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"Do as you please; but, first of all, pray have a servant, father I will not have you left alone so long I have soled coffee and most capital tobacco, in a small chest in the hold, which you shall have to-morrow But, hush, here comes somebody"
"'Tis Caderousse, who has heard of your arrival, and no doubt coratulate you on your fortunate return"
"Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another," hbor who has done us a service on a time, so he's welcome"
As Edmond paused, the black and bearded head of Caderousse appeared at the door He was a man of twenty-five or six, and held a piece of cloth, which, being a tailor, he was about to ain?" said he, with a broad Marseillaise accent, and a grin that displayed his ivory-white teeth
"Yes, as you see, neighbor Caderousse; and ready to be agreeable to you in any and every way," replied Dantes, but ill-concealing his coldness under this cloak of civility
"Thanks--thanks; but, fortunately, I do not want for anything; and it chances that at tiesture "I do not allude to you, my boy No!--no! I lent you hbors, and we are quits"
"We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for e do not owe theratitude"
"What's the use ofthat? What is done is done Let us talk of your happy return, one on the quay to lars 'You at Marseilles?'--'Yes,' says he
"'I thought you were at Sain'
"'And where is the dear boy, our little Edlars And so I came," added Caderousse, "as fast as I could to have the pleasure of shaking hands with a friend"
"Worthy Caderousse!" said the old man, "he is so much attached to us"
"Yes, to be sure I am I love and esteem you, because honest folks are so rare But it seems you have co askance at the handful of gold and silver which Dantes had thrown on the table
The young lance which shone in the dark eyes of his neighbor "Eh," he said, negligently, "thisto s in my absence, and to convince me he emptied his purse on the table Come, father" added Dantes, "put this hbor Caderousse wants anything, and in that case it is at his service"