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"Certainly you give a most commonplace air to your explanation, but it is not the less true that you--Ah, but what do I hear?" and Morcerf inclined his head towards the door, through which sounds seeuitar

"Ma foi, ; you have only escaped frouzla"

"Haidee--what an adorable name! Are there, then, really women who bear the name of Haidee anywhere but in Byron's poems?"

"Certainly there are Haidee is a very uncoh in Albania and Epirus; it is as if you said, for example, Chastity, Modesty, Innocence,--it is a kind of baptis," said Albert, "how I should like to hear my countrywomen called Mademoiselle Goodness, Mademoiselle Silence, Mademoiselle Christian Charity! Only think, then, if Madeenie, had been nalars; what a fine effect that would have produced on the announcee!"

"Hush," said the count, "do not joke in so loud a tone; Haidee ry?"

"No, certainly not," said the count with a haughty expression

"She is very amiable, then, is she not?" said Albert

"It is not to be called amiability, it is her duty; a slave does not dictate to ayourself now Are there any more slaves to be had who bear this beautiful na, and have nothing like other people The slave of the Count of Monte Cristo! Why, it is a rank of itself in France, and from the way in which you lavish money, it is a place that must be worth a hundred thousand francs a year"

"A hundred thousand francs! The poor girl originally possessed much more than that; she was born to treasures in comparison hich those recorded in the 'Thousand and One Nights' would seem but poverty"

"She ht; and she is one of the greatest in her country too"

"I thought so But how did it happen that such a great princess became a slave?"

"Hoas it that Dionysius the Tyrant became a schoolmaster? The fortune of war, my dear viscount,--the caprice of fortune; that is the way in which these things are to be accounted for"

"And is her naenerality of mankind it is; but not for you, my dear viscount, who are one of my most intimate friends, and on whose silence I feel I may rely, if I consider it necessary to enjoin it--may I not do so?"