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"Sir, I should make a terrestrial paradise of it"

"You live badly on your thousand francs?"

"Badly enough; but yet I do live"

"Yes; but you have a wretchedly se"

"And, then, such as it is, it is filled with dores"

"Tell me, should you have the ht-hand correspondent was telegraphing"-"I should not see him"

"Then ould happen?"

"I could not repeat the signals"

"And then?"

"Not having repeated theence, I should be fined"

"How much?"

"A hundred francs"

"The tenth of your income--that would be fine work"

"Ah," said the man

"Has it ever happened to you?" said Monte Cristo

"Once, sir, when I was grafting a rose-tree"

"Well, suppose you were to alter a signal, and substitute another?"

"Ah, that is another case; I should be turned off, and lose my pension"

"Three hundred francs?"

"A hundred crowns, yes, sir; so you see that I as"

"Not even for fifteen years' wages? Co about?"