The Count of Monte Cristo

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Cristo, around the court-yard, over the peristyle, and across the front
of the house, then, repressing a slight emotion, which must have been
seen on her countenance if she had not kept her color, she ascended the
steps, saying to Morrel, "Sir, if you were a friend of mine, I should
ask you if you would sell your horse."

Morrel smiled with an expression very like a grimace, and then turned
round to Monte Cristo, as if to ask him to extricate him from his
embarrassment. The count understood him. "Ah, madame," he said, "why did
you not make that request of me?"

"With you, sir," replied the baroness, "one can wish for nothing, one is
so sure to obtain it. If it were so with M. Morrel"--

"Unfortunately," replied the count, "I am witness that M. Morrel cannot
give up his horse, his honor being engaged in keeping it."