The Count of Monte Cristo

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correct his mistake."

"What happened during the night?" asked Beauchamp of Chateau-Renaud; "we
appear to make a very sorry figure here."

"In truth, what Albert has just done is either very despicable or very
noble," replied the baron.

"What can it mean?" said Debray to Franz. "The Count of Monte Cristo
acts dishonorably to M. de Morcerf, and is justified by his son! Had I
ten Yaninas in my family, I should only consider myself the more bound
to fight ten times." As for Monte Cristo, his head was bent down, his
arms were powerless. Bowing under the weight of twenty-four
years' reminiscences, he thought not of Albert, of Beauchamp, of
Chateau-Renaud, or of any of that group; but he thought of that
courageous woman who had come to plead for her son's life, to whom
he had offered his, and who had now saved it by the revelation of a