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1  Oh, yes," returned Monte Cristo; "I make no secret of it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
2  All Villefort's influence barely enabled him to stifle the secret Dantes had so nearly divulged.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13. The Hundred Days.
3  Without divulging his secret, Dantes could not give sufficiently clear instructions to an agent.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25. The Unknown.
4  The night after that battle he was sentry at the door of a general who carried on a secret correspondence with the enemy.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 27. The Story.
5  I have only kept this secret so long from you," continued Faria, "that I might test your character, and then surprise you.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
6  He moved his bed, drew up the stone, rushed into the passage, and reached the opposite extremity; the secret entrance was open.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19. The Third Attack.
7  Moreover, he had this advantage, he was master of the count's secret, while the count had no hold on Franz, who had nothing to conceal.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35. La Mazzolata.
8  He extinguished the lamp, carefully concealed it, and then went away, closing as well as he could the entrance to the secret passage by the large stone as he descended.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19. The Third Attack.
9  He had lost all hope of detecting the secret of the grotto; he consequently despatched his breakfast, and, his boat being ready, he hastened on board, and they were soon under way.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 32. The Waking.
10  Villefort, who did not choose to reveal the whole secret, lest another should reap all the benefit of the disclosure, had yet communicated enough to cause him the greatest uneasiness.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10. The King's Closet at the Tuileries.
11  Early on the following morning he commenced the removal of his riches, and ere nightfall the whole of his immense wealth was safely deposited in the compartments of the secret locker.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25. The Unknown.
12  Most of my readers are aware that the second act of "Parisina" opens with the celebrated and effective duet in which Parisina, while sleeping, betrays to Azzo the secret of her love for Ugo.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 34. The Colosseum.
13  In fact, the minister, who, in the plenitude of his power, had been unable to unearth Napoleon's secret, might in despair at his own downfall interrogate Dantes and so lay bare the motives of Villefort's plot.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11. The Corsican Ogre.
14  The builder cheerfully undertook the commission, and promised to have these secret places completed by the next day, Dantes furnishing the dimensions and plan in accordance with which they were to be constructed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25. The Unknown.
15  Sir," he said, after a pause, "a thousand excuses for the precaution taken in your introduction hither; but as, during the greater portion of the year, this island is deserted, if the secret of this abode were discovered.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
16  Keep your journey a secret; do not boast of what you have come to Paris to do, or have done; return with all speed; enter Marseilles at night, and your house by the back-door, and there remain, quiet, submissive, secret, and, above all, inoffensive; for this time, I swear to you, we shall act like powerful men who know their enemies.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12. Father and Son.
17  Dantes reflected, as he worked, on the shout of joy which, with a single word, he could evoke from all these men, if he gave utterance to the one unchanging thought that pervaded his heart; but, far from disclosing this precious secret, he almost feared that he had already said too much, and by his restlessness and continual questions, his minute observations and evident pre-occupation, aroused suspicions.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
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