1 This was precisely what Franz had heard the evening before in the ruins of the Colosseum.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 34. The Colosseum. 2 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. 3 Alas, alas," murmured he, "if the procureur himself had been at Marseilles I should have been ruined.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 7. The Examination. 4 "I don't call those friends who betray and ruin you," murmured the wife in her turn, in a low, muttering voice.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn. 5 Those who had kept their shares, or bought those of Danglars, looked upon themselves as ruined, and passed a very bad night.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 61. How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice ... 6 First you break your jug, then you make me break your plate; if all the prisoners followed your example, the government would be ruined.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 7 Years rolled on, and amongst the descendants some were soldiers, others diplomatists; some churchmen, some bankers; some grew rich, and some were ruined.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 8 We have a hundred thousand francs or thereabouts loaned on their securities, and we are a little uneasy at reports that have reached us that the firm is on the brink of ruin.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 28. The Prison Register. 9 "I think I may aspire to that honor," said Danglars with a smile, which reminded Monte Cristo of the sickly moons which bad artists are so fond of daubing into their pictures of ruins.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 66. Matrimonial Projects. 10 From time to time, by the light of the moon, which began to rise, Franz imagined that he saw something like a sentinel appear at various points among the ruins, and suddenly retreat into the darkness on a signal from Peppino.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 37. The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian. 11 Precisely," answered Bertuccio; "but he had, seven or eight years before this period, sold his establishment to a tailor at Marseilles, who, having almost ruined himself in his old trade, wished to make his fortune in another.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 12 However, as if fate resolved on depriving the prisoners of their last chance, and making them understand that they were condemned to perpetual imprisonment, a new misfortune befell them; the gallery on the sea side, which had long been in ruins, was rebuilt.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 19. The Third Attack. 13 Morrel is utterly ruined; he has lost five ships in two years, has suffered by the bankruptcy of three large houses, and his only hope now is in that very Pharaon which poor Dantes commanded, and which is expected from the Indies with a cargo of cochineal and indigo.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 27. The Story. 14 But however the mind of the young man might be absorbed in these reflections, they were at once dispersed at the sight of the dark frowning ruins of the stupendous Colosseum, through the various openings of which the pale moonlight played and flickered like the unearthly gleam from the eyes of the wandering dead.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 34. The Colosseum. 15 It was more especially when this man was speaking in a manner half jesting, half bitter, that Franz's ear recalled most vividly the deep sonorous, yet well-pitched voice that had addressed him in the grotto of Monte Cristo, and which he heard for the second time amid the darkness and ruined grandeur of the Colosseum.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 34. The Colosseum. 16 Yes, he has a wife, who through everything has behaved like an angel; he has a daughter, who was about to marry the man she loved, but whose family now will not allow him to wed the daughter of a ruined man; he has, besides, a son, a lieutenant in the army; and, as you may suppose, all this, instead of lessening, only augments his sorrows.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 27. The Story. 17 And, as though to add to the daily misery which this prosperous canal inflicted on the unfortunate inn-keeper, whose utter ruin it was fast accomplishing, it was situated between the Rhone from which it had its source and the post-road it had depleted, not a hundred steps from the inn, of which we have given a brief but faithful description.
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