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CHAPTER 5
The Marriage-Feast.
The morning's sun rose clear and resplendent, touching the
foamy waves into a network of ruby-tinted ... expectant guests, consisting of
the favored part of the crew of the Pharaon, and other
personal friends of the bride-groom, the whole of whom had
arrayed them...
... quarter
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The Evening of the Betrothal.
Villefort had, as we have said, hastened back to Madame de
Saint-Meran's in the Place ... seals; he has the
right of entry at the Tuileries, and can procure you
audience at any hour of the day or night."
"Doubtless; but there is no occasion to...
... "Let us talk of something else," said he.
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The Abbe's Chamber.
After having passed with tolerable ease through the
subterranean ... to specify the
hour.
picked up a little of the Romaic dialect during voyages to
the East; and by the aid of these two languages he easily
comprehende...
... the
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The Third Attack.
Now that this treasure, which had so long been the object of
the abbe's meditations, could insure the ... root there with
all their philological ramifications. These different
sciences that you have made so easy to me by the depth of
the knowledge you possess of them, a...
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS
CHAPTER 32
The Waking.
When Franz returned to himself, he seemed still to ... gracefully on the water. There for some time he
enjoyed the fresh breeze which played on his brow, and
listened to the dash of the waves on the beach, that left
against the rocks a lace of foam ... and the Feast of St. Peter. A...
... announced that
the races were about to begin. The races, like the moccoli,
are one of the episodes peculiar to the last days of the
Carnival. At the sound of the fireworks the carriages
instantly ... somewhat the
worse for the numerous combats they had sustained. This
precaution taken, they went to the theatre, and installed
themselves in the count& apos...
... one of the first who had
informed the government of the departure from the Island of
Elba."
"Then," said Monte Cristo "you went to him?"
my presence, finish the ... spot. Caderousse counted and again counted
the gold and the notes, then handed them to his wife, who
counted and counted them again in her turn. During this
time, the je...
... attendant of Madame Danglars
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The Dappled Grays.
The baron, followed by the count, traversed a long series of
apartments, in which the ... to the relation of the
count& apos;s courage and gallantry, thereby celebrating him as
the greatest hero of the day in the eyes of all the feminine...
... talking as much of women as they do of us; it is
unpardonable." Albert rose.
"Are you going?"
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A Flurry in Stocks. ... adjusted the glass to his eye,
and biting the top of his gold headed cane, began to make
the tour of the apartment, examining the arms and the
pictures.
&qu...
... arms as he passed, the count reached the
tower of Montlhery, situated, as every one knows, upon the
highest point of the plain of that name. At the foot of the
hill the count dismounted and ... the difference of a million to Danglars.
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How a Gardener may get rid of the Dormice that ea...