The Count of Monte Cristo

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for when you go to Auteuil and take your servants the house is left
unprotected.' 'Well,' said he, 'what next?' 'Well, next, some day you
will be robbed.'"

"What did he answer?"

"He quietly said, 'What do I care if I am?'"

"Andrea, he has some secretary with a spring."

"How do you know?"

"Yes, which catches the thief in a trap and plays a tune. I was told
there were such at the last exhibition."

"He has simply a mahogany secretary, in which the key is always kept."