It really was the Count of Monte Cristo who had just arrived at the Villeforts', intending to repay the crown prosecutor's visit. As one may imagine, the whole household had been put into a state of great excitement at the announcement of his name.

Mme de Villefort, who was in the drawing-room, immediately called for her son, so that he could repeat his thanks to the count. Edouard, who for the past two days had heard tell of nothing except this great man, hurried down -- not out of any desire to obey his mother or to thank the count, but from curiosity and to make some remark which would allow him the opportunity for one of those jibes that his mother always greeted with: "Oh, the wicked child! But you have to forgive him, he's so witty!"

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