The Count of Monte Cristo

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tell you, silently enter, a white figure." Valentine screamed. "It was
the fever that disturbed you, madame," said Villefort.

"Doubt, if you please, but I am sure of what I say. I saw a white
figure, and as if to prevent my discrediting the testimony of only one
of my senses, I heard my glass removed--the same which is there now on
the table."

"Oh, dear mother, it was a dream."

"So little was it a dream, that I stretched my hand towards the bell;
but when I did so, the shade disappeared; my maid then entered with a
light."

"But she saw no one?"

"Phantoms are visible to those only who ought to see them. It was the