The Count of Monte Cristo

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expression could not be understood. The young man pressed his lips on
the same spot, on the old man's forehead, where Valentine's had been.
Then he bowed a second time and retired. He found outside the door
the old servant, to whom Valentine had given directions. Morrel was
conducted along a dark passage, which led to a little door opening
on the garden, soon found the spot where he had entered, with the
assistance of the shrubs gained the top of the wall, and by his ladder
was in an instant in the clover-field where his cabriolet was still
waiting for him. He got in it, and thoroughly wearied by so many
emotions, arrived about midnight in the Rue Meslay, threw himself on his
bed and slept soundly.



Chapter 74. The Villefort Family Vault.

Two days after, a considerable crowd was assembled, towards ten o'clock