1 "This is the mystery," said Danglars.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 66. Matrimonial Projects. 2 The ways of justice are frequently too dark and mysterious to be easily penetrated.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 3 Ah, now you are trying to penetrate into the mysteries of Isis, in which I am not initiated.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 77. Haidee. 4 Long ago this mysterious colony quitted Spain, and settled on the tongue of land on which it is to this day.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 5 Franz waited impatiently, inhaling the aroma of the roasted meat, when the captain returned with a mysterious air.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 6 At the stern the mysterious stranger was standing up looking towards the shore, and holding a spy-glass in his hand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 32. The Waking. 7 For his father's death he was in some manner prepared; but he knew not how to account for the mysterious disappearance of Mercedes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 25. The Unknown. 8 But the mysteries of nature are incomprehensible, and there are certain invitations contained in even the coarsest food which appeal very irresistibly to a fasting stomach.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 115. Luigi Vampa's Bill of Fare. 9 No longer could Edmond look into those wide-open eyes which had seemed to be penetrating the mysteries of death; no longer could he clasp the hand which had done so much to make his existence blessed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 20. The Cemetery of the Chateau D'If. 10 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. 11 Oh, no; I should find there people who would force me to understand things of which I would prefer to remain ignorant, and who would try to explain to me, in spite of myself, a mystery which even they do not understand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 60. The Telegraph. 12 Franz again interrupted himself, and wiped the cold drops from his brow; there was something awful in hearing the son read aloud in trembling pallor these details of his father's death, which had hitherto been a mystery.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 75. A Signed Statement. 13 Each word that fell from his companion's lips seemed fraught with the mysteries of science, as worthy of digging out as the gold and diamonds in the mines of Guzerat and Golconda, which he could just recollect having visited during a voyage made in his earliest youth.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 14 If it was Valentine alone, he would speak as she passed; if she was accompanied, and he could not speak, still he should see her, and know that she was safe; if they were strangers, he would listen to their conversation, and might understand something of this hitherto incomprehensible mystery.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 73. The Promise. 15 He then endeavored to re-enter the marvellous grottos, but they had suddenly receded, and now the path became a labyrinth, and then the entrance vanished, and in vain did he tax his memory for the magic and mysterious word which opened the splendid caverns of Ali Baba to the Arabian fisherman.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 16 While affecting to be deeply engaged in examining the ladder, the mind of Dantes was, in fact, busily occupied by the idea that a person so intelligent, ingenious, and clear-sighted as the abbe might probably be able to solve the dark mystery of his own misfortunes, where he himself could see nothing.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 17 I grasped it in my hand, put out the flame as quickly as I could, lighted my taper in the fire itself, and opened the crumpled paper with inexpressible emotion, recognizing, when I had done so, that these characters had been traced in mysterious and sympathetic ink, only appearing when exposed to the fire; nearly one-third of the paper had been consumed by the flame.
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