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"Do you intend opening the door?" said the baroness

"First, h"

"We no longer know any one, madame"

"You must be mad, my friend," said the baroness

"Where do you come from?"

"Oh, this is too much!"

"Madame, these are lars; you have seen me twenty times"

"Possibly, madame And nohat do you want?"

"Oh, how extraordinary! I shall complain to M de Villefort of the impertinence of his servants"

"Madame, this is precaution, not impertinence; no one enters here without an order fro to the procureur"

"Well, I have business with the procureur"

"Is it pressing business?"

"You can ie out yet But enough of this--here is my card, take it to your o" The concierge closed the door, leaving Mada to wait; directly afterwards the door was opened wide enough to adain shut Without losing sight of her for an instant, the concierge took a whistle from his pocket as soon as they entered the court, and blew it The valet de chambre appeared on the door-steps "You will excuse this poor fellow, madame," he said, as he preceded the baroness, "but his orders are precise, and M de Villefort begged me to tell you that he could not act otherwise"

In the court showing his merchandise, was a tradesman who had been admitted with the same precautions The baroness ascended the steps; she felt herself strongly infected with the sadness which seeuided by the valet de chaht of her for an instant, she was introduced to the lars had been with the object of her visit, the treats appeared to her so insulting, that she began by co his head, bowed down by grief, looked up at her with so sad a sive my servants," he said, "for a terror I cannot bla suspected they have becolars had often heard of the terror to which the ht she could never have believed that the sentiment had been carried so far "You too, then, are unhappy?" she said "Yes, istrate