The Count of Monte Cristo

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"Well?"

"Well, I must tell you. Collect all your courage, for you have not yet
heard all."

"Ah," exclaimed Madame Danglars, alarmed, "what is there more to hear?"

"You only look back to the past, and it is, indeed, bad enough. Well,
picture to yourself a future more gloomy still--certainly frightful,
perhaps sanguinary." The baroness knew how calm Villefort naturally was,
and his present excitement frightened her so much that she opened
her mouth to scream, but the sound died in her throat. "How has this
terrible past been recalled?" cried Villefort; "how is it that it has
escaped from the depths of the tomb and the recesses of our hearts,
where it was buried, to visit us now, like a phantom, whitening our
cheeks and flushing our brows with shame?"