1 Then I saw that they took me for the assassin.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood. 2 For the assassination itself I had never felt any remorse.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 3 The dying man had signed a deposition declaring Benedetto to be the assassin.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 84. Beauchamp. 4 Many people have been assassinated in a tumult, but even criminals have rarely been insulted during trial.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 111. Expiation. 5 My voluntary confession of the assassination at Auteuil proved to him that I had not committed that of which I stood accused.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood. 6 Three brigands, called Trestaillon, Truphemy, and Graffan, publicly assassinated everybody whom they suspected of Bonapartism.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 7 The assassin, finding that he no longer cried out, lifted his head up by the hair; his eyes were closed, and the mouth was distorted.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 82. The Burglary. 8 '"'Monsieur,' I said, 'my brother was assassinated yesterday in the streets of Nimes, I know not by whom, but it is your duty to find out.'
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 9 Well, I shall write to the abbe; I shall hold him responsible for his protege's misconduct, and I shall soon know all about this assassination.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 43. The House at Auteuil. 10 My brother had arrived the previous evening at Nimes, and, at the very door of the house where he was about to demand hospitality, he had been assassinated.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 11 Everything points to the conclusion, sire," said the minister of police, "that death was not the result of suicide, as we first believed, but of assassination.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 11. The Corsican Ogre. 12 I uttered a cry of joy; the only moments of sadness I had known since the assassination of the procureur were caused by the recollection that I had abandoned this child.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 13 At the same moment the count seized with his left hand the assassin's wrist, and wrung it with such strength that the knife fell from his stiffened fingers, and Caderousse uttered a cry of pain.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 82. The Burglary. 14 I thought the assassin, having discovered the chest, and supposing it to be a treasure, had intended carrying it off, but, perceiving his error, had dug another hole, and deposited it there; but I could find nothing.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 67. At the Office of the King's Attorney. 15 I hid myself in the one nearest to the path Villefort must take, and scarcely was I there when, amidst the gusts of wind, I fancied I heard groans; but you know, or rather you do not know, your excellency, that he who is about to commit an assassination fancies that he hears low cries perpetually ringing in his ears.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 16 Since my brother's assassination in the streets of Nimes, I had never entered the town; the result was that the inn-keeper with whom we were connected, seeing that we would no longer come to him, was forced to come to us, and had established a branch to his inn, on the road from Bellegarde to Beaucaire, at the sign of the Pont du Gard.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 17 When they spoke, although Teresa listened timidly and with downcast eyes to the conversation of her cavalier, as Luigi could read in the ardent looks of the good-looking young man that his language was that of praise, it seemed as if the whole world was turning round with him, and all the voices of hell were whispering in his ears ideas of murder and assassination.
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