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Show AN A&EEBUCAW MOHTB C8TO. Aiheni the many highly colored virtues ot the Count o( Monte Crlsto wss his I tense of punolusllty. a virtue which probably prob-ably no one ever escribed to his creator. "At such an hour, of such s Say. or such s month. I shsll call at your hotel In Paris." said the count to Albert de Mor-cerf. Mor-cerf. ss they parted In Rome erter the sdventure with Lulsi Vamps snd hit bsndtte. snd. of course, he wss suite si good ss hia word. According to an article ar-ticle on the Isle Sir Cherlea Dilke. tn a recent number of the anion Academy, say the April Bookman, the count wll henceforth neve to soars his honors with sn Amerlrso rival. A pecullsr Instance of a cognsts char-scterletlc char-scterletlc occurs to me. He once spoke with admlrsilon of an American be had met, think In Ban Francisco. The ! American told him he would be coming to England in a year. Dllks Invited him to lunch and revs him a day fourteen months later, aesurmg him hs would give him a distinctly English lunch, besting him at the same time to be punctual. |