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"Ah," e priest you are; you drive the dying to despair, instead of consoling them"

"Listen," continued the abbe "When you had betrayed your friend God began not to strike, but to warn you Poverty overtook you You had already passed half your life in coveting that which you ht have honorably acquired; and already you contemplated crime under the excuse of want, when God worked ayou, by my hands, a fortune--brilliant, indeed, for you, who had never possessed any But this unexpected, unhoped-for, unheard-of fortune sufficed you no longer when you once possessed it; you wished to double it, and how?--by a murder! You succeeded, and then God snatched it froht you to justice"

"It was not I ished to kill the Jew," said Caderousse; "it was La Carconte"

"Yes," said Monte Cristo, "and God,--I cannot say in justice, for his justice would have slain you,--but God, in his mercy, spared your life"

"Pardieu, to transport ht it a mercy then, miserable wretch! The coho feared death rejoiced at perpetual disgrace; for like all galley-slaves, you said, 'I rave' And you said truly; the as opened for you unexpectedly An Englishman visited Toulon, who had vowed to rescue two men from infamy, and his choice fell on you and your companion You received a second fortune, money and tranquillity were restored to you, and you, who had been condeht live as other men Then, wretched creature, then you teh,' you said, when you had more than you before possessed, and you committed a third crime, without reason, without excuse God is wearied; he has punished you" Caderousse was fast sinking "Give ave hilass of water "And yet that villain, Benedetto, will escape!"

"No one, I tell you, will escape; Benedetto will be punished"

"Then, you, too, will be punished, for you did not do your duty as a priest--you should have prevented Benedetto fro me"

"I?" said the count, with a s ainst the coat of mail which protected my breast! Yet perhaps if I had found you huht have prevented Benedetto fro you; but I found you proud and blood-thirsty, and I left you in the hands of God"

"I do not believe there is a God," howled Caderousse; "you do not believe it; you lie--you lie!"