MADAME DE MORCERF entered an archway of trees with her companion. It led through a grove of lindens to a conservatory. "It was too warm in the ro...
A GLOOMY SCENE had indeed just passed at the house of M. de Villefort. After the ladies had departed for the ball, whither all the entreaties of Madam...
IT WAS, indeed, Maximilian Morrel, who had passed a wretched existence since the previous day. With the instinct peculiar to lovers he had anticipated...
TWO DAYS after, a considerable crowd was assembled, towards ten o'clock in the morning, around the door of M. de Villefort's house, and a long...
NOIRTIER was prepared to receive them, dressed in black, and installed in his arm-chair. When the three persons he expected had entered, he looked at ...
MEANWHILE M. Cavalcanti the elder had returned to his service, not in the army of his majesty the Emperor of Austria, but at the gaming-table of the b...
SCARCELY HAD the count's horses cleared the angle of the boulevard, than Albert, turning towards the count, burst into a loud fit of laughter--muc...
IF VALENTINE could have seen the trembling step and agitated countenance of Franz when he quitted the chamber of M. Noirtier, even she would have been...
MORREL WAS, in fact, very happy. M. Noirtier had just sent for him, and he was in such haste to know the reason of his doing so that he had not stoppe...
M. D'AVRIGNY soon restored the magistrate to consciousness, who had looked like a second corpse in that chamber of death. "Oh, death is in my...