1 Dantes is a good fellow; I like Dantes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 4. Conspiracy. 2 "Just the person we require at a time like the present," said a second.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi. 3 Fernand, pale and trembling, drew back, like a traveller at the sight of a serpent, and fell into a chair beside him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 4 His hatred, like a powerless though furious wave, was broken against the strong ascendancy which Mercedes exercised over him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 5 Fernand filled Caderousse's glass, who, like the confirmed toper he was, lifted his hand from the paper and seized the glass.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 4. Conspiracy. 6 During this time Danglars fixed his piercing glance on the young man, on whose heart Caderousse's words fell like molten lead.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 7 "I called you because you were running like a madman, and I was afraid you would throw yourself into the sea," said Caderousse, laughing.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 8 You talk like a noodle, my friend," said Caderousse; "and here is Danglars, who is a wide-awake, clever, deep fellow, who will prove to you that you are wrong.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 4. Conspiracy. 9 Yet this Catalan has eyes that glisten like those of the vengeful Spaniards, Sicilians, and Calabrians, and the other has fists big enough to crush an ox at one blow.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 10 One of its chiefs, who understood Provencal, begged the commune of Marseilles to give them this bare and barren promontory, where, like the sailors of old, they had run their boats ashore.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 11 Here's an envious fellow making himself boozy on wine when he ought to be nursing his wrath, and here is a fool who sees the woman he loves stolen from under his nose and takes on like a big baby.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 12 Now, in spite of the nobility of his countenance, the command of which, like a finished actor, he had carefully studied before the glass, it was by no means easy for him to assume an air of judicial severity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 7. The Examination. 13 "Well, Fernand, I must say," said Caderousse, beginning the conversation, with that brutality of the common people in which curiosity destroys all diplomacy, "you look uncommonly like a rejected lover;" and he burst into a hoarse laugh.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 14 Our readers will follow us along the only street of this little village, and enter with us one of the houses, which is sunburned to the beautiful dead-leaf color peculiar to the buildings of the country, and within coated with whitewash, like a Spanish posada.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 15 Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 5. The Marriage-Feast. 16 Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint-Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon, has been built, rigged, and laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs to an owner of the city.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 17 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.
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