The Count of Monte Cristo

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father, the pleasure of your acquaintance?--two of my good friends,
Lord Wilmore and the Abbe Busoni. What encouraged me not to become your
surety, but to patronize you?--your father's name, so well known in
Italy and so highly honored. Personally, I do not know you." This calm
tone and perfect ease made Andrea feel that he was, for the moment,
restrained by a more muscular hand than his own, and that the restraint
could not be easily broken through.

"Oh, then my father has really a very large fortune, count?"

"It appears so, sir," replied Monte Cristo.

"Do you know if the marriage settlement he promised me has come?"

"I have been advised of it."

"But the three millions?"