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"Nevertheless, sir, you see I have answered your first appeal, although certainly the conversation must be much more painful for me than for you" Villefort smiled bitterly
"It is true, then," he said, rather uttering his thoughts aloud than addressing his companion,--"it is true, then, that all our actions leave their traces--soht--on our paths; it is true that every step in our lives is like the course of an insect on the sands;--it leaves its track! Alas, to lars, "you can feel for my emotion, can you not? Spare me, then, I beseech you When I look at this roo and ashamed, when I look at that chair before which I now sit tre and ashamed,--oh, it requires all uilty woe" Villefort dropped his head and sighed "And I," he said, "I feel that e's seat, but on the prisoner's stool"
"You?" said Madaerate your situation," said Madalars, whose beautiful eyes sparkled for ahave been traced by all young inations Besides the pleasure, there is always reence of our passions, and, after all, what have you men to fear from all this? the world excuses, and notoriety ennobles you"
"Madame," replied Villefort, "you know that I am no hypocrite, or, at least, that I never deceive without a reason If my brow be severe, it is because many misfortunes have clouded it; if ht sustain the blows it has received I was not so in ht of the betrothal, ere all seated around a table in the Rue du Cours at Marseilles But since then everything has changed in and about me; I am accustomed to brave difficulties, and, in the conflict to crush those who, by their own free will, or by chance, voluntarily or involuntarily, interfere with enerally the case that e most ardently desire is as ardently withheld from us by those ish to obtain it, or froreater nuuised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of exciteht have avoided and escaped it The ht have used, which we in our blindness could not see, then seem simple and easy, and we say, 'Why did I not do this, instead of that?' Women, on the contrary, are rarely tormented with remorse; for the decision does not coenerally imposed upon you, and your faults the results of others' crimes"