The Count of Monte Cristo

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Noirtier, or young Valentine."

     * In the old Greek legend the Atreidae, or children of
     Atreus, were doomed to punishment because of the abominable
     crime of their father. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus is based
     on this legend.

"You knew it?" cried Morrel, in such a paroxysm of terror that Monte
Cristo started,--he whom the falling heavens would have found unmoved;
"you knew it, and said nothing?"

"And what is it to me?" replied Monte Cristo, shrugging his shoulders;
"do I know those people? and must I lose the one to save the other?
Faith, no, for between the culprit and the victim I have no choice."

"But I," cried Morrel, groaning with sorrow, "I love her!"