1 Everything is in readiness for our flight, and we can select any time we choose.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 2 I inherit my father's name, and I do not choose that the shadow of disgrace should darken it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 78. We hear From Yanina. 3 I would not choose to see the man against whom I pleaded smile, as though in mockery of my words.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi. 4 Ah, those gentlemen never choose the worst morsels; like Mere Simon's son, who has not chosen the worst strawberries.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 61. How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice ... 5 Undeceive yourself, monsieur," replied Monte Cristo; "I am quite sure, that, on the contrary, he will choose everything as I wish.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 40. The Breakfast. 6 At the time when he decided on his profession his father had no desire to choose for him, but had consulted young Maximilian's taste.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September. 7 My daughter," continued Danglars, "when a father asks his daughter to choose a husband, he has always some reason for wishing her to marry.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 95. Father and Daughter. 8 Well, then, your government would do well to choose from the past something better than the things that I have noticed on your monuments, and which have no heraldic meaning whatever.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 41. The Presentation. 9 Villefort, who did not choose to reveal the whole secret, lest another should reap all the benefit of the disclosure, had yet communicated enough to cause him the greatest uneasiness.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 10. The King's Closet at the Tuileries. 10 Turn Chartreux or Trappist, and relate your secrets, but, as for me, I do not like any one who is alarmed by such phantasms, and I do not choose that my servants should be afraid to walk in the garden of an evening.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 43. The House at Auteuil. 11 Nor, although preceding the party, did he once mistake one door for another, or commit the smallest error when choosing any particular corridor or staircase to conduct him to a place or suite of rooms he desired to visit.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood. 12 There it lay stretching out into one interminable line of dust and sand, with its sides bordered by tall, meagre trees, altogether presenting so uninviting an appearance, that no one in his senses could have imagined that any traveller, at liberty to regulate his hours for journeying, would choose to expose himself in such a formidable Sahara.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn. 13 The beautiful Catalane and noble countess had lost both her proud glance and charming smile, because she saw nothing but misery around her; the walls were hung with one of the gray papers which economical landlords choose as not likely to show the dirt; the floor was uncarpeted; the furniture attracted the attention to the poor attempt at luxury; indeed, everything offended eyes accustomed to refinement and elegance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 106. Dividing the Proceeds.