The Count of Monte Cristo

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Delvino, Yanina. Will you believe the government of a republic, a
kingdom, and an empire?" Albert cast his eyes on the passport, then
raised them in astonishment to Beauchamp. "You have been to Yanina?"
said he.

"Albert, had you been a stranger, a foreigner, a simple lord, like that
Englishman who came to demand satisfaction three or four months since,
and whom I killed to get rid of, I should not have taken this trouble;
but I thought this mark of consideration due to you. I took a week to
go, another to return, four days of quarantine, and forty-eight hours
to stay there; that makes three weeks. I returned last night, and here I
am."

"What circumlocution! How long you are before you tell me what I most
wish to know?"

"Because, in truth, Albert"--