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"It is true, sir," said Monte Cristo with his dreadful calmness; "a secondary cause, but not the principal"

"Doubtless you y or explanation?"

"I explained nothing, and it is he who apologized to me"

"But to what do you attribute this conduct?"

"To the conviction, probably, that there was one uilty than I"

"And as that?"

"His father"

"That uilty do not like to find themselves convicted"

"I know it, and I expected this result"

"You expected my son would be a coward?" cried the count

"M Albert de Morcerf is no coward!" said Monte Cristo