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The evening passed on; Madame de Villefort expressed a desire to return to Paris, which Mada the uneasiness she experienced On his wife's request, M de Villefort was the first to give the signal of departure He offered a seat in his landau to Madaht be under the care of his wife As for M Danglars, absorbed in an interesting conversation with M Cavalcanti, he paid no attention to anything that was passing While Monte Cristo had begged the s-bottle of Madame de Villefort, he had noticed the approach of Villefort to Madauessed all that had passed between theh the words had been uttered in so low a voice as hardly to be heard by Madaements, he allowed Morrel, Chateau-Renaud, and Debray to leave on horseback, and the ladies in M de Villefort's carriage Danglars, hted with Major Cavalcanti, had offered hie Andrea Cavalcanti found his tilbury waiting at the door; the groolish fashion, was standing on tiptoe to hold a large iron-gray horse

Andrea had spoken very little during dinner; he was an intelligent lad, and he feared to utter sost who's attorney Then he had been seized upon by Danglars, ith a rapid glance at the stiff-necked oldinto consideration the hospitality of the count, made up his mind that he was in the society of some nabob come to Paris to finish the worldly education of his heir He contee diaer; for theto his bank-notes, had immediately converted them into an available asset Then, after dinner, on the pretext of business, he questioned the father and son upon their ; and the father and son, previously inforlars the one was to receive his 48,000 francs and the other 50,000 livres annually, were so full of affability that they would have shaken hands even with the banker's servants, so ratitude need an object to expend itself upon One thing above all the rest heightened the respect, nay allars for Cavalcanti The latter, faithful to the principle of Horace, nil ade by declaring in what lake the best la a word lars, therefore, concluded that such luxuries were common at the table of the illustrious descendant of the Cavalcanti, who ht froland, by the sa the laa Thus it ith much politeness of manner that he heard Cavalcanti pronounce these words, "To- upon you on business"