The Count of Monte Cristo

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some responsibility on me, for it was at my house you met this young
Cavalcanti, whom I do not really know at all."

"But I do."

"Have you made inquiry?"

"Is there any need of that! Does not his appearance speak for him? And
he is very rich."

"I am not so sure of that."

"And yet you said he had money."

"Fifty thousand livres--a mere trifle."

"He is well educated."