Wealth begins to change hands.

In The Count of Monte Cristo, Chapter 25, Edmond discreetly sells four small diamonds in Leghorn, netting twenty thousand francs. The next day, he astonishes Jacopo with a brand new vessel and a gift of one hundred piastres — on the condition that Jacopo sail to Marseilles to inquire after Edmond’s father and Mercédès. To explain such sudden generosity, Dantès invents a plausible story of family inheritance. Jacopo, loyal and unsuspecting, believes him without hesitation.

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