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In relating that many people at the court hearing consider Benedetto too delightful to be a criminal and thus likely the victim of some conspiracy to malign his character, the narrator makes an astute observation about how preconceived perceptions can crowd out objective facts; do our core ideas about any particular characters prevent us from seeing the truth about them?
Dumas seems to be using the trio of Château-Renaud, Beauchamp, and Debray as comic relief—is it working?
Final sentence of chapter:
“‘All rise!’”
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