1 He knows my tastes, my caprices, my wants.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 40. The Breakfast. 2 It would be ridiculous in me to regulate my conduct by such caprices.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 60. The Telegraph. 3 The baron might possibly have perceived it, but, attributing it to a caprice, feigned ignorance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 84. Beauchamp. 4 Then began his travels, his duels, his caprices; then the insurrection in Greece broke out, and he had served in the Grecian ranks.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 69. The Inquiry. 5 Nevertheless, it is necessary that my will should be respected in my family, and that the folly of an old man and the caprice of a child should not be allowed to overturn a project which I have entertained for so many years.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 60. The Telegraph. 6 The boy triumphed, and this victory rendered him so audacious, that all the money of Assunta, whose affection for him seemed to increase as he became more unworthy of it, was spent in caprices she knew not how to contend against, and follies she had not the courage to prevent.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 7 I had announced you beforehand to my friends as an enchanter of the 'Arabian Nights,' a wizard of the Middle Ages; but the Parisians are so subtle in paradoxes that they mistake for caprices of the imagination the most incontestable truths, when these truths do not form a part of their daily existence.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 40. The Breakfast. 8 At other times in spite of maternal endearments or threats, I had with a child's caprice been accustomed to indulge my feelings of sorrow or anger by crying as much as I felt inclined; but on this occasion there was an intonation of such extreme terror in my mother's voice when she enjoined me to silence, that I ceased crying as soon as her command was given.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 77. Haidee. 9 His first movement was to free himself by a violent push from the encircling arms of his mother, and to rush forward to the casket from whence the count had taken the phial of elixir; then, without asking permission of any one, he proceeded, in all the wilfulness of a spoiled child unaccustomed to restrain either whims or caprices, to pull the corks out of all the bottles.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 47. The Dappled Grays.