The Count of Monte Cristo

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past! But what is the use of teasing me with going all over that again?"

"Ah, you are only one and twenty, and can forget the past; I am fifty,
and am obliged to recollect it. But let us return to business."

"Yes."

"I was going to say, if I were in your place"--

"Well."

"I would realize"--

"How would you realize?"

"I would ask for six months' in advance, under pretence of being able to
purchase a farm, then with my six months I would decamp."