The Count of Monte Cristo

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how delighted I should be to hear our name pronounced by such beautiful
lips." Monte Cristo turned to Haidee, and with an expression of
countenance which commanded her to pay the most implicit attention to
his words, he said in Greek,--"Tell us the fate of your father; but
neither the name of the traitor nor the treason." Haidee sighed deeply,
and a shade of sadness clouded her beautiful brow.

"What are you saying to her?" said Morcerf in an undertone.

"I again reminded her that you were a friend, and that she need not
conceal anything from you."

"Then," said Albert, "this pious pilgrimage in behalf of the prisoners
was your first remembrance; what is the next?"

"Oh, then I remember as if it were but yesterday sitting under the shade
of some sycamore-trees, on the borders of a lake, in the waters of which