‘Foul deeds will rise,

Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes;’

‘Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes;’

but, like a phosphoric light, they rise but to mislead. The story has been told by the Corsican to some priest, who in his turn has repeated it. M. de Monte Cristo may have heard it, and to enlighten himself⁠—”