The Count of Monte Cristo

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to send her to you." Villefort returned, and d'Avrigny met him in
the passage. "Well, how is he now?" asked he. "Come in here," said
d'Avrigny, and he took him into the chamber where the sick man lay. "Is
he still in a fit?" said the procureur.

"He is dead."

Villefort drew back a few steps, and, clasping his hands, exclaimed,
with real amazement and sympathy, "Dead?--and so soon too!"

"Yes, it is very soon," said the doctor, looking at the corpse before
him; "but that ought not to astonish you; Monsieur and Madame de
Saint-Meran died as soon. People die very suddenly in your house, M. de
Villefort."

"What?" cried the magistrate, with an accent of horror and
consternation, "are you still harping on that terrible idea?"