Madame de Villefort listened with avidity to these appalling maxims and horrible paradoxes, delivered by the count with that ironical simplicity which was peculiar to him.

• 这一番话，伯爵是以他那特有的讽刺而又很真率的口吻讲出来的，维尔福夫人贪婪地倾听着这些令人胆寒的格言和可怕的怪论。