The Count of Monte Cristo

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"Every criminal says the same thing."

"Poverty"--

"Pshaw!" said Busoni disdainfully; "poverty may make a man beg, steal a
loaf of bread at a baker's door, but not cause him to open a secretary
in a house supposed to be inhabited. And when the jeweller Johannes had
just paid you 40,000. francs for the diamond I had given you, and
you killed him to get the diamond and the money both, was that also
poverty?"

"Pardon, reverend sir," said Caderousse; "you have saved my life once,
save me again!"

"That is but poor encouragement."

"Are you alone, reverend sir, or have you there soldiers ready to seize