The Count of Monte Cristo

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"No." D'Avrigny took the bottle, poured some drops of the mixture it
contained in the hollow of his hand, and swallowed them. "Well," said
he, "let us go to Valentine; I will give instructions to every one, and
you, M. de Villefort, will yourself see that no one deviates from them."

At the moment when d'Avrigny was returning to Valentine's room,
accompanied by Villefort, an Italian priest, of serious demeanor and
calm and firm tone, hired for his use the house adjoining the hotel of
M. de Villefort. No one knew how the three former tenants of that house
left it. About two hours afterwards its foundation was reported to be
unsafe; but the report did not prevent the new occupant establishing
himself there with his modest furniture the same day at five o'clock.
The lease was drawn up for three, six, or nine years by the new tenant,
who, according to the rule of the proprietor, paid six months in
advance. This new tenant, who, as we have said, was an Italian, was
called Il Signor Giacomo Busoni. Workmen were immediately called in,
and that same night the passengers at the end of the faubourg saw with