The next day at about two in the afternoon, a barouche drawn by two splendid horses pulled up in front of Monte Cristo's door and a man in a blue jacket, with silk buttons of the same colour, a white waistcoat crossed by a huge gold chain and hazel-coloured trousers, with a head of such black hair, worn so low above the eyebrows that it seemed hardly natural, being so inconsistent with those wrinkles on the forehead that it was unable to disguise; in short, a man of between fifty and fifty-five, trying to look forty, put his head out of the window of a coupé with a baron's crown painted on its door, and sent his groom to enquire of the concierge whether the Count of Monte Cristo was at home.

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