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That
night
the
adventure
at
Auteuil
was
talked
of
everywhere
Albert
related
it
to
his
mother
;
Chateau
--
Renaud
recounted
it
at
the
Jockey
Club
,
and
Debray
detailed
it
at
length
in
the
salons
of
the
minister
;
even
Beauchamp
accorded
twenty
lines
in
his
journal
to
the
relation
of
the
count
's
courage
and
gallantry
,
thereby
celebrating
him
as
the
greatest
hero
of
the
day
in
the
eyes
of
all
the
feminine
members
of
the
aristocracy
.
Vast
was
the
crowd
of
visitors
and
inquiring
friends
who
left
their
names
at
the
residence
of
Madame
de
Villefort
,
with
the
design
of
renewing
their
visit
at
the
right
moment
,
of
hearing
from
her
lips
all
the
interesting
circumstances
of
this
most
romantic
adventure
.
As
for
M.
de
Villefort
,
he
fulfilled
the
predictions
of
Heloise
to
the
letter
--
donned
his
dress
suit
,
drew
on
a
pair
of
white
gloves
,
ordered
the
servants
to
attend
the
carriage
dressed
in
their
full
livery
,
and
drove
that
same
night
to
No.
30
in
the
Avenue
des
Champs
--
Elysees
.
If
the
Count
of
Monte
Cristo
had
been
for
a
long
time
familiar
with
the
ways
of
Parisian
society
,
he
would
have
appreciated
better
the
significance
of
the
step
which
M.
de
Villefort
had
taken
.
Standing
well
at
court
,
whether
the
king
regnant
was
of
the
older
or
younger
branch
,
whether
the
government
was
doctrinaire
liberal
,
or
conservative
;
looked
upon
by
all
as
a
man
of
talent
,
since
those
who
have
never
experienced
a
political
check
are
generally
so
regarded
;
hated
by
many
,
but
warmly
supported
by
others
,
without
being
really
liked
by
anybody
,
M.
de
Villefort
held
a
high
position
in
the
magistracy
,
and
maintained
his
eminence
like
a
Harlay
or
a
Mole
.
His
drawing-room
,
under
the
regenerating
influence
of
a
young
wife
and
a
daughter
by
his
first
marriage
,
scarcely
eighteen
,
was
still
one
of
the
well-regulated
Paris
salons
where
the
worship
of
traditional
customs
and
the
observance
of
rigid
etiquette
were
carefully
maintained
.
A
freezing
politeness
,
a
strict
fidelity
to
government
principles
,
a
profound
contempt
for
theories
and
theorists
,
a
deep-seated
hatred
of
ideality
--
these
were
the
elements
of
private
and
public
life
displayed
by
M.
de
Villefort
.
He
was
not
only
a
magistrate
,
he
was
almost
a
diplomatist
.
His
relations
with
the
former
court
,
of
which
he
always
spoke
with
dignity
and
respect
,
made
him
respected
by
the
new
one
,
and
he
knew
so
many
things
,
that
not
only
was
he
always
carefully
considered
,
but
sometimes
consulted
.
Perhaps
this
would
not
have
been
so
had
it
been
possible
to
get
rid
of
M.
de
Villefort
;
but
,
like
the
feudal
barons
who
rebelled
against
their
sovereign
,
he
dwelt
in
an
impregnable
fortress
.
This
fortress
was
his
post
as
king
's
attorney
,
all
the
advantages
of
which
he
exploited
with
marvellous
skill
,
and
which
he
would
not
have
resigned
but
to
be
made
deputy
,
and
thus
to
replace
neutrality
by
opposition
.
Ordinarily
M.
de
Villefort
made
and
returned
very
few
visits
.
His
wife
visited
for
him
,
and
this
was
the
received
thing
in
the
world
,
where
the
weighty
and
multifarious
occupations
of
the
magistrate
were
accepted
as
an
excuse
for
what
was
really
only
calculated
pride
,
a
manifestation
of
professed
superiority
--
in
fact
,
the
application
of
the
axiom
,
"
Pretend
to
think
well
of
yourself
,
and
the
world
will
think
well
of
you
,
"
an
axiom
a
hundred
times
more
useful
in
society
nowadays
than
that
of
the
Greeks
,
"
Know
thyself
,
"
a
knowledge
for
which
,
in
our
days
,
we
have
substituted
the
less
difficult
and
more
advantageous
science
of
knowing
others
.
To
his
friends
M.
de
Villefort
was
a
powerful
protector
;
to
his
enemies
,
he
was
a
silent
,
but
bitter
opponent
;
for
those
who
were
neither
the
one
nor
the
other
,
he
was
a
statue
of
the
law-made
man
.
He
had
a
haughty
bearing
,
a
look
either
steady
and
impenetrable
or
insolently
piercing
and
inquisitorial
.
Four
successive
revolutions
had
built
and
cemented
the
pedestal
upon
which
his
fortune
was
based
.
M.
de
Villefort
had
the
reputation
of
being
the
least
curious
and
the
least
wearisome
man
in
France
.
He
gave
a
ball
every
year
,
at
which
he
appeared
for
a
quarter
of
an
hour
only
--
that
is
to
say
,
five
and
forty
minutes
less
than
the
king
is
visible
at
his
balls
.
He
was
never
seen
at
the
theatres
,
at
concerts
,
or
in
any
place
of
public
resort
.
Occasionally
,
but
seldom
,
he
played
at
whist
,
and
then
care
was
taken
to
select
partners
worthy
of
him
--
sometimes
they
were
ambassadors
,
sometimes
archbishops
,
or
sometimes
a
prince
,
or
a
president
,
or
some
dowager
duchess
.
Such
was
the
man
whose
carriage
had
just
now
stopped
before
the
Count
of
Monte
Cristo
's
door
.
The
valet
de
chambre
announced
M.
de
Villefort
at
the
moment
when
the
count
,
leaning
over
a
large
table
,
was
tracing
on
a
map
the
route
from
St.
Petersburg
to
China
.
The
procureur
entered
with
the
same
grave
and
measured
step
he
would
have
employed
in
entering
a
court
of
justice
.
He
was
the
same
man
,
or
rather
the
development
of
the
same
man
,
whom
we
have
heretofore
seen
as
assistant
attorney
at
Marseilles
.
Nature
,
according
to
her
way
,
had
made
no
deviation
in
the
path
he
had
marked
out
for
himself
.
From
being
slender
he
had
now
become
meagre
;
once
pale
,
he
was
now
yellow
;
his
deep-set
eyes
were
hollow
,
and
the
gold
spectacles
shielding
his
eyes
seemed
to
be
an
integral
portion
of
his
face
.
He
dressed
entirely
in
black
,
with
the
exception
of
his
white
tie
,
and
his
funeral
appearance
was
only
mitigated
by
the
slight
line
of
red
ribbon
which
passed
almost
imperceptibly
through
his
button-hole
,
and
appeared
like
a
streak
of
blood
traced
with
a
delicate
brush
.
Although
master
of
himself
,
Monte
Cristo
,
scrutinized
with
irrepressible
curiosity
the
magistrate
whose
salute
he
returned
,
and
who
,
distrustful
by
habit
,
and
especially
incredulous
as
to
social
prodigies
,
was
much
more
despised
to
look
upon
"
the
noble
stranger
,
"
as
Monte
Cristo
was
already
called
,
as
an
adventurer
in
search
of
new
fields
,
or
an
escaped
criminal
,
rather
than
as
a
prince
of
the
Holy
See
,
or
a
sultan
of
the
Thousand
and
One
Nights
.
"
Sir
,
"
said
Villefort
,
in
the
squeaky
tone
assumed
by
magistrates
in
their
oratorical
periods
,
and
of
which
they
can
not
,
or
will
not
,
divest
themselves
in
society
,
"
sir
,
the
signal
service
which
you
yesterday
rendered
to
my
wife
and
son
has
made
it
a
duty
for
me
to
offer
you
my
thanks
.
I
have
come
,
therefore
,
to
discharge
this
duty
,
and
to
express
to
you
my
overwhelming
gratitude
.
"
And
as
he
said
this
,
the
"
eye
severe
"
of
the
magistrate
had
lost
nothing
of
its
habitual
arrogance
.
He
spoke
in
a
voice
of
the
procureur-general
,
with
the
rigid
inflexibility
of
neck
and
shoulders
which
caused
his
flatterers
to
say
(
as
we
have
before
observed
)
that
he
was
the
living
statue
of
the
law
.
