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1  No human being, not even my sister, is aware of its existence.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 57. In the Lucerne Patch.
2  Sister, sister," said Maximilian, coming to the count's aid, "monsieur is quite right.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 50. The Morrel Family.
3  Follow me," said Morrel; "I will take you to my sister, who is worthy also to be yours.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 73. The Promise.
4  de Monte Cristo, King of China, Emperor of Cochin-China, said the young imp, looking slyly towards his sister.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 52. Toxicology.
5  Oh, no," said Morrel; "my sister is five and twenty, my brother-in-law is thirty, they are gay, young, and happy.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
6  Ah, monsieur," returned Julie, "it is treason in my brother to bring you thus, but he never has any regard for his poor sister.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 50. The Morrel Family.
7  Morrel followed him, and looked also for his sister and brother in-law; he soon discovered them in another box, and kissed his hand to them.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 88. The Insult.
8  This was the young man whom his mother and sister called to their aid to sustain them under the serious trial which they felt they would soon have to endure.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
9  You saw the child pass through the Rue Richelieu last year, who amused himself with killing his brothers and sisters by sticking pins in their ears while they slept.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 109. The Assizes.
10  My sister is happily married; her husband is only my brother-in-law, that is, a man whom the ties of social life alone attach to me; no one then longer needs my useless life.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 73. The Promise.
11  The whole of the second story was set apart for Maximilian; it was precisely similar to his sister's apartments, except that for the breakfast-parlor he had a billiard-room, where he received his friends.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 50. The Morrel Family.
12  Acting by my advice, my poor sister had refused to comply with the unreasonable demands of Benedetto, who was continually tormenting her for money, as long as he believed there was a sou left in her possession.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood.
13  Go to work, labor, young man, struggle ardently and courageously; live, yourself, your mother and sister, with the most rigid economy, so that from day to day the property of those whom I leave in your hands may augment and fructify.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
14  Valentine," replied the young man, deeply affected, "I will not say you are all I love in the world, for I dearly prize my sister and brother-in-law; but my affection for them is calm and tranquil, in no manner resembling what I feel for you.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 51. Pyramus and Thisbe.
15  I gave my sister, who constantly defended the unfortunate boy, good advice, and as she confessed that she had several times missed money to a considerable amount, I showed her a safe place in which to conceal our little treasure for the future.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
16  Anxious as you may suppose I was to behold and comfort my dear sister, I lost no time in hastening to Corsica, but when I arrived at Rogliano I found a house of mourning, the consequences of a scene so horrible that the neighbors remember and speak of it to this day.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood.
17  This child, for whom my poor sister would go to the town, five or six leagues off, to purchase the earliest fruits and the most tempting sweetmeats, preferred to Palma grapes or Genoese preserves, the chestnuts stolen from a neighbor's orchard, or the dried apples in his loft, when he could eat as well of the nuts and apples that grew in my garden.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
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