The next morning, Urbain de Bellegarde calls at Newman's apartment and tells him that he and his
mother think the document real. He asks that Newman destroy the note because it would only pain
the friends of his late father to find out that he was apparently insane when he wrote such an
outrageous note. Newman wonders what they will offer him. The Marquis says that they are giving
him a chance that any gentleman should appreciate: "A chance to abstain from inflicting a terrible
blot upon the memory of a man who certainly had his faults, but who, personally had done you no
wrong." Newman reminds the Marquis that they don't consider him a gentleman. He then asks them
to give him back Madame de Cintr
é
, but the Marquis replies "Never!" He informs Newman that to
reveal the contents of the note will be disagreeable but nothing more. After that, he leaves, and
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