1 Alas, sir, in the most unexpected manner.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 2 "And so, in fact, he is," said the owner.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 3 The anchor was instantly dropped, and the chain ran rattling through the port-hole.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 4 "Morrel," said Dantes, approaching, "the vessel now rides at anchor, and I am at your service."
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 5 After a long talk with the harbor-master, Captain Leclere left Naples greatly disturbed in mind.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 6 The young sailor gave a look to see that his orders were promptly and accurately obeyed, and then turned again to the owner.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 7 As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d'If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 8 When the young man on board saw this person approach, he left his station by the pilot, and, hat in hand, leaned over the ship's bulwarks.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 9 Why, you see, Edmond," replied the owner, who appeared more comforted at every moment, "we are all mortal, and the old must make way for the young.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 10 We performed the usual burial service, and he is at his rest, sewn up in his hammock with a thirty-six pound shot at his head and his heels, off El Giglio island.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 11 "And a first-rate seaman, one who had seen long and honorable service, as became a man charged with the interests of a house so important as that of Morrel & Son," replied Danglars.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 12 All hands obeyed, and at once the eight or ten seamen who composed the crew, sprang to their respective stations at the spanker brails and outhaul, topsail sheets and halyards, the jib downhaul, and the topsail clewlines and buntlines.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 13 He seized a rope which Dantes flung to him, and with an activity that would have done credit to a sailor, climbed up the side of the ship, while the young man, going to his task, left the conversation to Danglars, who now came towards the owner.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 14 The vague disquietude which prevailed among the spectators had so much affected one of the crowd that he did not await the arrival of the vessel in harbor, but jumping into a small skiff, desired to be pulled alongside the Pharaon, which he reached as she rounded into La Reserve basin.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 15 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. 16 He was a man of twenty-five or twenty-six years of age, of unprepossessing countenance, obsequious to his superiors, insolent to his subordinates; and this, in addition to his position as responsible agent on board, which is always obnoxious to the sailors, made him as much disliked by the crew as Edmond Dantes was beloved by them.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 17 The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanic shock has made between the Calasareigne and Jaros islands; had doubled Pomegue, and approached the harbor under topsails, jib, and spanker, but so slowly and sedately that the idlers, with that instinct which is the forerunner of evil, asked one another what misfortune could have happened on board.
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