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1  de Villefort to purify Marseilles of his partisans.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi.
2  Alas, alas," murmured he, "if the procureur himself had been at Marseilles I should have been ruined.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7. The Examination.
3  The burning Marseilles sun, which shot into the room through the open door, covered them with a flood of light.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3. The Catalans.
4  Asked me questions about the vessel, the time she left Marseilles, the course she had taken, and what was her cargo.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival.
5  A carriage awaited him at the door; he got in, followed by two soldiers and the magistrate, and the vehicle drove off towards Marseilles.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5. The Marriage-Feast.
6  Danglars took advantage of Caderousse's temper at the moment, to take him off towards Marseilles by the Porte Saint-Victor, staggering as he went.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4. Conspiracy.
7  We have purchased permission to waive the usual delay; and at half-past two o'clock the mayor of Marseilles will be waiting for us at the city hall.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5. The Marriage-Feast.
8  Sire, they are the results of an examination which I have made of a man of Marseilles, whom I have watched for some time, and arrested on the day of my departure.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10. The King's Closet at the Tuileries.
9  Villefort, as we have seen, belonged to the aristocratic party at Marseilles, Morrel to the plebeian; the first was a royalist, the other suspected of Bonapartism.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7. The Examination.
10  One of its chiefs, who understood Provencal, begged the commune of Marseilles to give them this bare and barren promontory, where, like the sailors of old, they had run their boats ashore.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3. The Catalans.
11  "de Villefort," cried a beautiful young creature, daughter to the Comte de Salvieux, and the cherished friend of Mademoiselle de Saint-Meran, "do try and get up some famous trial while we are at Marseilles."
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi.
12  This was an easy feat to him, for he usually attracted a crowd of spectators in the bay before the lighthouse at Marseilles when he swam there, and was unanimously declared to be the best swimmer in the port.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
13  Sometimes she stood mute and motionless as a statue, looking towards Marseilles, at other times gazing on the sea, and debating as to whether it were not better to cast herself into the abyss of the ocean, and thus end her woes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13. The Hundred Days.
14  remounted the throne; Villefort, to whom Marseilles had become filled with remorseful memories, sought and obtained the situation of king's procureur at Toulouse, and a fortnight afterwards he married Mademoiselle de Saint-Meran, whose father now stood higher at court than ever.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13. The Hundred Days.
15  Dantes examined the various articles shown to him with the same attention that he had bestowed on the curiosities and strange tools exhibited in the shops at Marseilles as the works of the savages in the South Seas from whence they had been brought by the different trading vessels.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
16  Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint-Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon, has been built, rigged, and laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs to an owner of the city.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival.
17  Keep your journey a secret; do not boast of what you have come to Paris to do, or have done; return with all speed; enter Marseilles at night, and your house by the back-door, and there remain, quiet, submissive, secret, and, above all, inoffensive; for this time, I swear to you, we shall act like powerful men who know their enemies.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12. Father and Son.
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