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THE COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO
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"Ah! a month — six months — a year."
"It is too long a time. I wish to see him at once."
"Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight."
The Arrival at the Prison
"You think so?"
"Yes; they all begin in this way. We have an instance here: it was by always offering a million of francs to the governor for his liberty that the abbé who was in this chamber before you became mad."
