The Count of Monte Cristo

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"Some provincial, it appears. M. de Villefort heard of him at
Marseilles, and M. Danglars recollects having seen him. Consequently,
the procureur is very active in the affair, and the prefect of police
very much interested; and, thanks to that interest, for which I am very
grateful, they send me all the robbers of Paris and the neighborhood,
under pretence of their being Caderousse's murderers, so that in three
months, if this continues, every robber and assassin in France will have
the plan of my house at his fingers' end. I am resolved to desert them
and go to some remote corner of the earth, and shall be happy if you
will accompany me, viscount."

"Willingly."

"Then it is settled?"

"Yes, but where?"