...
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. "...
...
"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...
... at my father's, and to-morrow, or next day
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The Catalans.
Beyond a bare, weather-worn wall, about a hundred paces from
the spot ... covered them with a flood of light. At first they
saw nothing around them. Their intense happiness isolated
them from all the rest of the world, and they only spoke in...
...
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Conspiracy.
Danglars followed Edmond and Mercedes with his eyes until
the two lovers disappeared behind one of the angles of Fort ... because they have bad thoughts which they
are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts;" and
Caderousse began to sing the two last lines of a song very
p...
... instead of
referring him to the governors of the prison or the prefect
of the department. But Morrel, disappointed in his
expectations of exciting fear, was conscious only of the
other's ... good?"
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The Hundred Days.
M. Noirtier was a true prophet, and things progressed
rapidly, as...
... work, the fruits of the
thoughts and reflections of my whole life; many of them
meditated over in the shades of the Coloseum at Rome, at the
foot of St. Mark's column at Venice, and on the ... fated to misfortune." And the old man bowed his
head.
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A Learned Italian.
Seizing in...
... 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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... landlord
gave them their choice of any of the rooms in the house,
without the least augmentation of rent, upon condition of
their giving instant possession of the two small chambers
they at present ... occupants of the apartments on
the fifth floor of the house, now become the property of
Dantes, were duly informed by the notary who had arranged
the ne...
... 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; "we put the helm up to run before the ... COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
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The House of Morrel & Son.
Any one who had quitted Marseilles a few years previously,
wel...
... 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...
... own account," said the major
with a smile and a shake of the head.
"But for the sake of the mother?" said the count.
"Yes, for the mother's sake his poor mother!" ...
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Major Cavalcanti.
Both the count and Baptistin had told the truth when they
announced to Morcerf the proposed visit of...
...
hatred."
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Andrea Cavalcanti.
The Count of Monte Cristo entered the adjoining room, which
Baptistin had designated as the drawing-room, ...
The count from the moment of first entering the
drawing-room, had not once lost sight of the expression of
the young man's counten...
...
subject."
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The Telegraph.
M. and Madame de Villefort found on their return that the
Count of Monte Cristo, who had come to ...
deprive me of the pleasure of your company, sir," said Monte
Cristo.
"No, count, I hope I assure you I shall do my best,"
stammered Villefort.
&q...
... same roof."
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Bread and Salt.
Madame de Morcerf entered an archway of trees with her
companion. It led through a grove of lindens ... beginning of July in
the artificial temperature which takes the place of the sun,
so frequently absent in our climate. The countess left the
arm of Monte Cristo, a...