Look at me carefully, Villefort, and see if you can see a young, innocent sailor whom you betrayed with a smile and kind words! " Villefort started back, putting out his hand to ward Edmond off." It cannot be!
And these jokes were all she found to take the place of those exaggerated sugary flatteries with which she had been regaled at the Jesuit Convent where she had passed her youth.