The Count of Monte Cristo

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"What can you mean?" asked Madame Danglars, shuddering.

"I mean that M. de Monte Cristo, digging underneath these trees, found
neither skeleton nor chest, because neither of them was there!"

"Neither of them there?" repeated Madame Danglars, her staring,
wide-open eyes expressing her alarm.

"Neither of them there!" she again said, as though striving to impress
herself with the meaning of the words which escaped her.

"No," said Villefort, burying his face in his hands, "no, a hundred
times no!"

"Then you did not bury the poor child there, sir? Why did you deceive
me? Where did you place it? tell me--where?"