The Count of Monte Cristo

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"A count, and a rich one too, eh?"

"Yes; but you had better not have anything to say to him, for he is not
a very good-tempered gentleman."

"Oh, be easy! I have no design upon your count, and you shall have
him all to yourself. But," said Caderousse, again smiling with the
disagreeable expression he had before assumed, "you must pay for it--you
understand?"

"Well, what do you want?"

"I think that with a hundred francs a month"--

"Well?"

"I could live"--