The Count of Monte Cristo

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"Franz assured me," replied Albert, "that she was sixty-six years old.
But she has not died of old age, but of grief; it appears that since
the death of the marquis, which affected her very deeply, she has not
completely recovered her reason."

"But of what disease, then, did she die?" asked Debray.

"It is said to have been a congestion of the brain, or apoplexy, which
is the same thing, is it not?"

"Nearly."

"It is difficult to believe that it was apoplexy," said Beauchamp.
"Madame de Saint-Meran, whom I once saw, was short, of slender form,
and of a much more nervous than sanguine temperament; grief could
hardly produce apoplexy in such a constitution as that of Madame de
Saint-Meran."