1 This diamond was to have been shared among his friends.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 27. The Story. 2 Caderousse, who touched the diamond, withdrew his hand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 27. The Story. 3 The abbe took it, and in return gave Caderousse the diamond.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 27. The Story. 4 It is not natural that a man like you should possess such a diamond.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 5 To one in Edmond's position the diamond certainly was of great value.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn. 6 He ascended into grottos paved with emeralds, with panels of rubies, and the roof glowing with diamond stalactites.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 7 It is a beautiful diamond left by poor Edmond Dantes, to be sold, and the money divided between his father, Mercedes, his betrothed bride, Fernand, Danglars, and myself.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn. 8 Only, in order to satisfy himself that it really belongs to us, he wishes you to relate to him, as I have done already, the miraculous manner in which the diamond came into our possession.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 9 The jeweller examined attentively the interior of the inn and the apparent poverty of the persons who were about to sell him a diamond that seemed to have come from the casket of a prince.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 10 The horses were sent back wearing the same harness she had seen on them in the morning; only, by the count's orders, in the centre of each rosette that adorned either side of their heads, had been fastened a large diamond.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 47. The Dappled Grays. 11 I felt some degree of nervousness as I entered upon the history of the diamond, but, to my inexpressible astonishment, he confirmed it in every particular, and to my equal surprise, he seemed to place entire belief in all I said.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood. 12 He contemplated with unspeakable delight the large diamond which shone on the major's little finger; for the major, like a prudent man, in case of any accident happening to his bank-notes, had immediately converted them into an available asset.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 64. The Beggar. 13 If Caderousse had invented the story relative to the diamond, and there existed no such person as the Abbe Busoni, then, indeed, I was lost past redemption, or, at least, my life hung upon the feeble chance of Caderousse himself being apprehended and confessing the whole truth.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood. 14 At these words he drew away the stone, and showed Teresa the grotto, lighted up by two wax lights, which burnt on each side of a splendid mirror; on a rustic table, made by Luigi, were spread out the pearl necklace and the diamond pins, and on a chair at the side was laid the rest of the costume.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 15 She wore a blue and white-striped vest, with long open sleeves, trimmed with silver loops and buttons of pearls, and a sort of bodice, which, closing only from the centre to the waist, exhibited the whole of the ivory throat and upper part of the bosom; it was fastened with three magnificent diamond clasps.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 49. Haidee. 16 Cavalcanti, dressed in black, like one of Goethe's heroes, with varnished shoes and white silk open-worked stockings, passed a white and tolerably nice-looking hand through his light hair, and so displayed a sparkling diamond, that in spite of Monte Cristo's advice the vain young man had been unable to resist putting on his little finger.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 76. Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger. 17 A rich Englishman," continued the abbe, "who had been his companion in misfortune, but had been released from prison during the second restoration, was possessed of a diamond of immense value; this jewel he bestowed on Dantes upon himself quitting the prison, as a mark of his gratitude for the kindness and brotherly care with which Dantes had nursed him in a severe illness he underwent during his confinement.
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