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1  "Mind your own business, wife," replied Caderousse sharply.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn.
2  Morrel was kinder to his wife, more affectionate to his daughter, than he had ever been.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
3  I went too; but as I was older than Fernand, and had just married my poor wife, I was only sent to the coast.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 27. The Story.
4  His wife, on the contrary, whose maiden name had been Madeleine Radelle, was pale, meagre, and sickly-looking.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn.
5  "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 Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn.
6  During the days of his prosperity, not a festivity took place without himself and wife being among the spectators.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn.
7  Spada died on the threshold of the vineyard; the nephew expired at his own door, making signs which his wife could not comprehend.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
8  The same day he told his wife, Emmanuel, and his daughter all that had occurred; and a ray of hope, if not of tranquillity, returned to the family.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
9  The dowry of his wife amounted to fifty thousand crowns, and he had, besides, the prospect of seeing her fortune increased to half a million at her father's death.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7. The Examination.
10  He embraced his weeping wife and daughter, pressed Emmanuel's hand with friendly warmth, and then going to his private room on the second floor had sent for Cocles.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
11  The old man died, as I have told you; had he lived, Mercedes, perchance, had not become the wife of another, for he would have been there to reproach her infidelity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 27. The Story.
12  Look after the house, wife, and I shall be back in two hours, and Caderousse left the house in haste, and ran rapidly in the direction opposite to that which the priest had taken.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 27. The Story.
13  As he saw the abbe rise from his seat and go towards the door, as though to ascertain if his horse were sufficiently refreshed to continue his journey, Caderousse and his wife exchanged looks of deep meaning.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn.
14  The injured husband goes through all the emotions of jealousy, until conviction seizes on his mind, and then, in a frenzy of rage and indignation, he awakens his guilty wife to tell her that he knows her guilt and to threaten her with his vengeance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 34. The Colosseum.
15  Franz now listened to it for the third time; yet its notes, so tenderly expressive and fearfully grand as the wretched husband and wife give vent to their different griefs and passions, thrilled through the soul of Franz with an effect equal to his first emotions upon hearing it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 34. The Colosseum.
16  In order to meet the payments then due; he had collected all his resources, and, fearing lest the report of his distress should get bruited abroad at Marseilles when he was known to be reduced to such an extremity, he went to the Beaucaire fair to sell his wife's and daughter's jewels and a portion of his plate.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29. The House of Morrel & Son.
17  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 Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 27. The Story.
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