The Count of Monte Cristo

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set an example which every honest and devoted man, situated as I am, may
follow."

"Before you leave me, tell me what you are going to do, Maximilian." The
young man smiled sorrowfully. "Speak, speak!" said Valentine; "I entreat
you."

"Has your resolution changed, Valentine?"

"It cannot change, unhappy man; you know it must not!" cried the young
girl. "Then adieu, Valentine!" Valentine shook the gate with a strength
of which she could not have been supposed to be possessed, as Morrel was
going away, and passing both her hands through the opening, she clasped
and wrung them. "I must know what you mean to do!" said she. "Where are
you going?"

"Oh, fear not," said Maximilian, stopping at a short distance, "I do not