WHEN DANTèS returned next morning to the chamber of his companion in captivity, he found Faria seated and looking composed. In the ray of light...
AFTER HAVING PASSED with tolerable ease through the subterranean passage, which, however, did not admit of their holding themselves erect, the two fri...
SEIZING IN HIS arms the friend so long and ardently desired, Dantès almost carried him towards the window, in order to obtain a better view of ...
DANTèS PASSED through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocenc...
A YEAR AFTER Louis XVIII's restoration, a visit was made by the inspector-general of prisons. Dantès in his cell heard the noise of prepara...
M. NOIRTIER was a true prophet, and things progressed rapidly, as he had predicted. Every one knows the history of the famous return from Elba, a retu...
M. NOIRTIER--for it was, indeed, he who entered--looked after the servant until the door was closed, and then, fearing, no doubt, that he might be ove...
AT THE SIGHT of this agitation Louis XVIII pushed from him violently the table at which he was sitting. "What ails you, baron?" he exclaimed...
WE WILL LEAVE Villefort on the road to Paris, travelling--thanks to trebled fees--with all speed, and passing through two or three apartments, enter a...
VILLEFORT HAD, as we have said, hastened back to Madame de Saint-Méran's in the Place du Grand Cours, and on entering the house found that ...