Then, when he had returned, they asked him: "Well, what did you see at the bottom ?" "A queer marmalade," said he.

"Men and women, priests and pretty girls, all helter-skelter.

It's enough to make one die of laughter." "Decidedly man is a vile creature," said the Count of Monte-Cristo to M.
de Villefort.
Well, it is in this town, still reeking with blood, still warm, still stirred by these last massacres, that we now introduce two of the principal personages of our story..