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Meanwhile what of Mercedes? She had e; she had returned to the Catalans, and had despairingly cast herself on her couch Fernand, kneeling by her side, took her hand, and covered it with kisses that Mercedes did not even feel She passed the night thus The lamp went out for want of oil, but she paid no heed to the darkness, and dawn came, but she knew not that it was day Grief had made her blind to all but one object--that was Ed towards Fernand

"I have not quitted you since yesterday," returned Fernand sorrowfully

M Morrel had not readily given up the fight He had learned that Dantes had been taken to prison, and he had gone to all his friends, and the influential persons of the city; but the report was already in circulation that Dantes was arrested as a Bonapartist agent; and as the uine looked upon any attempt of Napoleon to re but refusal, and had returned ho that themore could be done

Caderousse was equally restless and uneasy, but instead of seeking, like M Morrel, to aid Dantes, he had shut himself up with two bottles of black currant brandy, in the hope of drowning reflection But he did not succeed, and became too intoxicated to fetch any et what had happened With his elbows on the table he sat between the two eht of the unsnuffed candle--spectres such as Hoffes, like black, fantastic dust

Danglars alone was content and joyous--he had got rid of an enelars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction The life of a man was to hi it away, he could increase the sum total of his own desires He went to bed at his usual hour, and slept in peace

Villefort, after having received M de Salvieux' letter, embraced Renee, kissed the marquise's hand, and shaken that of thethe Aix road

Old Dantes was dying with anxiety to knohat had become of Edmond But we know very hat had become of Edmond