The Count of Monte Cristo

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assistance all his philosophy and dissimulation. "I have made money at
the same time by speculations which have succeeded. I have made up
the loss of blood by nutrition. I lost a battle in Spain, I have been
defeated in Trieste, but my naval army in India will have taken some
galleons, and my Mexican pioneers will have discovered some mine."

"Very good, very good! But the wound remains and will reopen at the
first loss."

"No, for I am only embarked in certainties," replied Danglars, with
the air of a mountebank sounding his own praises; "to involve me, three
governments must crumble to dust."

"Well, such things have been."

"That there should be a famine!"