The Count of Monte Cristo

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looked at Albert, while playing with some magnificent pistols.

"Your father was fortunate, then?" said he.

"You know my opinion of my mother, count; look at her,--still beautiful,
witty, more charming than ever. For any other son to have stayed with
his mother for four days at Treport, it would have been a condescension
or a martyrdom, while I return, more contented, more peaceful--shall
I say more poetic!--than if I had taken Queen Mab or Titania as my
companion."

"That is an overwhelming demonstration, and you would make every one vow
to live a single life."

"Such are my reasons for not liking to marry Mademoiselle Danglars. Have
you ever noticed how much a thing is heightened in value when we obtain
possession of it? The diamond which glittered in the window at Marle's