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The second wife of M. de Villefort, Heloise de Villefort is found guilty of poisoning members of the Villefort and Saint-Meran family in order to protect the interests of her son, Edouard. Heloise feels that Edouard will not receive as much of an inheritance as her stepdaughter Valentine, and thus, tormented by this fact, she does all she can to eliminate family members who stand in her way. Heloise later kills Edouard and herself in a fit of despair after her husband uncovers her poisoning plot.
Mme Heloise de Villefort Quotes in The Count of Monte Cristo
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Chapter 52
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A drop of that elixir sufficed to bring the child back to life when he was dying, but three drops would have driven the blood into his lungs in such a way as to give him palpitations of the heart. Six would have interrupted his breathing and caused him a much more serious fit than the one he was already suffering. Ten would have killed him.
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Chapter 80
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How odd it was! For all the confused feelings that he experienced on seeing [Valentine’s] tears, he also managed to observe Mme de Villefort; and it seemed to him that a faint, dark smile passed briefly across her thin lips, like one of those sinister meteors that can be glimpsed as they fall between two clouds against a stormy day.
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Mme Heloise de Villefort Quotes in The Count of Monte Cristo
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Chapter 52
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A drop of that elixir sufficed to bring the child back to life when he was dying, but three drops would have driven the blood into his lungs in such a way as to give him palpitations of the heart. Six would have interrupted his breathing and caused him a much more serious fit than the one he was already suffering. Ten would have killed him.
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Chapter 80
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How odd it was! For all the confused feelings that he experienced on seeing [Valentine’s] tears, he also managed to observe Mme de Villefort; and it seemed to him that a faint, dark smile passed briefly across her thin lips, like one of those sinister meteors that can be glimpsed as they fall between two clouds against a stormy day.
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