poor child," replied Monte Cristo, "that is merely because your
father and myself are the only men who have ever talked to you."

"I don't want anybody else to talk to me. My father said I was his