1. The physical displacement from Paris to Normandy doesn’t seem to warrant much attention, so why this chapter title?

2. The count knows exactly what news Florentin is bringing to Albert, who then staggers like a man having been shot… does the hunting of pheasants and fishing of trout in this chapter echo Dantès’ killing of the young goat in Chapter 23 (“The Island of Monte Cristo”), in terms of the harm the count does to innocents in his path?

Final sentence of chapter:

“Thus the terrible secret, which Beauchamp had so generously destroyed, appeared again like an armed phantom; and another paper, deriving its information from some malicious source, had published two days after Albert’s departure for Normandy the few lines which had rendered the unfortunate young man almost crazy.”

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