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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
DANTèS PASSED through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocenc...
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 ...
AFTER HAVING PASSED with tolerable ease through the subterranean passage, which, however, did not admit of their holding themselves erect, the two fri...
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...