1 "It drives me to despair," said Fernand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 4. Conspiracy. 2 In the midst of her despair, a new affliction overtook her.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 27. The Story. 3 I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 27. The Story. 4 Mercedes was at first in the deepest despair at the blow which deprived her of Edmond.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 27. The Story. 5 "Oh, do not do that, excellency; I have always served you faithfully," cried Bertuccio, in despair.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 43. The House at Auteuil. 6 de Boville, "your fears are unfortunately but too well founded, and you see before you a man in despair."
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 28. The Prison Register. 7 He did not even see the ocean, that terrible barrier against freedom, which the prisoners look upon with utter despair.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If. 8 This idea was one of vengeance to me, and I tasted it slowly in the night of my dungeon and the despair of my captivity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 9 He would be condemned to die, but he was about to die of grief and despair when this miraculous noise recalled him to life.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 10 Dantes recoiled from the idea of so infamous a death, and passed suddenly from despair to an ardent desire for life and liberty.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 20. The Cemetery of the Chateau D'If. 11 It was the last yearning for life contending with the resolution of despair; then his dungeon seemed less sombre, his prospects less desperate.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 12 "Well," said he, "I will swim on until I am worn out, or the cramp seizes me, and then I shall sink;" and he struck out with the energy of despair.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 13 Father, you know very well that the general was not a man to drown himself in despair, and people do not bathe in the Seine in the month of January.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 12. Father and Son. 14 When he learned my resolution, I shall never forget the reproachful look which he cast on me, and the tears of utter despair which chased each other down his lifeless cheeks.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 57. In the Lucerne Patch. 15 In fact, the minister, who, in the plenitude of his power, had been unable to unearth Napoleon's secret, might in despair at his own downfall interrogate Dantes and so lay bare the motives of Villefort's plot.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 11. The Corsican Ogre. 16 de Boville, he was in such a state of despair, that it was evident all the faculties of his mind, absorbed in the thought which occupied him at the moment, did not allow either his memory or his imagination to stray to the past.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 28. The Prison Register. 17 At last, about ten o'clock, and just as Dantes began to despair, steps were heard in the corridor, a key turned in the lock, the bolts creaked, the massy oaken door flew open, and a flood of light from two torches pervaded the apartment.
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