1 Do as you please; but, first of all, pray have a servant, father.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 2. Father and Son. 2 But the thing is at least half done, as you have one out of two votes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 3 The order was executed as promptly as it would have been on board a man-of-war.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 4 Certainly not, if, as you said just now, you have the means of having Dantes arrested.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 4. Conspiracy. 5 Suddenly Edmond saw the gloomy, pale, and threatening countenance of Fernand, as it was defined in the shadow.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 6 Let him run on," said Danglars, restraining the young man; "drunk as he is, he is not much out in what he says.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 4. Conspiracy. 7 "Thank you," said Edmond with a friendly nod, and the two lovers continued on their way, as calm and joyous as if they were the very elect of heaven.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 8 And at these words the young girl fixed her imperious look on the Catalan, who, as if fascinated by it, came slowly towards Edmond, and offered him his hand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 9 "Yes, as you see, neighbor Caderousse; and ready to be agreeable to you in any and every way," replied Dantes, but ill-concealing his coldness under this cloak of civility.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 2. Father and Son. 10 Beyond a bare, weather-worn wall, about a hundred paces from the spot where the two friends sat looking and listening as they drank their wine, was the village of the Catalans.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 11 "And a first-rate seaman, one who had seen long and honorable service, as became a man charged with the interests of a house so important as that of Morrel & Son," replied Danglars.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 12 He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow of eighteen or twenty, with black eyes, and hair as dark as a raven's wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 13 The two oarsmen bent to their work, and the little boat glided away as rapidly as possible in the midst of the thousand vessels which choke up the narrow way which leads between the two rows of ships from the mouth of the harbor to the Quai d'Orleans.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 14 The vague disquietude which prevailed among the spectators had so much affected one of the crowd that he did not await the arrival of the vessel in harbor, but jumping into a small skiff, desired to be pulled alongside the Pharaon, which he reached as she rounded into La Reserve basin.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 15 For three or four centuries they have remained upon this small promontory, on which they had settled like a flight of seabirds, without mixing with the Marseillaise population, intermarrying, and preserving their original customs and the costume of their mother-country as they have preserved its language.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 16 He was a man of twenty-five or twenty-six years of age, of unprepossessing countenance, obsequious to his superiors, insolent to his subordinates; and this, in addition to his position as responsible agent on board, which is always obnoxious to the sailors, made him as much disliked by the crew as Edmond Dantes was beloved by them.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 17 Fernand, probably excited beyond bearing, pricked by Danglars, as the bull is by the bandilleros, was about to rush out; for he had risen from his seat, and seemed to be collecting himself to dash headlong upon his rival, when Mercedes, smiling and graceful, lifted up her lovely head, and looked at them with her clear and bright eyes.
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