The Count of Monte Cristo

Scarcely had the count's horses cleared the angle of the boulevard, when Albert, turning towards the count, burst into a loud fit of laughter-much too loud in fact not to give the idea of its being rather forced and unnatural.

-"Well," said he, "I will ask you the same question which Charles IX. put to Catherine de' Medici, after the massacre of Saint Bartholomew: ‘How have I played my little part?"