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“But,” replied the owner, glancing after Dantès, who was watching the anchoring of his vessel, “it seems to me that a sailor needs not be so old as you say, Danglars, to understand his business, for our friend Edmond seems to understand it thoroughly, and not to require instruction from anyone.”

“And what did he say to you?”

Morrel, I beg of you,” said he, “not to say a word to Dantès on the subject.

“Say I have a poor father, sir.”