The Count of Monte Cristo

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the telegraph should not make any more mistakes."

"Oh, I do not mean her fortune only; but tell me"--

"What?"

"Why did you not invite M. and Madame de Morcerf to your dinner?"

"I did so, but he excused himself on account of Madame de Morcerf being
obliged to go to Dieppe for the benefit of sea air."

"Yes, yes," said Danglars, laughing, "it would do her a great deal of
good."

"Why so?"

"Because it is the air she always breathed in her youth." Monte Cristo