“Well, look at my coat-of-arms, it is worth more than Morcerf’s.”
“Why so?”
“Because, though I am not a baron by birth, my real name is, at least, Danglars.”
“Well, what then?”
“While his name is not Morcerf.”
“How?—not Morcerf?”
“Not the least in the world.”
“Go on.”
“I have been made a baron, so that I actually am one; he made himself a count, so that he is not one at all.”
“Impossible!”