1 On my word," said Albert, "you astonish me by the extent of your knowledge.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 39. The Guests. 2 With the deputy's knowledge of crime and criminals, every word the young man uttered convinced him more and more of his innocence.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 7. The Examination. 3 Albert was charmed with the count's manners, and he was only prevented from recognizing him for a perfect gentleman by reason of his varied knowledge.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome. 4 That when my coachman was about to harness the horses to my carriage, he discovered that they had been removed from the stables without his knowledge.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 47. The Dappled Grays. 5 The latter, faithful to the principle of Horace, nil admirari, had contented himself with showing his knowledge by declaring in what lake the best lampreys were caught.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 64. The Beggar. 6 It was a coupe of Koller's building, and with horses and harness for which Drake had, to the knowledge of all the lions of Paris, refused on the previous day seven hundred guineas.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 41. The Presentation. 7 The eye of the invalid still retained that vacancy of expression which prevented his son from obtaining any knowledge of the feelings which were passing in his mind; he listened, nothing more.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. 8 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. 9 In reality," replied the latter, who, with his aristocratic glance and his knowledge of the world, had penetrated at once all that was penetrable in Monte Cristo, "Albert has not deceived us, for the count is a most singular being.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 40. The Breakfast. 10 Alas, my boy," said he, "human knowledge is confined within very narrow limits; and when I have taught you mathematics, physics, history, and the three or four modern languages with which I am acquainted, you will know as much as I do myself.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 11 Any one but a man of exhaustless thirst for knowledge would have had pity on seeing the steward's extraordinary repugnance for the count's projected drive without the walls; but the Count was too curious to let Bertuccio off from this little journey.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 43. The House at Auteuil. 12 Your pardon, sir," replied Villefort, quite astounded, "but you will excuse me if, when I presented myself to you, I was unaware that I should meet with a person whose knowledge and understanding so far surpass the usual knowledge and understanding of men.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 48. Ideology. 13 I had nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with one hundred and fifty well-chosen books a man possesses, if not a complete summary of all human knowledge, at least all that a man need really know.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian. 14 Meanwhile, Villefort and d'Avrigny had made all possible haste, Valentine had not revived from her fainting fit on their arrival, and the doctor examined the invalid with all the care the circumstances demanded, and with an interest which the knowledge of the secret intensified twofold.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 94. Maximilian's Avowal. 15 Oh, had he been my own son," replied Bertuccio, "or even my nephew, I would have brought him back to the right road, for the knowledge that you are doing your duty gives you strength, but the idea that I was striking a child whose father I had killed, made it impossible for me to punish him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 16 Many, also, who were not aware of the circumstances attending his withdrawal from Paris, were struck with the worthy appearance, the gentlemanly bearing, and the knowledge of the world displayed by the old patrician, who certainly played the nobleman very well, so long as he said nothing, and made no arithmetical calculations.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 109. The Assizes. 17 Two hours afterwards, Madame Danglars received a most flattering epistle from the count, in which he entreated her to receive back her favorite "dappled grays," protesting that he could not endure the idea of making his entry into the Parisian world of fashion with the knowledge that his splendid equipage had been obtained at the price of a lovely woman's regrets.
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