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第201章

"What is the use of following the alleys? Here is a beautiful lawn; let us go on straight forwards."Bertuccio wiped the perspiration from his brow, but obeyed;however, he continued to take the left hand.Monte Cristo, on the contrary, took the right hand; arrived near a clump of trees, he stopped.The steward could not restrain himself."Move, monsieur -- move away, I entreat you; you are exactly in the spot!""What spot?"

"Where he fell."

"My dear Monsieur Bertuccio," said Monte Cristo, laughing, "control yourself; we are not at Sartena or at Corte.This is not a Corsican arbor, but an English garden; badly kept, I own, but still you must not calumniate it for that.""Monsieur, I implore you do not stay there!""I think you are going mad, Bertuccio," said the count coldly."If that is the case, I warn you, I shall have you put in a lunatic asylum.""Alas, excellency," returned Bertuccio, joining his hands, and shaking his head in a manner that would have excited the count's laughter, had not thoughts of a superior interest occupied him, and rendered him attentive to the least revelation of this timorous conscience."Alas, excellency, the evil has arrived!""M.Bertuccio," said the count, "I am very glad to tell you, that while you gesticulate, you wring your hands and roll your eyes like a man possessed by a devil who will not leave him; and I have always observed, that the devil most obstinate to be expelled is a secret.I knew you were a Corsican.I knew you were gloomy, and always brooding over some old history of the vendetta; and I overlooked that in Italy, because in Italy those things are thought nothing of.

But in France they are considered in very bad taste; there are gendarmes who occupy themselves with such affairs, judges who condemn, and scaffolds which avenge." Bertuccio clasped his hands, and as, in all these evolutions, he did not let fall the lantern, the light showed his pale and altered countenance.Monte Cristo examined him with the same look that, at Rome, he had bent upon the execution of Andrea, and then, in a tone that made a shudder pass through the veins of the poor steward, -- "The Abbe Busoni, then told me an untruth," said he, "when, after his journey in France, in 1829, he sent you to me, with a letter of recommendation, in which he enumerated all your valuable qualities.Well, I shall write to the abbe; I shall hold him responsible for his protege's misconduct, and I shall soon know all about this assassination.Only I warn you, that when I reside in a country, I conform to all its code, and Ihave no wish to put myself within the compass of the French laws for your sake.""Oh, do not do that, excellency; I have always served you faithfully," cried Bertuccio, in despair."I have always been an honest man, and, as far as lay in my power, I have done good.""I do not deny it," returned the count; "but why are you thus agitated.It is a bad sign; a quiet conscience does not occasion such paleness in the cheeks, and such fever in the hands of a man.""But, your excellency," replied Bertuccio hesitatingly, "did not the Abbe Busoni, who heard my confession in the prison at Nimes, tell you that I had a heavy burden upon my conscience?""Yes; but as he said you would make an excellent steward, Iconcluded you had stolen -- that was all.""Oh, your excellency," returned Bertuccio in deep contempt.

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