1 That night the adventure at Auteuil was talked of everywhere.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 47. The Dappled Grays. 2 Yes, yes; this is an adventure worthy a place in the varied career of that royal bandit.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 3 My dear friend," said Monte Cristo, "you appear to be relating an adventure which we all know by heart.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 94. Maximilian's Avowal. 4 To the committee the adventure was so extraordinary and curious, that the interest they had felt for the count's safety became now quite a secondary matter.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 86. The Trial. 5 This uneasiness, amounting almost to frenzy, arose from the report Morcerf's adventure had made in the world, for the affair at the opera was generally known.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 93. Valentine. 6 My dear fellow," said Albert, turning to Franz, "here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our carriage with pistols, blunderbusses, and double-barrelled guns.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 7 Franz was not sufficiently egotistical to stop Albert in the middle of an adventure that promised to prove so agreeable to his curiosity and so flattering to his vanity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome. 8 He remembered those interesting stories, so little believed in Paris, respecting Roman bandits; he remembered the adventures that Albert de Morcerf had related when it was intended that he should marry Mademoiselle Eugenie.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 114. Peppino. 9 Well," said Monte Cristo in an indifferent tone, "you will do as you please, count, for you are the master of your own actions, and are the person most concerned in the matter, but if I were you, I would not divulge a word of these adventures.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 56. Andrea Cavalcanti. 10 Vast was the crowd of visitors and inquiring friends who left their names at the residence of Madame de Villefort, with the design of renewing their visit at the right moment, of hearing from her lips all the interesting circumstances of this most romantic adventure.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 47. The Dappled Grays. 11 The count told every one that this adventure had happened during his absence at Auteuil, and that he only knew what was related by the Abbe Busoni, who that evening, by mere chance, had requested to pass the night in his house, to examine some valuable books in his library.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 84. Beauchamp. 12 Amongst us you will not meet with any of those episodes with which your adventurous existence has so familiarized you; our Chimborazo is Mortmartre, our Himalaya is Mount Valerien, our Great Desert is the plain of Grenelle, where they are now boring an artesian well to water the caravans.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 40. The Breakfast. 13 At last he arrived at the adventure of the preceding night, and the embarrassment in which he found himself placed by not having sufficient cash by six or seven hundred piastres to make up the sum required, and finally of his application to the count and the picturesque and satisfactory result that followed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 38. The Compact. 14 Still, in spite of this, Albert displayed his most dazzling and effective costumes each time he visited the theatres; but, alas, his elegant toilet was wholly thrown away, and one of the most worthy representatives of Parisian fashion had to carry with him the mortifying reflection that he had nearly overrun Italy without meeting with a single adventure.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 34. The Colosseum. 15 Like adventurous captains about to embark on some enterprise full of danger, I laid in my provisions, I loaded my weapons, I collected every means of attack and defence; I inured my body to the most violent exercises, my soul to the bitterest trials; I taught my arm to slay, my eyes to behold excruciating sufferings, and my mouth to smile at the most horrid spectacles.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 112. The Departure.