The Count of Monte Cristo

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Beauchamp, in whose journal this paragraph appears, and I shall insist
on his retracting the assertion before two witnesses."

"Beauchamp will never retract."

"Then he must fight."

"No he will not, for he will tell you, what is very true, that perhaps
there were fifty officers in the Greek army bearing the same name."

"We will fight, nevertheless. I will efface that blot on my father's
character. My father, who was such a brave soldier, whose career was so
brilliant"--

"Oh, well, he will add, 'We are warranted in believing that this
Fernand is not the illustrious Count of Morcerf, who also bears the same
Christian name.'"