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Ladies and gentlemen...
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unfortunately, my husband
has been detained by business.
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And so it is left up to me to...
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To introduce you...
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to the Count of Monte Cristo yet again.
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You see, I had the audacity
to beg the count...
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to allow me to give
the birthday toast to Albert.
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I was so insistent, and such is
the graciousness of our host...
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that he reluctantly gave up
his fatherly right...
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in order to accommodate a guest,
even one as boorish as myself.
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Young Albert has made far too much
of the assistance I gave him in Rome.
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When I arrived in the catacombs,
I watched...
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as the criminals,
who tied Albert to a wall...
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- As evidence of his abduction.
- Goodness!
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The boy's reply to all this was...
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"Do your worst."
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Life is a storm, my young friend.
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You will bask
in the sunlight one moment...
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be shattered on the rocks the next.
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What makes you a man is what you do
when that storm comes.
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You must look into that storm
and shout, as you did in Rome...
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"Do your worst...
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for I will do mine."
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Then the fates will know you
as we know you...
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as Albert Mondego, the man.