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[Anonymous No.20701656]

>“Then,” continued Château-Renaud, “since you have an establishment, a steward, and a hotel in the Champs-Élysées, you only want a mistress.” Albert smiled. He thought of the fair Greek he had seen in the count’s box at the Argentina and Valle theatres.
>“I have something better than that,” said Monte Cristo; “I have a slave. You procure your mistresses from the opera, the Vaudeville, or the Variétés; I purchased mine at Constantinople; it cost me more, but I have nothing to fear.”
>“But you forget,” replied Debray, laughing, “that we are Franks by name and franks by nature, as King Charles said, and that the moment she puts her foot in France your slave becomes free.”
>“Who will tell her?”
>“The first person who sees her.”
>“She only speaks Romaic.”
>“That is different.”

[Anonymous No.20702491]

based

[Anonymous No.20702561]

A disgusting affront to liberty.