The Count of Monte Cristo

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entered it; and that is why, on account of the living Mercedes and my
deceased father, I have sworn to revenge myself on Fernand, and--I have
revenged myself."

"And you are sure the unhappy Fernand did that?"

"I am satisfied, madame, that he did what I have told you; besides, that
is not much more odious than that a Frenchman by adoption should pass
over to the English; that a Spaniard by birth should have fought against
the Spaniards; that a stipendiary of Ali should have betrayed and
murdered Ali. Compared with such things, what is the letter you have
just read?--a lover's deception, which the woman who has married that
man ought certainly to forgive; but not so the lover who was to have
married her. Well, the French did not avenge themselves on the traitor,
the Spaniards did not shoot the traitor, Ali in his tomb left the
traitor unpunished; but I, betrayed, sacrificed, buried, have risen from
my tomb, by the grace of God, to punish that man. He sends me for that