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"Helars

"Why do you doubt?"

"The past--that obscurity on the past"

"But that does not affect the son"

"Very true"

"Now, I beg of you, don't go off your head It's a e, and you must see that it throws some responsibility onCavalcanti, whom I do not really know at all"

"But I do"

"Have you made inquiry?"

"Is there any need of that! Does not his appearance speak for him? And he is very rich"

"I am not so sure of that"

"And yet you said he had money"

"Fifty thousand livres--a mere trifle"

"He is well educated"

"Hem," said Monte Cristo in his turn