The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

And I have also a deep conviction that heaven would not have created two hearts, harmonising as ours do, and almost miraculously brought us together, to separate us at last.”

It is generally the case that what we most ardently desire is as ardently withheld from us by those who wish to obtain it, or from whom we attempt to snatch it. Thus, the greater number of a man’s errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped