Граф Монте-Кристо

The Dinner.

           "

           "Oh,thisisveryinteresting,"saidDebray;"iftherereallyhasbeenacrime,wewillinvestigateit."

           "Therehasbeenacrime,"saidMonteCristo."Comethisway,gentlemen;come,M.Villefort,foradeclarationtobeavailable,shouldbemadebeforethecompetentauthorities."HethentookVillefort’sarm,and,atthesametime,holdingthatofMadameDanglarsunderhisown,hedraggedtheprocureurtotheplantain-tree,wheretheshadewasthickest.Alltheotherguestsfollowed."Stay,"saidMonteCristo,"here,inthisveryspot"(andhestampedupontheground),"Ihadtheearthdugupandfreshmouldputin,torefreshtheseoldtrees;well,myman,digging,foundabox,orrather,theiron-workofabox,inthemidstofwhichwastheskeletonofanewlyborninfant."MonteCristofeltthearmofMadameDanglarsstiffen,whilethatofVilleforttrembled."Anewlyborninfant,"repeatedDebray;"thisaffairbecomesserious!"

           "Well,"saidChateau–Renaud,"Iwasnotwrongjustnowthen,whenIsaidthathouseshadsoulsandfaceslikemen,andthattheirexteriorscarriedtheimpressoftheircharacters.Thishousewasgloomybecauseitwasremorseful:itwasremorsefulbecauseitconcealedacrime."

           "Whosaiditwasacrime?"askedVillefort,withalasteffort.

           "How?isitnotacrimetoburyalivingchildinagarden?"criedMonteCristo.

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