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Alright, let's try this again.
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Um So I'm going to do all of chapter chapters
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29 to 44.
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Chronologically, I split it up for you, sort of in
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sections, but I'm just gonna do the whole thing in
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one go if I can't, um And there's a lot,
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so I'm gonna go really fast.
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So Chapter 29 the count goes to visit the village
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courthouse. He visits with Madame de Ville fort, and they
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have a conversation about potions and medicines and things like
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that. Um, and he promises to send over a, um,
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portion of the potion is a powder, actually that he
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used with Edward to wake Edward up, but also warns
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her that it is dangerous and large doses.
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Um, but he says that, you know, he can make
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it, um, he makes it at his house, He knows
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how to make it, and so he'll send it to
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her. And so he sent.
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So as he leaves, he is remote.
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He reminds her that he'll send it to her, and
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he kind of says out loud, like I my plan
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is working, right?
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Um and so that's sort of an aside a little
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peek into his internal okay, dialogue that he has a
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plan and it's working based on this conversation.
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Bottom drawer for super interested in this conversation, it's very
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clear that she's super interested in these poisons and potions,
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and she sort of writes it off like it's just
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an academic interest.
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But we'll find out that it's more than that.
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Um, Chapter 30 Albert goes to visit the count, and
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what's important to take from that conversation that they have
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is that he is betrothed to you, Jeannie.
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But he does not want to marry her.
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He's pretty rude about her, actually.
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Um, so no men, if you're reading that, went like
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this. Um, but he is, um, kind of appealing to
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the count.
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Like things the way you can get me out of
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this. Like, I'd love to get out of this material
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and the count.
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The first thing he says is, Well, I'm having a
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dinner party.
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Why don't you pretend to be out of town so
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you don't have to run into her and, um, you
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know that be an awkward moment.
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So Albert's like, Oh, thank you so much.
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And he plans to leave town with his mother.
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Chapter 31 is when we first meet Andrea Cavalcanti and
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Major Cavalcanti, who is Andrea's father.
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Um, basically, they both come to the Count's house, um,
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and pretend to be these two people that the count
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supposedly is going to be taking care of in like,
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a sort of the same way that Albert took care
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of the count, right?
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Like they're Italian.
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He's helping them to find their place in Paris society,
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and he's providing them funds, Um, because their money doesn't
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transfer into Paris at this time, so he's providing them
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funds based on this unlimited credit that they supposedly have.
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Well, the thing is that when Andrea and the Major
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Cavalcanti are in the same room together, they both admit
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to each other that we're not these people.
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And we've just been given a letter, one of them
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from Lord Wilmore, the other one from Sony, Um, that,
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uh, there to, like, play these roles.
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Um and so they both feel really like just keep
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it on the Dell Anno.
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But don't tell anyone that we're playing these roles and
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we'll continue to get this money will continue to get
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the status so Let's just keep it like to ourselves.
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Of course, we know that those other two characters are
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the count.
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And so it's just a ploy to get them there
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to get them to play these roles.
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Um, which will serve a later function.
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Um, Andrea is the one that is actually Benedetto, right?
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Remember from Tokyo story?
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That was a little boy.
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Um, that is the son of Guilford and Madam Bunglers.
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And he is really bad.
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And, um so that's Andrea.
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Major Cavalcanti doesn't really show up later in In our
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version are abridged version.
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He's not terribly important, so don't worry about Major Cavalcanti,
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but Andrea Cavalcanti is Benedetto pretending to be this Italian?
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Um, air this Italian at least very rich.
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Um, young man.
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So that will come up Chapter 32.
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We find out that Maximilian Morel is in love with
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Valentine Field for it.
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So we see them outside of her garden having a
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conversation through the fence and he you know she is
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Yeah, talking to him about having like being betrayed to
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Franz Maximilian is being really upset about it.
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Um and this is the kind of first time that
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they admit to each other that they're in love with
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each other, and they don't want to be with anybody
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else. Um, and so this is a major a major
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moment. Um, Valentine also tells in this scene that Renee,
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um, is her mother, right?
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Who has passed away.
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So she has a significant inheritance from her mother.
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And she will also get a significant inheritance from her
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grandparents on her mother's side when they pass.
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Um, and then that her grandfather, Nordea does love loves
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her more than Edward.
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And so we'll pass on his inheritance to her as
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well. So she is due to make a lot of
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money or to be really, really wealthy when all of
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these people pass away and give them her or give
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her them their money.
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Um, And for this reason, Madame de Ville fort, her
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stepmother doesn't want her to marry.
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She wants her to go into a convent.
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Because if you go into a convent, you have to
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give up all your worldly possessions.
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And so all of this money that she will, um,
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that she was to come into would pass on to
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Edward, um, and so Madame de Ville for it really
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doesn't want her to marry at all.
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Um, and has made that pretty clear.
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Um, okay, Chapter 33 is when Madame de Ville Fort
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and Montoursville fort go to Nordea's room, which is, um,
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Valentine's grandfather is, um Ville forts.
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Father. Remember the Bonaparte ist Excuse me.
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And he has had a seizure that left him paralyzed
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so he can only communicate with blinking his eyes.
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Um, and that's this whole process is very cool.
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But Belfort and Madam developer go to visit him to
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tell him that they have arranged for Valentine to marry
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Franz. Japanese nor D.
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A. Does not want this to happen because he loves
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Valentine. He knows it's not what she wants, and he's
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not about it.
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Um, and so he, um, gets a notary to come
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and uh huh.
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Kind of through through the communication.
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Um communicates that if Valentine, Mary's friend Stephanie that he
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will, um, leave all of his money to charity.
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He won't give it to her.
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And he won't give it to Bill for he won't
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give it to Edward.
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He won't give to anybody.
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He'll just leave all of his money to the poor.
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He's thinking that this will be sort of a a
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wake up call for Belfort and sort of make him
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reconsider the plan.
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But it doesn't.
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It doesn't really work.
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Um, in chapter 30 for the count comes by the
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veal porterhouse first.
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And he, um yeah, he just is stopping by to
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say, Oh, just remember about our dinner party this this
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weekend or whatever and before it's like, Oh, yeah, of
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course we'll be there.
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Where is it?
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And he says, Oh, my house and anti A And
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he is telling him that it's the house where the
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horse was stabbed, where he buried this baby.
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Whatever. And Bill Ford gets really like, flustered and and
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scared and madam to go for it like it's so
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funny you bought that house because he hates that house.
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I don't know what like he would, you know, we
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used to have the house, and he hated it.
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Um, and he's like, No, no, no, it's fine.
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It's fine trying to, like, deflect his feelings toward the
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house, obviously, and, um, the counts like, Oh, well, you
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know it.
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You know, careful what you say.
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You'll you'll make me think there's some like haunting there.
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There's some spooky legend going on with this with this
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house and Gale force like No, definitely not, You know,
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like, kind of again.
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And this is the count.
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Just kind of taunting him, right?
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Because he knows the count knows what's going on at
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this house.
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Um, so then the count leaves the house, and he's
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like, Well, I gotta go.
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I'm gonna go look into telegrams.
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I've never understood how telegrams working.
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I'm gonna go see what What's up with telegrams?
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And, um, so he goes And this is a hint,
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because later in the day, we find out that there
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was a telegram sent that indicated, um, something going on
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with the Spanish king that that Lucien Debray here's in
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the telegram because he works for the minister.
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Um, and he here's the telegram Come through and he
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runs some.
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Adam Sandler's tells her to sell all your Spanish bonds,
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so she sells, she goes to the anglers, they sell
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all their Spanish bonds.
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And, um, when when the news comes out that this
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thing has happened with the king, everybody's like, Whoa, Dang
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largely was super smart.
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But then the next day, we find out that that
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was false.
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It was a false rumor.
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And, um, Spanish bonds go way, way up and down
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anglers in following that false trail which we know was
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planted by the count because he was going to see
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a telegram.
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Um, he loses, like a million, uh, francs.
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Um, in that issue.
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So, like the count?
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Sort of slowly, like picking at the angler's there.
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Okay, The dinner party is the next scene, Um, in
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chapter 35.
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And it is such a crazy scene.
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If you want to learn about tone and mood created
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in a scene, read that chapter.
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It's so good.
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So all these people come?
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Of course, the Wranglers are there.
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Um, the veal for its are there.
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There's also, um, Andrea Cavalcanti is there.
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And, um, you know, Chateau Renault and some people, some
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side characters.
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Excuse me.
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So, um, they have dinner, whatever the count is, of
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course, a gracious host.
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But he also indicates that there is.
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He has found there's this household secrets and that he
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has found some of the secrets and he talks about
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He takes them up to this bedroom upstairs where he's
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like, there's definitely something wrong with this bedroom?
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Well, it's the bedroom where, um, Madame de Anglers had
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the baby that, um eventually that they thought died that
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eventually became Benedetto.
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And he's like, There's something weird in this room, you
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know? And he's like Also I When I was when
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I first moved in, I was trying.
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I was getting the gardeners out there to clean up
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the yacht to clean up the garden, and they found
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a a box with a with a skeleton of an
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infant. And so, of course, he's like taunting them right?
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He's taunting Bill for and Madame de Anglers by saying
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like I know this stuff and he's creating all this
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anxiety in them.
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Um, so it's a really, really good scene.
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Um, of course, they're freaked out there super nervous about
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everything. Excuse me, Um, and they sort of the night
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goes along as usual, but they kind of make a
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quick exit after that.
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Um, after that conversation, this is also the first time
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that anglers meets.
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Andrea Cavalcanti realizes he's super rich.
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He's telling in he's got all this money that he's
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hoping to marry um in in France, and so that
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will come up later as well.
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Um, let's see.
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Oh, veal for And Madam Dangler before they leave this
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dinner party, make a plan to meet up to have
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a conversation about what's gone on in this space.
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Um, of course, the count is just happy to be
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kind of, um, toying with them a little bit.
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Okay. As they're leaving the dinner party, um, Andrea Cavalcanti
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hops into his carriage.
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Um, and, um, someone stops, someone knocks on the carriage,
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or and it is kangaroos.
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And this is when we learned the calories.
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And Benedetto met in prison in too long.
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They are both, you know, criminals.
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They have both had these past and kangaroos knows that
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Benedetto is not Andrea Cavalcanti, that he's not the heir
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of an Italian fortune, But he is just a common
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criminal, and he is a bad dude.
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And so cataracts, basically black males, um, Benedetto slash Andrea
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to pay him a monthly allowance out of the allowance.
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That account is giving Andrea to, um to keep quiet,
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right? And so these two people are acquainted.
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Um, they're not friends, of course categories is super greedy
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and just wants, you know, more out of him um,
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but Andrea doesn't have a real a real choice.
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And so he Andrea slash Benedetto doesn't have a real
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choice, and so he agrees to pay him 200 bucks
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a month.
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Um, and Qatar is just really takes advantage of that
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of that of him in that moment.
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Um, when they get home that anglers, um, Madrid anglers,
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baron anglers, goes into Madame Wranglers room where Lucien Debray
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is, of course.
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And he's like, Get out of my house.
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And that's a weird moment.
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Because, of course, they're lovers.
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He knows they're lovers, and he's never had a problem
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with it, but it makes them leave.
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And then he talks to Madame de Anglers, and basically,
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he indicates that he understands what happened.
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Why he lost this million francs and the Spanish bonds
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was that he got news from Lucien Debray that, um,
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that caused him to sell.
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Or that she got news from Lucien Debray that caused
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him to sell his bonds.
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That caused him to lose his million francs.
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And he thinks that Madam dangler solution break.
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Oh, him, um, at least a portion of the loss
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that he has in crude and of course, Madame Wranglers
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is like No, like this is not, you know, whatever.
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But it makes it really clear that Baron anglers cares
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more about money than about her than about the affair
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than about anything.
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And that he feels like he's being taken advantage of
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by Madame Bunglers and wishing to brace, um, affair is
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one thing, but also their trading of information and that
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their trading of information is impacting his pocketbook is impacting
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his, um, his bank account.
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And he's not about that.
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And so he is kind of demanding that they make
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good on that mistake that Lucien Debray made by overhearing
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about this false telegram in the in the minister's office.
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Okay, so I know that's a lot that's going on.
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I'm gonna pick back up with the other chapters in
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the next video because there's a time limit here.
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Um, And again, I'm just gonna move super fast.
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Obviously, always.
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If you have any questions, let me know