1 de Villefort; 'your brother has been the victim of this.'
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 2 No, count," he replied, "I am the only victim in this case.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 60. The Telegraph. 3 "Let us try first to save the victim before we think of revenging her," said d'Avrigny.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 94. Maximilian's Avowal. 4 Next day a hundred newspapers relate the fact, with the names of the victim and the murderer.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 52. Toxicology. 5 The presence of the two victims alarmed him; he could not bear solitude shared only by two corpses.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 111. Expiation. 6 In the eyes of many, Benedetto appeared, if not a victim to, at least an instance of, the fallibility of the law.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 109. The Assizes. 7 It has always been against the policy of despotic governments to suffer the victims of their persecutions to reappear.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners. 8 Two men, seated on the movable plank on which the victim is laid, were eating their breakfasts, while waiting for the criminal.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 35. La Mazzolata. 9 He was, in fact, in the unhappy position of the victim marked for sacrifice; the finger of God once pointed at him, every one was prepared to raise the hue and cry.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 86. The Trial. 10 So life went on for them as it does for those who are not victims of misfortune and whose activities glide along mechanically and tranquilly beneath the eye of providence.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 19. The Third Attack. 11 And I say that murders are committed here," said Morrel, whose voice, though lower in tone, lost none of its terrible distinctness: "I tell you that this is the fourth victim within the last four months.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 103. Maximilian. 12 The old father and Mercedes remained for some time apart, each absorbed in grief; but at length the two poor victims of the same blow raised their eyes, and with a simultaneous burst of feeling rushed into each other's arms.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 5. The Marriage-Feast. 13 As for the accused himself, many remembered him as being so amiable, so handsome, and so liberal, that they chose to think him the victim of some conspiracy, since in this world large fortunes frequently excite the malevolence and jealousy of some unknown enemy.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 109. The Assizes. 14 Thus, at length, by one of the unexpected strokes of fortune which sometimes befall those who have for a long time been the victims of an evil destiny, Dantes was about to secure the opportunity he wished for, by simple and natural means, and land on the island without incurring any suspicion.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 15 As the Inquisition rarely allowed its victims to be seen with their limbs distorted and their flesh lacerated by torture, so madness is always concealed in its cell, from whence, should it depart, it is conveyed to some gloomy hospital, where the doctor has no thought for man or mind in the mutilated being the jailer delivers to him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners. 16 The man he sacrificed to his ambition, that innocent victim immolated on the altar of his father's faults, appeared to him pale and threatening, leading his affianced bride by the hand, and bringing with him remorse, not such as the ancients figured, furious and terrible, but that slow and consuming agony whose pangs are intensified from hour to hour up to the very moment of death.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 9. The Evening of the Betrothal.