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By thus exaggerating to his own mind the anticipated ill-fortune of the next day, to which he had conde Mercedes to spare her son, the count at last exclaienerosity so far as to putman to aim at He will never believe that my death was suicide; and yet it is important for the honor of my memory,--and this surely is not vanity, but a justifiable pride,--it is important the world should know that I have consented, by my free will, to stop my arm, already raised to strike, and that with the arainst others I have strucka pen, he drew a paper from a secret drawer in his desk, and wrote at the bottom of the document (which was no other than his will, made since his arrival in Paris) a sort of codicil, clearly explaining the nature of his death "I do this, O my God," said he, with his eyes raised to heaven, "asten years considered eance, and other wretches, like Morcerf, Danglars, Villefort, even Morcerf hiine that chance has freed them from their enemy Let them know, on the contrary, that their punishment, which had been decreed by providence, is only delayed by h they escape it in this world, it awaits the tiloorief,--the first rays ofpierced his s, and shone upon the pale blue paper on which he had just inscribed his justification of providence It was just five o'clock in the h reached his ear He turned his head, looked around hih to convince hi the door of the drawing-rooing down and her beautiful head thrown back She had been standing at the door, to prevent his going out without seeing her, until sleep, which the young cannot resist, had overpowered her fra The noise of the door did not awaken her, and Monte Cristo gazed at her with affectionate regret "She reot I had a daughter" Then, shaking his head sorrowfully, "Poor Haidee," said he; "she wished to seeOh, I cannot go without taking leave of her; I cannot die without confiding her to soained his seat, and wrote under the other lines:-"I bequeath to Maximilian Morrel, captain of Spahis,--and son of my former patron, Pierre Morrel, shipowner at Marseilles,--the sum of twenty millions, a part of which may be offered to his sister Julia and brother-in-law Emmanuel, if he does not fear this increase of fortune may mar their happiness These twenty rotto at Monte Cristo, of which Bertuccio knows the secret If his heart is free, and he will hter of Ali Pasha of Yanina, whoht up with the love of a father, and who has shown the love and tenderness of a daughter for me, he will thus accomplish my last wish This will has already constituted Haidee heiress of the rest of land, Austria, and Holland, furniture in my different palaces and houses, and which without the twenty acies to my servants, may still amount to sixty millions"