The Count of Monte Cristo

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surprise that carpenters and masons were occupied in repairing the lower
part of the tottering house.



Chapter 95. Father and Daughter.

We saw in a preceding chapter how Madame Danglars went formally to
announce to Madame de Villefort the approaching marriage of Eugenie
Danglars and M. Andrea Cavalcanti. This announcement, which implied or
appeared to imply, the approval of all the persons concerned in this
momentous affair, had been preceded by a scene to which our readers must
be admitted. We beg them to take one step backward, and to transport
themselves, the morning of that day of great catastrophes, into the
showy, gilded salon we have before shown them, and which was the pride
of its owner, Baron Danglars. In this room, at about ten o'clock in the
morning, the banker himself had been walking to and fro for some