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"'But allowthen'--'I was four years old; but as those events deeply concerned le detail has escaped my memory'--'In what manner could these events concern you? and who are you, that they should have made so deep an impression on you?'--'On them depended hter of Ali Tepelini, pasha of Yanina, and of Vasiliki, his beloved wife'

"The blush of led pride andwohly important communication, produced an indescribable effect on the assembly As for the count, he could not have been more overwhelmed if a thunderbolt had fallen at his feet and opened an iulf before hi with profound respect, 'allow me to ask one question; it shall be the last: Can you prove the authenticity of what you have now stated?'--'I can, sir,' said Haidee, drawing frohly perfuned by my father and his principal officers, and that of ht up in rand primate of Macedonia and Epirus; and lastly (and perhaps the most important), the record of the sale of my person and that of my mother to the Armenian merchant El-Kobbir, by the French officer, who, in his infaain with the Porte, had reserved as his part of the booty the wife and daughter of his benefactor, whoreenish pallor spread over the count's cheeks, and his eyes became bloodshot at these terrible imputations, which were listened to by the assembly with ominous silence

"Haidee, still caler of another would have been, handed to the president the record of her sale, written in Arabic It had been supposed soht be in the Arabian, Roe, and the interpreter of the House was in attendance One of the noble peers, as fa the fan, folloith his eye as the translator read aloud:-"'I, El-Kobbir, a slave-hness, acknowledge having received for transmission to the sublime emperor, from the French lord, the Count of Monte Cristo, an eht hundred thousand francs; as the ransoe, nahter of the late lord Ali Tepelini, pasha of Yanina, and of Vasiliki, his favorite; she having been sold to me seven years previously, with herat Constantinople, by a French colonel in the service of the Vizier Ali Tepelini, nao The above-hness's account, whose mandate I had, for the sum of four hundred thousand francs