The Count of Monte Cristo

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"Are all your family well?" asked the count, with an affectionate
benevolence, whose sincerity no one could for a moment doubt.

"Thank you, count--thank you," said the young man, evidently embarrassed
how to begin the conversation; "yes, every one in my family is well."

"So much the better; yet you have something to tell me?" replied the
count with increased anxiety.

"Yes," said Morrel, "it is true; I have but now left a house where death
has just entered, to run to you."

"Are you then come from M. de Morcerf's?" asked Monte Cristo.

"No," said Morrel; "is some one dead in his house?"

"The general has just blown his brains out," replied Monte Cristo with