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"What was the cause of your quarrel?"

"When he was in England he seduced the wife of one of e?"

"I have already fought three duels with hilishman, "the first with the pistol, the second with the sword, and the third with the sabre"

"And as the result of those duels?"

"The first time, he broke my arm; the second, he wounded e wound" The Englishman turned down his shirt-collar, and showed a scar, whose redness proved it to be a recent one "So that, you see, there is a deadly feud between us"

"But," said the envoy, "you do not go about it in the right way to kill hilish every day, and every other day Grisier comes to my house"

This was all the visitor wished to ascertain, or, rather, all the English bowed to Lord Wilmore, who returned his salutation with the stiff politeness of the English, he retired Lord Wil heard the door close after him, returned to his bedrooht hair, his red whiskers, his false jaw, and his wound, to resume the black hair, dark complexion, and pearly teeth of the Count of Monte Cristo It was M de Villefort, and not the prefect, who returned to the house of M de Villefort The procureur feltreally satisfactory, and, for the first time since the dinner-party at Auteuil, he slept soundly