The Count of Monte Cristo

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"On the contrary," replied the count, "did you not hear her declare that
we were friends?" They re-entered the drawing-room, which Valentine and
Madame de Villefort had just quitted. It is perhaps needless to add that
Morrel departed almost at the same time.



Chapter 72. Madame de Saint-Meran.

A gloomy scene had indeed just passed at the house of M. de Villefort.
After the ladies had departed for the ball, whither all the entreaties
of Madame de Villefort had failed in persuading him to accompany them,
the procureur had shut himself up in his study, according to his custom,
with a heap of papers calculated to alarm any one else, but which
generally scarcely satisfied his inordinate desires. But this time the
papers were a mere matter of form. Villefort had secluded himself, not
to study, but to reflect; and with the door locked and orders given that