The Count of Monte Cristo

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"All remains the same, then, in that quarter?"

"It is more than ever a settled thing," said Lucien,--and, considering
that this remark was all that he was at that time called upon to make,
he adjusted the glass to his eye, and biting the top of his gold headed
cane, began to make the tour of the apartment, examining the arms and
the pictures.

"Ah," said Monte Cristo "I did not expect that the affair would be so
promptly concluded."

"Oh, things take their course without our assistance. While we are
forgetting them, they are falling into their appointed order; and
when, again, our attention is directed to them, we are surprised at
the progress they have made towards the proposed end. My father and M.
Danglars served together in Spain, my father in the army and M. Danglars
in the commissariat department. It was there that my father, ruined by