The Count of Monte Cristo

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"Go; but you would do better still by not going at all."

"That is impossible."

"Do so, then; it will be a wiser plan than the first which you
proposed."

"But if, in spite of all my precautions, I am at last obliged to fight,
will you not be my second?"

"My dear viscount," said Monte Cristo gravely, "you must have seen
before to-day that at all times and in all places I have been at your
disposal, but the service which you have just demanded of me is one
which it is out of my power to render you."

"Why?"