1 He even told me he had not the slightest doubt that my father would give me the capital instead of the interest of my property.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker. 2 I made inquiries, and found that the house in the Champs Elysees is his own property, and certainly it was very decently kept up.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 46. Unlimited Credit. 3 The count, by any opening from the bedroom, or by concealing himself in the dressing-room, would be able to defend his property himself.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 82. The Burglary. 4 The count descended to the door of his mansion, and beheld his carriage drawn by the very pair of horses he had so much admired in the morning as the property of Danglars.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 46. Unlimited Credit. 5 "I have mine," said Madame de Villefort; and she passed over to Monte Cristo a bottle full of the same kind of red liquid whose good properties the count had tested on Edward.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 63. The Dinner. 6 The very same day the occupants of the apartments on the fifth floor of the house, now become the property of Dantes, were duly informed by the notary who had arranged the necessary transfer of deeds, etc.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 25. The Unknown. 7 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 DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September. 8 The whole of the property, consisting of an immense workshop, two pavilions at the bottom of the garden, and the garden itself, had been purchased by Emmanuel, who had seen at a glance that he could make of it a profitable speculation.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 50. The Morrel Family. 9 There were two palaces and a vineyard behind the Palatine Hill; but in these days landed property had not much value, and the two palaces and the vineyard remained to the family since they were beneath the rapacity of the pope and his son.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 10 You know the affairs of the deceased are in perfect order, and her will bequeaths to Valentine the entire property of the Saint-Meran family; the notary showed me the documents yesterday, which will enable us to draw up the contract immediately.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 74. The Villefort Family Vault. 11 Yet I had read, I had even written a precise history of the Borgia family, for the sole purpose of assuring myself whether any increase of fortune had occurred to them on the death of the Cardinal Caesar Spada; but could only trace the acquisition of the property of the Cardinal Rospigliosi, his companion in misfortune.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 12 While Mercedes, as we have said, was making a similar inventory of her property to Albert's, while she was arranging her jewels, shutting her drawers, collecting her keys, to leave everything in perfect order, she did not perceive a pale and sinister face at a glass door which threw light into the passage, from which everything could be both seen and heard.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 92. The Suicide. 13 I say there, for as I did not consider my house safe enough, or lawyers sufficiently discreet, and as landed property carries evidence with it, and moreover since you have no right to possess anything independent of your husband, I have kept this sum, now your whole fortune, in a chest concealed under that closet, and for greater security I myself concealed it there.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 106. Dividing the Proceeds.