1 I cannot allow him to acquire the habit of expecting to be recompensed for every trifling service he may render.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 47. The Dappled Grays. 2 Well, you must become a diplomatist; diplomacy, you know, is something that is not to be acquired; it is instinctive.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 96. The Contract. 3 A new governor arrived; it would have been too tedious to acquire the names of the prisoners; he learned their numbers instead.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners. 4 I have acquired the bad habit of calling persons by their titles from living in a country where barons are still barons by right of birth.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 46. Unlimited Credit. 5 Franz was less enthusiastic; but the count exercised over him also the ascendency a strong mind always acquires over a mind less domineering.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome. 6 None of this had escaped the count, and even by this mere contact of individuals the scene had already acquired considerable interest for an observer.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 63. The Dinner. 7 His eyes acquired that quality which in the first moment of strong emotion enables them to see distinctly, and which afterwards fails from being too much taxed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 114. Peppino. 8 Moreover, from being so long in twilight or darkness, his eyes had acquired the faculty of distinguishing objects in the night, common to the hyena and the wolf.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 9 Dantes listened with admiring attention to all he said; some of his remarks corresponded with what he already knew, or applied to the sort of knowledge his nautical life had enabled him to acquire.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 10 Everything about the count seemed to have its meaning, for the constant habit of thought which he had acquired had given an ease and vigor to the expression of his face, and even to the most trifling gesture, scarcely to be understood.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 70. The Ball. 11 Precisely so, madame; this man was myself; for a fortnight I had been at that hotel, during which period I had cured my valet de chambre of a fever, and my landlord of the jaundice, so that I really acquired a reputation as a skilful physician.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 52. Toxicology. 12 Some time after our rupture, you wished to study music, under the celebrated baritone who made such a successful appearance at the Theatre Italien; at the same time I felt inclined to learn dancing of the danseuse who acquired such a reputation in London.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 65. A Conjugal Scene. 13 From his past life, from his resolution to shrink from nothing, the count had acquired an inconceivable relish for the contests in which he had engaged, sometimes against nature, that is to say, against God, and sometimes against the world, that is, against the devil.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 82. The Burglary. 14 Oh, yes," replied the count; "understand me, I would fight a duel for a trifle, for an insult, for a blow; and the more so that, thanks to my skill in all bodily exercises, and the indifference to danger I have gradually acquired, I should be almost certain to kill my man.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 35. La Mazzolata.