Among the smugglers of La Jeune Amélie, Edmond keeps his secret, offering only fragments of truth and convincing lies.

In The Count of Monte Cristo, Chapter 22, he arrives at Leghorn and faces a more personal trial: seeing his own face for the first time in fourteen years. At a barber’s shop, his beard and hair are shorn away, revealing how much he has changed since youth — and what remains of the man he once was.

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