The Count of Monte Cristo

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"I do not know her name; but it is she, sir, it is she!"

"Whom do you mean?"

"The woman of the garden!--she that was enciente--she who was walking
while she waited for"--Bertuccio stood at the open door, with his eyes
starting and his hair on end.

"Waiting for whom?" Bertuccio, without answering, pointed to Villefort
with something of the gesture Macbeth uses to point out Banquo. "Oh,
oh," he at length muttered, "do you see?"

"What? Who?"

"Him!"

"Him!--M. de Villefort, the king's attorney? Certainly I see him."