1 He then set himself to work to count his fortune.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 2 Mercedes has no fortune; I have none to settle on her.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 5. The Marriage-Feast. 3 Diovalaccio, seeing himself thus favored by fortune, burst into a loud laugh.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 4 Fernand's fortune was already waxing great, and she developed with his growing fortune.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 27. The Story. 5 And so I did," replied Caderousse; "though once, I confess, I envied him his good fortune.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn. 6 This will do," said he, "and from this letter, which might have ruined me, I will make my fortune.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 7. The Examination. 7 Danglars; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 8 Well, Mercedes, beloved by you, I would tempt fortune; you would bring me good luck, and I should become rich.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 9 I had often heard him complain of the disproportion of his rank with his fortune; and I advised him to invest all he had in an annuity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 10 Never did a gamester, whose whole fortune is staked on one cast of the die, experience the anguish which Edmond felt in his paroxysms of hope.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 11 The dowry of his wife amounted to fifty thousand crowns, and he had, besides, the prospect of seeing her fortune increased to half a million at her father's death.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 7. The Examination. 12 God forgive me," said the young man, "for rejoicing at happiness derived from the misery of others, but, Heaven knows, I did not seek this good fortune; it has happened, and I really cannot pretend to lament it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 2. Father and Son. 13 The Spadas remained in doubtful ease, a mystery hung over this dark affair, and the public rumor was, that Caesar, a better politician than his father, had carried off from the pope the fortune of the two cardinals.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 14 The extension provided for by the agent of Thomson & French, at the moment when Morrel expected it least, was to the poor shipowner so decided a stroke of good fortune that he almost dared to believe that fate was at length grown weary of wasting her spite upon him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September. 15 Thus, at length, by one of the unexpected strokes of fortune which sometimes befall those who have for a long time been the victims of an evil destiny, Dantes was about to secure the opportunity he wished for, by simple and natural means, and land on the island without incurring any suspicion.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 16 In two hours' time," said he, "these persons will depart richer by fifty piastres each, to go and risk their lives again by endeavoring to gain fifty more; then they will return with a fortune of six hundred francs, and waste this treasure in some city with the pride of sultans and the insolence of nabobs.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 17 Yet I had read, I had even written a precise history of the Borgia family, for the sole purpose of assuring myself whether any increase of fortune had occurred to them on the death of the Cardinal Caesar Spada; but could only trace the acquisition of the property of the Cardinal Rospigliosi, his companion in misfortune.
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