"Her son ?" said he.
"Yes," replied Caderousse, "little Albert." "But, then, to be able to instruct her child," continued the abbe, "she must have received an education herself.

I understood from Edmond that she was the daughter of a simple fisherman, beautiful but uneducated." "Oh," replied Caderousse, "did he know so little of his lovely betrothed?
Mercedes might have been a queen, sir, if the crown were to be placed on the heads of the loveliest and most intelligent.

Fernand's fortune was already waxing great, and she developed with his growing fortune.

She learned drawing, music--everything.

Besides, I believe, between ourselves, she did this in order to distract her mind, that she might forget; and she only filled her head in order to alleviate the weight on her heart.