“Yes,
count, you
know what
I told
you?” “All
remains
the same,
then, in
that
quarter?”
“It is
more than
ever a
settled
thing,”
said
Lucien.
And,
considering
this
remark was
all that
he was
called
upon to
make, he
adjusted
the glass
to his
eye, and
biting the
top of his
gold-headed
cane,
began to
make the
tour of
the
apartment,
examining
the arms
and the
pictures.
“Ah!” said
Monte-Cristo,
“I did not
expect the
affair
would have
been so


