...andre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Penns... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...clock when Dantes was placed in this chamber. It was, as we have said, the 1st of March, and the prisoner was soon buried in darkness. The obscurity a... ...d by her. But pride restrained him and he did not utter it. What would his guards think if they heard him shout like a madman? He remained silent, his... ...“Well, sire, the usurper left Elba on the 26th February, and landed on the 1st of March.” “And where? In Italy?” asked the king eagerly. “In France, s... ...s of ambition. Ten minutes afterwards Villefort reached his hotel, ordered horses to be ready in two hours, and asked to have his breakfast brought to... ...s. The young man, in reply, took up the chisel, bent it into the form of a horse- shoe, and then as readily straightened it. “And will you engage not ... ...r wife, I was only sent to the coast. Fernand was en- rolled in the active troop, went to the frontier with his regiment, and was at the battle of Lig... ...he prisoner is irrevocably lost. The young girl’s lover was in Cucumetto’s troop; his name was Carlini. When she recognized her lover, the poor girl e...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel...

... Ten Years Later– Volume One (The Thr... ... Ten Years Later– Volume One (The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Duma [Pere] is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...and to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to ex- press, in the purest French then spoken in France: “There is Monsieur returni... ...“There is Monsieur returning from hunting.” And that was all. Whilst, however, the horses were climbing the steep ac- clivity which leads from the riv... ...lcons upon a perch, the other a hunting-horn, which he blew with a careless note at twenty paces from the castle. Every one about this listless prince... ...adame Cropole, Pittrino, and the waiters and scul- lions. The cortege advanced slowly, lighted by a thousand flam- beaux, in the streets and from the ... ...hat concerns the English, who have cattle in their pastures, bacon in their bacon-racks, fowls in their poul- try-yards, and corn in their barns. I wi... ...made on my account — I — the son of a fisherman, in fact?”* “Hum!” said the Theatin. “That is a first sin, father; for I have allowed myself made to d... ...sh wine with my tenant, which he cannot fail to offer me. But order must be observed, Monsieur d’Artagnan, order must be observed! Let us organize our...

...Excerpt: Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men a...