The Count of Monte Cristo

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neglect?"

"What a dire misfortune!" said Emmanuel, thinking of Morcerf and
Danglars.

"What dreadful sufferings!" said Julie, remembering Valentine, but whom,
with a delicacy natural to women, she did not name before her brother.

"If the Supreme Being has directed the fatal blow," said Emmanuel, "it
must be that he in his great goodness has perceived nothing in the past
lives of these people to merit mitigation of their awful punishment."

"Do you not form a very rash judgment, Emmanuel?" said Julie. "When my
father, with a pistol in his hand, was once on the point of committing
suicide, had any one then said, 'This man deserves his misery,' would
not that person have been deceived?"