The Count of Monte Cristo

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"You know the Marquis of Saint-Meran died a few days after he had set
out on his journey to Paris, and the marchioness a few days after her
arrival?"

"Yes," said Monte Cristo, "I have heard that; but, as Claudius said to
Hamlet, 'it is a law of nature; their fathers died before them, and they
mourned their loss; they will die before their children, who will, in
their turn, grieve for them.'"

"But that is not all."

"Not all!"

"No; they were going to marry their daughter"--

"To M. Franz d'Epinay. Is it broken off?"