Oh, the royalists were very severe with the Bonapartists in those days." "Monsieur," returned Villefort, "I was then a royalist, because I believed the Bourbons not only the heirs to the throne, but the chosen of the nation.

The miraculous return of Napoleon has conquered me, the legitimate monarch is he who is loved by his people." "That's right!" cried Morrel.

"I like to hear you speak thus, and I augur well for Edmond from it." "Wait a moment," said Villefort, turning over the leaves of a register; "I have it--a sailor, who was about to marry a young Catalan girl.

I recollect now; it was a very serious charge." "How so ?" "You know that when he left here he was taken to the Palais de Justice." "Well ?" "I made my report to the authorities at Paris, and a week after he was carried off." "Carried off!" said Morrel.

"What can they have done with him ?" "Oh, he has been taken to Fenestrelles, to Pignerol, or to the Sainte-Marguerite islands.