...
"Then I have leave?"
"Go, I tell you."
"May I have the use of your skiff?"
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Marseilles The Arrival. ... possible in the midst
of the thousand vessels which choke up the narrow way which
leads between the two rows of ships from the mouth of the
harbor to t...
...
Bertuccio wiped the perspiration from his brow, but obeyed;
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The House at Auteuil.
Monte Cristo noticed, as they descended the staircase, ... Bertuccio, setting down the lantern at the
of a scene on the stage. The carriage stopped, the footman
sprang off the box, and opened the door. "We...
... and then was heard
the regular tramp of soldiers. Last of all came the
governor.
Edmond heard the creaking of the bed as they moved the
corpse, heard the voice of the governor, who asked them ... applied to his heart, and felt the body
gradually grow cold, and the heart's pulsation become more
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... to the reports afloat, was no longer to be had; and to
meet the one hundred thousand francs due on the 10 th of the
present month, and the one hundred thousand francs due on
the 15 th of the ... received of the Pharaon.
Such was the state of affairs when, the day after his
interview with M. de Boville, the confidential clerk of the
respectfully; &quo...
... spite of
himself, the recollection of the terror with which the count
had inspired the Countess G , and her firm conviction
that the man in the opposite box was a vampire. At the end
of the ... little attention to him,
whether the explanation of the Count of Monte Cristo with
regard to duelling had satisfied him, or whether the events
which Franz...
... hottest summer, the
incessant and melodious warbling of birds, and the entire
removal from either the noise of the street or the bustle of
the mansion. On the evening of one of the warmest days ... ever
breathed one word on the subject save to yourself. Outwardly
and in the eyes of the world, I am surrounded by kindness
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO...
... and hearing no sound tried
to enter, but the bolts were in place. Madame Danglars then
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The Law.
We have seen how quietly Mademoiselle ... recollection of the past, and then I experience the same
assassin, and yet his manners showed the effects of a sort
of education, if not a complete one; he had bee...
... off?"
said Beauchamp.
"Just so."
"Why, he is a second Ariosto."
"No, his name is the Count of Monte Cristo. "
"There is no Count of Monte Cristo& quot; ... with the air of a
man who knows the whole of the European nobility perfectly.
"Does any one know anything of a Count of Monte Cristo? "...
... now," demanded the count, "are all the
forms complied with?"
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Monsieur Bertuccio.
Meanwhile the count had arrived ... Monte Cristo. The other bowed respectfully,
and offered his arm to assist the count in descending.
"Thanks, M. Bertuccio," said the count, springing l...
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Father and Son.
We will leave Danglars struggling with the demon of hatred,
and endeavoring to insinuate in the ear of the shipowner
some ... took the Rue de
Noailles, and entering a small house, on the left of the
Allees de Meillan, rapidly ascended four flights of a dark
staircase, holding the b...