The Count of Monte Cristo

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"Everybody pities you, sir; and, above all, Mademoiselle Danglars!"

"Poor Eugenie!" said Danglars; "do you know she is going to embrace a
religious life?"

"No."

"Alas, it is unhappily but too true. The day after the event, she
decided on leaving Paris with a nun of her acquaintance; they are gone
to seek a very strict convent in Italy or Spain."

"Oh, it is terrible!" and M. de Boville retired with this exclamation,
after expressing acute sympathy with the father. But he had scarcely
left before Danglars, with an energy of action those can alone
understand who have seen Robert Macaire represented by Frederic, [*]
exclaimed,--"Fool!" Then enclosing Monte Cristo's receipt in a little
pocket-book, he added:--"Yes, come at twelve o'clock; I shall then be