The Count of Monte Cristo

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"There is something in what you have just said," said Beauchamp,
laughing.

"But," said Debray to Beauchamp, "if I spoke to the president, you must
have been with the procureur."

"It was an impossibility; for the last week M. de Villefort has
secluded himself. It is natural enough; this strange chain of domestic
afflictions, followed by the no less strange death of his daughter"--

"Strange? What do you mean, Beauchamp?"

"Oh, yes; do you pretend that all this has been unobserved at the
minister's?" said Beauchamp, placing his eye-glass in his eye, where he
tried to make it remain.

"My dear sir," said Chateau-Renaud, "allow me to tell you that you do