The Count of Monte Cristo

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more remarkable than the former ones. Danglars immediately advanced
towards the door and opened it.

The two young ladies were seen seated on the same chair, at the piano,
accompanying themselves, each with one hand, a fancy to which they had
accustomed themselves, and performed admirably. Mademoiselle d'Armilly,
whom they then perceived through the open doorway, formed with Eugenie
one of the tableaux vivants of which the Germans are so fond. She was
somewhat beautiful, and exquisitely formed--a little fairy-like figure,
with large curls falling on her neck, which was rather too long, as
Perugino sometimes makes his Virgins, and her eyes dull from fatigue.
She was said to have a weak chest, and like Antonia in the "Cremona
Violin," she would die one day while singing. Monte Cristo cast one
rapid and curious glance round this sanctum; it was the first time he
had ever seen Mademoiselle d'Armilly, of whom he had heard much. "Well,"
said the banker to his daughter, "are we then all to be excluded?" He
then led the young man into the study, and either by chance or manoeuvre