The Count of Monte Cristo

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time you had ever met? Nay, further, have you never endeavored to recall
the time, place, and circumstances of your former intercourse, and
failing in this attempt, have almost believed that your spirits must
have held converse with each other in some state of being anterior to
the present, and that you are only now occupied in a reminiscence of the
past?"

"Yes."

"Well, that is precisely the feeling which I experienced when I first
saw that extraordinary man."

"Extraordinary, did you say?"

"Yes."

"You have known him for some time, then?"