The house of his father holds only absence.

In The Count of Monte Cristo, Chapter 25, Edmond insists on seeing the small upper rooms where his father once lived. Now occupied by a newly married couple, the chambers are stripped of every trace of the past — new wallpaper, new furniture, new life. Only the bare walls remain. Yet the bed sits where it once did, and Dantès, overcome, weeps as he remembers his father’s final moments calling for a son who never came. The young couple, moved but silent, allow him to grieve in peace.

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