"Well, he wasn't completely abandoned," Caderousse continued. "Mercédès and Mr. Morrel were very kind to him. But somehow the poor old man had developed a deep hatred for Fernand, the very person," Caderousse added with a bitter smile, "that you just named as one of Dantès' faithful and devoted friends."
"And wasn't he?" the priest asked.
"Gaspard, Gaspard!" the woman murmured from her seat on the stairs. "Watch what you're saying!"
