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"Very good, very good! But the wound remains and will reopen at the first loss"

"No, for I alars, with the air of a overns have been"

"That there should be a famine!"

"Recollect the seven fat and the seven lean kine"

"Or, that the sea should become dry, as in the days of Pharaoh, and even then my vessels would becoratulate you, lars," said Monte Cristo; "I see I was deceived, and that you belong to the class of second-rate fortunes"

"I think I lars with a smile, which reminded Monte Cristo of the sicklyinto their pictures of ruins "But, while we are speaking of business," Danglars added, pleased to find an opportunity of changing the subject, "tell me what I am to do for M Cavalcanti"

"Give him money, if he is recoood"

"Excellent; he presented hi with a bond of 40,000 francs, payable at sight, on you, signed by Busoni, and returned by you to me, with your indorsement--of course, I immediately counted him over the forty bank-notes"

Monte Cristo nodded his head in token of assent "But that is not all," continued Danglars; "he has opened an account with my house for his son"

"May I ask howman?"

"Five thousand francs per ht in believing that Cavalcanti to be a stingy fello can a young man live upon 5,000 francs aman should want a few thousands more"-"Do not advance it; the father will never repay it You do not know these ultraular misers And by ere they recommended to you?"

"Oh, by the house of Fenzi, one of the best in Florence"

"I do not mean to say you will lose, but, nevertheless, reement"

"Would you not trust the Cavalcanti?"

"I? oh, I would advance sixin reference to the second-rate fortunes erehe is! I should never have taken hi more than a mere major"

"And you would have flattered him, for certainly, as you say, he has no manner The first time I saw hirown mouldy under his epaulets But all the Italians are the sa in Oriental splendor"