The Count of Monte Cristo

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"How so?"

"By making me apply to the servants, when I want to transact business
with you alone."

"Well, be it so, then. Take it from me then, and so long at least as I
receive my income, you shall be paid yours."

"Come, come; I always said you were a fine fellow, and it is a blessing
when good fortune happens to such as you. But tell me all about it?"

"Why do you wish to know?" asked Cavalcanti.

"What? do you again defy me?"

"No; the fact is, I have found my father."