1 The Young Amelia was first at the rendezvous.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 2 The second operation was as successful as the first, The Young Amelia was in luck.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 3 The Young Amelia left it three-quarters of a league to the larboard, and kept on for Corsica.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 4 The Young Amelia had a very active crew, very obedient to their captain, who lost as little time as possible.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 5 There they had a bit of a skirmish in getting rid of the duties; the excise was, in truth, the everlasting enemy of the patron of The Young Amelia.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 6 Besides, a signal made half a league out at sea, and to which The Young Amelia replied by a similar signal, indicated that the moment for business had come.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 7 The same night, such a man of regularity was the patron of The Young Amelia, the profits were divided, and each man had a hundred Tuscan livres, or about eighty francs.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 8 Dantes noticed that the captain of The Young Amelia had, as he neared the land, mounted two small culverins, which, without making much noise, can throw a four ounce ball a thousand paces or so.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 9 The master of The Young Amelia, who was very desirous of retaining amongst his crew a man of Edmond's value, had offered to advance him funds out of his future profits, which Edmond had accepted.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 10 Having seen Jacopo fairly out of the harbor, Dantes proceeded to make his final adieus on board The Young Amelia, distributing so liberal a gratuity among her crew as to secure for him the good wishes of all, and expressions of cordial interest in all that concerned him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 25. The Unknown. 11 Four shallops came off with very little noise alongside the lugger, which, no doubt, in acknowledgement of the compliment, lowered her own shallop into the sea, and the five boats worked so well that by two o'clock in the morning all the cargo was out of The Young Amelia and on terra firma.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 12 The term for which Edmond had engaged to serve on board The Young Amelia having expired, Dantes took leave of the captain, who at first tried all his powers of persuasion to induce him to remain as one of the crew, but having been told the history of the legacy, he ceased to importune him further.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 25. The Unknown. 13 From a distance Dantes recognized the rig and handling of The Young Amelia, and dragging himself with affected difficulty towards the landing-place, he met his companions with an assurance that, although considerably better than when they quitted him, he still suffered acutely from his late accident.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 25. The Unknown. 14 Edmond preserved the most admirable self-command, not suffering the faintest indication of a smile to escape him at the enumeration of all the benefits he would have reaped had he been able to quit the island; but as The Young Amelia had merely come to Monte Cristo to fetch him away, he embarked that same evening, and proceeded with the captain to Leghorn.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 25. The Unknown.