“Alas, it is unhappily but too true. The day after the event, she decided on leaving Paris with a nun of her acquaintance; they are gone to seek a very strict convent in Italy or Spain.”

“Oh, it is terrible!” and M. de Boville retired with this exclamation, after expressing acute sympathy with the father. But he had scarcely left before Danglars, with an energy of action those can alone understand who have seen Robert Macaire represented by Frédérick, 27 exclaimed:

“Fool!”

Then enclosing Monte Cristo’s receipt in a little pocketbook, he added:⁠—“Yes, come at twelve o’clock; I shall then be far away.”