The Count of Monte Cristo

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the door. Then, turning to his desk, he said, striking the letter with
the back of his right hand, "Come, I had a forgery, three robberies, and
two cases of arson, I only wanted a murder, and here it is. It will be a
splendid session!"



Chapter 100. The Apparition.

As the procureur had told Madame Danglars, Valentine was not yet
recovered. Bowed down with fatigue, she was indeed confined to her bed;
and it was in her own room, and from the lips of Madame de Villefort,
that she heard all the strange events we have related,--we mean the
flight of Eugenie and the arrest of Andrea Cavalcanti, or rather
Benedetto, together with the accusation of murder pronounced against
him. But Valentine was so weak that this recital scarcely produced
the same effect it would have done had she been in her usual state of