1 I went, of course, to the chief banker of the town to make inquiries.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 87. The Challenge. 2 Meanwhile Monte Cristo had also returned to town with Emmanuel and Maximilian.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 92. The Suicide. 3 If he wished to go out without gloves, his hands appeared too white; if he wished to walk through the town, his boots seemed too highly polished.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 106. Dividing the Proceeds. 4 The house Ali had chosen, and which was to serve as a town residence to Monte Cristo, was situated on the right hand as you ascend the Champs Elysees.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 42. Monsieur Bertuccio. 5 On our arrival we began to discharge our cargo in the night, and to convey it into the town, by the help of the inn-keeper with whom we were connected.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 6 Danglars had not intended starting so late, or he would have remained; he put his head out and asked the postilion how long it would be before they reached the next town.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 114. Peppino. 7 At the same time that the steamer disappeared behind Cape Morgion, a man travelling post on the road from Florence to Rome had just passed the little town of Aquapendente.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 114. Peppino. 8 Danglars intended travelling to Venice, where he would receive one part of his fortune, and then proceeding to Vienna, where he would find the rest, he meant to take up his residence in the latter town, which he had been told was a city of pleasure.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 114. Peppino. 9 Say this to him: 'Sire, you are deceived as to the feeling in France, as to the opinions of the towns, and the prejudices of the army; he whom in Paris you call the Corsican ogre, who at Nevers is styled the usurper, is already saluted as Bonaparte at Lyons, and emperor at Grenoble.'
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 12. Father and Son. 10 Danglars fancied that they had reached the long-desired point; he opened his eyes and looked through the window, expecting to find himself in the midst of some town, or at least village; but he saw nothing except what seemed like a ruin, where three or four men went and came like shadows.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 114. Peppino. 11 Compiegne, that royal residence and fortified town, is well furnished with authorities, gendarmes, and commissaries of police; they therefore began operations as soon as the telegraphic despatch arrived, and the Bell and Bottle being the best-known hotel in the town, they had naturally directed their first inquiries there.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 98. The Bell and Bottle Tavern. 12 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. 13 This child, for whom my poor sister would go to the town, five or six leagues off, to purchase the earliest fruits and the most tempting sweetmeats, preferred to Palma grapes or Genoese preserves, the chestnuts stolen from a neighbor's orchard, or the dried apples in his loft, when he could eat as well of the nuts and apples that grew in my garden.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.