The Count of Monte Cristo

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"Well, then, before going to Beauchamp with your witnesses, seek further
information on the subject."

"From whom?"

"From Haidee."

"Why, what can be the use of mixing a woman up in the affair?--what can
she do in it?"

"She can declare to you, for example, that your father had no hand
whatever in the defeat and death of the vizier; or if by chance he had,
indeed, the misfortune to"--

"I have told you, my dear count, that I would not for one moment admit
of such a proposition."