The Count of Monte Cristo

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took no notice of this ill-natured remark.

"But still, if Albert be not so rich as Mademoiselle Danglars," said the
count, "you must allow that he has a fine name?"

"So he has; but I like mine as well."

"Certainly; your name is popular, and does honor to the title they have
adorned it with; but you are too intelligent not to know that according
to a prejudice, too firmly rooted to be exterminated, a nobility which
dates back five centuries is worth more than one that can only reckon
twenty years."

"And for this very reason," said Danglars with a smile, which he
tried to make sardonic, "I prefer M. Andrea Cavalcanti to M. Albert de
Morcerf."