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"Does it require ?" asked Monte Cristo

"The study does not take long; it was acting as a supernumerary that was so tedious"

"And what is the pay?"

"A thousand francs, sir"

"It is nothing"

"No; but then we are lodged, as you perceive"

Monte Cristo looked at the rooraph room Monte Cristo looked in turn at the two iron handles by which the ," he said, "but it must be very tedious for a lifeti at it, but at the end of a year I became used to it; and then we have our hours of recreation, and our holidays"

"Holidays?"

"Yes"

"When?"

"When we have a fog"

"Ah, to be sure"

"Those are indeed holidays to arden, I plant, I prune, I tri have you been here?"

"Ten years, and five as a supernumerary make fifteen"

"You are--"

"Fifty-five years old"

"How long must you have served to claim the pension?"

"Oh, sir, twenty-five years"

"And how much is the pension?"