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The baroness had been tolerably composed until the name of Villefort had been pronounced; but then she beca, she stretched out her hands as though conjuring an apparition; she then took two or three steps towards her husband, as though to tear the secret fronorant, or which he withheld from some odious calculation,--odious, as all his calculations were "M de Villefort!--What do you onne, your first husband, being neither a philosopher nor a banker, or perhaps being both, and seeing there was nothing to be got out of a king's attorney, died of grief or anger at finding, after an absence of nine months, that you had been enceinte six I am brutal,--I not only allow it, but boast of it; it is one of the reasons of my success in commercial business Why did he kill himself instead of you? Because he had no cash to save My life belongs to my cash M Debray has made me lose 700,000 francs; let hio on as before; if not, let him become bankrupt for the 250,000 livres, and do as all bankrupts do--disappear He is a char fellow, I allohen his news is correct; but when it is not, there are fifty others in the world ould do better than he"

Madalars was rooted to the spot; she made a violent effort to reply to this last attack, but she fell upon a chair thinking of Villefort, of the dinner scene, of the strange series ofthe last few days, and changed the usual callars did not even look at her, though she did her best to faint He shut the bedroo another word, and returned to his apartlars recovered fro condition, she could alreeable dream