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Dantès glanced that way as he lifted the gourd to his mouth; then paused with hand in mid-air.

“Burglary!” cried the Colonel, with his coffee-cup in mid-air.

Then, if you had been watching, you would have seen the most wonderful thing in the world--the wolf checked in mid-spring.

The door opened to admit a thin, austere figure with a hatchet face and drooping mid-Victorian whiskers of a glossy blackness which hardly corresponded with the rounded shoulders and feeble gait.