The Count of Monte Cristo

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"Will you dress here?"

"Certainly."

"Shall you have time?"

"Do not be uneasy, you little coward! All our servants are busy,
discussing the grand affair. Besides, what is there astonishing, when
you think of the grief I ought to be in, that I shut myself up?--tell
me!"

"No, truly--you comfort me."

"Come and help me."

From the same drawer she took a man's complete costume, from the
boots to the coat, and a provision of linen, where there was nothing