The Count of Monte Cristo

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"How? is it not a crime to bury a living child in a garden?" cried Monte
Cristo. "And pray what do you call such an action?"

"But who said it was buried alive?"

"Why bury it there if it were dead? This garden has never been a
cemetery."

"What is done to infanticides in this country?" asked Major Cavalcanti
innocently.

"Oh, their heads are soon cut off," said Danglars.

"Ah, indeed?" said Cavalcanti.

"I think so; am I not right, M. de Villefort?" asked Monte Cristo.