{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Ah, is it you, Dantès? What’s the matter? and why have you such an air of sadness aboard?", "pos": 5936}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A great misfortune, M. Morrel, a great misfortune, for me especially! Off Civita Vecchia we lost our brave Captain Leclere.", "pos": 6058}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "And the cargo?", "pos": 6209}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Is all safe, M. Morrel; and I think you will be satisfied on that head. But poor Captain Leclere——", "pos": 6255}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "What happened to him? What happened to the worthy captain?", "pos": 6356}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He died.", "pos": 6477}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Fell into the sea?", "pos": 6488}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, sir, he died of brain-fever in dreadful agony. Bear a hand there, to take in sail!", "pos": 6509}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "And how did this misfortune occur?", "pos": 6996}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Alas, sir, in the most unexpected manner. After a long talk with the harbor-master, Captain Leclere left Naples greatly disturbed in mind. In twenty-four hours he was attacked by a fever, and died three days afterwards. We performed the usual burial service, and he is at his rest, sewn up in his hammock with a thirty-six-pound shot at his head and his heels, off El Giglio island. We bring to his widow his sword and cross of honor. It was worth while, truly, to make war against the English for ten years, and to die in his bed at last, like everybody else.", "pos": 7099}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Why, you see, Edmond, we are all mortal, and the old must make way for the young. If not, why, there would be no promotion; and since you assure me that the cargo——", "pos": 7709}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Is all safe and sound, M. Morrel, take my word for it; and I advise you not to take 25,000 francs for the profits of the voyage. Stand by there to lower the topsails and jib; brail up the spanker! Let go—and clue up! Now, if you will come on board, M. Morrel, here is your supercargo, M. Danglars, coming out of his cabin, who will furnish you with every particular. As for me, I must look after the anchoring, and dress the ship in mourning.", "pos": 7942}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Well, M. Morrel, you have heard of the misfortune that has befallen us?", "pos": 9322}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Yes—yes: poor Captain Leclere! He was a brave and an honest man.", "pos": 9413}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "And a first-rate seaman, one who had seen long and honorable service, as became a man charged with the interests of a house so important as that of Morrel & Son,", "pos": 9480}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "it seems to me that a sailor needs not be so old as you say, Danglars, to understand his business, for our friend Edmond seems to understand it thoroughly, and not to require instruction from anyone.", "pos": 9757}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes, yes, he is young, and youth is invariably self-confident. Scarcely was the captain’s breath out of his body when he assumed the command without consulting anyone, and he caused us to lose a day and a half at the Island of Elba, instead of making for Marseilles direct.", "pos": 9959}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "As to taking command of the vessel, that was his duty as captain’s mate; as to losing a day and a half off the Island of Elba, he was wrong, unless the vessel needed repairs.", "pos": 10303}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "The vessel was in as good condition as I am, and as, I hope you are, M. Morrel, and this day and a half was lost from pure whim, for the pleasure of going ashore, and nothing else.", "pos": 10498}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Dantès, come this way!", "pos": 10681}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In a moment, sir, and I’m with you. Let go! Half-mast the colors, and square the yards!", "pos": 10759}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "he fancies himself captain already, upon my word.", "pos": 11139}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "And so, in fact, he is. Except your signature and your partner’s, M. Morrel. And why should he not have this? he is young, it is true, but he seems to me a thorough seaman, and of full experience.", "pos": 11191}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Your pardon, M. Morrel, the vessel now rides at anchor, and I am at your service. You hailed me, I think?", "pos": 11465}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I wished to inquire why you stopped at the Island of Elba?", "pos": 11635}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do not know, sir; it was to fulfil the last instructions of Captain Leclere, who, when dying, gave me a packet for Marshal Bertrand.", "pos": 11696}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Then did you see him, Edmond?", "pos": 11833}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Who?", "pos": 11865}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "The marshal.", "pos": 11872}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 11887}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "And how is the emperor?", "pos": 11976}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Very well, as far as I could judge from the sight of him.", "pos": 12002}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "You saw the emperor, then?", "pos": 12062}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He entered the marshal’s apartment while I was there.", "pos": 12091}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "And you spoke to him?", "pos": 12147}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why, it was he who spoke to me, sir. Asked me questions about the vessel, the time she left Marseilles, the course she had taken, and what was her cargo. I believe, if she had not been laden, and I had been her master, he would have bought her. But I told him I was only mate, and that she belonged to the firm of Morrel & Son. ‘Ah, yes,’ he said, ‘I know them. The Morrels have been shipowners from father to son; and there was a Morrel who served in the same regiment with me when I was in garrison at Valence.’", "pos": 12171}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Pardieu! and that is true! And that was Policar Morrel, my uncle, who was afterwards a captain. Dantès, you must tell my uncle that the emperor remembered him, and you will see it will bring tears into the old soldier’s eyes. Come, come, you did very right, Dantès, to follow Captain Leclere’s instructions, and touch at Elba, although if it were known that you had conveyed a packet to the marshal, and had conversed with the emperor, it might bring you into trouble.", "pos": 12746}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How could that bring me into trouble, sir? for I did not even know of what I was the bearer; and the emperor merely made such inquiries as he would of the first comer. But, pardon me, here are the health officers and the customs inspectors coming alongside.", "pos": 13311}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Well, it appears that he has given you satisfactory reasons for his landing at Porto-Ferrajo?", "pos": 13674}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Yes, most satisfactory, my dear Danglars.", "pos": 13770}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Well, so much the better, for it is not pleasant to think that a comrade has not done his duty.", "pos": 13814}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Dantès has done his, and that is not saying much. It was Captain Leclere who gave orders for this delay.", "pos": 13935}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Talking of Captain Leclere, has not Dantès given you a letter from him?", "pos": 14063}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "To me?—no—was there one?", "pos": 14137}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I believe that, besides the packet, Captain Leclere confided a letter to his care.", "pos": 14164}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Of what packet are you speaking, Danglars?", "pos": 14249}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Why, that which Dantès left at Porto-Ferrajo.", "pos": 14294}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "How do you know he had a packet to leave at Porto-Ferrajo?", "pos": 14342}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I was passing close to the door of the captain’s cabin, which was half open, and I saw him give the packet and letter to Dantès.", "pos": 14429}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "He did not speak to me of it, but if there be any letter he will give it to me.", "pos": 14560}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Then, M. Morrel, not to say a word to Dantès on the subject. I may have been mistaken.", "pos": 14700}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Well, my dear Dantès, are you now free?", "pos": 14872}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, sir.", "pos": 14934}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "You have not been long detained.", "pos": 14946}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No. I gave the custom-house officers a copy of our bill of lading; and as to the other papers, they sent a man off with the pilot, to whom I gave them.", "pos": 14981}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Then you have nothing more to do here?", "pos": 15135}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No—everything is all right now.", "pos": 15176}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Then you can come and dine with me?", "pos": 15210}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I really must ask you to excuse me, M. Morrel. My first visit is due to my father, though I am not the less grateful for the honor you have done me.", "pos": 15248}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Right, Dantès, quite right. I always knew you were a good son.", "pos": 15405}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And, do you know how my father is?", "pos": 15470}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Well, I believe, my dear Edmond, though I have not seen him lately.", "pos": 15548}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, he likes to keep himself shut up in his little room.", "pos": 15618}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "That proves, at least, that he has wanted for nothing during your absence.", "pos": 15678}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My father is proud, sir, and if he had not a meal left, I doubt if he would have asked anything from anyone, except from Heaven.", "pos": 15770}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Well, then, after this first visit has been made we shall count on you.", "pos": 15901}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I must again excuse myself, M. Morrel, for after this first visit has been paid I have another which I am most anxious to pay.", "pos": 15975}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "True, Dantès, I forgot that there was at the Catalans someone who expects you no less impatiently than your father—the lovely Mercédès. Ah, ha. I am not in the least surprised, for she has been to me three times, inquiring if there were any news of the Pharaon. Peste! Edmond, you have a very handsome mistress!", "pos": 16104}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "She is not my mistress, she is my betrothed.", "pos": 16458}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Sometimes one and the same thing,", "pos": 16542}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Not with us, sir,", "pos": 16605}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Well, well, my dear Edmond, don’t let me detain you. You have managed my affairs so well that I ought to allow you all the time you require for your own. Do you want any money?", "pos": 16641}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, sir; I have all my pay to take—nearly three months’ wages.", "pos": 16843}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "You are a careful fellow, Edmond.", "pos": 16908}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Say I have a poor father, sir.", "pos": 16944}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Yes, yes, I know how good a son you are, so now hasten away to see your father. I have a son too, and I should be very wroth with those who detained him from me after a three months’ voyage.", "pos": 16977}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then I have your leave, sir?", "pos": 17170}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Yes, if you have nothing more to say to me.", "pos": 17201}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Nothing.", "pos": 17247}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Captain Leclere did not, before he died, give you a letter for me?", "pos": 17258}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He was unable to write, sir. But that reminds me that I must ask your leave of absence for some days.", "pos": 17327}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "To get married?", "pos": 17431}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, first, and then to go to Paris.", "pos": 17449}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Very good; have what time you require, Dantès. It will take quite six weeks to unload the cargo, and we cannot get you ready for sea until three months after that; only be back again in three months, for the Pharaon, cannot sail without her captain.", "pos": 17488}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Without her captain! pray mind what you say, for you are touching on the most secret wishes of my heart. Is it really your intention to make me captain of the Pharaon?", "pos": 17797}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "If I were sole owner we’d shake hands on it now, my dear Dantès, and call it settled; but I have a partner, and you know the Italian proverb—Chi ha compagno ha padrone—‘He who has a partner has a master.’ But the thing is at least half done, as you have one out of two votes. Rely on me to procure you the other; I will do my best.", "pos": 18017}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, M. Morrel. M. Morrel, I thank you in the name of my father and of Mercédès.", "pos": 18351}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "That’s all right, Edmond. There’s a providence that watches over the deserving. Go to your father; go and see Mercédès, and afterwards come to me.", "pos": 18518}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Shall I row you ashore?", "pos": 18667}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "No, thank you; I shall remain and look over the accounts with Danglars. Have you been satisfied with him this voyage?", "pos": 18693}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, yes, father, tell me where it is,” and he opened two or three cupboards.", "pos": 23885}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Heaven pardon me,” cried Edmond, falling on his knees before his father.", "pos": 24968}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Whom does this belong to?” he inquired.", "pos": 25576}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, as you see, neighbor Caderousse; and ready to be agreeable to you in any and every way,” replied Dantès, but ill-concealing his coldness under this cloak of civility.", "pos": 26847}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, to be sure I am. I love and esteem you, because honest folks are so rare. But it seems you have come back rich, my boy,” continued the tailor, looking askance at the handful of gold and silver which Dantès had thrown on the table.", "pos": 28002}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It was offered with good will,” said Dantès. M. Morrel has always been exceedingly kind to me,” replied Dantès. Yes, my dear father,” replied Edmond, smiling at his father’s astonishment at the excessive honor paid to his son.", "pos": 28917}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I hope to be captain without that,” said Dantès.", "pos": 29887}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Mercédès?” said the old man.", "pos": 30131}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, but according to all probability she soon will be,” replied Edmond. Really?” answered Edmond, with a smile which had in it traces of slight uneasiness.", "pos": 30562}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Eh—eh!” said Caderousse, shaking his head.", "pos": 31182}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I will go directly,” was Edmond’s reply; and, embracing his father, and nodding to Caderousse, he left the apartment.", "pos": 31662}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I have just left him,” answered Caderousse.", "pos": 31977}
{"speaker": "young man", "text": "You see, Mercédès, here is Easter come round again; tell me, is this the moment for a wedding?", "pos": 37031}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "I have answered you a hundred times, Fernand, and really you must be very stupid to ask me again.", "pos": 37150}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "Well, repeat it,—repeat it, I beg of you, that I may at last believe it! Tell me for the hundredth time that you refuse my love, which had your mother’s sanction. Make me understand once for all that you are trifling with my happiness, that my life or death are nothing to you. Ah, to have dreamed for ten years of being your husband, Mercédès, and to lose that hope, which was the only stay of my existence!", "pos": 37250}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "At least it was not I who ever encouraged you in that hope, Fernand, you cannot reproach me with the slightest coquetry. I have always said to you, ‘I love you as a brother; but do not ask from me more than sisterly affection, for my heart is another’s.’ Is not this true, Fernand?", "pos": 37661}
{"speaker": "young man", "text": "Yes, that is very true, Mercédès. Yes, you have been cruelly frank with me; but do you forget that it is among the Catalans a sacred law to intermarry?", "pos": 37965}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "You mistake, Fernand; it is not a law, but merely a custom, and, I pray of you, do not cite this custom in your favor. You are included in the conscription, Fernand, and are only at liberty on sufferance, liable at any moment to be called upon to take up arms. Once a soldier, what would you do with me, a poor orphan, forlorn, without fortune, with nothing but a half-ruined hut and a few ragged nets, the miserable inheritance left by my father to my mother, and by my mother to me? She has been dead a year, and you know, Fernand, I have subsisted almost entirely on public charity. Sometimes you pretend I am useful to you, and that is an excuse to share with me the produce of your fishing, and I accept it, Fernand, because you are the son of my father’s brother, because we were brought up together, and still more because it would give you so much pain if I refuse. But I feel very deeply that this fish which I go and sell, and with the produce of which I buy the flax I spin,—I feel very keenly, Fernand, that this is charity.", "pos": 38150}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "And if it were, Mercédès, poor and lone as you are, you suit me as well as the daughter of the first shipowner or the richest banker of Marseilles! What do such as we desire but a good wife and careful housekeeper, and where can I look for these better than in you?", "pos": 39189}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Fernand. Fernand, a woman becomes a bad manager, and who shall say she will remain an honest woman, when she loves another man better than her husband? Rest content with my friendship, for I say once more that is all I can promise, and I will promise no more than I can bestow.", "pos": 39457}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "I understand. I understand, you can endure your own wretchedness patiently, but you are afraid to share mine. Well, Mercédès, beloved by you, I would tempt fortune; you would bring me good luck, and I should become rich. I could extend my occupation as a fisherman, might get a place as clerk in a warehouse, and become in time a dealer myself.", "pos": 39767}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "You could do no such thing, Fernand; you are a soldier, and if you remain at the Catalans it is because there is no war; so remain a fisherman, and contented with my friendship, as I cannot give you more.", "pos": 40119}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "Well, I will do better, Mercédès. I will be a sailor; instead of the costume of our fathers, which you despise, I will wear a varnished hat, a striped shirt, and a blue jacket, with an anchor on the buttons. Would not that dress please you?", "pos": 40326}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "What do you mean? what do you mean? I do not understand you?", "pos": 40569}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "I mean, Mercédès, that you are thus harsh and cruel with me, because you are expecting someone who is thus attired; but perhaps he whom you await is inconstant, or if he is not, the sea is so to him.", "pos": 40672}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Fernand. I believed you were good-hearted, and I was mistaken! Fernand, you are wicked to call to your aid jealousy and the anger of God! Yes, I will not deny it, I do await, and I do love him of whom you speak; and, if he does not return, instead of accusing him of the inconstancy which you insinuate, I will tell you that he died loving me and me only. I understand you, Fernand; you would be revenged on him because I do not love you; you would cross your Catalan knife with his dirk. What end would that answer? To lose you my friendship if he were conquered, and see that friendship changed into hate if you were victor. Believe me, to seek a quarrel with a man is a bad method of pleasing the woman who loves that man. No, Fernand, you will not thus give way to evil thoughts. Unable to have me for your wife, you will content yourself with having me for your friend and sister; and besides, wait, wait, Fernand; you said just now that the sea was treacherous, and he has been gone four months, and during these four months there have been some terrible storms.", "pos": 40874}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "Say, Mercédès, once for all, is this your final determination?", "pos": 42407}
{"speaker": "young girl", "text": "I love Edmond Dantès, and none but Edmond shall ever be my husband.", "pos": 42483}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "And you will always love him?", "pos": 42586}
{"speaker": "young girl", "text": "As long as I live.", "pos": 42618}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "But if he is dead——", "pos": 42820}
{"speaker": "young girl", "text": "If he is dead, I shall die too.", "pos": 42842}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "If he has forgotten you——", "pos": 42876}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Mercédès! Ah,", "pos": 42904}
{"speaker": "young girl", "text": "Ah, you see he has not forgotten me, for here he is! Here, Edmond, here I am!", "pos": 43053}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, your pardon. I did not perceive that there were three of us. Who is this gentleman?", "pos": 43941}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "One who will be your best friend, Dantès, for he is my friend, my cousin, my brother; it is Fernand—the man whom, after you, Edmond, I love the best in the world. Do you not remember him?", "pos": 44110}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes! I did not know, when I came with such haste to you, that I was to meet an enemy here.", "pos": 44300}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "An enemy! An enemy in my house, do you say, Edmond! If I believed that, I would place my arm under yours and go with you to Marseilles, leaving the house to return to it no more. And should any misfortune occur to you, dear Edmond, if misfortune should occur to you, I would ascend the highest point of the Cape de Morgiou and cast myself headlong from it. But you are deceived, Edmond. You have no enemy here—there is no one but Fernand, my brother, who will grasp your hand as a devoted friend.", "pos": 44805}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "Oh. Oh, who will deliver me from this man? Wretched—wretched that I am!", "pos": 45991}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Hallo, Catalan! Hallo, Fernand! where are you running to?", "pos": 46120}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Well Well, why don’t you come? Are you really in such a hurry that you have no time to pass the time of day with your friends?", "pos": 46323}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Particularly when they have still a full bottle before them. He seems besotted. Are we mistaken, and is Dantès triumphant in spite of all we have believed?", "pos": 46466}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Why, we must inquire into that. Well, Catalan, can’t you make up your mind?", "pos": 46767}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "Good-day. You called me, didn’t you?", "pos": 47134}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I called you because you were running like a madman, and I was afraid you would throw yourself into the sea. Why, when a man has friends, they are not only to offer him a glass of wine, but, moreover, to prevent his swallowing three or four pints of water unnecessarily! Well, Fernand, I must say. Well, Fernand, I must say, you look uncommonly like a rejected lover;", "pos": 47267}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Bah! a lad of his make was not born to be unhappy in love. You are laughing at him, Caderousse.", "pos": 47921}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "No, only hark how he sighs! Come, come, Fernand, hold up your head, and answer us. It’s not polite not to reply to friends who ask news of your health.", "pos": 48036}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "My health is well enough,", "pos": 48223}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah, you see, Danglars, this is how it is; Fernand, whom you see here, is a good and brave Catalan, one of the best fishermen in Marseilles, and he is in love with a very fine girl, named Mercédès; but it appears, unfortunately, that the fine girl is in love with the mate of the Pharaon; and as the Pharaon arrived today—why, you understand!", "pos": 48311}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "No; I do not understand,", "pos": 48697}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Poor Fernand has been dismissed,", "pos": 48739}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "Well, and what then? Mercédès is not accountable to any person, is she? Is she not free to love whomsoever she will?", "pos": 48796}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Oh, if you take it in that sense, it is another thing. But I thought you were a Catalan, and they told me the Catalans were not men to allow themselves to be supplanted by a rival. It was even told me that Fernand, especially, was terrible in his vengeance.", "pos": 49038}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "A lover is never terrible,", "pos": 49343}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Poor fellow! Why, you see, he did not expect to see Dantès return so suddenly—he thought he was dead, perhaps; or perchance faithless! These things always come on us more severely when they come suddenly.", "pos": 49381}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah, ma foi, under any circumstances! under any circumstances Fernand is not the only person put out by the fortunate arrival of Dantès; is he, Danglars?", "pos": 49671}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "No, you are right—and I should say that would bring him ill-luck.", "pos": 49924}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Well, never mind. Never mind—in the meantime he marries Mercédès—the lovely Mercédès—at least he returns to do that.", "pos": 49992}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "And when is the wedding to be?", "pos": 50390}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "Oh, it is not yet fixed!", "pos": 50433}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "No, but it will be, as surely as Dantès will be captain of the Pharaon—eh, Danglars?", "pos": 50478}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Well. Well, let us drink to Captain Edmond Dantès, husband of the beautiful Catalane!", "pos": 50840}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Eh, eh, eh! What do I see down there by the wall, in the direction of the Catalans? Look, Fernand, your eyes are better than mine. I believe I see double. You know wine is a deceiver; but I should say it was two lovers walking side by side, and hand in hand. Heaven forgive me, they do not know that we can see them, and they are actually embracing!", "pos": 51087}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Do you know them, Fernand?", "pos": 51516}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "Yes. It is Edmond and Mercédès!", "pos": 51554}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah, see there, now! and I did not recognize them! Hallo, Dantès! hello, lovely damsel! Come this way, and let us know when the wedding is to be, for Fernand here is so obstinate he will not tell us.", "pos": 51621}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Hold your tongue, will you? Try to stand upright, and let the lovers make love without interruption. See, look at Fernand, and follow his example; he is well-behaved!", "pos": 51841}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I shall get nothing from these fools, and I am very much afraid of being here between a drunkard and a coward. Here’s an envious fellow making himself boozy on wine when he ought to be nursing his wrath, and here is a fool who sees the woman he loves stolen from under his nose and takes on like a big baby. Yet this Catalan has eyes that glisten like those of the vengeful Spaniards, Sicilians, and Calabrians, and the other has fists big enough to crush an ox at one blow. Unquestionably, Edmond’s star is in the ascendant, and he will marry the splendid girl—he will be captain, too, and laugh at us all, unless unless I take a hand in the affair,", "pos": 52686}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Hallo! hallo, Edmond! do you not see your friends, or are you too proud to speak to them?", "pos": 53410}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, my dear fellow! I am not proud, but I am happy, and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.", "pos": 53571}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah, very well, that’s an explanation! How do you do, Madame Dantès?", "pos": 53690}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "That is not my name, and in my country it bodes ill fortune, they say, to call a young girl by the name of her betrothed before he becomes her husband. So call me Mercédès, if you please.", "pos": 53817}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "We must excuse our worthy neighbor, Caderousse, he is so easily mistaken.", "pos": 54007}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "So, then, the wedding is to take place immediately, M. Dantès,", "pos": 54098}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "As soon as possible, M. Danglars; today all preliminaries will be arranged at my father’s, and tomorrow, or next day at latest, the wedding festival here at La Réserve. My friends will be there, I hope; that is to say, you are invited, M. Danglars, and you, Caderousse.", "pos": 54206}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "And Fernand. Fernand, too, is invited!", "pos": 54478}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My wife’s brother is my brother, and we, Mercédès and I, should be very sorry if he were absent at such a time.", "pos": 54553}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Today the preliminaries, tomorrow or next day the ceremony! You are in a hurry, captain!", "pos": 54780}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Danglars. I will say to you as Mercédès said just now to Caderousse, ‘Do not give me a title which does not belong to me’; that may bring me bad luck.", "pos": 54871}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Your pardon. I merely said you seemed in a hurry, and we have lots of time; the Pharaon cannot be under weigh again in less than three months.", "pos": 55048}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "We are always in a hurry to be happy, M. Danglars; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. But it is not selfishness alone that makes me thus in haste; I must go to Paris.", "pos": 55213}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Ah, really?—to Paris! and will it be the first time you have ever been there, Dantès?", "pos": 55441}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 55529}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Have you business there?", "pos": 55536}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Not of my own; the last commission of poor Captain Leclere; you know to what I allude, Danglars—it is sacred. Besides, I shall only take the time to go and return.", "pos": 55563}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes, yes, I understand. To Paris, no doubt to deliver the letter which the grand marshal gave him. Ah, this letter gives me an idea—a capital idea! Ah; Dantès, my friend, you are not yet registered number one on board the good ship Pharaon; A pleasant journey,", "pos": 55729}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Thank you,", "pos": 56106}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Well, my dear sir, here is a marriage which does not appear to make everybody happy.", "pos": 56567}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "It drives me to despair,", "pos": 56682}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Do you, then, love Mercédès?", "pos": 56723}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "I adore her!", "pos": 56754}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "For long?", "pos": 56769}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "As long as I have known her—always.", "pos": 56781}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "And you sit there, tearing your hair, instead of seeking to remedy your condition; I did not think that was the way of your people.", "pos": 56819}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "What would you have me do?", "pos": 56953}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "How do I know? Is it my affair? I am not in love with Mademoiselle Mercédès; but for you—in the words of the gospel, seek, and you shall find.", "pos": 56996}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "I have found already.", "pos": 57141}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "What?", "pos": 57165}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "I would stab the man, but the woman told me that if any misfortune happened to her betrothed, she would kill herself.", "pos": 57173}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Pooh! Women say those things, but never do them.", "pos": 57293}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "You do not know Mercédès; what she threatens she will do.", "pos": 57344}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Idiot!", "pos": 57404}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "That’s what I call love! That’s love, or I don’t know what love is.", "pos": 57622}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Come, you appear to me a good sort of fellow, and hang me, I should like to help you, but——", "pos": 57745}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yes, but how?", "pos": 57856}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "My dear fellow, you are three parts drunk; finish the bottle, and you will be completely so. Drink then, and do not meddle with what we are discussing, for that requires all one’s wit and cool judgment.", "pos": 57891}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I—drunk! well that’s a good one! I could drink four more such bottles; they are no bigger than cologne flasks. Père Pamphile, more wine!", "pos": 58116}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "You were saying, sir——", "pos": 58323}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "What was I saying? I forget. This drunken Caderousse has made me lose the thread of my sentence.", "pos": 58426}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts; Tous les méchants sont buveurs d’eau; C’est bien prouvé par le déluge.", "pos": 58525}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "You said, sir, you would like to help me, but——", "pos": 58854}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes; but I added, to help you it would be sufficient that Dantès did not marry her you love; and the marriage may easily be thwarted, methinks, and yet Dantès need not die.", "pos": 58904}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "Death alone can separate them,", "pos": 59079}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "You talk like a noodle, my friend, and here is Danglars, who is a wide-awake, clever, deep fellow, who will prove to you that you are wrong. Prove it, Danglars. I have answered for you. Say there is no need why Dantès should die; it would, indeed, be a pity he should. Dantès is a good fellow; I like Dantès. Dantès, your health.", "pos": 59130}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Let him run on, drunk as he is, he is not much out in what he says. Absence severs as well as death, and if the walls of a prison were between Edmond and Mercédès they would be as effectually separated as if he lay under a tombstone.", "pos": 59507}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yes; but one gets out of prison, and when one gets out and one’s name is Edmond Dantès, one seeks revenge—— And why, I should like to know, should they put Dantès in prison? he has neither robbed, nor killed, nor murdered.", "pos": 59793}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Hold your tongue!", "pos": 60175}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I won’t hold my tongue! I say I want to know why they should put Dantès in prison; I like Dantès; Dantès, your health!", "pos": 60210}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Well, you understand there is no need to kill him.", "pos": 60515}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "Certainly not, if, as you said just now, you have the means of having Dantès arrested. Have you that means?", "pos": 60568}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "It is to be found for the searching. But why should I meddle in the matter? it is no affair of mine.", "pos": 60678}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "I know not why you meddle, but this I know, you have some motive of personal hatred against Dantès, for he who himself hates is never mistaken in the sentiments of others.", "pos": 60781}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I! motives of hatred against Dantès? None, on my word! I saw you were unhappy, and your unhappiness interested me; that’s all; but since you believe I act for my own account, adieu, my dear friend, get out of the affair as best you may;", "pos": 60988}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "No, no, stay! It is of very little consequence to me at the end of the matter whether you have any angry feeling or not against Dantès. I hate him! I confess it openly. Do you find the means, I will execute it, provided it is not to kill the man, for Mercédès has declared she will kill herself if Dantès is killed.", "pos": 61271}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Kill Dantès! who talks of killing Dantès? I won’t have him killed—I won’t! He’s my friend, and this morning offered to share his money with me, as I shared mine with him. I won’t have Dantès killed—I won’t!", "pos": 61751}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "And who has said a word about killing him, muddlehead? We were merely joking; drink to his health, and do not interfere with us.", "pos": 61960}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yes, yes, Dantès’ good health! here’s to his health! his health—hurrah!", "pos": 62151}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "But the means—the means?", "pos": 62264}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Have you not hit upon any?", "pos": 62305}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "No!—you undertook to do so.", "pos": 62350}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "True, the French have the superiority over the Spaniards, that the Spaniards ruminate, while the French invent.", "pos": 62380}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "Do you invent, then,", "pos": 62514}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Waiter, pen, ink, and paper.", "pos": 62563}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "Pen, ink, and paper,", "pos": 62611}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes; I am a supercargo; pen, ink, and paper are my tools, and without my tools I am fit for nothing.", "pos": 62652}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "Pen, ink, and paper, then,", "pos": 62755}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "When one thinks,", "pos": 62922}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "there is here wherewithal to kill a man more sure than if we waited at the corner of a wood to assassinate him! I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper, than of a sword or pistol.", "pos": 62994}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "The fellow is not so drunk as he appears to be. Give him some more wine, Fernand. Well! Well, then, I should say, for instance, that if after a voyage such as Dantès has just made, in which he touched at the Island of Elba, someone were to denounce him to the king’s procureur as a Bonapartist agent——", "pos": 63213}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "I will denounce him!", "pos": 63945}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes, but they will make you then sign your declaration, and confront you with him you have denounced; I will supply you with the means of supporting your accusation, for I know the fact well. But Dantès cannot remain forever in prison, and one day or other he will leave it, and the day when he comes out, woe betide him who was the cause of his incarceration!", "pos": 64001}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "Oh, I should wish nothing better than that he would come and seek a quarrel with me.", "pos": 64364}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes, and Mercédès! Mercédès, who will detest you if you have only the misfortune to scratch the skin of her dearly beloved Edmond!", "pos": 64451}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "True!", "pos": 64584}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "No, no, if we resolve on such a step, it would be much better to take, as I now do, this pen, dip it into this ink, and write with the left hand (that the writing may not be recognized) the denunciation we propose. The honorable, the king’s attorney, is informed by a friend of the throne and religion, that one Edmond Dantès, mate of the ship Pharaon, arrived this morning from Smyrna, after having touched at Naples and Porto-Ferrajo, has been intrusted by Murat with a letter for the usurper, and by the usurper with a letter for the Bonapartist committee in Paris. Proof of this crime will be found on arresting him, for the letter will be found upon him, or at his father’s, or in his cabin on board the Pharaon. Very good, now your revenge looks like common sense, for in no way can it revert to yourself, and the matter will thus work its own way; there is nothing to do now but fold the letter as I am doing, and write upon it, ‘To the king’s attorney,’ and that’s all settled.", "pos": 64606}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yes, and that’s all settled; only it will be an infamous shame;", "pos": 66128}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes, and as what I say and do is merely in jest, and I, amongst the first and foremost, should be sorry if anything happened to Dantès—the worthy Dantès—look here!", "pos": 66245}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "All right! Dantès is my friend, and I won’t have him ill-used.", "pos": 66556}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "And who thinks of using him ill? Certainly neither I nor Fernand,", "pos": 66640}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "In this case, let’s have some more wine. I wish to drink to the health of Edmond and the lovely Mercédès.", "pos": 66869}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "You have had too much already, drunkard, and if you continue, you will be compelled to sleep here, because unable to stand on your legs.", "pos": 66999}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I? I can’t keep on my legs? Why, I’ll wager I can go up into the belfry of the Accoules, and without staggering, too!", "pos": 67155}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Done! I’ll take your bet; but tomorrow—today it is time to return. Give me your arm, and let us go.", "pos": 67349}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Very well, let us go, but I don’t want your arm at all. Come, Fernand, won’t you return to Marseilles with us?", "pos": 67468}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "No. I shall return to the Catalans.", "pos": 67600}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "You’re wrong. Come with us to Marseilles—come along.", "pos": 67654}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "I will not.", "pos": 67709}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "What do you mean? you will not? Well, just as you like, my prince; there’s liberty for all the world. Come along, Danglars, and let the young gentleman return to the Catalans if he chooses. why, what a lie he told! He said he was going to the Catalans, and he is going to the city. Hallo, Fernand! You are coming, my boy!", "pos": 67723}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, you don’t see straight, he’s gone right by the road to the Vieilles Infirmeries.", "pos": 68410}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Well. I should have sworn that he turned to the right—how treacherous wine is!", "pos": 68514}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Come, come, now the thing is at work and it will effect its purpose unassisted.", "pos": 68614}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "If you are my friends, rejoice with me, for I am very happy.", "pos": 73909}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Father, sit, I pray you, on my right hand; on my left I will place him who has ever been as a brother to me,", "pos": 74613}
{"speaker": "Old Dantès", "text": "A pretty silence truly! Now, would anybody think that this room contained a happy, merry party, who desire nothing better than to laugh and dance the hours away?", "pos": 75861}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah, a man cannot always feel happy because he is about to be married.", "pos": 76204}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The truth is, that I am too happy for noisy mirth; if that is what you meant by your observation, my worthy friend, you are right; joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.", "pos": 76297}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Why, what ails you?", "pos": 76636}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "He is the cause of all this misery—I am quite sure of it,", "pos": 89558}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I don’t think so,", "pos": 89695}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "You don’t mention those who aided and abetted the deed,", "pos": 89851}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Surely, one cannot be held responsible for every chance arrow shot into the air.", "pos": 89925}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You can, indeed, when the arrow lights point downward on somebody’s head.", "pos": 90029}
{"speaker": "one of the party", "text": "What think you, Danglars, of this event?", "pos": 90185}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Why. I think it just possible Dantès may have been detected with some trifling article on board ship considered here as contraband.", "pos": 90274}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But how could he have done so without your knowledge, Danglars, since you are the ship’s supercargo?", "pos": 90422}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Why, as for that, I could only know what I was told respecting the merchandise with which the vessel was laden. I know she was loaded with cotton, and that she took in her freight at Alexandria from Pastret’s warehouse, and at Smyrna from Pascal’s; that is all I was obliged to know, and I beg I may not be asked for any further particulars.", "pos": 90525}
{"speaker": "the afflicted old father", "text": "Now I recollect,", "pos": 90869}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now I recollect, my poor boy told me yesterday he had got a small case of coffee, and another of tobacco for me!", "pos": 90902}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "There, you see. Now the mischief is out; depend upon it the custom-house people went rummaging about the ship in our absence, and discovered poor Dantès’ hidden treasures.", "pos": 91039}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Come, come, be comforted, my poor child; there is still hope!", "pos": 91415}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Hope!", "pos": 91479}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "Hope!", "pos": 91506}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Good news! good news! Here comes M. Morrel back. No doubt, now, we shall hear that our friend is released!", "pos": 91725}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What news?", "pos": 91935}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Alas, my friends, the thing has assumed a more serious aspect than I expected.", "pos": 91985}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Oh, indeed—indeed, sir, he is innocent!", "pos": 92122}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "That I believe! but still he is charged——", "pos": 92187}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "With what?", "pos": 92253}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "With being an agent of the Bonapartist faction!", "pos": 92293}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah, Danglars, you have deceived me—the trick you spoke of last night has been played; but I cannot suffer a poor old man or an innocent girl to die of grief through your fault. I am determined to tell them all about it.", "pos": 92579}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Be silent, you simpleton, or I will not answer even for your own safety. Who can tell whether Dantès be innocent or guilty? The vessel did touch at Elba, where he quitted it, and passed a whole day in the island. Now, should any letters or other documents of a compromising character be found upon him, will it not be taken for granted that all who uphold him are his accomplices?", "pos": 92844}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Suppose we wait a while, and see what comes of it,", "pos": 93422}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "To be sure! Let us wait, by all means. If he be innocent, of course he will be set at liberty; if guilty, why, it is no use involving ourselves in a conspiracy.", "pos": 93549}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Let us go, then. I cannot stay here any longer.", "pos": 93712}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "With all my heart! Let us take ourselves out of the way, and leave things for the present to take their course.", "pos": 93822}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Could you ever have credited such a thing, my dear Danglars? Could you have believed such a thing possible?", "pos": 94252}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Why, you know I told you that I considered the circumstance of his having anchored at the Island of Elba as a very suspicious circumstance.", "pos": 94575}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "And did you mention these suspicions to any person beside myself?", "pos": 94717}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Certainly not! You understand that, on account of your uncle, M. Policar Morrel, who served under the other government, and who does not altogether conceal what he thinks on the subject, you are strongly suspected of regretting the abdication of Napoleon. I should have feared to injure both Edmond and yourself, had I divulged my own apprehensions to a soul. I am too well aware that though a subordinate, like myself, is bound to acquaint the shipowner with everything that occurs, there are many things he ought most carefully to conceal from all else.", "pos": 94841}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "’Tis well, Danglars—’tis well! You are a worthy fellow; and I had already thought of your interests in the event of poor Edmond having become captain of the Pharaon.", "pos": 95400}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Is it possible you were so kind?", "pos": 95588}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Yes, indeed; I had previously inquired of Dantès what was his opinion of you, and if he should have any reluctance to continue you in your post, for somehow I have perceived a sort of coolness between you.", "pos": 95623}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "And what was his reply?", "pos": 95831}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "That he certainly did think he had given you offence in an affair which he merely referred to without entering into particulars, but that whoever possessed the good opinion and confidence of the ship’s owners would have his preference also.", "pos": 95857}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "The hypocrite!", "pos": 96100}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Poor Dantès! No one can deny his being a noble-hearted young fellow.", "pos": 96136}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "But meanwhile, here is the Pharaon without a captain.", "pos": 96226}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, since we cannot leave this port for the next three months, let us hope that ere the expiration of that period Dantès will be set at liberty.", "pos": 96325}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "No doubt; but in the meantime?", "pos": 96472}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I am entirely at your service, M. Morrel. You know that I am as capable of managing a ship as the most experienced captain in the service; and it will be so far advantageous to you to accept my services, that upon Edmond’s release from prison no further change will be requisite on board the Pharaon than for Dantès and myself each to resume our respective posts.", "pos": 96505}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Thanks, Danglars—that will smooth over all difficulties. I fully authorize you at once to assume the command of the Pharaon, and look carefully to the unloading of her freight. Private misfortunes must never be allowed to interfere with business.", "pos": 96892}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Be easy on that score, M. Morrel; but do you think we shall be permitted to see our poor Edmond?", "pos": 97141}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "I will let you know that directly I have seen M. de Villefort, whom I shall endeavor to interest in Edmond’s favor. I am aware he is a furious royalist; but, in spite of that, and of his being king’s attorney, he is a man like ourselves, and I fancy not a bad sort of one.", "pos": 97240}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Perhaps not, but I hear that he is ambitious, and that’s rather against him.", "pos": 97515}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "We shall see. But now hasten on board, I will join you there ere long.", "pos": 97648}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "You see, the turn things have taken. Do you still feel any desire to stand up in his defence?", "pos": 97880}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Not the slightest, but yet it seems to me a shocking thing that a mere joke should lead to such consequences.", "pos": 97976}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "But who perpetrated that joke, let me ask? neither you nor myself, but Fernand; you knew very well that I threw the paper into a corner of the room—indeed, I fancied I had destroyed it.", "pos": 98088}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Oh, no, that I can answer for, you did not. I only wish I could see it now as plainly as I saw it lying all crushed and crumpled in a corner of the arbor.", "pos": 98298}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Then you were aware of Dantès being engaged in a conspiracy? Not I. As I before said, I thought the whole thing was a joke, nothing more. It seems, however, that I have unconsciously stumbled upon the truth.", "pos": 98750}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Still, I would give a great deal if nothing of the kind had happened; or, at least, that I had had no hand in it. You will see, Danglars, that it will turn out an unlucky job for both of us.", "pos": 98983}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Nonsense! If any harm come of it, it should fall on the guilty person; and that, you know, is Fernand. How can we be implicated in any way? All we have got to do is, to keep our own counsel, and remain perfectly quiet, not breathing a word to any living soul; and you will see that the storm will pass away without in the least affecting us.", "pos": 99176}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Amen!", "pos": 99520}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "So far, then, all has gone as I would have it. I am, temporarily, commander of the Pharaon, with the certainty of being permanently so, if that fool of a Caderousse can be persuaded to hold his tongue. My only fear is the chance of Dantès being released. But, there, he is in the hands of Justice; and, she will take her own.", "pos": 99807}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, these revolutionists, who have driven us from those very possessions they afterwards purchased for a mere trifle during the Reign of Terror, would be compelled to own, were they here, that all true devotion was on our side, since we were content to follow the fortunes of a falling monarch, while they, on the contrary, made their fortune by worshipping the rising sun; yes, yes, they could not help admitting that the king, for whom we sacrificed rank, wealth, and station was truly our ‘Louis the well-beloved,’ while their wretched usurper has been, and ever will be, to them their evil genius, their ‘Napoleon the accursed.’ Am I not right, Villefort?", "pos": 102944}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I beg your pardon, madame. I really must pray you to excuse me, but—in truth—I was not attending to the conversation.", "pos": 103606}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Marquise, marquise! let the young people alone; let me tell you, on one’s wedding day there are more agreeable subjects of conversation than dry politics.", "pos": 103784}
{"speaker": "Renée", "text": "Never mind, dearest mother, ’tis all my fault for seizing upon M. de Villefort, so as to prevent his listening to what you said. But there—now take him—he is your own for as long as you like. M. Villefort, I beg to remind you my mother speaks to you.", "pos": 104060}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "If the marquise will deign to repeat the words I but imperfectly caught, I shall be delighted to answer.", "pos": 104313}
{"speaker": "Marquise de Saint-Méran", "text": "Never mind, Renée. I forgive you. What I was saying, Villefort, was, that the Bonapartists had not our sincerity, enthusiasm, or devotion.", "pos": 104726}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "They had, however, what supplied the place of those fine qualities, and that was fanaticism. Napoleon is the Mahomet of the West, and is worshipped by his commonplace but ambitious followers, not only as a leader and lawgiver, but also as the personification of equality.", "pos": 104867}
{"speaker": "Marquise de Saint-Méran", "text": "He! Napoleon the type of equality! For mercy’s sake, then, what would you call Robespierre? Come, come, do not strip the latter of his just rights to bestow them on the Corsican, who, to my mind, has usurped quite enough.", "pos": 105188}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Nay, madame; I would place each of these heroes on his right pedestal—that of Robespierre on his scaffold in the Place Louis Quinze; that of Napoleon on the column of the Place Vendôme. The only difference consists in the opposite character of the equality advocated by these two men; one is the equality that elevates, the other is the equality that degrades; one brings a king within reach of the guillotine, the other elevates the people to a level with the throne. Observe, I do not mean to deny that both these men were revolutionary scoundrels, and that the 9th Thermidor and the 4th of April, in the year 1814, were lucky days for France, worthy of being gratefully remembered by every friend to monarchy and civil order; and that explains how it comes to pass that, fallen, as I trust he is forever, Napoleon has still retained a train of parasitical satellites. Still, marquise, it has been so with other usurpers—Cromwell, for instance, who was not half so bad as Napoleon, had his partisans and advocates.", "pos": 105418}
{"speaker": "Marquise de Saint-Méran", "text": "Do you know, Villefort, that you are talking in a most dreadfully revolutionary strain? But I excuse it, it is impossible to expect the son of a Girondin to be free from a small spice of the old leaven.", "pos": 106464}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "’Tis true, madame, that my father was a Girondin, but he was not among the number of those who voted for the king’s death; he was an equal sufferer with yourself during the Reign of Terror, and had well-nigh lost his head on the same scaffold on which your father perished.", "pos": 106739}
{"speaker": "Marquise de Saint-Méran", "text": "True, but bear in mind, if you please, that our respective parents underwent persecution and proscription from diametrically opposite principles; in proof of which I may remark, that while my family remained among the staunchest adherents of the exiled princes, your father lost no time in joining the new government; and that while the Citizen Noirtier was a Girondin, the Count Noirtier became a senator.", "pos": 107120}
{"speaker": "Renée", "text": "Dear mother, you know very well it was agreed that all these disagreeable reminiscences should forever be laid aside.", "pos": 107529}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "Bravo, Villefort! excellently well said! Come, now, I have hopes of obtaining what I have been for years endeavoring to persuade the marquise to promise; namely, a perfect amnesty and forgetfulness of the past.", "pos": 108472}
{"speaker": "the marquise", "text": "With all my heart, let the past be forever forgotten. I promise you it affords me as little pleasure to revive it as it does you. All I ask is, that Villefort will be firm and inflexible for the future in his political principles. Remember, also, Villefort, that we have pledged ourselves to his majesty for your fealty and strict loyalty, and that at our recommendation the king consented to forget the past, as I do as I now do at your entreaty. But bear in mind, that should there fall in your way anyone guilty of conspiring against the government, you will be so much the more bound to visit the offence with rigorous punishment, as it is known you belong to a suspected family.", "pos": 108706}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Alas, madame, my profession, as well as the times in which we live, compels me to be severe. I have already successfully conducted several public prosecutions, and brought the offenders to merited punishment. But we have not done with the thing yet.", "pos": 109458}
{"speaker": "marquise", "text": "Do you, indeed, think so?", "pos": 109738}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I am, at least, fearful of it. Napoleon, in the Island of Elba, is too near France, and his proximity keeps up the hopes of his partisans. Marseilles is filled with half-pay officers, who are daily, under one frivolous pretext or other, getting up quarrels with the royalists; from hence arise continual and fatal duels among the higher classes of persons, and assassinations in the lower.", "pos": 109789}
{"speaker": "Comte de Salvieux", "text": "that the Holy Alliance purpose removing him from thence?", "pos": 110318}
{"speaker": "M. de Saint-Méran", "text": "Yes; they were talking about it when we left Paris, and where is it decided to transfer him?", "pos": 110377}
{"speaker": "Comte de Salvieux", "text": "To Saint Helena.", "pos": 110498}
{"speaker": "marquise", "text": "For heaven’s sake, where is that?", "pos": 110517}
{"speaker": "Comte de Salvieux", "text": "An island situated on the other side of the equator, at least two thousand leagues from here,", "pos": 110573}
{"speaker": "marquise", "text": "So much the better. As Villefort observes, it is a great act of folly to have left such a man between Corsica, where he was born, and Naples, of which his brother-in-law is king, and face to face with Italy, the sovereignty of which he coveted for his son.", "pos": 110688}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Unfortunately, there are the treaties of 1814, and we cannot molest Napoleon without breaking those compacts.", "pos": 110947}
{"speaker": "M. de Salvieux", "text": "Oh, well, we shall find some way out of it. There wasn’t any trouble over treaties when it was a question of shooting the poor Duc d’Enghien.", "pos": 111077}
{"speaker": "marquise", "text": "Well, it seems probable that, by the aid of the Holy Alliance, we shall be rid of Napoleon; and we must trust to the vigilance of M. de Villefort to purify Marseilles of his partisans. The king is either a king or no king; if he be acknowledged as sovereign of France, he should be upheld in peace and tranquillity; and this can best be effected by employing the most inflexible agents to put down every attempt at conspiracy—’tis the best and surest means of preventing mischief.", "pos": 111249}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Unfortunately, madame, the strong arm of the law is not called upon to interfere until the evil has taken place.", "pos": 111753}
{"speaker": "marquise", "text": "Then all he has got to do is to endeavor to repair it.", "pos": 111890}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Nay, madame, the law is frequently powerless to effect this; all it can do is to avenge the wrong done.", "pos": 111947}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, M. de Villefort,", "pos": 112053}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "do try and get up some famous trial while we are at Marseilles. I never was in a law-court; I am told it is so very amusing!", "pos": 112202}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Amusing, certainly, inasmuch as, instead of shedding tears as at the fictitious tale of woe produced at a theatre, you behold in a law-court a case of real and genuine distress—a drama of life. The prisoner whom you there see pale, agitated, and alarmed, instead of—as is the case when a curtain falls on a tragedy—going home to sup peacefully with his family, and then retiring to rest, that he may recommence his mimic woes on the morrow,—is removed from your sight merely to be reconducted to his prison and delivered up to the executioner. I leave you to judge how far your nerves are calculated to bear you through such a scene. Of this, however, be assured, that should any favorable opportunity present itself, I will not fail to offer you the choice of being present.", "pos": 112329}
{"speaker": "Renée", "text": "For shame, M. de Villefort! don’t you see how you are frightening us?—and yet you laugh.", "pos": 113132}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "What would you have? ’Tis like a duel. I have already recorded sentence of death, five or six times, against the movers of political conspiracies, and who can say how many daggers may be ready sharpened, and only waiting a favorable opportunity to be buried in my heart?", "pos": 113258}
{"speaker": "Renée", "text": "Gracious heavens, M. de Villefort, you surely are not in earnest.", "pos": 113531}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Indeed I am, and in the interesting trial that young lady is anxious to witness, the case would only be still more aggravated. Suppose, for instance, the prisoner, as is more than probable, to have served under Napoleon—well, can you expect for an instant, that one accustomed, at the word of his commander, to rush fearlessly on the very bayonets of his foe, will scruple more to drive a stiletto into the heart of one he knows to be his personal enemy, than to slaughter his fellow-creatures, merely because bidden to do so by one he is bound to obey? Besides, one requires the excitement of being hateful in the eyes of the accused, in order to lash one’s self into a state of sufficient vehemence and power. I would not choose to see the man against whom I pleaded smile, as though in mockery of my words. No; my pride is to see the accused pale, agitated, and as though beaten out of all composure by the fire of my eloquence.", "pos": 113647}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Bravo!", "pos": 114665}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that is what I call talking to some purpose.", "pos": 114699}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Just the person we require at a time like the present,", "pos": 114746}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What a splendid business that last case of yours was, my dear Villefort!", "pos": 114818}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I mean the trial of the man for murdering his father. Upon my word, you killed him ere the executioner had laid his hand upon him.", "pos": 114911}
{"speaker": "Renée", "text": "Oh, as for parricides, and such dreadful people as that, it matters very little what is done to them; but as regards poor unfortunate creatures whose only crime consists in having mixed themselves up in political intrigues——", "pos": 115044}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why, that is the very worst offence they could possibly commit; for, don’t you see, Renée, the king is the father of his people, and he who shall plot or contrive aught against the life and safety of the parent of thirty-two millions of souls, is a parricide upon a fearfully great scale?", "pos": 115291}
{"speaker": "Renée", "text": "I don’t know anything about that, but, M. de Villefort, you have promised me—have you not?—always to show mercy to those I plead for.", "pos": 115582}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Make yourself quite easy on that point, you and I will always consult upon our verdicts.", "pos": 115735}
{"speaker": "marquise", "text": "My love, attend to your doves, your lap-dogs, and embroidery, but do not meddle with what you do not understand. Nowadays the military profession is in abeyance and the magisterial robe is the badge of honor. There is a wise Latin proverb that is very much in point.", "pos": 115881}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Cedant arma togæ,", "pos": 116171}
{"speaker": "marquise", "text": "I cannot speak Latin,", "pos": 116218}
{"speaker": "Renée", "text": "Well. I cannot help regretting you had not chosen some other profession than your own—a physician, for instance. Do you know I always felt a shudder at the idea of even a destroying angel?", "pos": 116266}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Dear, good Renée,", "pos": 116471}
{"speaker": "marquis", "text": "Let us hope, my child, that M. de Villefort may prove the moral and political physician of this province; if so, he will have achieved a noble work.", "pos": 116575}
{"speaker": "marquise", "text": "And one which will go far to efface the recollection of his father’s conduct,", "pos": 116747}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Madame. I have already had the honor to observe that my father has—at least, I hope so—abjured his past errors, and that he is, at the present moment, a firm and zealous friend to religion and order—a better royalist, possibly, than his son; for he has to atone for past dereliction, while I have no other impulse than warm, decided preference and conviction.", "pos": 116860}
{"speaker": "Comte de Salvieux", "text": "Do you know, my dear Villefort, that is exactly what I myself said the other day at the Tuileries, when questioned by his majesty’s principal chamberlain touching the singularity of an alliance between the son of a Girondin and the daughter of an officer of the Duc de Condé; and I assure you he seemed fully to comprehend that this mode of reconciling political differences was based upon sound and excellent principles. Then the king, who, without our suspecting it, had overheard our conversation, interrupted us by saying, ‘Villefort’—observe that the king did not pronounce the word Noirtier, but, on the contrary, placed considerable emphasis on that of Villefort—‘Villefort,’ said his majesty, ‘is a young man of great judgment and discretion, who will be sure to make a figure in his profession; I like him much, and it gave me great pleasure to hear that he was about to become the son-in-law of the Marquis and Marquise de Saint-Méran. I should myself have recommended the match, had not the noble marquis anticipated my wishes by requesting my consent to it.’", "pos": 117447}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Is it possible the king could have condescended so far as to express himself so favorably of me?", "pos": 118551}
{"speaker": "Comte de Salvieux", "text": "I give you his very words; and if the marquis chooses to be candid, he will confess that they perfectly agree with what his majesty said to him, when he went six months ago to consult him upon the subject of your espousing his daughter.", "pos": 118682}
{"speaker": "marquis", "text": "That is true,", "pos": 118927}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "How much do I owe this gracious prince! What is there I would not do to evince my earnest gratitude!", "pos": 118965}
{"speaker": "marquise", "text": "That is right. I love to see you thus. Now, then, were a conspirator to fall into your hands, he would be most welcome.", "pos": 119068}
{"speaker": "Renée", "text": "For my part, dear mother. I trust your wishes will not prosper, and that Providence will only permit petty offenders, poor debtors, and miserable cheats to fall into M. de Villefort’s hands,—then I shall be contented.", "pos": 119212}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Just the same as though you prayed that a physician might only be called upon to prescribe for headaches, measles, and the stings of wasps, or any other slight affection of the epidermis. If you wish to see me the king’s attorney, you must desire for me some of those violent and dangerous diseases from the cure of which so much honor redounds to the physician.", "pos": 119452}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You were wishing just now, that I were a doctor instead of a lawyer. Well, I at least resemble the disciples of Esculapius in one thing , that of not being able to call a day my own, not even that of my betrothal.", "pos": 120399}
{"speaker": "Renée", "text": "And wherefore were you called away just now?", "pos": 120649}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "For a very serious matter, which bids fair to make work for the executioner.", "pos": 120761}
{"speaker": "Renée", "text": "How dreadful!", "pos": 120840}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is it possible?", "pos": 120887}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Why, if my information prove correct, a sort of Bonapartist conspiracy has just been discovered.", "pos": 120993}
{"speaker": "marquise", "text": "Can I believe my ears?", "pos": 121092}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I will read you the letter containing the accusation, at least. The king’s attorney is informed by a friend to the throne and the religious institutions of his country, that one named Edmond Dantès, mate of the ship Pharaon, this day arrived from Smyrna, after having touched at Naples and Porto-Ferrajo, has been the bearer of a letter from Murat to the usurper, and again taken charge of another letter from the usurper to the Bonapartist club in Paris. Ample corroboration of this statement may be obtained by arresting the above-mentioned Edmond Dantès, who either carries the letter for Paris about with him, or has it at his father’s abode. Should it not be found in the possession of father or son, then it will assuredly be discovered in the cabin belonging to the said Dantès on board the Pharaon.", "pos": 121137}
{"speaker": "Renée", "text": "this letter, which, after all, is but an anonymous scrawl, is not even addressed to you, but to the king’s attorney.", "pos": 121985}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "True; but that gentleman being absent, his secretary, by his orders, opened his letters; thinking this one of importance, he sent for me, but not finding me, took upon himself to give the necessary orders for arresting the accused party.", "pos": 122110}
{"speaker": "marquise", "text": "Then the guilty person is absolutely in custody?", "pos": 122350}
{"speaker": "Renée", "text": "Nay, dear mother, say the accused person. You know we cannot yet pronounce him guilty.", "pos": 122420}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "He is in safe custody, and rely upon it, if the letter is found, he will not be likely to be trusted abroad again, unless he goes forth under the especial protection of the headsman.", "pos": 122509}
{"speaker": "Renée", "text": "And where is the unfortunate being?", "pos": 122716}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "He is at my house.", "pos": 122767}
{"speaker": "marquise", "text": "Come, come, my friend, do not neglect your duty to linger with us. You are the king’s servant, and must go wherever that service calls you.", "pos": 122788}
{"speaker": "Renée", "text": "Oh, Villefort! be merciful on this the day of our betrothal.", "pos": 122958}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "To give you pleasure, my sweet Renée, I promise to show all the lenity in my power; but if the charges brought against this Bonapartist hero prove correct, why, then, you really must give me leave to order his head to be cut off.", "pos": 123234}
{"speaker": "marquise", "text": "Never mind that foolish girl, Villefort. She will soon get over these things. Madame de Saint-Méran extended her dry bony hand to Villefort, who, while imprinting a son-in-law’s respectful salute on it, looked at Renée, as much as to say, “I must try and fancy ’tis your dear hand I kiss, as it should have been.”", "pos": 123538}
{"speaker": "Renée", "text": "These are mournful auspices to accompany a betrothal,", "pos": 123886}
{"speaker": "marquise", "text": "Upon my word, child! your folly exceeds all bounds. I should be glad to know what connection there can possibly be between your sickly sentimentality and the affairs of the state!", "pos": 123961}
{"speaker": "Renée", "text": "Oh, mother!", "pos": 124175}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Nay, madame, I pray you pardon this little traitor. I promise you that to make up for her want of loyalty, I will be most inflexibly severe; Fear not, for your dear sake my justice shall be tempered with mercy, departed with paradise in his heart.", "pos": 124205}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Chapter 7. The Examination No sooner had Villefort left the salon, than he assumed the grave air of a man who holds the balance of life and death in his hands. Now, in spite of the nobility of his countenance, the command of which, like a finished actor, he had carefully studied before the glass, it was by no means easy for him to assume an air of judicial severity. Except the recollection of the line of politics his father had adopted, and which might interfere, unless he acted with the greatest prudence, with his own career, Gérard de Villefort was as happy as a man could be. Already rich, he held a high official situation, though only twenty-seven. He was about to marry a young and charming woman, whom he loved, not passionately, but reasonably, as became a deputy attorney of the king; and besides her personal attractions, which were very great, Mademoiselle de Saint-Méran’s family possessed considerable political influence, which they would, of course, exert in his favor. The dowry of his wife amounted to fifty thousand crowns, and he had, besides, the prospect of seeing her fortune increased to half a million at her father’s death. These considerations naturally gave Villefort a feeling of such complete felicity that his mind was fairly dazzled in its contemplation. At the door he met the commissary of police, who was waiting for him. The sight of this officer recalled Villefort from the third heaven to earth; he composed his face, as we have before described, and said, “I have read the letter, sir, and you have acted rightly in arresting this man; now inform me what you have discovered concerning him and the conspiracy.” “We know nothing as yet of the conspiracy, monsieur; all the papers found have been sealed up and placed on your desk. The prisoner himself is named Edmond Dantès, mate on board the three-master the Pharaon, trading in cotton with Alexandria and Smyrna, and belonging to Morrel & Son, of Marseilles.” “Before he entered the merchant service, had he ever served in the marines?” “Oh, no, monsieur, he is very young.” “How old?” “Nineteen or twenty at the most.” At this moment, and as Villefort had arrived at the corner of the Rue des Conseils, a man, who seemed to have been waiting for him, approached; it was M. Morrel.", "pos": 124592}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Ah, M. de Villefort. I am delighted to see you. Some of your people have committed the strangest mistake—they have just arrested Edmond Dantès, mate of my vessel.", "pos": 126870}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I know it, monsieur, and I am now going to examine him.", "pos": 127047}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Oh, you do not know him, and I do. He is the most estimable, the most trustworthy creature in the world, and I will venture to say, there is not a better seaman in all the merchant service. Oh, M. de Villefort, I beseech your indulgence for him.", "pos": 127126}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You are aware, monsieur, that a man may be estimable and trustworthy in private life, and the best seaman in the merchant service, and yet be, politically speaking, a great criminal. Is it not true?", "pos": 127646}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "I entreat you, M. de Villefort, be, as you always are, kind and equitable, and give him back to us soon.", "pos": 128312}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Ah, ah, is Dantès then a member of some Carbonari society, that his protector thus employs the collective form? He was, if I recollect, arrested in a tavern, in company with a great many others. Monsieur, you may rest assured I shall perform my duty impartially, and that if he be innocent you shall not have appealed to me in vain; should he, however, be guilty, in this present epoch, impunity would furnish a dangerous example, and I must do my duty.", "pos": 128476}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Bring in the prisoner.", "pos": 129464}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Who and what are you?", "pos": 130459}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My name is Edmond Dantès. I am mate of the Pharaon, belonging to Messrs. Morrel & Son.", "pos": 130793}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Your age?", "pos": 130914}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Nineteen,", "pos": 130947}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "What were you doing at the moment you were arrested?", "pos": 130976}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I was at the festival of my marriage, monsieur,", "pos": 131031}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You were at the festival of your marriage?", "pos": 131336}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am on the point of marrying a young girl I have been attached to for three years.", "pos": 131445}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Go on, sir. What would you have me say? Give all the information in your power.", "pos": 132132}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Tell me on which point you desire information, and I will tell all I know; only. I warn you I know very little.", "pos": 132227}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Have you served under the usurper?", "pos": 132367}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I was about to be mustered into the Royal Marines when he fell.", "pos": 132404}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "It is reported your political opinions are extreme,", "pos": 132470}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My political opinions! Alas, sir, I never had any opinions. I am hardly nineteen; I know nothing; I have no part to play. If I obtain the situation I desire, I shall owe it to M. Morrel. Thus all my opinions—I will not say public, but private—are confined to these three sentiments,—I love my father, I respect M. Morrel, and I adore Mercédès. This, sir, is all I can tell you, and you see how uninteresting it is.", "pos": 132651}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Pardieu! he is a noble fellow. I hope I shall gain Renée’s favor easily by obeying the first command she ever imposed on me. I shall have at least a pressure of the hand in public, and a sweet kiss in private. Sir, have you any enemies, at least, that you know.", "pos": 133760}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have enemies? my position is not sufficiently elevated for that. As for my disposition, that is, perhaps, somewhat too hasty; but I have striven to repress it. I have had ten or twelve sailors under me, and if you question them, they will tell you that they love and respect me, not as a father, for I am too young, but as an elder brother.", "pos": 134224}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "But you may have excited jealousy. You are about to become captain at nineteen—an elevated post; you are about to marry a pretty girl, who loves you; and these two pieces of good fortune may have excited the envy of someone.", "pos": 134587}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are right; you know men better than I do, and what you say may possibly be the case, I confess; but if such persons are among my acquaintances I prefer not to know it, because then I should be forced to hate them.", "pos": 134814}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You are wrong; you should always strive to see clearly around you. You seem a worthy young man; I will depart from the strict line of my duty to aid you in discovering the author of this accusation. Here is the paper; do you know the writing?", "pos": 135034}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, monsieur, I do not know the writing, and yet it is tolerably plain. Whoever did it writes well. I am very fortunate, to be examined by such a man as you; for this envious person is a real enemy.", "pos": 135420}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Now, answer me frankly, not as a prisoner to a judge, but as one man to another who takes an interest in him, what truth is there in the accusation contained in this anonymous letter?", "pos": 135789}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "None at all. I will tell you the real facts. I swear by my honor as a sailor, by my love for Mercédès, by the life of my father——", "pos": 136085}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Speak, monsieur. If Renée could see me, I hope she would be satisfied, and would no longer call me a decapitator.", "pos": 136217}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My dear Dantès, swear to perform what I am going to tell you, for it is a matter of the deepest importance. I swear, captain. Well, as after my death the command devolves on you as mate, assume the command, and bear up for the Island of Elba, disembark at Porto-Ferrajo, ask for the grand-marshal, give him this letter—perhaps they will give you another letter, and charge you with a commission. You will accomplish what I was to have done, and derive all the honor and profit from it. I will do it, captain; but perhaps I shall not be admitted to the grand-marshal’s presence as easily as you expect? Here is a ring that will obtain audience of him, and remove every difficulty. And what did you do then? What I ought to have done, and what everyone would have done in my place. Everywhere the last requests of a dying man are sacred; but with a sailor the last requests of his superior are commands. I sailed for the Island of Elba, where I arrived the next day; I ordered everybody to remain on board, and went on shore alone. As I had expected, I found some difficulty in obtaining access to the grand-marshal; but I sent the ring I had received from the captain to him, and was instantly admitted. He questioned me concerning Captain Leclere’s death; and, as the latter had told me, gave me a letter to carry on to a person in Paris. I undertook it because it was what my captain had bade me do. I landed here, regulated the affairs of the vessel, and hastened to visit my affianced bride, whom I found more lovely than ever. Thanks to M. Morrel, all the forms were got over; in a word I was, as I told you, at my marriage feast; and I should have been married in an hour, and tomorrow I intended to start for Paris, had I not been arrested on this charge which you as well as I now see to be unjust.", "pos": 136676}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Ah, this seems to me the truth. If you have been culpable, it was imprudence, and this imprudence was in obedience to the orders of your captain. Give up this letter you have brought from Elba, and pass your word you will appear should you be required, and go and rejoin your friends.", "pos": 138643}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am free, then, sir?", "pos": 138947}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes; but first give me this letter.", "pos": 138994}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You have it already, for it was taken from me with some others which I see in that packet.", "pos": 139032}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Stop a moment. To whom is it addressed?", "pos": 139125}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To Monsieur Noirtier, Rue Coq-Héron, Paris.", "pos": 139221}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "No, a faithful servant of the king does not know conspirators.", "pos": 139603}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is a conspiracy, then? I have, however, already told you, sir, I was entirely ignorant of the contents of the letter.", "pos": 139695}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes; but you knew the name of the person to whom it was addressed.", "pos": 139903}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I was forced to read the address to know to whom to give it.", "pos": 139988}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Have you shown this letter to anyone?", "pos": 140051}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To no one, on my honor.", "pos": 140134}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Everybody is ignorant that you are the bearer of a letter from the Island of Elba, and addressed to M. Noirtier?", "pos": 140160}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Everybody, except the person who gave it to me.", "pos": 140275}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "And that was too much, far too much,", "pos": 140325}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, what is the matter? I give you my word of honor, sir, but what is the matter? You are ill—shall I ring for assistance?—shall I call?", "pos": 140561}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "No, stay where you are. It is for me to give orders here, and not you.", "pos": 140920}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Monsieur, it was only to summon assistance for you.", "pos": 141027}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I want none; it was a temporary indisposition. Attend to yourself; answer me. Oh, if he knows the contents of this! and that Noirtier is the father of Villefort, I am lost! Oh, it is impossible to doubt it,", "pos": 141107}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In heaven’s name! if you doubt me, question me; I will answer you.", "pos": 141616}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sir. I am no longer able, as I had hoped, to restore you immediately to liberty; before doing so, I must consult the trial justice; what my own feeling is you already know.", "pos": 141789}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, monsieur, you have been rather a friend than a judge.", "pos": 141975}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Well, I must detain you some time longer, but I will strive to make it as short as possible. The principal charge against you is this letter, and you see——", "pos": 142057}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "you are goodness itself.", "pos": 142350}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Listen, you can now have confidence in me after what I have done.", "pos": 142377}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, command, and I will obey.", "pos": 142468}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Listen; this is not a command, but advice I give you.", "pos": 142500}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Speak, and I will follow your advice.", "pos": 142556}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I shall detain you until this evening in the Palais de Justice. Should anyone else interrogate you, say to him what you have said to me, but do not breathe a word of this letter.", "pos": 142596}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I promise.", "pos": 142777}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You see, the letter is destroyed; you and I alone know of its existence; should you, therefore, be questioned, deny all knowledge of it—deny it boldly, and you are saved.", "pos": 142866}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Be satisfied; I will deny it.", "pos": 143138}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "It was the only letter you had?", "pos": 143170}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It was.", "pos": 143204}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Swear it.", "pos": 143214}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I swear it.", "pos": 143226}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Follow him. Alas, alas, if the procureur himself had been at Marseilles I should have been ruined. This accursed letter would have destroyed all my hopes. Oh, my father, must your past career always interfere with my successes? This will do, and from this letter, which might have ruined me, I will make my fortune. Now to the work I have in hand.", "pos": 143377}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Are you come to fetch me?", "pos": 146049}
{"speaker": "gendarme", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 146087}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "By the orders of the deputy procureur?", "pos": 146114}
{"speaker": "gendarme", "text": "I believe so.", "pos": 146155}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Is this carriage for me?", "pos": 146423}
{"speaker": "gendarme", "text": "It is for you,", "pos": 146463}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Can all this force be summoned on my account?", "pos": 147329}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Whither are you taking me?", "pos": 148800}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You will soon know.", "pos": 148839}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But still——", "pos": 148861}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We are forbidden to give you any explanation.", "pos": 148875}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Comrade. I adjure you, as a Christian and a soldier, to tell me where we are going. I am Captain Dantès, a loyal Frenchman, thought accused of treason; tell me where you are conducting me, and I promise you on my honor I will submit to my fate.", "pos": 150801}
{"speaker": "gendarme", "text": "You are a native of Marseilles, and a sailor, and yet you do not know where you are going?", "pos": 151220}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "On my honor, I have no idea.", "pos": 151313}
{"speaker": "gendarme", "text": "Have you no idea whatever?", "pos": 151344}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "None at all.", "pos": 151373}
{"speaker": "gendarme", "text": "That is impossible.", "pos": 151388}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I swear to you it is true. Tell me, I entreat.", "pos": 151410}
{"speaker": "gendarme", "text": "But my orders.", "pos": 151459}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Your orders do not forbid your telling me what I must know in ten minutes, in half an hour, or an hour. You see I cannot escape, even if I intended.", "pos": 151476}
{"speaker": "gendarme", "text": "Unless you are blind, or have never been outside the harbor, you must know.", "pos": 151627}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do not.", "pos": 151705}
{"speaker": "gendarme", "text": "Look round you then.", "pos": 151717}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The Château d’If? what are we going there for? I am not going there to be imprisoned, it is only used for political prisoners. I have committed no crime. Are there any magistrates or judges at the Château d’If?", "pos": 152038}
{"speaker": "gendarme", "text": "There are only, a governor, a garrison, turnkeys, and good thick walls. Come, come, do not look so astonished, or you will make me think you are laughing at me in return for my good nature.", "pos": 152301}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You think, then, that I am taken to the Château d’If to be imprisoned there?", "pos": 152578}
{"speaker": "gendarme", "text": "It is probable; but there is no occasion to squeeze so hard.", "pos": 152668}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Without any inquiry, without any formality?", "pos": 152731}
{"speaker": "gendarme", "text": "All the formalities have been gone through; the inquiry is already made.", "pos": 152777}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And so, in spite of M. de Villefort’s promises?", "pos": 152852}
{"speaker": "gendarme", "text": "I do not know what M. de Villefort promised you, but I know we are taking you to the Château d’If. But what are you doing? Help, comrades, help! Good! this is the way you keep your word as a sailor! Believe soft-spoken gentlemen again! Hark ye, my friend, I have disobeyed my first order, but I will not disobey the second; and if you move, I will blow your brains out.", "pos": 152902}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where is the prisoner?", "pos": 155261}
{"speaker": "gendarmes", "text": "Here,", "pos": 155300}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let him follow me; I will take him to his cell.", "pos": 155331}
{"speaker": "gendarmes", "text": "Go!", "pos": 155381}
{"speaker": "under-jailer", "text": "Here is your chamber for tonight. It is late, and the governor is asleep. Tomorrow, perhaps, he may change you. In the meantime there is bread, water, and fresh straw; and that is all a prisoner can wish for. Goodnight.", "pos": 155750}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "Have you not slept?", "pos": 156775}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do not know,", "pos": 156814}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "Are you hungry?", "pos": 156866}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do not know.", "pos": 156898}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "Do you wish for anything?", "pos": 156915}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I wish to see the governor.", "pos": 156943}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "Well, are you more reasonable today? Come, cheer up; is there anything that I can do for you?", "pos": 158342}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I wish to see the governor.", "pos": 158481}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "I have already told you it was impossible.", "pos": 158511}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why so?", "pos": 158556}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "Because it is against prison rules, and prisoners must not even ask for it.", "pos": 158566}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What is allowed, then?", "pos": 158644}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "Better fare, if you pay for it, books, and leave to walk about.", "pos": 158669}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do not want books, I am satisfied with my food, and do not care to walk about; but I wish to see the governor.", "pos": 158735}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "If you worry me by repeating the same thing, I will not bring you any more to eat.", "pos": 158850}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, then, if you do not, I shall die of hunger—that is all.", "pos": 158935}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "What you ask is impossible; but if you are very well behaved you will be allowed to walk about, and some day you will meet the governor, and if he chooses to reply, that is his affair.", "pos": 159163}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But, how long shall I have to wait?", "pos": 159350}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "Ah. Ah, a month—six months—a year.", "pos": 159404}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is too long a time. I wish to see him at once.", "pos": 159437}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "Ah, do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.", "pos": 159489}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You think so?", "pos": 159594}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "Yes; we have an instance here; it was by always offering a million of francs to the governor for his liberty that an abbé became mad, who was in this chamber before you.", "pos": 159610}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How long has he left it?", "pos": 159788}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "Two years.", "pos": 159815}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Was he liberated, then?", "pos": 159828}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "No; he was put in a dungeon.", "pos": 159854}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Listen! I am not an abbé, I am not mad; perhaps I shall be, but at present, unfortunately, I am not. I will make you another offer.", "pos": 159885}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 160034}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do not offer you a million, because I have it not; but I will give you a hundred crowns if, the first time you go to Marseilles, you will seek out a young girl named Mercédès, at the Catalans, and give her two lines from me.", "pos": 160050}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "If I took them, and were detected, I should lose my place, which is worth two thousand francs a year; so that I should be a great fool to run such a risk for three hundred.", "pos": 160285}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, mark this; if you refuse at least to tell Mercédès I am here, I will some day hide myself behind the door, and when you enter I will dash out your brains with this stool.", "pos": 160460}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "Threats! you are certainly going mad. The abbé began like you, and in three days you will be like him, mad enough to tie up; but, fortunately, there are dungeons here. All right, all right, all right, since you will have it so. I will send word to the governor.", "pos": 160654}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Very well,", "pos": 161049}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "By the governor’s orders, conduct the prisoner to the tier beneath.", "pos": 161229}
{"speaker": "corporal", "text": "To the dungeon, then. Yes; we must put the madman with the madmen.", "pos": 161310}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "Well, Decapitator, Guardian of the State, Royalist, Brutus, what is the matter?", "pos": 162152}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Speak out.", "pos": 162244}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are we threatened with a fresh Reign of Terror?", "pos": 162257}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Has the Corsican ogre broken loose?", "pos": 162322}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Marquise. I request your pardon for thus leaving you. Will the marquis honor me by a few moments’ private conversation?", "pos": 162375}
{"speaker": "marquis", "text": "Ah. Ah, it is really a serious matter, then?", "pos": 162553}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "So serious that I must take leave of you for a few days; so, judge for yourself if it be not important.", "pos": 162656}
{"speaker": "Renée", "text": "You are going to leave us?", "pos": 162791}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Alas. I must!", "pos": 162893}
{"speaker": "the marquise", "text": "Where, then, are you going?", "pos": 162931}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "That, madame, is an official secret; but if you have any commissions for Paris, a friend of mine is going there tonight, and will with pleasure undertake them.", "pos": 162981}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "You wish to speak to me alone?", "pos": 163176}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes, let us go to the library, please.", "pos": 163227}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "Well, tell me what it is?", "pos": 163319}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "An affair of the greatest importance, that demands my immediate presence in Paris. Now, excuse the indiscretion, marquis, but have you any landed property?", "pos": 163395}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "All my fortune is in the funds; seven or eight hundred thousand francs.", "pos": 163553}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Then sell out—sell out, marquis, or you will lose it all.", "pos": 163627}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "But how can I sell out here?", "pos": 163693}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You have a broker, have you not? Yes. Then give me a letter to him, and tell him to sell out without an instant’s delay, perhaps even now I shall arrive too late.", "pos": 163724}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "The deuce you say! let us lose no time, then!", "pos": 163893}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Now, then. I must have another! To whom? To the king. To the king? Yes. I dare not write to his majesty. I do not ask you to write to his majesty, but ask M. de Salvieux to do so. I want a letter that will enable me to reach the king’s presence without all the formalities of demanding an audience; that would occasion a loss of precious time. But address yourself to the keeper of the seals; he has the right of entry at the Tuileries, and can procure you audience at any hour of the day or night. Doubtless; but there is no occasion to divide the honors of my discovery with him. The keeper would leave me in the background, and take all the glory to himself. I tell you, marquis, my fortune is made if I only reach the Tuileries the first, for the king will not forget the service I do him. In that case go and get ready. I will call Salvieux and make him write the letter. Be as quick as possible, I must be on the road in a quarter of an hour. Tell your coachman to stop at the door. You will present my excuses to the marquise and Mademoiselle Renée, whom I leave on such a day with great regret. You will find them both here, and can make your farewells in person. A thousand thanks—and now for the letter.", "pos": 164062}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "Say to the Comte de Salvieux that I would like to see him. Now, then, go,", "pos": 165399}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I shall be gone only a few moments.", "pos": 165495}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "The young man you speak of, is a great criminal, and I can do nothing for him, mademoiselle.", "pos": 166199}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "But, at least, tell me where he is, that I may know whether he is alive or dead,", "pos": 166407}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I do not know; he is no longer in my hands.", "pos": 166506}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Ah, you are there,", "pos": 169985}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "I have not quitted you since yesterday,", "pos": 170052}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You say, sir——", "pos": 172862}
{"speaker": "the king", "text": "That I am exceedingly disquieted, sire. Really, have you had a vision of the seven fat kine and the seven lean kine?", "pos": 172894}
{"speaker": "M. de Blacas", "text": "No, sire, for that would only betoken for us seven years of plenty and seven years of scarcity; and with a king as full of foresight as your majesty, scarcity is not a thing to be feared.", "pos": 173015}
{"speaker": "the king", "text": "Then of what other scourge are you afraid, my dear Blacas?", "pos": 173205}
{"speaker": "M. de Blacas", "text": "Sire, I have every reason to believe that a storm is brewing in the south.", "pos": 173266}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "Well, my dear duke. I think you are wrongly informed, and know positively that, on the contrary, it is very fine weather in that direction.", "pos": 173343}
{"speaker": "M. de Blacas", "text": "Canimus surdis, your majesty may be perfectly right in relying on the good feeling of France, but I fear I am not altogether wrong in dreading some desperate attempt.", "pos": 173812}
{"speaker": "the king", "text": "By whom?", "pos": 174140}
{"speaker": "M. de Blacas", "text": "By Bonaparte, or, at least, by his adherents.", "pos": 174151}
{"speaker": "the king", "text": "My dear Blacas, you with your alarms prevent me from working. Wait, my dear sir, wait a moment; for I have such a delightful note on the Pastor quum traheret—wait, and I will listen to you afterwards.", "pos": 174199}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "Go on, my dear duke, go on—I listen.", "pos": 174764}
{"speaker": "M. de Blacas", "text": "Sire. I am compelled to tell you that these are not mere rumors destitute of foundation which thus disquiet me; but a serious-minded man, deserving all my confidence, and charged by me to watch over the south has arrived by post to tell me that a great peril threatens the king, and so I hastened to you, sire.", "pos": 174803}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "Mala ducis avi domum,", "pos": 175258}
{"speaker": "the king", "text": "Does your majesty wish me to drop the subject?", "pos": 175324}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "By no means, my dear duke; but just stretch out your hand. Which? Whichever you please—there to the left. Here, sire? I tell you to the left, and you are looking to the right; I mean on my left—yes, there. You will find yesterday’s report of the minister of police. But here is M. Dandré himself; Come in, come in, Baron, and tell the duke all you know—the latest news of M. de Bonaparte; do not conceal anything, however serious,—let us see, the Island of Elba is a volcano, and we may expect to have issuing thence flaming and bristling war—bella, horrida bella.", "pos": 175373}
{"speaker": "M. Dandré", "text": "Has your majesty perused yesterday’s report?", "pos": 176146}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "Yes, yes; but tell the duke himself, who cannot find anything, what the report contains—give him the particulars of what the usurper is doing in his islet.", "pos": 176193}
{"speaker": "M. Dandré", "text": "Monsieur, all the servants of his majesty must approve of the latest intelligence which we have from the Island of Elba. Bonaparte—— Bonaparte, is mortally wearied, and passes whole days in watching his miners at work at Porto-Longone.", "pos": 176351}
{"speaker": "the king", "text": "And scratches himself for amusement,", "pos": 176740}
{"speaker": "the duke", "text": "Scratches himself? what does your majesty mean?", "pos": 176795}
{"speaker": "the king", "text": "Yes, indeed, my dear duke. Did you forget that this great man, this hero, this demigod, is attacked with a malady of the skin which worries him to death, prurigo?", "pos": 176866}
{"speaker": "M. Dandré", "text": "And, moreover, my dear duke, we are almost assured that, in a very short time, the usurper will be insane.", "pos": 177031}
{"speaker": "the duke", "text": "Insane?", "pos": 177176}
{"speaker": "M. Dandré", "text": "Raving mad; his head becomes weaker. Sometimes he weeps bitterly, sometimes laughs boisterously, at other time he passes hours on the seashore, flinging stones in the water and when the flint makes ‘duck-and-drake’ five or six times, he appears as delighted as if he had gained another Marengo or Austerlitz. Now, you must agree that these are indubitable symptoms of insanity.", "pos": 177186}
{"speaker": "the king", "text": "Or of wisdom, my dear baron—or of wisdom, the greatest captains of antiquity amused themselves by casting pebbles into the ocean—see Plutarch’s life of Scipio Africanus. Blacas is not yet convinced; let us proceed, therefore, to the usurper’s conversion.", "pos": 177566}
{"speaker": "the duke", "text": "The usurper’s conversion! The usurper converted!", "pos": 178197}
{"speaker": "the king", "text": "Decidedly, my dear duke.", "pos": 178349}
{"speaker": "the duke", "text": "In what way converted?", "pos": 178376}
{"speaker": "the king", "text": "To good principles. Tell him all about it, baron.", "pos": 178401}
{"speaker": "M. Dandré", "text": "Why, this is the way of it. Napoleon lately had a review, and as two or three of his old veterans expressed a desire to return to France, he gave them their dismissal, and exhorted them to ‘serve the good king.’ These were his own words, of that I am certain.", "pos": 178453}
{"speaker": "the king", "text": "Well, Blacas, what think you of this?", "pos": 178771}
{"speaker": "M. de Blacas", "text": "I say, sire, that the minister of police is greatly deceived or I am; and as it is impossible it can be the minister of police as he has the guardianship of the safety and honor of your majesty, it is probable that I am in error. However, sire, if I might advise, your majesty will interrogate the person of whom I spoke to you, and I will urge your majesty to do him this honor.", "pos": 178910}
{"speaker": "the king", "text": "Most willingly, duke; under your auspices I will receive any person you please, but you must not expect me to be too confiding. Baron, have you any report more recent than this, dated the 20th February, and this is the 3rd of March?", "pos": 179292}
{"speaker": "M. Dandré", "text": "No, sire, but I am hourly expecting one; it may have arrived since I left my office.", "pos": 179527}
{"speaker": "the king", "text": "Go thither, and if there be none—well, well, make one; that is the usual way, is it not?", "pos": 179614}
{"speaker": "M. Dandré", "text": "Oh, sire, we have no occasion to invent any; every day our desks are loaded with most circumstantial denunciations, coming from hosts of people who hope for some return for services which they seek to render, but cannot; they trust to fortune, and rely upon some unexpected event in some way to justify their predictions.", "pos": 179765}
{"speaker": "the king", "text": "Well, sir, go, and remember that I am waiting for you.", "pos": 180113}
{"speaker": "M. Dandré", "text": "I will but go and return, sire; I shall be back in ten minutes.", "pos": 180191}
{"speaker": "M. de Blacas", "text": "Wait, sir, wait,", "pos": 180324}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "Really, M. de Blacas, I must change your armorial bearings; I will give you an eagle with outstretched wings, holding in its claws a prey which tries in vain to escape, and bearing this device—Tenax.", "pos": 180361}
{"speaker": "M. de Blacas", "text": "Sire, I listen,", "pos": 180569}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "I wish to consult you on this passage, ‘Molli fugiens anhelitu,’ you know it refers to a stag flying from a wolf. Are you not a sportsman and a great wolf-hunter? Well, then, what do you think of the molli anhelitu?", "pos": 180637}
{"speaker": "M. de Blacas", "text": "Admirable, sire; but my messenger is like the stag you refer to, for he has posted two hundred and twenty leagues in scarcely three days.", "pos": 180854}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "Which is undergoing great fatigue and anxiety, my dear duke, when we have a telegraph which transmits messages in three or four hours, and that without getting in the least out of breath.", "pos": 180994}
{"speaker": "M. de Blacas", "text": "Ah, sire, you recompense but badly this poor young man, who has come so far, and with so much ardor, to give your majesty useful information. If only for the sake of M. de Salvieux, who recommends him to me, I entreat your majesty to receive him graciously.", "pos": 181184}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "M. de Salvieux, my brother’s chamberlain?", "pos": 181444}
{"speaker": "M. de Blacas", "text": "Yes, sire.", "pos": 181488}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "He is at Marseilles.", "pos": 181501}
{"speaker": "M. de Blacas", "text": "And writes me thence.", "pos": 181524}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "Does he speak to you of this conspiracy? No; but strongly recommends M. de Villefort, and begs me to present him to your majesty. M. de Villefort! is the messenger’s name M. de Villefort? Yes, sire. And he comes from Marseilles? In person. Why did you not mention his name at once? Sire, I thought his name was unknown to your majesty. No, no, Blacas; he is a man of strong and elevated understanding, ambitious, too, and, pardieu! you know his father’s name! His father? Yes, Noirtier. Noirtier the Girondin?—Noirtier the senator? He himself. And your majesty has employed the son of such a man? Blacas, my friend, you have but limited comprehension. I told you Villefort was ambitious, and to attain this ambition Villefort would sacrifice everything, even his father. Then, sire, may I present him? This instant, duke! Where is he? Waiting below, in my carriage. Seek him at once. I hasten to do so. Justum et tenacem propositi virum.", "pos": 181548}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "Come in, M. de Villefort, come in. M. de Villefort, the Duc de Blacas assures me you have some interesting information to communicate.", "pos": 183543}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sire, the duke is right, and I believe your majesty will think it equally important.", "pos": 183810}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "In the first place, and before everything else, sir, is the news as bad in your opinion as I am asked to believe?", "pos": 183903}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sire, I believe it to be most urgent, but I hope, by the speed I have used, that it is not irreparable.", "pos": 184019}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "Speak as fully as you please, sir. Speak, sir, and pray begin at the beginning; I like order in everything.", "pos": 184125}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sire. I will render a faithful report to your majesty, but I must entreat your forgiveness if my anxiety leads to some obscurity in my language. Sire, I have come as rapidly to Paris as possible, to inform your majesty that I have discovered, in the exercise of my duties, not a commonplace and insignificant plot, such as is every day got up in the lower ranks of the people and in the army, but an actual conspiracy—a storm which menaces no less than your majesty’s throne. Sire, the usurper is arming three ships, he meditates some project, which, however mad, is yet, perhaps, terrible. At this moment he will have left Elba, to go whither I know not, but assuredly to attempt a landing either at Naples, or on the coast of Tuscany, or perhaps on the shores of France. Your majesty is well aware that the sovereign of the Island of Elba has maintained his relations with Italy and France?", "pos": 184362}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "I am, sir, and recently we have had information that the Bonapartist clubs have had meetings in the Rue Saint-Jacques. But proceed, I beg of you. How did you obtain these details?", "pos": 185413}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sire, they are the results of an examination which I have made of a man of Marseilles, whom I have watched for some time, and arrested on the day of my departure. This person, a sailor, of turbulent character, and whom I suspected of Bonapartism, has been secretly to the Island of Elba. There he saw the grand-marshal, who charged him with an oral message to a Bonapartist in Paris, whose name I could not extract from him; but this mission was to prepare men’s minds for a return (it is the man who says this, sire)—a return which will soon occur.", "pos": 185627}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "And where is this man?", "pos": 186179}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "In prison, sire.", "pos": 186204}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "And the matter seems serious to you?", "pos": 186223}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "So serious, sire, that when the circumstance surprised me in the midst of a family festival, on the very day of my betrothal, I left my bride and friends, postponing everything, that I might hasten to lay at your majesty’s feet the fears which impressed me, and the assurance of my devotion.", "pos": 186262}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "True, was there not a marriage engagement between you and Mademoiselle de Saint-Méran?", "pos": 186556}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Daughter of one of your majesty’s most faithful servants.", "pos": 186666}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "Yes, yes; but let us talk of this plot, M. de Villefort.", "pos": 186726}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sire, I fear it is more than a plot; I fear it is a conspiracy.", "pos": 186785}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "A conspiracy in these times, is a thing very easy to meditate, but more difficult to conduct to an end, inasmuch as, re-established so recently on the throne of our ancestors, we have our eyes open at once upon the past, the present, and the future. For the last ten months my ministers have redoubled their vigilance, in order to watch the shore of the Mediterranean. If Bonaparte landed at Naples, the whole coalition would be on foot before he could even reach Piombino; if he land in Tuscany, he will be in an unfriendly territory; if he land in France, it must be with a handful of men, and the result of that is easily foretold, execrated as he is by the population. Take courage, sir; but at the same time rely on our royal gratitude. Ah, here is M. Dandré!", "pos": 186851}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "Sire,—— Well, what is it? Will you speak? Oh, sire, what a dreadful misfortune! I am, indeed, to be pitied. I can never forgive myself! Monsieur. I command you to speak. Well, sire, the usurper left Elba on the 26th February, and landed on the 1st of March. And where? In Italy? In France, sire,—at a small port, near Antibes, in the Gulf of Juan. The usurper landed in France, near Antibes, in the Gulf of Juan, two hundred and fifty leagues from Paris, on the 1st of March, and you only acquired this information today, the 3rd of March! Well, sir, what you tell me is impossible. You must have received a false report, or you have gone mad. Alas, sire, it is but too true! In France! the usurper in France! Then they did not watch over this man. Who knows? they were, perhaps, in league with him. Oh, sire. M. Dandré is not a man to be accused of treason! Sire, we have all been blind, and the minister of police has shared the general blindness, that is all. But——", "pos": 188446}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Your pardon, sire, my zeal carried me away. Will your majesty deign to excuse me?", "pos": 189978}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "Speak, sir, speak boldly. You alone forewarned us of the evil; now try and aid us with the remedy.", "pos": 190081}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sire, the usurper is detested in the south; and it seems to me that if he ventured into the south, it would be easy to raise Languedoc and Provence against him.", "pos": 190217}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "Yes, assuredly, but he is advancing by Gap and Sisteron. Advancing—he is advancing! Is he then advancing on Paris? Then, he was well informed. And how many men had he with him? I do not know, sire. What, you do not know! Have you neglected to obtain information on that point? Of course it is of no consequence. By the telegraph, sire. So then, seven conjoined and allied armies overthrew that man. A miracle of heaven replaced me on the throne of my fathers after five-and-twenty years of exile. I have, during those five-and-twenty years, spared no pains to understand the people of France and the interests which were confided to me; and now, when I see the fruition of my wishes almost within reach, the power I hold in my hands bursts and shatters me to atoms! It is fatality! What our enemies say of us is then true. We have learnt nothing, forgotten nothing! If I were betrayed as he was, I would console myself; but to be in the midst of persons elevated by myself to places of honor, who ought to watch over me more carefully than over themselves,—for my fortune is theirs—before me they were nothing—after me they will be nothing, and perish miserably from incapacity—ineptitude! Oh, yes, sir, you are right—it is fatality! To fall, to fall, and learn of that fall by telegraph! Oh, I would rather mount the scaffold of my brother, Louis XVI., than thus descend the staircase at the Tuileries driven away by ridicule. Ridicule, sir—why, you know not its power in France, and yet you ought to know it! Sire, sire, for pity’s—— Approach, M. de Villefort. Approach, and tell monsieur that it is possible to know beforehand all that he has not known.", "pos": 190380}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sire, it was really impossible to learn secrets which that man concealed from all the world.", "pos": 193599}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "Really impossible! Yes—that is a great word, sir. Unfortunately, there are great words, as there are great men; I have measured them. Really impossible for a minister who has an office, agents, spies, and fifteen hundred thousand francs for secret service money, to know what is going on at sixty leagues from the coast of France! Well, then, see, here is a gentleman who had none of these resources at his disposal—a gentleman, only a simple magistrate, who learned more than you with all your police, and who would have saved my crown, if, like you, he had the power of directing a telegraph. I do not mean that for you, Blacas, for if you have discovered nothing, at least you have had the good sense to persevere in your suspicions. Any other than yourself would have considered the disclosure of M. de Villefort insignificant, or else dictated by venal ambition.", "pos": 193694}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sire, the suddenness of this event must prove to your majesty that the issue is in the hands of Providence; what your majesty is pleased to attribute to me as profound perspicacity is simply owing to chance, and I have profited by that chance, like a good and devoted servant—that’s all. Do not attribute to me more than I deserve, sire, that your majesty may never have occasion to recall the first opinion you have been pleased to form of me.", "pos": 195416}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "’Tis well. And now, gentlemen. I have no further occasion for you, and you may retire; what now remains to do is in the department of the minister of war. Fortunately, sire, we can rely on the army; your majesty knows how every report confirms their loyalty and attachment. Do not mention reports, duke, to me, for I know now what confidence to place in them. Yet, speaking of reports, baron, what have you learned with regard to the affair in the Rue Saint-Jacques?", "pos": 196151}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "The affair in the Rue Saint-Jacques! Your pardon, sire, but my devotion to your majesty has made me forget, not the respect I have, for that is too deeply engraved in my heart, but the rules of etiquette.", "pos": 196737}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "Go on, go on, sir, you have today earned the right to make inquiries here. I came a moment ago to give your majesty fresh information which I had obtained on this head, when your majesty’s attention was attracted by the terrible event that has occurred in the gulf, and now these facts will cease to interest your majesty. On the contrary, sir,—on the contrary, this affair seems to me to have a decided connection with that which occupies our attention, and the death of General Quesnel will, perhaps, put us on the direct track of a great internal conspiracy.", "pos": 197035}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "Do you not think with me, M. de Villefort, that General Quesnel, whom they believed attached to the usurper, but who was really entirely devoted to me, has perished the victim of a Bonapartist ambush?", "pos": 198435}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "It is probable, sire. But is this all that is known?", "pos": 198638}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "They are on the track of the man who appointed the meeting with him.", "pos": 198714}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "On his track?", "pos": 198785}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "Yes, the servant has given his description. He is a man of from fifty to fifty-two years of age, dark, with black eyes covered with shaggy eyebrows, and a thick moustache. He was dressed in a blue frock-coat, buttoned up to the chin, and wore at his button-hole the rosette of an officer of the Legion of Honor. Yesterday a person exactly corresponding with this description was followed, but he was lost sight of at the corner of the Rue de la Jussienne and the Rue Coq-Héron.", "pos": 198817}
{"speaker": "King", "text": "Continue to seek for this man, sir, for if, as I am all but convinced, General Quesnel, who would have been so useful to us at this moment, has been murdered, his assassins, Bonapartists or not, shall be cruelly punished. How strange, the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, ‘A murder has been committed,’ and especially so when they can add, ‘And we are on the track of the guilty persons.’", "pos": 199534}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sire, your majesty will, I trust, be amply satisfied on this point at least.", "pos": 200167}
{"speaker": "King", "text": "We shall see. I will no longer detain you, M. de Villefort, for you must be fatigued after so long a journey; go and rest. Of course you stopped at your father’s?", "pos": 200246}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "No, sire. I alighted at the Hotel de Madrid, in the Rue de Tournon.", "pos": 200461}
{"speaker": "King", "text": "But you have seen him?", "pos": 200545}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sire, I went straight to the Duc de Blacas.", "pos": 200570}
{"speaker": "King", "text": "But you will see him, then?", "pos": 200616}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I think not, sire.", "pos": 200646}
{"speaker": "Louis", "text": "Ah, I forgot. I forgot you and M. Noirtier are not on the best terms possible, and that is another sacrifice made to the royal cause, and for which you should be recompensed.", "pos": 200667}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sire, the kindness your majesty deigns to evince towards me is a recompense which so far surpasses my utmost ambition that I have nothing more to ask for.", "pos": 200948}
{"speaker": "King", "text": "Never mind, sir, we will not forget you; make your mind easy. In the meanwhile in the meanwhile take this cross.", "pos": 201105}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sire, your majesty mistakes; this is an officer’s cross.", "pos": 201437}
{"speaker": "Louis XVIII.", "text": "Ma foi! take it, such as it is, for I have not the time to procure you another. Blacas, let it be your care to see that the brevet is made out and sent to M. de Villefort.", "pos": 201514}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "And now, may I inquire what are the orders with which your majesty deigns to honor me?", "pos": 201800}
{"speaker": "King", "text": "Take what rest you require, and remember that if you are not able to serve me here in Paris, you may be of the greatest service to me at Marseilles.", "pos": 201900}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sire, in an hour I shall have quitted Paris.", "pos": 202051}
{"speaker": "King", "text": "Go, sir, and should I forget you (kings’ memories are short), do not be afraid to bring yourself to my recollection. Baron, send for the minister of war. Blacas, remain.", "pos": 202127}
{"speaker": "Minister of Police", "text": "Ah, sir, you entered by luck’s door—your fortune is made.", "pos": 202316}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Will it be long first?", "pos": 202448}
{"speaker": "young man", "text": "Who could know that I was here already?", "pos": 203043}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Well, what is it?—Who rang?—Who asked for me?", "pos": 203124}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "A stranger who will not send in his name.", "pos": 203190}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "A stranger who will not send in his name! What can he want with me?", "pos": 203234}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "He wishes to speak to you.", "pos": 203304}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "To me?", "pos": 203333}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 203342}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Did he mention my name?", "pos": 203349}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 203375}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "What sort of person is he?", "pos": 203382}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "Why, sir, a man of about fifty.", "pos": 203411}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Short or tall?", "pos": 203445}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "About your own height, sir.", "pos": 203462}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Dark or fair?", "pos": 203492}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "Dark,—very dark; with black eyes, black hair, black eyebrows.", "pos": 203508}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "And how dressed?", "pos": 203572}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "In a blue frock-coat, buttoned up close, decorated with the Legion of Honor.", "pos": 203616}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "It is he!", "pos": 203695}
{"speaker": "Individual", "text": "Eh, pardieu! what a great deal of ceremony! Is it the custom in Marseilles for sons to keep their fathers waiting in their anterooms?", "pos": 203743}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Father! then I was not deceived; I felt sure it must be you.", "pos": 203959}
{"speaker": "New-comer", "text": "Well, then, if you felt so sure, allow me to say, my dear Gérard, that it was not very filial of you to keep me waiting at the door.", "pos": 204041}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Leave us, Germain,", "pos": 204254}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Well, now, my dear Gérard, do you know, you seem as if you were not very glad to see me?", "pos": 204966}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "My dear father. I am, on the contrary, delighted; but I so little expected your visit, that it has somewhat overcome me.", "pos": 205115}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "But, my dear fellow. I might say the same thing to you, when you announce to me your wedding for the 28th of February, and on the 3rd of March you turn up here in Paris.", "pos": 205256}
{"speaker": "Gérard", "text": "And if I have come, my dear father, do not complain, for it is for you that I came, and my journey will be your salvation.", "pos": 205468}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Ah, indeed! Really, pray tell me all about it, for it must be interesting.", "pos": 205639}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Father, you have heard speak of a certain Bonapartist club in the Rue Saint-Jacques?", "pos": 205785}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "No. 53; yes, I am vice-president.", "pos": 205872}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Father, your coolness makes me shudder.", "pos": 205908}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Why, my dear boy, when a man has been proscribed by the mountaineers, has escaped from Paris in a hay-cart, been hunted over the plains of Bordeaux by Robespierre’s bloodhounds, he becomes accustomed to most things. But go on, what about the club in the Rue Saint-Jacques?", "pos": 205950}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Why, they induced General Quesnel to go there, and General Quesnel, who quitted his own house at nine o’clock in the evening, was found the next day in the Seine.", "pos": 206225}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "And who told you this fine story?", "pos": 206396}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "The king himself.", "pos": 206432}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Well, then, in return for your story. I will tell you another.", "pos": 206452}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "My dear father, I think I already know what you are about to tell me.", "pos": 206539}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Ah, you have heard of the landing of the emperor?", "pos": 206611}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Not so loud, father, I entreat of you—for your own sake as well as mine. Yes, I heard this news, and knew it even before you could; for three days ago I posted from Marseilles to Paris with all possible speed, half-desperate at the enforced delay.", "pos": 206663}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Three days ago? You are crazy. Why, three days ago the emperor had not landed.", "pos": 206913}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "No matter, I was aware of his intention.", "pos": 206994}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "How did you know about it?", "pos": 207037}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "By a letter addressed to you from the Island of Elba.", "pos": 207066}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "To me?", "pos": 207122}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "To you; and which I discovered in the pocket-book of the messenger. Had that letter fallen into the hands of another, you, my dear father, would probably ere this have been shot.", "pos": 207131}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Come, come, will the Restoration adopt imperial methods so promptly? Shot, my dear boy? What an idea! Where is the letter you speak of? I know you too well to suppose you would allow such a thing to pass you.", "pos": 207340}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I burnt it, for fear that even a fragment should remain; for that letter must have led to your condemnation.", "pos": 207562}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "And the destruction of your future prospects, yes, I can easily comprehend that. But I have nothing to fear while I have you to protect me.", "pos": 207673}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I do better than that, sir—I save you.", "pos": 207835}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "You do? Why, really, the thing becomes more and more dramatic—explain yourself.", "pos": 207876}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I must refer again to the club in the Rue Saint-Jacques.", "pos": 207958}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "It appears that this club is rather a bore to the police. Why didn’t they search more vigilantly? they would have found——", "pos": 208017}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "They have not found; but they are on the track.", "pos": 208141}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes, that the usual phrase; I am quite familiar with it. When the police is at fault, it declares that it is on the track; and the government patiently awaits the day when it comes to say, with a sneaking air, that the track is lost.", "pos": 208191}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes, but they have found a corpse; the general has been killed, and in all countries they call that a murder.", "pos": 208427}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "A murder do you call it? why, there is nothing to prove that the general was murdered. People are found every day in the Seine, having thrown themselves in, or having been drowned from not knowing how to swim.", "pos": 208539}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Father, you know very well that the general was not a man to drown himself in despair, and people do not bathe in the Seine in the month of January. No, no, do not be deceived; this was murder in every sense of the word.", "pos": 208751}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "And who thus designated it?", "pos": 208974}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "The king himself.", "pos": 209004}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas—no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all. Would you like to know how matters have progressed? Well, I will tell you. It was thought reliance might be placed in General Quesnel; he was recommended to us from the Island of Elba; one of us went to him, and invited him to the Rue Saint-Jacques, where he would find some friends. He came there, and the plan was unfolded to him for leaving Elba, the projected landing, etc. When he had heard and comprehended all to the fullest extent, he replied that he was a royalist. Then all looked at each other,—he was made to take an oath, and did so, but with such an ill grace that it was really tempting Providence to swear thus, and yet, in spite of that, the general was allowed to depart free—perfectly free. Yet he did not return home. What could that mean? why, my dear fellow, that on leaving us he lost his way, that’s all. A murder? really, Villefort, you surprise me. You, a deputy procureur, to found an accusation on such bad premises! Did I ever say to you, when you were fulfilling your character as a royalist, and cut off the head of one of my party, ‘My son, you have committed a murder?’ No, I said, ‘Very well, sir, you have gained the victory; tomorrow, perchance, it will be our turn.’", "pos": 209024}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "But, father, take care; when our turn comes, our revenge will be sweeping.", "pos": 210510}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "I do not understand you.", "pos": 210587}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You rely on the usurper’s return?", "pos": 210614}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "We do.", "pos": 210650}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You are mistaken; he will not advance two leagues into the interior of France without being followed, tracked, and caught like a wild beast.", "pos": 210659}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "My dear fellow, the emperor is at this moment on the way to Grenoble; on the 10th or 12th he will be at Lyons, and on the 20th or 25th at Paris.", "pos": 210802}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "The people will rise.", "pos": 210949}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes, to go and meet him.", "pos": 210973}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "He has but a handful of men with him, and armies will be despatched against him.", "pos": 211000}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes, to escort him into the capital. Really, my dear Gérard, you are but a child; you think yourself well informed because the telegraph has told you, three days after the landing, ‘The usurper has landed at Cannes with several men. He is pursued.’ But where is he? what is he doing? You do not know at all, and in this way they will chase him to Paris, without drawing a trigger.", "pos": 211083}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Grenoble and Lyons are faithful cities, and will oppose to him an impassable barrier.", "pos": 211466}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Grenoble will open her gates to him with enthusiasm—all Lyons will hasten to welcome him. Believe me, we are as well informed as you, and our police are as good as your own. Would you like a proof of it? well, you wished to conceal your journey from me, and yet I knew of your arrival half an hour after you had passed the barrier. You gave your direction to no one but your postilion, yet I have your address, and in proof I am here the very instant you are going to sit at table. Ring, then, if you please, for a second knife, fork, and plate, and we will dine together.", "pos": 211554}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Indeed! you really do seem very well informed.", "pos": 212129}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Eh? the thing is simple enough. You who are in power have only the means that money produces—we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.", "pos": 212240}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Devotion!", "pos": 212397}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes, devotion; for that is, I believe, the phrase for hopeful ambition.", "pos": 212439}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Wait, my dear father, one word more.", "pos": 212649}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Say on.", "pos": 212710}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "However stupid the royalist police may be, they do know one terrible thing.", "pos": 212720}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 212798}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "The description of the man who, on the morning of the day when General Quesnel disappeared, presented himself at his house.", "pos": 212814}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Oh, the admirable police have found that out, have they? And what may be that description?", "pos": 212940}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Dark complexion; hair, eyebrows, and whiskers black; blue frock-coat, buttoned up to the chin; rosette of an officer of the Legion of Honor in his button-hole; a hat with wide brim, and a cane.", "pos": 213033}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Ah, ha, that’s it, is it? and why, then, have they not laid hands on him?", "pos": 213229}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Because yesterday, or the day before, they lost sight of him at the corner of the Rue Coq-Héron.", "pos": 213322}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Didn’t I say that your police were good for nothing?", "pos": 213421}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes; but they may catch him yet.", "pos": 213476}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "True, true, if this person were not on his guard, as he is; He will consequently make a few changes in his personal appearance.", "pos": 213511}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Well, well, do you think your police will recognize me now.", "pos": 214592}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "No, father, at least, I hope not.", "pos": 214734}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "And now, my dear boy. I rely on your prudence to remove all the things which I leave in your care.", "pos": 214793}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Oh, rely on me,", "pos": 214916}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes, yes; and now I believe you are right, and that you have really saved my life; be assured I will return the favor hereafter.", "pos": 214950}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You are not convinced yet? I hope at least, that you may be mistaken.", "pos": 215107}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Shall you see the king again?", "pos": 215181}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Perhaps.", "pos": 215213}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Would you pass in his eyes for a prophet?", "pos": 215224}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Prophets of evil are not in favor at the court, father.", "pos": 215268}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "True, but some day they do them justice; and supposing a second restoration, you would then pass for a great man.", "pos": 215326}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Well, what should I say to the king?", "pos": 215442}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "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. You think he is tracked, pursued, captured; he is advancing as rapidly as his own eagles. The soldiers you believe to be dying with hunger, worn out with fatigue, ready to desert, gather like atoms of snow about the rolling ball as it hastens onward. Sire, go, leave France to its real master, to him who acquired it, not by purchase, but by right of conquest; go, sire, not that you incur any risk, for your adversary is powerful enough to show you mercy, but because it would be humiliating for a grandson of Saint Louis to owe his life to the man of Arcola, Marengo, Austerlitz.’ Tell him this, Gérard; or, rather, tell him nothing. Keep your journey a secret; do not boast of what you have come to Paris to do, or have done; return with all speed; enter Marseilles at night, and your house by the back-door, and there remain, quiet, submissive, secret, and, above all, inoffensive; for this time, I swear to you, we shall act like powerful men who know their enemies. Go, my son—go, my dear Gérard, and by your obedience to my paternal orders, or, if you prefer it, friendly counsels, we will keep you in your place. This will be, one means by which you may a second time save me, if the political balance should some day take another turn, and cast you aloft while hurling me down. Adieu, my dear Gérard, and at your next journey alight at my door. left the room when he had finished, with the same calmness that had characterized him during the whole of this remarkable and trying conversation.", "pos": 215481}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "pale and agitated, ran to the window, put aside the curtain, and saw him pass, cool and collected, by two or three ill-looking men at the corner of the street, who were there, perhaps, to arrest a man with black whiskers, and a blue frock-coat, and hat with broad brim.", "pos": 217318}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "M. Morrel, I believe?", "pos": 221963}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Yes, sir.", "pos": 222003}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Come nearer, and tell me to what circumstance I owe the honor of this visit.", "pos": 222015}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Do you not guess, monsieur?", "pos": 222154}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Not in the least; but if I can serve you in any way I shall be delighted.", "pos": 222198}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Everything depends on you.", "pos": 222274}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Explain yourself, pray.", "pos": 222303}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Monsieur, do you recollect that a few days before the landing of his majesty the emperor, I came to intercede for a young man, the mate of my ship, who was accused of being concerned in correspondence with the Island of Elba? What was the other day a crime is today a title to favor. You then served Louis XVIII., and you did not show any favor—it was your duty; today you serve Napoleon, and you ought to protect him—it is equally your duty; I come, therefore, to ask what has become of him?", "pos": 222329}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "What is his name? Tell me his name.", "pos": 222943}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Edmond Dantès.", "pos": 222992}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Dantès. Edmond Dantès.", "pos": 223166}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Yes, monsieur.", "pos": 223206}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Are you quite sure you are not mistaken, monsieur?", "pos": 223349}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "No. I am not mistaken. I have known him for ten years, the last four of which he was in my service. Do not you recollect, I came about six weeks ago to plead for clemency, as I come today to plead for justice. You received me very coldly. Oh, the royalists were very severe with the Bonapartists in those days.", "pos": 223849}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Monsieur. I was then a royalist, because I believed the Bourbons not only the heirs to the throne, but the chosen of the nation. The miraculous return of Napoleon has conquered me, the legitimate monarch is he who is loved by his people.", "pos": 224177}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "That’s right! I like to hear you speak thus, and I augur well for Edmond from it.", "pos": 224439}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Wait a moment. I have it—a sailor, who was about to marry a young Catalan girl. I recollect now; it was a very serious charge.", "pos": 224539}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "How so?", "pos": 224725}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You know that when he left here he was taken to the Palais de Justice.", "pos": 224735}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Well?", "pos": 224808}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I made my report to the authorities at Paris, and a week after he was carried off.", "pos": 224816}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Carried off! What can they have done with him?", "pos": 224901}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Oh, he has been taken to Fenestrelles, to Pignerol, or to the Sainte-Marguérite islands. Some fine morning he will return to take command of your vessel.", "pos": 224965}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Come when he will, it shall be kept for him. But how is it he is not already returned? It seems to me the first care of government should be to set at liberty those who have suffered for their adherence to it.", "pos": 225121}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Do not be too hasty, M. Morrel. The order of imprisonment came from high authority, and the order for his liberation must proceed from the same source; and, as Napoleon has scarcely been reinstated a fortnight, the letters have not yet been forwarded.", "pos": 225333}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "But, is there no way of expediting all these formalities—of releasing him from arrest?", "pos": 225608}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "There has been no arrest.", "pos": 225712}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "How?", "pos": 225740}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "It is sometimes essential to government to cause a man’s disappearance without leaving any traces, so that no written forms or documents may defeat their wishes.", "pos": 225747}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "It might be so under the Bourbons, but at present——", "pos": 225911}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "It has always been so, my dear Morrel, since the reign of Louis XIV. The emperor is more strict in prison discipline than even Louis himself, and the number of prisoners whose names are not on the register is incalculable.", "pos": 225965}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Well, M. de Villefort, how would you advise me to act?", "pos": 226266}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Petition the minister.", "pos": 226333}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Oh, I know what that is; the minister receives two hundred petitions every day, and does not read three.", "pos": 226358}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "That is true; but he will read a petition countersigned and presented by me.", "pos": 226465}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "And will you undertake to deliver it?", "pos": 226544}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "With the greatest pleasure. Dantès was then guilty, and now he is innocent, and it is as much my duty to free him as it was to condemn him.", "pos": 226584}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "But how shall I address the minister?", "pos": 226868}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sit down there, and write what I dictate.", "pos": 226908}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Will you be so good?", "pos": 227001}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Certainly. But lose no time; we have lost too much already.", "pos": 227024}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "That is true. Only think what the poor fellow may even now be suffering.", "pos": 227086}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "That will do, leave the rest to me.", "pos": 227631}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Will the petition go soon?", "pos": 227680}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Today.", "pos": 227709}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Countersigned by you?", "pos": 227718}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "The best thing I can do will be to certify the truth of the contents of your petition.", "pos": 227742}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "What more is to be done?", "pos": 227897}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I will do whatever is necessary.", "pos": 227924}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "My brother, be careful of yourself, for if you are killed, I shall be alone in the world.", "pos": 231064}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "I do not know what reason government can assign for these useless visits; when you see one prisoner, you see all,—always the same thing,—ill fed and innocent. Are there any others?", "pos": 233596}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Yes; the dangerous and mad prisoners are in the dungeons.", "pos": 233779}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "Let us visit them. We must play the farce to the end. Let us see the dungeons.", "pos": 233839}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Let us first send for two soldiers. The prisoners sometimes, through mere uneasiness of life, and in order to be sentenced to death, commit acts of useless violence, and you might fall a victim.", "pos": 233965}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "Take all needful precautions. Oh, who can live here?", "pos": 234183}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "A most dangerous conspirator, a man we are ordered to keep the most strict watch over, as he is daring and resolute.", "pos": 234447}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "He is alone?", "pos": 234566}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 234581}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "How long has he been there?", "pos": 234594}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Nearly a year.", "pos": 234624}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "Was he placed here when he first arrived?", "pos": 234641}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "No; not until he attempted to kill the turnkey, who took his food to him.", "pos": 234685}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "To kill the turnkey?", "pos": 234761}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Yes, the very one who is lighting us. Is it not true, Antoine?", "pos": 234784}
{"speaker": "Turnkey", "text": "True enough; he wanted to kill me!", "pos": 234869}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "He must be mad,", "pos": 234928}
{"speaker": "Turnkey", "text": "He is worse than that,—he is a devil!", "pos": 234966}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "Shall I complain of him? Oh, no; it is useless. Besides, he is almost mad now, and in another year he will be quite so. So much the better for him,—he will suffer less,", "pos": 235028}
{"speaker": "the governor", "text": "You are right, sir, and this remark proves that you have deeply considered the subject. Now we have in a dungeon about twenty feet distant, and to which you descend by another stair, an old abbé, formerly leader of a party in Italy, who has been here since 1811, and in 1813 he went mad, and the change is astonishing. He used to weep, he now laughs; he grew thin, he now grows fat. You had better see him, for his madness is amusing.", "pos": 235341}
{"speaker": "the inspector", "text": "I will see them both. I must conscientiously perform my duty. Let us visit this one first,", "pos": 235802}
{"speaker": "the governor", "text": "By all means,", "pos": 236007}
{"speaker": "the inspector", "text": "He will become religious—he is already more gentle; he is afraid, and retreated before the bayonets—madmen are not afraid of anything; I made some curious observations on this at Charenton. What is it you want?", "pos": 237007}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I want to know what crime I have committed—to be tried; and if I am guilty, to be shot; if innocent, to be set at liberty.", "pos": 237262}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "Are you well fed?", "pos": 237387}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I believe so; I don’t know; it’s of no consequence. What matters really, not only to me, but to officers of justice and the king, is that an innocent man should languish in prison, the victim of an infamous denunciation, to die here cursing his executioners.", "pos": 237427}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "You are very humble today, you are not so always; the other day, for instance, when you tried to kill the turnkey.", "pos": 237688}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is true, sir, and I beg his pardon, for he has always been very good to me, but I was mad.", "pos": 237830}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "And you are not so any longer?", "pos": 237926}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No; captivity has subdued me—I have been here so long.", "pos": 237959}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "So long?—when were you arrested, then?", "pos": 238016}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The 28th of February, 1815, at half-past two in the afternoon.", "pos": 238078}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Today is the 30th of July, 1816,—why, it is but seventeen months.", "pos": 238143}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Only seventeen months. Oh, you do not know what is seventeen months in prison!—seventeen ages rather, especially to a man who, like me, had arrived at the summit of his ambition—to a man, who, like me, was on the point of marrying a woman he adored, who saw an honorable career opened before him, and who loses all in an instant—who sees his prospects destroyed, and is ignorant of the fate of his affianced wife, and whether his aged father be still living! Seventeen months’ captivity to a sailor accustomed to the boundless ocean, is a worse punishment than human crime ever merited. Have pity on me, then, and ask for me, not intelligence, but a trial; not pardon, but a verdict—a trial, sir, I ask only for a trial; that, surely, cannot be denied to one who is accused!", "pos": 238211}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "We shall see. On my word, the poor devil touches me. You must show me the proofs against him.", "pos": 239006}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Monsieur. I know it is not in your power to release me; but you can plead for me—you can have me tried—and that is all I ask. Let me know my crime, and the reason why I was condemned. Uncertainty is worse than all.", "pos": 239204}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "Go on with the lights,", "pos": 239441}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Monsieur. I can tell by your voice you are touched with pity; tell me at least to hope.", "pos": 239486}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "I cannot tell you that. I can only promise to examine into your case.", "pos": 239592}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, I am free—then I am saved!", "pos": 239689}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "Who arrested you?", "pos": 239722}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "M. Villefort. See him, and hear what he says. I am no longer surprised at my detention, since my only protector is removed.", "pos": 239742}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "Had M. de Villefort any cause of personal dislike to you?", "pos": 239955}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "None; on the contrary, he was very kind to me.", "pos": 240015}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "I can, then, rely on the notes he has left concerning you?", "pos": 240064}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Entirely.", "pos": 240125}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "That is well; wait patiently, then.", "pos": 240137}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Will you see the register at once, or proceed to the other cell?", "pos": 240302}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "Let us visit them all. If I once went up those stairs. I should never have the courage to come down again.", "pos": 240391}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Ah, this one is not like the other, and his madness is less affecting than this one’s display of reason.", "pos": 240522}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "What is his folly?", "pos": 240629}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "He fancies he possesses an immense treasure. The first year he offered government a million of francs for his release; the second, two; the third, three; and so on progressively. He is now in his fifth year of captivity; he will ask to speak to you in private, and offer you five millions.", "pos": 240650}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "How curious!—what is his name?", "pos": 240942}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "The Abbé Faria.", "pos": 240975}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "No. 27,", "pos": 240993}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "What is it you want?", "pos": 241813}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I, monsieur. I want nothing.", "pos": 241856}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "You do not understand. I am sent here by government to visit the prison, and hear the requests of the prisoners.", "pos": 241931}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Oh, that is different, and we shall understand each other, I hope. Monsieur. I am the Abbé Faria, born at Rome. I was for twenty years Cardinal Spada’s secretary; I was arrested, why, I know not, toward the beginning of the year 1811; since then I have demanded my liberty from the Italian and French government.", "pos": 242073}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "Why from the French government?", "pos": 242500}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Because I was arrested at Piombino, and I presume that, like Milan and Florence, Piombino has become the capital of some French department.", "pos": 242534}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "Ah, you have not the latest news from Italy?", "pos": 242676}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "My information dates from the day on which I was arrested, and as the emperor had created the kingdom of Rome for his infant son, I presume that he has realized the dream of Machiavelli and Cæsar Borgia, which was to make Italy a united kingdom.", "pos": 242745}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "Providence has changed this gigantic plan you advocate so warmly.", "pos": 243056}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "It is the only means of rendering Italy strong, happy, and independent.", "pos": 243124}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "Very possibly; only I am not come to discuss politics, but to inquire if you have anything to ask or to complain of.", "pos": 243198}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "The food is the same as in other prisons,—that is, very bad; the lodging is very unhealthful, but, on the whole, passable for a dungeon; but it is not that which I wish to speak of, but a secret I have to reveal of the greatest importance. It is for that reason I am delighted to see you, although you have disturbed me in a most important calculation, which, if it succeeded, would possibly change Newton’s system. Could you allow me a few words in private.", "pos": 243317}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "What did I tell you?", "pos": 243856}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "You knew him. What you ask is impossible, monsieur,", "pos": 243898}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "But. I would speak to you of a large sum, amounting to five millions. However, it is not absolutely necessary for us to be alone; the governor can be present.", "pos": 244029}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Unfortunately. I know beforehand what you are about to say; it concerns your treasures, does it not?", "pos": 244338}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Of course, of what else should I speak?", "pos": 244562}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Mr. Inspector. I can tell you the story as well as he, for it has been dinned in my ears for the last four or five years.", "pos": 244615}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "That proves, that you are like those of Holy Writ, who having eyes see not, and having ears hear not.", "pos": 244765}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "My dear sir, the government is rich and does not want your treasures, keep them until you are liberated.", "pos": 244890}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "But what if I am not liberated, and am detained here until my death? this treasure will be lost. Had not government better profit by it? I will offer six millions, and I will content myself with the rest, if they will only give me my liberty.", "pos": 245081}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "On my word, had I not been told beforehand that this man was mad, I should believe what he says.", "pos": 245338}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I am not mad. The treasure I speak of really exists, and I offer to sign an agreement with you, in which I promise to lead you to the spot where you shall dig; and if I deceive you, bring me here again,—I ask no more.", "pos": 245473}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Is the spot far from here?", "pos": 245786}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "A hundred leagues.", "pos": 245815}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "It is not ill-planned. If all the prisoners took it into their heads to travel a hundred leagues, and their guardians consented to accompany them, they would have a capital chance of escaping.", "pos": 245836}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "The scheme is well known, and the abbé’s plan has not even the merit of originality. I inquired if you are well fed?", "pos": 246052}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Swear to me, to free me if what I tell you prove true, and I will stay here while you go to the spot.", "pos": 246227}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "Are you well fed?", "pos": 246348}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Monsieur, you run no risk, for, as I told you, I will stay here; so there is no chance of my escaping.", "pos": 246392}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "You do not reply to my question,", "pos": 246497}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Nor you to mine. You will not accept my gold; I will keep it for myself. You refuse me my liberty; God will give it me.", "pos": 246567}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "What is he doing there?", "pos": 246805}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Counting his treasures,", "pos": 246851}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "He was wealthy once, perhaps?", "pos": 247021}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Or dreamed he was, and awoke mad.", "pos": 247073}
{"speaker": "Inspector", "text": "After all, if he had been rich, he would not have been here.", "pos": 247109}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Sometimes, in my voyages, when I was a man and commanded other men, I have seen the heavens overcast, the sea rage and foam, the storm arise, and, like a monstrous bird, beating the two horizons with its wings. Then I felt that my vessel was a vain refuge, that trembled and shook before the tempest. Soon the fury of the waves and the sight of the sharp rocks announced the approach of death, and death then terrified me, and I used all my skill and intelligence as a man and a sailor to struggle against the wrath of God. But I did so because I was happy, because I had not courted death, because to be cast upon a bed of rocks and seaweed seemed terrible, because I was unwilling that I, a creature made for the service of God, should serve for food to the gulls and ravens. But now it is different; I have lost all that bound me to life, death smiles and invites me to repose; I die after my own manner, I die exhausted and broken-spirited, as I fall asleep when I have paced three thousand times round my cell,—that is thirty thousand steps, or about ten leagues.", "pos": 256174}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I wish to die. When my morning and evening meals are brought. I will cast them out of the window, and they will think that I have eaten them.", "pos": 258063}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "There can be no doubt about it, it is some prisoner who is striving to obtain his freedom. Oh, if I were only there to help him!", "pos": 261979}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I must put this to the test, but without compromising anybody. If it is a workman, I need but knock against the wall, and he will cease to work, in order to find out who is knocking, and why he does so; but as his occupation is sanctioned by the governor, he will soon resume it. If, on the contrary, it is a prisoner, the noise I make will alarm him, he will cease, and not begin again until he thinks everyone is asleep.", "pos": 263394}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is a prisoner,", "pos": 264434}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Leave the saucepan, you can take it away when you bring me my breakfast.", "pos": 269855}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, don’t you intend to bring me another plate?", "pos": 270936}
{"speaker": "Turnkey", "text": "No, you destroy everything. First you break your jug, then you make me break your plate; if all the prisoners followed your example, the government would be ruined. I shall leave you the saucepan, and pour your soup into that. So for the future I hope you will not be so destructive.", "pos": 271000}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, my God, my God! I have so earnestly prayed to you, that I hoped my prayers had been heard. After having deprived me of my liberty, after having deprived me of death, after having recalled me to existence, my God, have pity on me, and do not let me die in despair!", "pos": 272837}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who talks of God and despair at the same time?", "pos": 273128}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah. I hear a human voice. In the name of Heaven, speak again, though the sound of your voice terrifies me. Who are you?", "pos": 273374}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who are you?", "pos": 273733}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "An unhappy prisoner. Of what country? A Frenchman. Your name? Edmond Dantès. Your profession? A sailor. How long have you been here? Since the 28th of February, 1815. Your crime? I am innocent. But of what are you accused? Of having conspired to aid the emperor’s return.", "pos": 273764}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What! For the emperor’s return?—the emperor is no longer on the throne, then?", "pos": 274115}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He abdicated at Fontainebleau in 1814, and was sent to the Island of Elba. But how long have you been here that you are ignorant of all this?", "pos": 274195}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Since 1811.", "pos": 274339}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do not dig any more,", "pos": 274431}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "only tell me how high up is your excavation?", "pos": 274470}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "On a level with the floor.", "pos": 274517}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How is it concealed?", "pos": 274546}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Behind my bed.", "pos": 274569}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Has your bed been moved since you have been a prisoner?", "pos": 274586}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No.", "pos": 274644}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What does your chamber open on?", "pos": 274650}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A corridor.", "pos": 274684}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And the corridor?", "pos": 274698}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "On a court.", "pos": 274718}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Alas!", "pos": 274732}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, what is the matter?", "pos": 274760}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have made a mistake owing to an error in my plans. I took the wrong angle, and have come out fifteen feet from where I intended. I took the wall you are mining for the outer wall of the fortress.", "pos": 274800}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But then you would be close to the sea?", "pos": 275000}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is what I hoped.", "pos": 275042}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And supposing you had succeeded?", "pos": 275066}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should have thrown myself into the sea, gained one of the islands near here—the Isle de Daume or the Isle de Tiboulen—and then I should have been safe.", "pos": 275101}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Could you have swum so far?", "pos": 275257}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Heaven would have given me strength; but now all is lost.", "pos": 275287}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All?", "pos": 275347}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; stop up your excavation carefully, do not work any more, and wait until you hear from me.", "pos": 275354}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Tell me, at least, who you are?", "pos": 275451}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am—I am No. 27.", "pos": 275485}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You mistrust me, then. Oh, I am a Christian. I swear to you by him who died for us that naught shall induce me to breathe one syllable to my jailers; but I conjure you do not abandon me. If you do, I swear to you, for I have got to the end of my strength, that I will dash my brains out against the wall, and you will have my death to reproach yourself with.", "pos": 275505}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How old are you? Your voice is that of a young man.", "pos": 276023}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do not know my age, for I have not counted the years I have been here. All I do know is, that I was just nineteen when I was arrested, the 28th of February, 1815.", "pos": 276077}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not quite twenty-six!", "pos": 276244}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "at that age he cannot be a traitor.", "pos": 276288}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, no, no. I swear to you again, rather than betray you, I would allow myself to be hacked in pieces!", "pos": 276326}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have done well to speak to me, and ask for my assistance, for I was about to form another plan, and leave you; but your age reassures me. I will not forget you. Wait.", "pos": 276447}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How long?", "pos": 276620}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I must calculate our chances; I will give you the signal.", "pos": 276632}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But you will not leave me; you will come to me, or you will let me come to you. We will escape, and if we cannot escape we will talk; you of those whom you love, and I of those whom I love. You must love somebody?", "pos": 276692}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, I am alone in the world.", "pos": 276908}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then you will love me. If you are young, I will be your comrade; if you are old, I will be your son. I have a father who is seventy if he yet lives; I only love him and a young girl called Mercédès. My father has not yet forgotten me, I am sure, but God alone knows if she loves me still; I shall love you as I loved my father.", "pos": 276939}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is well,", "pos": 277269}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "tomorrow.", "pos": 277303}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Come, are you going mad again? Is it you? I am here. Is your jailer gone? Yes, he will not return until the evening; so that we have twelve hours before us.", "pos": 278579}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can work, then?", "pos": 279121}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, yes, yes; this instant, I entreat you.", "pos": 279157}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let us first see,", "pos": 281192}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "whether it is possible to remove the traces of my entrance here—our future tranquillity depends upon our jailers being entirely ignorant of it.", "pos": 281221}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You removed this stone very carelessly; but I suppose you had no tools to aid you.", "pos": 281498}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why, do you possess any?", "pos": 281583}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I made myself some; and with the exception of a file, I have all that are necessary,—a chisel, pincers, and lever.", "pos": 281649}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, how I should like to see these products of your industry and patience.", "pos": 281772}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, in the first place, here is my chisel.", "pos": 281849}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And with what did you contrive to make that?", "pos": 281975}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "With one of the clamps of my bedstead; and this very tool has sufficed me to hollow out the road by which I came hither, a distance of about fifty feet.", "pos": 282039}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Fifty feet!", "pos": 282194}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do not speak so loud, young man—don’t speak so loud. It frequently occurs in a state prison like this, that persons are stationed outside the doors of the cells purposely to overhear the conversation of the prisoners.", "pos": 282244}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But they believe I am shut up alone here.", "pos": 282464}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That makes no difference.", "pos": 282508}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And you say that you dug your way a distance of fifty feet to get here?", "pos": 282536}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do; that is about the distance that separates your chamber from mine; only, unfortunately, I did not curve aright; for want of the necessary geometrical instruments to calculate my scale of proportion, instead of taking an ellipsis of forty feet, I made it fifty. I expected, as I told you, to reach the outer wall, pierce through it, and throw myself into the sea; I have, however, kept along the corridor on which your chamber opens, instead of going beneath it. My labor is all in vain, for I find that the corridor looks into a courtyard filled with soldiers.", "pos": 282610}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That’s true, but the corridor you speak of only bounds one side of my cell; there are three others—do you know anything of their situation?", "pos": 283178}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This one is built against the solid rock, and it would take ten experienced miners, duly furnished with the requisite tools, as many years to perforate it. This adjoins the lower part of the governor’s apartments, and were we to work our way through, we should only get into some lock-up cellars, where we must necessarily be recaptured. The fourth and last side of your cell faces on—faces on—stop a minute, now where does it face?", "pos": 283335}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Climb up,", "pos": 284285}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I thought so!", "pos": 285052}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What was it that you thought?", "pos": 285190}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 285332}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "it is so. This side of your chamber looks out upon a kind of open gallery, where patrols are continually passing, and sentries keep watch day and night.", "pos": 285358}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Are you quite sure of that?", "pos": 285513}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certain. I saw the soldier’s shape and the top of his musket; that made me draw in my head so quickly, for I was fearful he might also see me.", "pos": 285543}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well?", "pos": 285688}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You perceive then the utter impossibility of escaping through your dungeon?", "pos": 285713}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then——", "pos": 285791}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then,", "pos": 285831}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "the will of God be done!", "pos": 285868}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Tell me, I entreat of you, who and what you are? Never have I met with so remarkable a person as yourself.", "pos": 286166}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Willingly,", "pos": 286296}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "if, indeed, you feel any curiosity respecting one, now, alas, powerless to aid you in any way.", "pos": 286332}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Say not so; you can console and support me by the strength of your own powerful mind. Pray let me know who you really are?", "pos": 286429}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then listen,", "pos": 286594}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am the Abbé Faria, and have been imprisoned as you know in this Château d’If since the year 1811; previously to which I had been confined for three years in the fortress of Fenestrelle. In the year 1811 I was transferred to Piedmont in France. It was at this period I learned that the destiny which seemed subservient to every wish formed by Napoleon, had bestowed on him a son, named king of Rome even in his cradle. I was very far then from expecting the change you have just informed me of; namely, that four years afterwards, this colossus of power would be overthrown. Then who reigns in France at this moment—Napoleon II.?", "pos": 286618}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, Louis XVIII.", "pos": 287251}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The brother of Louis XVI.! How inscrutable are the ways of Providence—for what great and mysterious purpose has it pleased Heaven to abase the man once so elevated, and raise up him who was so abased?", "pos": 287270}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 287614}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, yes,", "pos": 287614}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "’Twill be the same as it was in England. After Charles I., Cromwell; after Cromwell, Charles II., and then James II., and then some son-in-law or relation, some Prince of Orange, a stadtholder who becomes a king. Then new concessions to the people, then a constitution, then liberty. Ah, my friend!", "pos": 287641}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you are young, you will see all this come to pass.", "pos": 288035}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Probably, if ever I get out of prison!", "pos": 288088}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "True,", "pos": 288129}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "we are prisoners; but I forget this sometimes, and there are even moments when my mental vision transports me beyond these walls, and I fancy myself at liberty.", "pos": 288152}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But wherefore are you here?", "pos": 288315}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "Because in 1807 I dreamed of the very plan Napoleon tried to realize in 1811; because, like Machiavelli, I desired to alter the political face of Italy, and instead of allowing it to be split up into a quantity of petty principalities, each held by some weak or tyrannical ruler, I sought to form one large, compact, and powerful empire; and, lastly, because I fancied I had found my Cæsar Borgia in a crowned simpleton, who feigned to enter into my views only to betray me. It was the plan of Alexander VI. and Clement VII., but it will never succeed now, for they attempted it fruitlessly, and Napoleon was unable to complete his work. Italy seems fated to misfortune.", "pos": 288344}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Are you not, the priest who here in the Château d’If is generally thought to be—ill?", "pos": 289259}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "Mad, you mean, don’t you?", "pos": 289358}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I did not like to say so,", "pos": 289386}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Well, then, let me answer your question in full, by acknowledging that I am the poor mad prisoner of the Château d’If, for many years permitted to amuse the different visitors with what is said to be my insanity; and, in all probability, I should be promoted to the honor of making sport for the children, if such innocent beings could be found in an abode devoted like this to suffering and despair.", "pos": 289440}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then you abandon all hope of escape?", "pos": 289953}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I perceive its utter impossibility; and I consider it impious to attempt that which the Almighty evidently does not approve.", "pos": 289992}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Nay, be not discouraged. Would it not be expecting too much to hope to succeed at your first attempt? Why not try to find an opening in another direction from that which has so unfortunately failed?", "pos": 290119}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Alas, it shows how little notion you can have of all it has cost me to effect a purpose so unexpectedly frustrated, that you talk of beginning over again. In the first place, I was four years making the tools I possess, and have been two years scraping and digging out earth, hard as granite itself; then what toil and fatigue has it not been to remove huge stones I should once have deemed impossible to loosen. Whole days have I passed in these Titanic efforts, considering my labor well repaid if, by night-time I had contrived to carry away a square inch of this hard-bound cement, changed by ages into a substance unyielding as the stones themselves; then to conceal the mass of earth and rubbish I dug up, I was compelled to break through a staircase, and throw the fruits of my labor into the hollow part of it; but the well is now so completely choked up, that I scarcely think it would be possible to add another handful of dust without leading to discovery. Consider also that I fully believed I had accomplished the end and aim of my undertaking, for which I had so exactly husbanded my strength as to make it just hold out to the termination of my enterprise; and now, at the moment when I reckoned upon success, my hopes are forever dashed from me. No, I repeat again, that nothing shall induce me to renew attempts evidently at variance with the Almighty’s pleasure.", "pos": 290320}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have found what you were in search of!", "pos": 294231}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Have you, indeed? pray, let me know what it is you have discovered?", "pos": 294289}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The corridor through which you have bored your way from the cell you occupy here, extends in the same direction as the outer gallery, does it not?", "pos": 294408}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "It does.", "pos": 294563}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And is not above fifteen feet from it?", "pos": 294574}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "About that.", "pos": 294615}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, then, I will tell you what we must do. We must pierce through the corridor by forming a side opening about the middle, as it were the top part of a cross. This time you will lay your plans more accurately; we shall get out into the gallery you have described; kill the sentinel who guards it, and make our escape. All we require to insure success is courage, and that you possess, and strength, which I am not deficient in; as for patience, you have abundantly proved yours—you shall now see me prove mine.", "pos": 294629}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "One instant, my dear friend, it is clear you do not understand the nature of the courage with which I am endowed, and what use I intend making of my strength. As for patience, I consider that I have abundantly exercised that in beginning every morning the task of the night before, and every night renewing the task of the day. But then, young man (and I pray of you to give me your full attention), then I thought I could not be doing anything displeasing to the Almighty in trying to set an innocent being at liberty—one who had committed no offence, and merited not condemnation.", "pos": 295144}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And have your notions changed? do you think yourself more guilty in making the attempt since you have encountered me?", "pos": 295749}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "No; neither do I wish to incur guilt. Hitherto I have fancied myself merely waging war against circumstances, not men. I have thought it no sin to bore through a wall, or destroy a staircase; but I cannot so easily persuade myself to pierce a heart or take away a life.", "pos": 295904}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Is it possible, that where your liberty is at stake you can allow any such scruple to deter you from obtaining it?", "pos": 296222}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Tell me, what has hindered you from knocking down your jailer with a piece of wood torn from your bedstead, dressing yourself in his clothes, and endeavoring to escape?", "pos": 296367}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Simply the fact that the idea never occurred to me,", "pos": 296538}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Because the natural repugnance to the commission of such a crime prevented you from thinking of it; and so it ever is because in simple and allowable things our natural instincts keep us from deviating from the strict line of duty. The tiger, whose nature teaches him to delight in shedding blood, needs but the sense of smell to show him when his prey is within his reach, and by following this instinct he is enabled to measure the leap necessary to permit him to spring on his victim; but man, on the contrary, loathes the idea of blood—it is not alone that the laws of social life inspire him with a shrinking dread of taking life; his natural construction and physiological formation—— Since my imprisonment, I have thought over all the most celebrated cases of escape on record. They have rarely been successful. Those that have been crowned with full success have been long meditated upon, and carefully arranged; such, for instance, as the escape of the Duc de Beaufort from the Château de Vincennes, that of the Abbé Dubuquoi from For l’Evêque; of Latude from the Bastille. Then there are those for which chance sometimes affords opportunity, and those are the best of all. Let us, therefore, wait patiently for some favorable moment, and when it presents itself, profit by it.", "pos": 296630}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, you might well endure the tedious delay; you were constantly employed in the task you set yourself, and when weary with toil, you had your hopes to refresh and encourage you.", "pos": 298189}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I assure you, I did not turn to that source for recreation or support.", "pos": 298385}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What did you do then?", "pos": 298481}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I wrote or studied.", "pos": 298505}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Were you then permitted the use of pens, ink, and paper?", "pos": 298527}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Oh, no, I had none but what I made for myself.", "pos": 298607}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You made paper, pens and ink?", "pos": 298656}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Yes. When you pay me a visit in my cell, my young friend, I will show you an entire work, the fruits of the thoughts and reflections of my whole life; many of them meditated over in the shades of the Colosseum at Rome, at the foot of St. Mark’s column at Venice, and on the borders of the Arno at Florence, little imagining at the time that they would be arranged in order within the walls of the Château d’If. The work I speak of is called A Treatise on the Possibility of a General Monarchy in Italy, and will make one large quarto volume.", "pos": 298688}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And on what have you written all this?", "pos": 299332}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "On two of my shirts. I invented a preparation that makes linen as smooth and as easy to write on as parchment.", "pos": 299373}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are, then, a chemist?", "pos": 299486}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Somewhat; I know Lavoisier, and was the intimate friend of Cabanis.", "pos": 299514}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But for such a work you must have needed books—had you any?", "pos": 299584}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I had nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with one hundred and fifty well-chosen books a man possesses, if not a complete summary of all human knowledge, at least all that a man need really know. I devoted three years of my life to reading and studying these one hundred and fifty volumes, till I knew them nearly by heart; so that since I have been in prison, a very slight effort of memory has enabled me to recall their contents as readily as though the pages were open before me. I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important.", "pos": 299646}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are, doubtless, acquainted with a variety of languages, so as to have been able to read all these?", "pos": 300409}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Yes, I speak five of the modern tongues—that is to say, German, French, Italian, English, and Spanish; by the aid of ancient Greek I learned modern Greek—I don’t speak it so well as I could wish, but I am still trying to improve myself.", "pos": 300514}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Improve yourself! why, how can you manage to do so?", "pos": 300753}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Why, I made a vocabulary of the words I knew; turned, returned, and arranged them, so as to enable me to express my thoughts through their medium. I know nearly one thousand words, which is all that is absolutely necessary, although I believe there are nearly one hundred thousand in the dictionaries. I cannot hope to be very fluent, but I certainly should have no difficulty in explaining my wants and wishes; and that would be quite as much as I should ever require.", "pos": 300826}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then if you were not furnished with pens, how did you manage to write the work you speak of?", "pos": 301514}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I made myself some excellent ones, which would be universally preferred to all others if once known. You are aware what huge whitings are served to us on maigre days. Well, I selected the cartilages of the heads of these fishes, and you can scarcely imagine the delight with which I welcomed the arrival of each Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, as affording me the means of increasing my stock of pens; for I will freely confess that my historical labors have been my greatest solace and relief. While retracing the past, I forget the present; and traversing at will the path of history I cease to remember that I am myself a prisoner.", "pos": 301609}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But the ink, of what did you make your ink?", "pos": 302247}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "There was formerly a fireplace in my dungeon, but it was closed up long ere I became an occupant of this prison. Still, it must have been many years in use, for it was thickly covered with a coating of soot; this soot I dissolved in a portion of the wine brought to me every Sunday, and I assure you a better ink cannot be desired. For very important notes, for which closer attention is required, I pricked one of my fingers, and wrote with my own blood.", "pos": 302308}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And when, may I see all this?", "pos": 302783}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Whenever you please.", "pos": 302831}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, then let it be directly!", "pos": 302872}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Follow me, then, as he re-entered the subterranean passage, in which he soon disappeared, followed by Dantès.", "pos": 302928}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "It is well, we have some hours before us—it is now just a quarter past twelve o’clock. Look at this ray of light which enters by my window, and then observe the lines traced on the wall. Well, by means of these lines, which are in accordance with the double motion of the earth, and the ellipse it describes round the sun, I am enabled to ascertain the precise hour with more minuteness than if I possessed a watch; for that might be broken or deranged in its movements, while the sun and earth never vary in their appointed paths.", "pos": 303828}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Come, I am anxious to see your treasures.", "pos": 305109}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "What do you wish to see first?", "pos": 305420}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, your great work on the monarchy of Italy!", "pos": 305469}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "There, there is the work complete. I wrote the word finis at the end of the sixty-eighth strip about a week ago. I have torn up two of my shirts, and as many handkerchiefs as I was master of, to complete the precious pages. Should I ever get out of prison and find in all Italy a printer courageous enough to publish what I have composed, my literary reputation is forever secured.", "pos": 305948}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I see. Now let me behold the curious pens with which you have written your work.", "pos": 306331}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Look! Ah, yes, the penknife. That’s my masterpiece. I made it, as well as this larger knife, out of an old iron candlestick. As for the ink. I told you how I managed to obtain that—and I only just make it from time to time, as I require it.", "pos": 306433}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "One thing still puzzles me, and that is how you managed to do all this by daylight?", "pos": 307598}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I worked at night also,", "pos": 307703}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Night!—why, for Heaven’s sake, are your eyes like cats’, that you can see to work in the dark?", "pos": 307744}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Indeed they are not; but God has supplied man with the intelligence that enables him to overcome the limitations of natural conditions. I furnished myself with a light.", "pos": 307841}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You did? Pray tell me how.", "pos": 308012}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I separated the fat from the meat served to me, melted it, and so made oil—here is my lamp.", "pos": 308041}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But how do you procure a light?", "pos": 308233}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Oh, here are two flints and a piece of burnt linen.", "pos": 308267}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And matches?", "pos": 308321}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I pretended that I had a disorder of the skin, and asked for a little sulphur, which was readily supplied. You have not seen all yet, for I did not think it wise to trust all my treasures in the same hiding-place. Let us shut this one up.", "pos": 308336}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Who supplied you with the materials for making this wonderful work?", "pos": 309384}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I tore up several of my shirts, and ripped out the seams in the sheets of my bed, during my three years’ imprisonment at Fenestrelle; and when I was removed to the Château d’If, I managed to bring the ravellings with me, so that I have been able to finish my work here.", "pos": 309454}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And was it not discovered that your sheets were unhemmed?", "pos": 309726}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Oh, no, for when I had taken out the thread I required, I hemmed the edges over again.", "pos": 309786}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "With what?", "pos": 309875}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "With this needle. I once thought, of removing these iron bars, and letting myself down from the window, which, as you see, is somewhat wider than yours, although I should have enlarged it still more preparatory to my flight; however, I discovered that I should merely have dropped into a sort of inner court, and I therefore renounced the project altogether as too full of risk and danger. Nevertheless, I carefully preserved my ladder against one of those unforeseen opportunities of which I spoke just now, and which sudden chance frequently brings about. What are you thinking of?", "pos": 309888}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I was reflecting, in the first place, upon the enormous degree of intelligence and ability you must have employed to reach the high perfection to which you have attained. What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?", "pos": 311108}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced—from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.", "pos": 311358}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No. I know nothing. Some of your words are to me quite empty of meaning. You must be blessed indeed to possess the knowledge you have.", "pos": 311803}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Well, but you had another subject for your thoughts; did you not say so just now?", "pos": 311975}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I did!", "pos": 312070}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "You have told me as yet but one of them—let me hear the other.", "pos": 312079}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It was this,—that while you had related to me all the particulars of your past life, you were perfectly unacquainted with mine.", "pos": 312144}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Your life, my young friend, has not been of sufficient length to admit of your having passed through any very important events.", "pos": 312274}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It has been long enough to inflict on me a great and undeserved misfortune. I would fain fix the source of it on man that I may no longer vent reproaches upon Heaven.", "pos": 312404}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Then you profess ignorance of the crime with which you are charged?", "pos": 312573}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do, indeed; and this I swear by the two beings most dear to me upon earth,—my father and Mercédès.", "pos": 312643}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Come, let me hear your story.", "pos": 312746}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "There is, a clever maxim, which bears upon what I was saying to you some little while ago, and that is, that unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a right and wholesome state, revolts at crime. Still, from an artificial civilization have originated wants, vices, and false tastes, which occasionally become so powerful as to stifle within us all good feelings, and ultimately to lead us into guilt and wickedness. From this view of things, then, comes the axiom that if you visit to discover the author of any bad action, seek first to discover the person to whom the perpetration of that bad action could be in any way advantageous. Now, to apply it in your case,—to whom could your disappearance have been serviceable?", "pos": 313754}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To no one, by Heaven! I was a very insignificant person.", "pos": 314558}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Do not speak thus, for your reply evinces neither logic nor philosophy; everything is relative, my dear young friend, from the king who stands in the way of his successor, to the employee who keeps his rival out of a place. Now, in the event of the king’s death, his successor inherits a crown,—when the employee dies, the supernumerary steps into his shoes, and receives his salary of twelve thousand livres. Well, these twelve thousand livres are his civil list, and are as essential to him as the twelve millions of a king. Everyone, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place on the social ladder, and is beset by stormy passions and conflicting interests, as in Descartes’ theory of pressure and impulsion. But these forces increase as we go higher, so that we have a spiral which in defiance of reason rests upon the apex and not on the base. Now let us return to your particular world. You say you were on the point of being made captain of the Pharaon?", "pos": 314617}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 315590}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "And about to become the husband of a young and lovely girl?", "pos": 315597}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 315659}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Now, could anyone have had any interest in preventing the accomplishment of these two things? But let us first settle the question as to its being the interest of anyone to hinder you from being captain of the Pharaon. What say you?", "pos": 315666}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I cannot believe such was the case. I was generally liked on board, and had the sailors possessed the right of selecting a captain themselves, I feel convinced their choice would have fallen on me. There was only one person among the crew who had any feeling of ill-will towards me. I had quarelled with him some time previously, and had even challenged him to fight me; but he refused.", "pos": 315901}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Now we are getting on. And what was this man’s name?", "pos": 316290}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Danglars.", "pos": 316345}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "What rank did he hold on board?", "pos": 316357}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He was supercargo.", "pos": 316391}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "And had you been captain, should you have retained him in his employment?", "pos": 316412}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Not if the choice had remained with me, for I had frequently observed inaccuracies in his accounts.", "pos": 316488}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Good again! Now then, tell me, was any person present during your last conversation with Captain Leclere?", "pos": 316590}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No; we were quite alone.", "pos": 316698}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Could your conversation have been overheard by anyone?", "pos": 316725}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It might, for the cabin door was open—and—stay; now I recollect,—Danglars himself passed by just as Captain Leclere was giving me the packet for the grand marshal.", "pos": 316782}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "That’s better, now we are on the right scent. Did you take anybody with you when you put into the port of Elba?", "pos": 316948}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Nobody.", "pos": 317080}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Somebody there received your packet, and gave you a letter in place of it, I think?", "pos": 317090}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; the grand marshal did.", "pos": 317176}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "And what did you do with that letter?", "pos": 317206}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Put it into my portfolio.", "pos": 317246}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "You had your portfolio with you, then? Now, how could a sailor find room in his pocket for a portfolio large enough to contain an official letter?", "pos": 317274}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are right; it was left on board.", "pos": 317423}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Then it was not till your return to the ship that you put the letter in the portfolio?", "pos": 317462}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No.", "pos": 317551}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "And what did you do with this same letter while returning from Porto-Ferrajo to the vessel?", "pos": 317557}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I carried it in my hand.", "pos": 317651}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "So that when you went on board the Pharaon, everybody could see that you held a letter in your hand?", "pos": 317678}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 317781}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Danglars, as well as the rest?", "pos": 317788}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Danglars, as well as others.", "pos": 317821}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Now, listen to me, and try to recall every circumstance attending your arrest. Do you recollect the words in which the information against you was formulated?", "pos": 317852}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh yes, I read it over three times, and the words sank deeply into my memory.", "pos": 318013}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Repeat it to me.", "pos": 318093}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "This is it, word for word: ‘The king’s attorney is informed by a friend to the throne and religion, that one Edmond Dantès, mate on board the Pharaon, this day arrived from Smyrna, after having touched at Naples and Porto-Ferrajo, has been intrusted by Murat with a packet for the usurper; again, by the usurper, with a letter for the Bonapartist Club in Paris. This proof of his guilt may be procured by his immediate arrest, as the letter will be found either about his person, at his father’s residence, or in his cabin on board the Pharaon.’", "pos": 318147}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "The thing is clear as day, and you must have had a very confiding nature, as well as a good heart, not to have suspected the origin of the whole affair.", "pos": 318728}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do you really think so? Ah, that would indeed be infamous.", "pos": 318894}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "How did Danglars usually write?", "pos": 318955}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In a handsome, running hand.", "pos": 318989}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "And how was the anonymous letter written?", "pos": 319020}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Backhanded.", "pos": 319064}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Disguised.", "pos": 319101}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It was very boldly written, if disguised.", "pos": 319114}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Stop a bit, taking up what he called his pen, and, after dipping it into the ink, he wrote on a piece of prepared linen, with his left hand, the first two or three words of the accusation.", "pos": 319158}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How very astonishing! Why your writing exactly resembles that of the accusation.", "pos": 319449}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Simply because that accusation had been written with the left hand; and I have noticed that——", "pos": 319554}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What?", "pos": 319650}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "That while the writing of different persons done with the right hand varies, that performed with the left hand is invariably uniform.", "pos": 319658}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You have evidently seen and observed everything.", "pos": 319794}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Let us proceed.", "pos": 319845}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, yes, yes!", "pos": 319863}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Now as regards the second question.", "pos": 319879}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am listening.", "pos": 319917}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Was there any person whose interest it was to prevent your marriage with Mercédès?", "pos": 319935}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; a young man who loved her.", "pos": 320020}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "And his name was——", "pos": 320054}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Fernand.", "pos": 320075}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "That is a Spanish name, I think?", "pos": 320086}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He was a Catalan.", "pos": 320121}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "You imagine him capable of writing the letter?", "pos": 320141}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, no; he would more likely have got rid of me by sticking a knife into me.", "pos": 320190}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "That is in strict accordance with the Spanish character; an assassination they will unhesitatingly commit, but an act of cowardice, never.", "pos": 320269}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Besides, the various circumstances mentioned in the letter were wholly unknown to him.", "pos": 320410}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "You had never spoken of them yourself to anyone?", "pos": 320514}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To no one.", "pos": 320565}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Not even to your mistress?", "pos": 320578}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, not even to my betrothed.", "pos": 320607}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Then it is Danglars.", "pos": 320639}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I feel quite sure of it now.", "pos": 320662}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Wait a little. Pray, was Danglars acquainted with Fernand?", "pos": 320693}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No—yes, he was. Now I recollect——", "pos": 320754}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "What?", "pos": 320790}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To have seen them both sitting at table together under an arbor at Père Pamphile’s the evening before the day fixed for my wedding. They were in earnest conversation. Danglars was joking in a friendly way, but Fernand looked pale and agitated.", "pos": 320798}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Were they alone?", "pos": 321044}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "There was a third person with them whom I knew perfectly well, and who had, in all probability made their acquaintance; he was a tailor named Caderousse, but he was very drunk. Stay!—stay!—How strange that it should not have occurred to me before! Now I remember quite well, that on the table round which they were sitting were pens, ink, and paper. Oh, the heartless, treacherous scoundrels!", "pos": 321063}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Is there anything else I can assist you in discovering, besides the villany of your friends?", "pos": 321518}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, yes. I would beg of you, who see so completely to the depths of things, and to whom the greatest mystery seems but an easy riddle, to explain to me how it was that I underwent no second examination, was never brought to trial, and, above all, was condemned without ever having had sentence passed on me?", "pos": 321645}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "That is altogether a different and more serious matter. The ways of justice are frequently too dark and mysterious to be easily penetrated. All we have hitherto done in the matter has been child’s play. If you wish me to enter upon the more difficult part of the business, you must assist me by the most minute information on every point.", "pos": 321982}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Pray ask me whatever questions you please; for, in good truth, you see more clearly into my life than I do myself.", "pos": 322345}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "In the first place, then, who examined you,—the king’s attorney, his deputy, or a magistrate?", "pos": 322462}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The deputy.", "pos": 322558}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Was he young or old?", "pos": 322572}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "About six or seven-and-twenty years of age, I should say.", "pos": 322595}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "So. Old enough to be ambitious, but too young to be corrupt. And how did he treat you?", "pos": 322655}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "With more of mildness than severity.", "pos": 322765}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Did you tell him your whole story?", "pos": 322804}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I did.", "pos": 322841}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "And did his conduct change at all in the course of your examination?", "pos": 322850}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He did appear much disturbed when he read the letter that had brought me into this scrape. He seemed quite overcome by my misfortune.", "pos": 322921}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "By your misfortune?", "pos": 323057}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 323079}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Then you feel quite sure that it was your misfortune he deplored?", "pos": 323086}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He gave me one great proof of his sympathy, at any rate.", "pos": 323154}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "And that?", "pos": 323213}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He burnt the sole evidence that could at all have criminated me.", "pos": 323225}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "What? the accusation?", "pos": 323292}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No; the letter.", "pos": 323316}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Are you sure?", "pos": 323334}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I saw it done.", "pos": 323350}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "That alters the case. This man might, after all, be a greater scoundrel than you have thought possible.", "pos": 323367}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Upon my word, you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?", "pos": 323473}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Yes; and remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.", "pos": 323573}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Never mind; let us go on.", "pos": 323667}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "With all my heart! You tell me he burned the letter?", "pos": 323695}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He did; saying at the same time, ‘You see I thus destroy the only proof existing against you.’", "pos": 323750}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "This action is somewhat too sublime to be natural.", "pos": 323847}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You think so?", "pos": 323900}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I am sure of it. To whom was this letter addressed?", "pos": 323916}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To M. Noirtier, Rue Coq-Héron, No. 13, Paris.", "pos": 323970}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Now can you conceive of any interest that your heroic deputy could possibly have had in the destruction of that letter?", "pos": 324018}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why, it is not altogether impossible he might have had, for he made me promise several times never to speak of that letter to anyone, assuring me he so advised me for my own interest; and, more than this, he insisted on my taking a solemn oath never to utter the name mentioned in the address.", "pos": 324140}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Noirtier! Noirtier!—I knew a person of that name at the court of the Queen of Etruria,—a Noirtier, who had been a Girondin during the Revolution! What was your deputy called?", "pos": 324435}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "De Villefort! What ails you?", "pos": 324633}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Do you see that ray of sunlight?", "pos": 324773}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do.", "pos": 324808}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Well, the whole thing is more clear to me than that sunbeam is to you. Poor fellow! poor young man! And you tell me this magistrate expressed great sympathy and commiseration for you?", "pos": 324816}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He did.", "pos": 325002}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "And the worthy man destroyed your compromising letter?", "pos": 325012}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 325069}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "And then made you swear never to utter the name of Noirtier?", "pos": 325076}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 325139}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Why, you poor short-sighted simpleton, can you not guess who this Noirtier was, whose very name he was so careful to keep concealed? This Noirtier was his father!", "pos": 325146}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "His father! his father!", "pos": 325633}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Yes, his father, his right name was Noirtier de Villefort.", "pos": 325659}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I must be alone, to think over all this.", "pos": 326290}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I regret now, having helped you in your late inquiries, or having given you the information I did.", "pos": 327486}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why so?", "pos": 327598}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Because it has instilled a new passion in your heart—that of vengeance.", "pos": 327625}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Let us talk of something else,", "pos": 327714}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You must teach me a small part of what you know, if only to prevent your growing weary of me. I can well believe that so learned a person as yourself would prefer absolute solitude to being tormented with the company of one as ignorant and uninformed as myself. If you will only agree to my request, I promise you never to mention another word about escaping.", "pos": 328796}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Alas, my boy, human knowledge is confined within very narrow limits; and when I have taught you mathematics, physics, history, and the three or four modern languages with which I am acquainted, you will know as much as I do myself. Now, it will scarcely require two years for me to communicate to you the stock of learning I possess.", "pos": 329190}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Two years! do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time?", "pos": 329537}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.", "pos": 329643}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But cannot one learn philosophy?", "pos": 329818}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth; it is like the golden cloud in which the Messiah went up into heaven.", "pos": 329853}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, then. What shall you teach me first? I am in a hurry to begin. I want to learn.", "pos": 330002}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Everything,", "pos": 330105}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Ah, if there were no sentinel!", "pos": 331687}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "There shall not be one a minute longer than you please,", "pos": 331720}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I have already told you, that I loathe the idea of shedding blood.", "pos": 331943}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And yet the murder, if you choose to call it so, would be simply a measure of self-preservation.", "pos": 332033}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "No matter! I could never agree to it.", "pos": 332132}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Still, you have thought of it?", "pos": 332172}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Incessantly, alas!", "pos": 332205}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And you have discovered a means of regaining our freedom, have you not?", "pos": 332242}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I have; if it were only possible to place a deaf and blind sentinel in the gallery beyond us.", "pos": 332338}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He shall be both blind and deaf,", "pos": 332434}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "No, no, impossible! Are you strong? And will you engage not to do any harm to the sentry, except as a last resort?", "pos": 332554}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I promise on my honor.", "pos": 333004}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Then, we may hope to put our design into execution.", "pos": 333029}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And how long shall we be in accomplishing the necessary work?", "pos": 333100}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "At least a year.", "pos": 333164}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And shall we begin at once?", "pos": 333183}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "At once.", "pos": 333213}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "We have lost a year to no purpose!", "pos": 333224}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Do you consider the last twelve months to have been wasted?", "pos": 333275}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Forgive me!", "pos": 333353}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Tut, tut! man is but man after all, and you are about the best specimen of the genus I have ever known. Come, let me show you my plan.", "pos": 333398}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Gracious heavens! what is the matter? what has happened?", "pos": 337263}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Quick! quick! listen to what I have to say.", "pos": 337342}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Tell me, I beseech you, what ails you?", "pos": 337639}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Alas, all is over with me. I am seized with a terrible, perhaps mortal illness; I can feel that the paroxysm is fast approaching. I had a similar attack the year previous to my imprisonment. This malady admits but of one remedy; I will tell you what that is. Go into my cell as quickly as you can; draw out one of the feet that support the bed; you will find it has been hollowed out for the purpose of containing a small phial you will see there half-filled with a red-looking fluid. Bring it to me—or rather—no, no!—I may be found here, therefore help me back to my room while I have the strength to drag myself along. Who knows what may happen, or how long the attack may last? Thanks. I am about to be seized with a fit of catalepsy; when it comes to its height I shall probably lie still and motionless as though dead, uttering neither sigh nor groan. On the other hand, the symptoms may be much more violent, and cause me to fall into fearful convulsions, foam at the mouth, and cry out loudly. Take care my cries are not heard, for if they are it is more than probable I should be removed to another part of the prison, and we be separated forever. When I become quite motionless, cold, and rigid as a corpse, then, and not before,—be careful about this,—force open my teeth with the knife, pour from eight to ten drops of the liquor contained in the phial down my throat, and I may perhaps revive.", "pos": 337732}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Perhaps!", "pos": 339578}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Help! help! I—I—die—I——", "pos": 339631}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He is saved! he is saved!", "pos": 340993}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I did not expect to see you again,", "pos": 342074}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And why not? Did you fancy yourself dying?", "pos": 342138}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "No, I had no such idea; but, knowing that all was ready for flight, I thought you might have made your escape.", "pos": 342206}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Without you? Did you really think me capable of that?", "pos": 342379}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "At least. I now see how wrong such an opinion would have been. Alas, alas! I am fearfully exhausted and debilitated by this attack.", "pos": 342435}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Be of good cheer, your strength will return.", "pos": 342585}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "The last attack I had, lasted but half an hour, and after it I was hungry, and got up without help; now I can move neither my right arm nor leg, and my head seems uncomfortable, which shows that there has been a suffusion of blood on the brain. The third attack will either carry me off, or leave me paralyzed for life.", "pos": 342756}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, no, you are mistaken—you will not die! And your third attack (if, indeed, you should have another) will find you at liberty. We shall save you another time, as we have done this, only with a better chance of success, because we shall be able to command every requisite assistance.", "pos": 343089}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "My good Edmond, be not deceived. The attack which has just passed away, condemns me forever to the walls of a prison. None can fly from a dungeon who cannot walk.", "pos": 343392}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, we will wait,—a week, a month, two months, if need be,—and meanwhile your strength will return. Everything is in readiness for our flight, and we can select any time we choose. As soon as you feel able to swim we will go.", "pos": 343578}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I shall never swim again. This arm is paralyzed; not for a time, but forever. Lift it, and judge if I am mistaken. You are convinced now, Edmond, are you not? Depend upon it, I know what I say. Since the first attack I experienced of this malady, I have continually reflected on it. Indeed, I expected it, for it is a family inheritance; both my father and grandfather died of it in a third attack. The physician who prepared for me the remedy I have twice successfully taken, was no other than the celebrated Cabanis, and he predicted a similar end for me.", "pos": 343808}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The physician may be mistaken! And as for your poor arm, what difference will that make? I can take you on my shoulders, and swim for both of us.", "pos": 344530}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "My son, you, who are a sailor and a swimmer, must know as well as I do that a man so loaded would sink before he had done fifty strokes. Cease, then, to allow yourself to be duped by vain hopes, that even your own excellent heart refuses to believe in. Here I shall remain till the hour of my deliverance arrives, and that, in all human probability, will be the hour of my death. As for you, who are young and active, delay not on my account, but fly—go—I give you back your promise.", "pos": 344698}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is well. Then I shall also remain. By the blood of Christ I swear never to leave you while you live.", "pos": 345201}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Thanks. I accept. You may one of these days reap the reward of your disinterested devotion. But as I cannot, and you will not, quit this place, it becomes necessary to fill up the excavation beneath the soldier’s gallery; he might, by chance, hear the hollow sound of his footsteps, and call the attention of his officer to the circumstance. That would bring about a discovery which would inevitably lead to our being separated. Go, then, and set about this work, in which, unhappily, I can offer you no assistance; keep at it all night, if necessary, and do not return here tomorrow till after the jailer has visited me. I shall have something of the greatest importance to communicate to you.", "pos": 345625}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 347096}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Look at it,", "pos": 347125}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have looked at it with all possible attention, and I only see a half-burnt paper, on which are traces of Gothic characters inscribed with a peculiar kind of ink.", "pos": 347167}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "This paper, my friend. I may now avow to you, since I have the proof of your fidelity—this paper is my treasure, of which, from this day forth, one-half belongs to you.", "pos": 347348}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Your treasure?", "pos": 348042}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Yes. You have, indeed, a noble nature, Edmond, and I see by your paleness and agitation what is passing in your heart at this moment. No, be assured, I am not mad. This treasure exists, Dantès, and if I have not been allowed to possess it, you will. Yes—you. No one would listen or believe me, because everyone thought me mad; but you, who must know that I am not, listen to me, and believe me so afterwards if you will.", "pos": 348091}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Alas, this is a terrible relapse! There was only this blow wanting. My dear friend, your attack has, perhaps, fatigued you; had you not better repose awhile? Tomorrow, if you will, I will hear your narrative; but today I wish to nurse you carefully. Besides, a treasure is not a thing we need hurry about.", "pos": 348525}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "On the contrary, it is a matter of the utmost importance, Edmond! Who knows if tomorrow, or the next day after, the third attack may not come on? and then must not all be over? Yes, indeed, I have often thought with a bitter joy that these riches, which would make the wealth of a dozen families, will be forever lost to those men who persecute me. This idea was one of vengeance to me, and I tasted it slowly in the night of my dungeon and the despair of my captivity. But now I have forgiven the world for the love of you; now that I see you, young and with a promising future,—now that I think of all that may result to you in the good fortune of such a disclosure, I shudder at any delay, and tremble lest I should not assure to one as worthy as yourself the possession of so vast an amount of hidden wealth.", "pos": 348896}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You persist in your incredulity, Edmond. My words have not convinced you. I see you require proofs. Well, then, read this paper, which I have never shown to anyone. Tomorrow, my dear friend. I thought it was understood that we should not talk of that until tomorrow.", "pos": 349775}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Then we will not talk of it until tomorrow; but read this paper today.", "pos": 350131}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I will not irritate him, this treasure, which may amount to two... of Roman crowns in the most distant a... of the second opening wh... declare to belong to him alo... heir.", "pos": 350204}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "25th April, 149’ Well!", "pos": 350502}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why. I see nothing but broken lines and unconnected words, which are rendered illegible by fire.", "pos": 350585}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Yes, to you, my friend, who read them for the first time; but not for me, who have grown pale over them by many nights’ study, and have reconstructed every phrase, completed every thought. And do you believe you have discovered the hidden meaning? I am sure I have, and you shall judge for yourself; but first listen to the history of this paper.", "pos": 350702}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Silence! Steps approach—I go—adieu!", "pos": 351055}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Here I am, pursuing you remorselessly. You thought to escape my munificence, but it is in vain. Listen to me. You know, that I was the secretary and intimate friend of Cardinal Spada, the last of the princes of that name. I owe to this worthy lord all the happiness I ever knew. He was not rich, although the wealth of his family had passed into a proverb, and I heard the phrase very often, ‘As rich as a Spada.’ But he, like public rumor, lived on this reputation for wealth; his palace was my paradise. I was tutor to his nephews, who are dead; and when he was alone in the world, I tried by absolute devotion to his will, to make up to him all he had done for me during ten years of unremitting kindness. The cardinal’s house had no secrets for me. I had often seen my noble patron annotating ancient volumes, and eagerly searching amongst dusty family manuscripts. One day when I was reproaching him for his unavailing searches, and deploring the prostration of mind that followed them, he looked at me, and, smiling bitterly, opened a volume relating to the History of the City of Rome. There, in the twentieth chapter of the Life of Pope Alexander VI., were the following lines, which I can never forget:— The great wars of Romagna had ended; Cæsar Borgia, who had completed his conquest, had need of money to purchase all Italy. The pope had also need of money to bring matters to an end with Louis XII. King of France, who was formidable still in spite of his recent reverses; and it was necessary, therefore, to have recourse to some profitable scheme, which was a matter of great difficulty in the impoverished condition of exhausted Italy. His holiness had an idea. He determined to make two cardinals. By choosing two of the greatest personages of Rome, especially rich men—this was the return the Holy Father looked for. In the first place, he could sell the great appointments and splendid offices which the cardinals already held; and then he had the two hats to sell besides. There was a third point in view, which will appear hereafter. The pope and Cæsar Borgia first found the two future cardinals; they were Giovanni Rospigliosi, who held four of the highest dignities of the Holy See, and Cæsar Spada, one of the noblest and richest of the Roman nobility; both felt the high honor of such a favor from the pope. They were ambitious, and Cæsar Borgia soon found purchasers for their appointments. The result was, that Rospigliosi and Spada paid for being cardinals, and eight other persons paid for the offices the cardinals held before their elevation, and thus eight hundred thousand crowns entered into the coffers of the speculators. It is time now to proceed to the last part of the speculation. The pope heaped attentions upon Rospigliosi and Spada, conferred upon them the insignia of the cardinalate, and induced them to arrange their affairs and take up their residence at Rome. Then the pope and Cæsar Borgia invited the two cardinals to dinner. This was a matter of dispute between the Holy Father and his son. Cæsar thought they could make use of one of the means which he always had ready for his friends, that is to say, in the first place, the famous key which was given to certain persons with the request that they go and open a designated cupboard. This key was furnished with a small iron point,—a negligence on the part of the locksmith. When this was pressed to effect the opening of the cupboard, of which the lock was difficult, the person was pricked by this small point, and died next day. Then there was the ring with the lion’s head, which Cæsar wore when he wanted to greet his friends with a clasp of the hand. The lion bit the hand thus favored, and at the end of twenty-four hours, the bite was mortal. Cæsar proposed to his father, that they should either ask the cardinals to open the cupboard, or shake hands with them; but Alexander VI. replied: ‘Now as to the worthy cardinals, Spada and Rospigliosi, let us ask both of them to dinner, something tells me that we shall get that money back. Besides, you forget, Cæsar, an indigestion declares itself immediately, while a prick or a bite occasions a delay of a day or two.’ Cæsar gave way before such cogent reasoning, and the cardinals were consequently invited to dinner. The table was laid in a vineyard belonging to the pope, near San Pierdarena, a charming retreat which the cardinals knew very well by report. Rospigliosi, quite set up with his new dignities, went with a good appetite and his most ingratiating manner. Spada, a prudent man, and greatly attached to his only nephew, a young captain of the highest promise, took paper and pen, and made his will. He then sent word to his nephew to wait for him near the vineyard; but it appeared the servant did not find him. Spada knew what these invitations meant; since Christianity, so eminently civilizing, had made progress in Rome, it was no longer a centurion who came from the tyrant with a message, ‘Cæsar wills that you die.’ but it was a legate à latere, who came with a smile on his lips to say from the pope, ‘His holiness requests you to dine with him.’ Spada set out about two o’clock to San Pierdarena. The pope awaited him. The first sight that attracted the eyes of Spada was that of his nephew, in full costume, and Cæsar Borgia paying him most marked attentions. Spada turned pale, as Cæsar looked at him with an ironical air, which proved that he had anticipated all, and that the snare was well spread. They began dinner and Spada was only able to inquire of his nephew if he had received his message. The nephew replied no; perfectly comprehending the meaning of the question. It was too late, for he had already drunk a glass of excellent wine, placed for him expressly by the pope’s butler. Spada at the same moment saw another bottle approach him, which he was pressed to taste. An hour afterwards a physician declared they were both poisoned through eating mushrooms. Spada died on the threshold of the vineyard; the nephew expired at his own door, making signs which his wife could not comprehend. Then Cæsar and the pope hastened to lay hands on the heritage, under pretense of seeking for the papers of the dead man. But the inheritance consisted in this only, a scrap of paper on which Spada had written:—‘I bequeath to my beloved nephew my coffers, my books, and, amongst others, my breviary with the gold corners, which I beg he will preserve in remembrance of his affectionate uncle.’ The heirs sought everywhere, admired the breviary, laid hands on the furniture, and were greatly astonished that Spada, the rich man, was really the most miserable of uncles—no treasures—unless they were those of science, contained in the library and laboratories. That was all. Cæsar and his father searched, examined, scrutinized, but found nothing, or at least very little; not exceeding a few thousand crowns in plate, and about the same in ready money; but the nephew had time to say to his wife before he expired: ‘Look well among my uncle’s papers; there is a will.’", "pos": 353184}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Up to this point, this seems to you very meaningless, no doubt, eh?", "pos": 361612}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, my friend, on the contrary, it seems as if I were reading a most interesting narrative; go on, I beg of you.", "pos": 361738}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I will. The family began to get accustomed to their obscurity. Years rolled on, and amongst the descendants some were soldiers, others diplomatists; some churchmen, some bankers; some grew rich, and some were ruined. I come now to the last of the family, whose secretary I was—the Count of Spada. I had often heard him complain of the disproportion of his rank with his fortune; and I advised him to invest all he had in an annuity. He did so, and thus doubled his income. The celebrated breviary remained in the family, and was in the count’s possession. It had been handed down from father to son; for the singular clause of the only will that had been found, had caused it to be regarded as a genuine relic, preserved in the family with superstitious veneration. It was an illuminated book, with beautiful Gothic characters, and so weighty with gold, that a servant always carried it before the cardinal on days of great solemnity. At the sight of papers of all sorts,—titles, contracts, parchments, which were kept in the archives of the family, all descending from the poisoned cardinal, I in my turn examined the immense bundles of documents, like twenty servitors, stewards, secretaries before me; but in spite of the most exhaustive researches, I found—nothing. Yet I had read, I had even written a precise history of the Borgia family, for the sole purpose of assuring myself whether any increase of fortune had occurred to them on the death of the Cardinal Cæsar Spada; but could only trace the acquisition of the property of the Cardinal Rospigliosi, his companion in misfortune. I was then almost assured that the inheritance had neither profited the Borgias nor the family, but had remained unpossessed like the treasures of the Arabian Nights, which slept in the bosom of the earth under the eyes of the genie. I searched, ransacked, counted, calculated a thousand and a thousand times the income and expenditure of the family for three hundred years. It was useless. I remained in my ignorance, and the Count of Spada in his poverty. My patron died. He had reserved from his annuity his family papers, his library, composed of five thousand volumes, and his famous breviary. All these he bequeathed to me, with a thousand Roman crowns, which he had in ready money, on condition that I would have anniversary masses said for the repose of his soul, and that I would draw up a genealogical tree and history of his house. All this I did scrupulously. Be easy, my dear Edmond, we are near the conclusion. In 1807, a month before I was arrested, and a fortnight after the death of the Count of Spada, on the 25th of December (you will see presently how the date became fixed in my memory), I was reading, for the thousandth time, the papers I was arranging, for the palace was sold to a stranger, and I was going to leave Rome and settle at Florence, intending to take with me twelve thousand francs I possessed, my library, and the famous breviary, when, tired with my constant labor at the same thing, and overcome by a heavy dinner I had eaten, my head dropped on my hands, and I fell asleep about three o’clock in the afternoon. I awoke as the clock was striking six. I raised my head; I was in utter darkness. I rang for a light, but, as no one came, I determined to find one for myself. It was indeed but anticipating the simple manners which I should soon be under the necessity of adopting. I took a wax-candle in one hand, and with the other groped about for a piece of paper (my match-box being empty), with which I proposed to get a light from the small flame still playing on the embers. Fearing, however, to make use of any valuable piece of paper, I hesitated for a moment, then recollected that I had seen in the famous breviary, which was on the table beside me, an old paper quite yellow with age, and which had served as a marker for centuries, kept there by the request of the heirs. I felt for it, found it, twisted it up together, and putting it into the expiring flame, set light to it. But beneath my fingers, as if by magic, in proportion as the fire ascended, I saw yellowish characters appear on the paper. I grasped it in my hand, put out the flame as quickly as I could, lighted my taper in the fire itself, and opened the crumpled paper with inexpressible emotion, recognizing, when I had done so, that these characters had been traced in mysterious and sympathetic ink, only appearing when exposed to the fire; nearly one-third of the paper had been consumed by the flame. It was that paper you read this morning; read it again, Dantès, and then I will complete for you the incomplete words and unconnected sense.", "pos": 361869}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "This 25th day of April, 1498, be... Alexander VI., and fearing that not... he may desire to become my heir, and re... and Bentivoglio, who were poisoned,... my sole heir, that I have bu... and has visited with me, that is, in... Island of Monte Cristo, all I poss... jewels, diamonds, gems; that I alone... may amount to nearly two mil... will find on raising the twentieth ro... creek to the east in a right line. Two open... in these caves; the treasure is in the furthest a... which treasure I bequeath and leave en... as my sole heir. 25th April, 1498. Cæs...", "pos": 366692}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "And now, read this other paper;", "pos": 367259}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "...ing invited to dine by his Holiness ...content with making me pay for my hat, ...serves for me the fate of Cardinals Caprara ...I declare to my nephew, Guido Spada ...ried in a place he knows ...the caves of the small ...essed of ingots, gold, money, ...know of the existence of this treasure, which ...lions of Roman crowns, and which he ...ck from the small ...ings have been made ...ngle in the second; ...tire to him ...ar † Spada.", "pos": 367420}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "And now, put the two fragments together, and judge for yourself.", "pos": 367902}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "This 25th day of April, 1498, be...ing invited to dine by his Holiness Alexander VI., and fearing that not...content with making me pay for my hat, he may desire to become my heir, and re...serves for me the fate of Cardinals Caprara and Bentivoglio, who were poisoned,...I declare to my nephew, Guido Spada, my sole heir, that I have bu...ried in a place he knows and has visited with me, that is, in...the caves of the small Island of Monte Cristo, all I poss...essed of ingots, gold, money, jewels, diamonds, gems; that I alone...know of the existence of this treasure, which may amount to nearly two mil...lions of Roman crowns, and which he will find on raising the twentieth ro...ck from the small creek to the east in a right line. Two open...ings have been made in these caves; the treasure is in the furthest a...ngle in the second; which treasure I bequeath and leave en...tire to him as my sole heir. 25th April, 1498. Cæs...ar † Spada.", "pos": 368095}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Well, do you comprehend now?", "pos": 369047}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is the declaration of Cardinal Spada, and the will so long sought for,", "pos": 369094}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Yes; a thousand times, yes!", "pos": 369205}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And who completed it as it now is?", "pos": 369235}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I did. Aided by the remaining fragment, I guessed the rest; measuring the length of the lines by those of the paper, and divining the hidden meaning by means of what was in part revealed, as we are guided in a cavern by the small ray of light above us.", "pos": 369272}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And what did you do when you arrived at this conclusion?", "pos": 369527}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "I resolved to set out, and did set out at that very instant, carrying with me the beginning of my great work, the unity of the Italian kingdom; but for some time the imperial police (who at this period, quite contrary to what Napoleon desired so soon as he had a son born to him, wished for a partition of provinces) had their eyes on me; and my hasty departure, the cause of which they were unable to guess, having aroused their suspicions, I was arrested at the very moment I was leaving Piombino. Now, now, my dear fellow, you know as much as I do myself. If we ever escape together, half this treasure is yours; if I die here, and you escape alone, the whole belongs to you.", "pos": 369586}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But, has this treasure no more legitimate possessor in the world than ourselves?", "pos": 370341}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "No, no, be easy on that score; the family is extinct. The last Count of Spada, moreover, made me his heir, bequeathing to me this symbolic breviary, he bequeathed to me all it contained; no, no, make your mind satisfied on that point. If we lay hands on this fortune, we may enjoy it without remorse.", "pos": 370454}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And you say this treasure amounts to——", "pos": 370757}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Two millions of Roman crowns; nearly thirteen millions of our money.", "pos": 370798}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Impossible!", "pos": 370870}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Impossible? and why? The Spada family was one of the oldest and most powerful families of the fifteenth century; and in those times, when other opportunities for investment were wanting, such accumulations of gold and jewels were by no means rare; there are at this day Roman families perishing of hunger, though possessed of nearly a million in diamonds and jewels, handed down by entail, and which they cannot touch. I have only kept this secret so long from you, that I might test your character, and then surprise you. Had we escaped before my attack of catalepsy, I should have conducted you to Monte Cristo; now, it is you who will conduct me thither. Well, Dantès, you do not thank me?", "pos": 370931}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "This treasure belongs to you, my dear friend, and to you only. I have no right to it. I am no relation of yours.", "pos": 371766}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "You are my son, Dantès. You are the child of my captivity. My profession condemns me to celibacy. God has sent you to me to console, at one and the same time, the man who could not be a father, and the prisoner who could not get free.", "pos": 371899}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You see,", "pos": 374661}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Alas, can it be?", "pos": 379106}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Alas, my dear friend, you understand, do you not, and I need not attempt to explain to you?", "pos": 379571}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Help, help!", "pos": 379796}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Silence, or you are lost. We must now only think of you, my dear friend, and so act as to render your captivity supportable or your flight possible. It would require years to do again what I have done here, and the results would be instantly destroyed if our jailers knew we had communicated with each other. Besides, be assured, my dear Edmond, the dungeon I am about to leave will not long remain empty; some other unfortunate being will soon take my place, and to him you will appear like an angel of salvation. Perhaps he will be young, strong, and enduring, like yourself, and will aid you in your escape, while I have been but a hindrance. You will no longer have half a dead body tied to you as a drag to all your movements. At length Providence has done something for you; he restores to you more than he takes away, and it was time I should die.", "pos": 379862}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, my friend, my friend, speak not thus!", "pos": 380777}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, I have saved you once, and I will save you a second time!", "pos": 380988}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "See,", "pos": 381150}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "there remains still some of the magic draught. Quick, quick! tell me what I must do this time; are there any fresh instructions? Speak, my friend; I listen.", "pos": 381171}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "There is not a hope, but no matter; God wills it that man whom he has created, and in whose heart he has so profoundly rooted the love of life, should do all in his power to preserve that existence, which, however painful it may be, is yet always so dear.", "pos": 381330}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, yes, yes!", "pos": 381623}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and I tell you that I will save you yet.", "pos": 381657}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Well, then, try. The cold gains upon me. I feel the blood flowing towards my brain. These horrible chills, which make my teeth chatter and seem to dislocate my bones, begin to pervade my whole frame; in five minutes the malady will reach its height, and in a quarter of an hour there will be nothing left of me but a corpse.", "pos": 381700}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh!", "pos": 382027}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Do as you did before, only do not wait so long, all the springs of life are now exhausted in me, and death, has but half its work to do. If, after having made me swallow twelve drops instead of ten, you see that I do not recover, then pour the rest down my throat. Now lift me on my bed, for I can no longer support myself. And now, my dear friend, sole consolation of my wretched existence,—you whom Heaven gave me somewhat late, but still gave me, a priceless gift, and for which I am most grateful,—at the moment of separating from you forever, I wish you all the happiness and all the prosperity you so well deserve. My son, I bless thee! Listen, now, to what I say in this my dying moment. The treasure of the Spadas exists. God grants me the boon of vision unrestricted by time or space. I see it in the depths of the inner cavern. My eyes pierce the inmost recesses of the earth, and are dazzled at the sight of so much riches. If you do escape, remember that the poor abbé, whom all the world called mad, was not so. Hasten to Monte Cristo—avail yourself of the fortune—for you have indeed suffered long enough. Adieu, adieu!", "pos": 382081}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, no,—no, not yet,", "pos": 383686}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "do not forsake me! Oh, succor him! Help—help—help!", "pos": 383719}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Hush! hush! that they may not separate us if you save me!", "pos": 383772}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right. Oh, yes, yes; be assured I shall save you! Besides, although you suffer much, you do not seem to be in such agony as you were before.", "pos": 383858}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Do not mistake! I suffer less because there is in me less strength to endure. At your age we have faith in life; it is the privilege of youth to believe and hope, but old men see death more clearly. Oh, ’tis here—’tis here—’tis over—my sight is gone—my senses fail! Your hand, Dantès! Adieu! adieu! Monte Cristo, forget not Monte Cristo!", "pos": 384009}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Well, well, the madman has gone to look after his treasure. Good journey to him!", "pos": 388146}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "With all his millions, he will not have enough to pay for his shroud!", "pos": 388241}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh,", "pos": 388327}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "the shrouds of the Château d’If are not dear!", "pos": 388354}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Perhaps,", "pos": 388408}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "as he was a churchman, they may go to some expense in his behalf.", "pos": 388454}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They may give him the honors of the sack.", "pos": 388522}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "I am very sorry for what you tell me, that the old man is really dead; for he was a quiet, inoffensive prisoner, happy in his folly, and required no watching.", "pos": 389437}
{"speaker": "Turnkey", "text": "Ah, there was no occasion for watching him; he would have stayed here fifty years, I’ll answer for it, without any attempt to escape.", "pos": 389660}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Still. I believe it will be requisite, notwithstanding your certainty, and not that I doubt your science, but in discharge of my official duty, that we should be perfectly assured that the prisoner is dead.", "pos": 389817}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "You may make your mind easy, he is dead. I will answer for that.", "pos": 390186}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "You know, sir, that we are not content in such cases as this with such a simple examination. In spite of all appearances, be so kind, therefore, as to finish your duty by fulfilling the formalities described by law.", "pos": 390272}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "Let the irons be heated, but really it is a useless precaution.", "pos": 390523}
{"speaker": "Turnkey", "text": "Here is the brazier, lighted.", "pos": 390784}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "You see, sir, he is really dead, this burn in the heel is decisive. The poor fool is cured of his folly, and delivered from his captivity.", "pos": 391100}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "Wasn’t his name Faria?", "pos": 391260}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "Yes, sir; and, as he said, it was an ancient name. He was, too, very learned, and rational enough on all points which did not relate to his treasure; but on that, indeed, he was intractable. It is the sort of malady which we call monomania,", "pos": 391350}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "You had never anything to complain of?", "pos": 391612}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "Never, sir, never; on the contrary, he sometimes amused me very much by telling me stories. One day, too, when my wife was ill, he gave me a prescription which cured her.", "pos": 391713}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "Ah, ah! I did not know that I had a rival; but I hope, governor, that you will show him all proper respect in consequence.", "pos": 391908}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Yes, yes, make your mind easy, he shall be decently interred in the newest sack we can find. Will that satisfy you?", "pos": 392052}
{"speaker": "Turnkey", "text": "Must this last formality take place in your presence, sir?", "pos": 392170}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Certainly. But make haste—I cannot stay here all day. This evening,", "pos": 392251}
{"speaker": "Turnkey", "text": "Will there be any mass?", "pos": 392621}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "That is impossible. The chaplain of the château came to me yesterday to beg for leave of absence, in order to take a trip to Hyères for a week. I told him I would attend to the prisoners in his absence. If the poor abbé had not been in such a hurry, he might have had his requiem.", "pos": 392700}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "Pooh, pooh; he is a churchman. God will respect his profession, and not give the devil the wicked delight of sending him a priest.", "pos": 392983}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "This evening,", "pos": 393305}
{"speaker": "Turnkey", "text": "At what hour?", "pos": 393365}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Why, about ten or eleven o’clock.", "pos": 393401}
{"speaker": "Turnkey", "text": "Shall we watch by the corpse?", "pos": 393437}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Of what use would it be? Shut the dungeon as if he were alive—that is all.", "pos": 393469}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If I could die,", "pos": 395294}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should go where he goes, and should assuredly find him again. But how to die? It is very easy,", "pos": 395321}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will remain here, rush on the first person that opens the door, strangle him, and then they will guillotine me.", "pos": 395445}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Die? oh, no,", "pos": 395805}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "not die now, after having lived and suffered so long and so much! Die? yes, had I died years ago; but now to die would be, indeed, to give way to the sarcasm of destiny. No, I want to live; I shall struggle to the very last; I will yet win back the happiness of which I have been deprived. Before I die I must not forget that I have my executioners to punish, and perhaps, too, who knows, some friends to reward. Yet they will forget me here, and I shall die in my dungeon like Faria.", "pos": 395833}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Just God! whence comes this thought? Is it from thee? Since none but the dead pass freely from this dungeon, let me take the place of the dead!", "pos": 396593}
{"speaker": "Grave-digger", "text": "He’s heavy, though, for an old and thin man. They say every year adds half a pound to the weight of the bones. Have you tied the knot? What would be the use of carrying so much more weight? I can do that when we get there. Yes, you’re right,", "pos": 400998}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What’s the knot for?", "pos": 401383}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Where am I?", "pos": 401957}
{"speaker": "Grave-digger", "text": "Really, he is by no means a light load! Give us a light, or I shall never find what I am looking for.", "pos": 401989}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What can he be looking for? The spade, perhaps.", "pos": 402337}
{"speaker": "Grave-digger", "text": "Here it is at last, not without some trouble, though. Yes, but it has lost nothing by waiting. Well, have you tied the knot? Yes, and pretty tight too, I can tell you. Move on, then. Bad weather! not a pleasant night for a dip in the sea. Why, yes, the abbé runs a chance of being wet. Well, here we are at last. A little farther—a little farther. You know very well that the last was stopped on his way, dashed on the rocks, and the governor told us next day that we were careless fellows. One! two! three!", "pos": 402504}
{"speaker": "Faria", "text": "Dantès, you must not give way to this listlessness; you will be drowned if you seek to escape, and your strength has not been properly exercised and prepared for exertion.", "pos": 407210}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Let us see. I have swum above an hour, but as the wind is against me, that has retarded my speed; however, if I am not mistaken, I must be close to Tiboulen. But what if I were mistaken? Well. I will swim on until I am worn out, or the cramp seizes me, and then I shall sink;", "pos": 408318}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In two or three hours, the turnkey will enter my chamber, find the body of my poor friend, recognize it, seek for me in vain, and give the alarm. Then the tunnel will be discovered; the men who cast me into the sea and who must have heard the cry I uttered, will be questioned. Then boats filled with armed soldiers will pursue the wretched fugitive. The cannon will warn everyone to refuse shelter to a man wandering about naked and famished. The police of Marseilles will be on the alert by land, whilst the governor pursues me by sea. I am cold, I am hungry. I have lost even the knife that saved me. Oh, my God, I have suffered enough surely! Have pity on me, and do for me what I am unable to do for myself. Oh, to think that in half an hour I could join her, did I not fear being questioned, detected, and conveyed back to Marseilles! What can I do? What story can I invent? under pretext of trading along the coast, these men, who are in reality smugglers, will prefer selling me to doing a good action. I must wait. But I cannot—I am starving. In a few hours my strength will be utterly exhausted; besides, perhaps I have not been missed at the fortress. I can pass as one of the sailors wrecked last night. My story will be accepted, for there is no one left to contradict me. I am saved!", "pos": 413016}
{"speaker": "Sailor", "text": "Courage!", "pos": 417067}
{"speaker": "the pilot", "text": "Who are you?", "pos": 418353}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am, a Maltese sailor. We were coming from Syracuse laden with grain. The storm of last night overtook us at Cape Morgiou, and we were wrecked on these rocks.", "pos": 418398}
{"speaker": "the pilot", "text": "Where do you come from?", "pos": 418594}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "From these rocks that I had the good luck to cling to while our captain and the rest of the crew were all lost. I saw your vessel, and fearful of being left to perish on the desolate island, I swam off on a piece of wreckage to try and intercept your course. You have saved my life, and I thank you. I was lost when one of your sailors caught hold of my hair.", "pos": 418620}
{"speaker": "a sailor", "text": "It was I, and it was time, for you were sinking.", "pos": 419002}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes. I thank you again.", "pos": 419102}
{"speaker": "the sailor", "text": "I almost hesitated, though, you looked more like a brigand than an honest man, with your beard six inches, and your hair a foot long.", "pos": 419169}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes. I made a vow, to our Lady of the Grotto not to cut my hair or beard for ten years if I were saved in a moment of danger; but today the vow expires.", "pos": 419428}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "Now what are we to do with you?", "pos": 419594}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Alas, anything you please. My captain is dead; I have barely escaped; but I am a good sailor. Leave me at the first port you make; I shall be sure to find employment.", "pos": 419646}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "Do you know the Mediterranean?", "pos": 419815}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have sailed over it since my childhood.", "pos": 419848}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "You know the best harbors?", "pos": 419892}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "There are few ports that I could not enter or leave with a bandage over my eyes.", "pos": 419921}
{"speaker": "the sailor", "text": "I say, captain, if what he says is true, what hinders his staying with us?", "pos": 420004}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "If he says true. But in his present condition he will promise anything, and take his chance of keeping it afterwards.", "pos": 420135}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I will do more than I promise,", "pos": 420286}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "We shall see,", "pos": 420332}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Where are you going?", "pos": 420377}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "To Leghorn.", "pos": 420414}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then why, instead of tacking so frequently, do you not sail nearer the wind?", "pos": 420428}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "Because we should run straight on to the Island of Rion.", "pos": 420507}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You shall pass it by twenty fathoms.", "pos": 420566}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "Take the helm, and let us see what you know.", "pos": 420605}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To the sheets. Haul taut. Belay.", "pos": 420820}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "Bravo!", "pos": 421062}
{"speaker": "the sailors", "text": "Bravo!", "pos": 421089}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You see. I shall be of some use to you, at least during the voyage. If you do not want me at Leghorn, you can leave me there, and I will pay you out of the first wages I get, for my food and the clothes you lend me.", "pos": 421276}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "Ah, we can agree very well, if you are reasonable.", "pos": 421528}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Give me what you give the others, and it will be all right,", "pos": 421601}
{"speaker": "the seaman who had saved Dantès", "text": "That’s not fair, for you know more than we do.", "pos": 421680}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "What is that to you, Jacopo? Everyone is free to ask what he pleases.", "pos": 421769}
{"speaker": "Jacopo", "text": "That’s true. I only make a remark.", "pos": 421865}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "Well, you would do much better to find him a jacket and a pair of trousers, if you have them.", "pos": 421920}
{"speaker": "Jacopo", "text": "No, but I have a shirt and a pair of trousers.", "pos": 422016}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That is all I want,", "pos": 422080}
{"speaker": "the patron", "text": "Now, then, do you wish for anything else?", "pos": 422192}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A piece of bread and another glass of the capital rum I tasted, for I have not eaten or drunk for a long time.", "pos": 422253}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "Larboard your helm. Hollo! what’s the matter at the Château d’If? What is this?", "pos": 422470}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A prisoner has escaped from the Château d’If, and they are firing the alarm gun. Pretty strong rum!", "pos": 422930}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "At any rate, if it be, so much the better, for I have made a rare acquisition.", "pos": 423264}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What is the day of the month?", "pos": 423617}
{"speaker": "Jacopo", "text": "The 28th of February.", "pos": 423694}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In what year?", "pos": 423718}
{"speaker": "Jacopo", "text": "In what year—you ask me in what year?", "pos": 423734}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes. I ask you in what year!", "pos": 423774}
{"speaker": "Jacopo", "text": "You have forgotten then?", "pos": 423830}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I got such a fright last night, that I have almost lost my memory. I ask you what year is it?", "pos": 423857}
{"speaker": "Jacopo", "text": "The year 1829,", "pos": 423980}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Pain, thou art not an evil.", "pos": 435443}
{"speaker": "Jacopo", "text": "What is the use of teaching all these things to a poor sailor like me?", "pos": 437575}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Who knows? You may one day be the captain of a vessel. Your fellow-countryman, Bonaparte, became emperor.", "pos": 437664}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Where shall we pass the night?", "pos": 446501}
{"speaker": "Jacopo", "text": "Why, on board the tartan,", "pos": 446547}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Should we not do better in the grottos?", "pos": 446595}
{"speaker": "Jacopo", "text": "What grottos?", "pos": 446637}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why, the grottos—caves of the island.", "pos": 446653}
{"speaker": "Jacopo", "text": "I do not know of any grottos,", "pos": 446693}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What, are there no grottos at Monte Cristo?", "pos": 446786}
{"speaker": "Jacopo", "text": "None.", "pos": 446842}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In two hours’ time, these persons will depart richer by fifty piastres each, to go and risk their lives again by endeavoring to gain fifty more; then they will return with a fortune of six hundred francs, and waste this treasure in some city with the pride of sultans and the insolence of nabobs. At this moment hope makes me despise their riches, which seem to me contemptible. Yet perchance tomorrow deception will so act on me, that I shall, on compulsion, consider such a contemptible possession as the utmost happiness. Oh, no! that will not be. The wise, unerring Faria could not be mistaken in this one thing. Besides, it were better to die than to continue to lead this low and wretched life.", "pos": 449248}
{"speaker": "the commander", "text": "He has broken his ribs. No matter; he is an excellent fellow, and we must not leave him. We will try and carry him on board the tartan.", "pos": 454274}
{"speaker": "the patron", "text": "Well, let what may happen, it shall never be said that we deserted a good comrade like you. We will not go till evening.", "pos": 454576}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, no. I was awkward, and it is just that I pay the penalty of my clumsiness. Leave me a small supply of biscuit, a gun, powder, and balls, to kill the kids or defend myself at need, and a pickaxe, that I may build a shelter if you delay in coming back for me.", "pos": 455024}
{"speaker": "the patron", "text": "But you’ll die of hunger,", "pos": 455313}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I would rather do so, than suffer the inexpressible agonies which the slightest movement causes me.", "pos": 455358}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "What are we to do, Maltese? We cannot leave you here so, and yet we cannot stay.", "pos": 455661}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Go, go!", "pos": 455765}
{"speaker": "the patron", "text": "We shall be absent at least a week, and then we must run out of our course to come here and take you up again.", "pos": 455793}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why, if in two or three days you hail any fishing-boat, desire them to come here to me. I will pay twenty-five piastres for my passage back to Leghorn. If you do not come across one, return for me.", "pos": 455925}
{"speaker": "Jacopo", "text": "Listen, Captain Baldi; there’s one way of settling this. Do you go, and I will stay and take care of the wounded man.", "pos": 456167}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And give up your share of the venture, to remain with me?", "pos": 456302}
{"speaker": "Jacopo", "text": "Yes, and without any hesitation.", "pos": 456377}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are a good fellow and a kind-hearted messmate, and heaven will recompense you for your generous intentions; but I do not wish anyone to stay with me. A day or two of rest will set me up, and I hope I shall find among the rocks certain herbs most excellent for bruises. ’Tis strange that it should be among such men that we find proofs of friendship and devotion.", "pos": 456427}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And now, now, Open Sesame!", "pos": 457920}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Come, be a man. I am accustomed to adversity. I must not be cast down by the discovery that I have been deceived. What, then, would be the use of all I have suffered? The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed. Faria has dreamed this; the Cardinal Spada buried no treasure here; perhaps he never came here, or if he did, Cæsar Borgia, the intrepid adventurer, the stealthy and indefatigable plunderer, has followed him, discovered his traces, pursued them as I have done, raised the stone, and descending before me, has left me nothing. Now that I expect nothing, now that I no longer entertain the slightest hopes, the end of this adventure becomes simply a matter of curiosity. Yes, yes; this is an adventure worthy a place in the varied career of that royal bandit. This fabulous event formed but a link in a long chain of marvels. Yes, Borgia has been here, a torch in one hand, a sword in the other, and within twenty paces, at the foot of this rock, perhaps two guards kept watch on land and sea, while their master descended, as I am about to descend, dispelling the darkness before his awe-inspiring progress. But what was the fate of the guards who thus possessed his secret? The fate, of those who buried Alaric, and were interred with the corpse. Yet, had he come, he would have found the treasure, and Borgia, he who compared Italy to an artichoke, which he could devour leaf by leaf, knew too well the value of time to waste it in replacing this rock. I will go down. Perhaps!", "pos": 464209}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Alas, these are the treasures the cardinal has left; and the good abbé, seeing in a dream these glittering walls, has indulged in fallacious hopes.", "pos": 466810}
{"speaker": "the cardinal", "text": "In the farthest angle of the second opening,", "pos": 467052}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is a casket of wood bound with iron,", "pos": 471184}
{"speaker": "the sailor", "text": "I beg your pardon, sir, but I believe you made a mistake; you intended to give me a two-franc piece, and see, you gave me a double Napoleon.", "pos": 488175}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Thank you, my good friend. I see that I have made a trifling mistake, as you say; but by way of rewarding your honesty I give you another double Napoleon, that you may drink to my health, and be able to ask your messmates to join you.", "pos": 488372}
{"speaker": "the sailor", "text": "Some nabob from India,", "pos": 488770}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Hush, La Carconte. It is God’s pleasure that things should be so.", "pos": 498288}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "You are welcome, sir, most welcome! Now, then, Margotin, will you be quiet? Pray don’t heed him, sir!—he only barks, he never bites. I make no doubt a glass of good wine would be acceptable this dreadfully hot day. A thousand pardons! I really did not observe whom I had the honor to receive under my poor roof. What would the abbé please to have? What refreshment can I offer? All I have is at his service.", "pos": 503115}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "You are, I presume, M. Caderousse?", "pos": 504154}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yes, sir. I am Gaspard Caderousse, at your service.", "pos": 504191}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "Gaspard Caderousse. Yes,—Christian and surname are the same. You formerly lived, I believe in the Allées de Meilhan, on the fourth floor?", "pos": 504357}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I did.", "pos": 504526}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "And you followed the business of a tailor?", "pos": 504535}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "True, I was a tailor, till the trade fell off. It is so hot at Marseilles, that really I believe that the respectable inhabitants will in time go without any clothing whatever. But talking of heat, is there nothing I can offer you by way of refreshment?", "pos": 504580}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "Yes; let me have a bottle of your best wine, and then, with your permission, we will resume our conversation from where we left off.", "pos": 504836}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "As you please, sir,", "pos": 504971}
{"speaker": "guest", "text": "Are you quite alone?", "pos": 505721}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "Quite, quite alone, or, at least, practically so, for my poor wife, who is the only person in the house besides myself, is laid up with illness, and unable to render me the least assistance, poor thing!", "pos": 505828}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "You are married, then?", "pos": 506051}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah, sir, it is easy to perceive I am not a rich man; but in this world a man does not thrive the better for being honest.", "pos": 506189}
{"speaker": "innkeeper", "text": "Yes, honest—I can certainly say that much for myself. I can boast with truth of being an honest man; and, that is more than everyone can say nowadays.", "pos": 506399}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So much the better for you, if what you assert be true, for I am firmly persuaded that, sooner or later, the good will be rewarded, and the wicked punished.", "pos": 506714}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Such words as those belong to your profession, and you do well to repeat them; but, one is free to believe them or not, as one pleases.", "pos": 506890}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are wrong to speak thus, and perhaps I may, in my own person, be able to prove to you how completely you are in error.", "pos": 507104}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "What mean you?", "pos": 507246}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In the first place, I must be satisfied that you are the person I am in search of.", "pos": 507308}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "What proofs do you require?", "pos": 507393}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Did you, in the year 1814 or 1815, know anything of a young sailor named Dantès?", "pos": 507423}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Dantès? Did I know poor dear Edmond? Why, Edmond Dantès and myself were intimate friends!", "pos": 507506}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "You remind me, that the young man concerning whom I asked you was said to bear the name of Edmond.", "pos": 507798}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Said to bear the name! Why, he was so called as truly as I myself bore the appellation of Gaspard Caderousse; but tell me, I pray, what has become of poor Edmond? Did you know him? Is he alive and at liberty? Is he prosperous and happy?", "pos": 507918}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "He died a more wretched, hopeless, heart-broken prisoner than the felons who pay the penalty of their crimes at the galleys of Toulon.", "pos": 508208}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Poor fellow, poor fellow! Well, there, sir, is another proof that good people are never rewarded on this earth, and that none but the wicked prosper. Ah, the world grows worse and worse. Why does not God, if he really hates the wicked, as he is said to do, send down brimstone and fire, and consume them altogether?", "pos": 508549}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You speak as though you had loved this young Dantès,", "pos": 508968}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "And so I did, though once, I confess, I envied him his good fortune. But I swear to you, sir, I swear to you, by everything a man holds dear, I have, since then, deeply and sincerely lamented his unhappy fate. You knew the poor lad, then?", "pos": 509098}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "I was called to see him on his dying bed, that I might administer to him the consolations of religion.", "pos": 509531}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "And of what did he die?", "pos": 509636}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "Of what, think you, do young and strong men die in prison, when they have scarcely numbered their thirtieth year, unless it be of imprisonment?", "pos": 509699}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But the strangest part of the story is, that Dantès, even in his dying moments, swore by his crucified Redeemer, that he was utterly ignorant of the cause of his detention.", "pos": 509932}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "And so he was. How should he have been otherwise? Ah, sir, the poor fellow told you the truth.", "pos": 510127}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "And for that reason, he besought me to try and clear up a mystery he had never been able to penetrate, and to clear his memory should any foul spot or stain have fallen on it.", "pos": 510247}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A rich Englishman, who had been his companion in misfortune, but had been released from prison during the second restoration, was possessed of a diamond of immense value; this jewel he bestowed on Dantès upon himself quitting the prison, as a mark of his gratitude for the kindness and brotherly care with which Dantès had nursed him in a severe illness he underwent during his confinement. Instead of employing this diamond in attempting to bribe his jailers, who might only have taken it and then betrayed him to the governor, Dantès carefully preserved it, that in the event of his getting out of prison he might have wherewithal to live, for the sale of such a diamond would have quite sufficed to make his fortune.", "pos": 510622}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Then, I suppose, that it was a stone of immense value?", "pos": 511366}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why, everything is relative. To one in Edmond’s position the diamond certainly was of great value. It was estimated at fifty thousand francs.", "pos": 511470}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Bless me! fifty thousand francs! Surely the diamond was as large as a nut to be worth all that.", "pos": 511635}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, it was not of such a size as that; but you shall judge for yourself. I have it with me.", "pos": 511757}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "And that diamond, you say, is worth fifty thousand francs?", "pos": 512233}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is, without the setting, which is also valuable,", "pos": 512355}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "as he closed the box, and returned it to his pocket, while its brilliant hues seemed still to dance before the eyes of the fascinated innkeeper.", "pos": 512426}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "But how comes the diamond in your possession, sir? Did Edmond make you his heir?", "pos": 512572}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, merely his testamentary executor. ‘I once possessed four dear and faithful friends, besides the maiden to whom I was betrothed’ he said; ‘and I feel convinced they have all unfeignedly grieved over my loss. The name of one of the four friends is Caderousse.’ Another of the number, is called Danglars; and the third, in spite of being my rival, entertained a very sincere affection for me. Allow me to finish first, and then if you have any observations to make, you can do so afterwards. ‘The third of my friends, although my rival, was much attached to me,—his name was Fernand; that of my betrothed was’—Stay, stay. I have forgotten what he called her.", "pos": 512655}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Mercédès,", "pos": 513593}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "True. Mercédès it was.", "pos": 513630}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Go on,", "pos": 513693}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Bring me a carafe of water. Where did we leave off?", "pos": 513720}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "The name of Edmond’s betrothed was Mercédès.", "pos": 514016}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To be sure. ‘You will go to Marseilles,’ said Dantès,—for you understand, I repeat his words just as he uttered them. Do you understand?", "pos": 514063}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Perfectly.", "pos": 514202}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You will sell this diamond; you will divide the money into five equal parts, and give an equal portion to these good friends, the only persons who have loved me upon earth.", "pos": 514216}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "But why into five parts? you only mentioned four persons.", "pos": 514392}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Because the fifth is dead, as I hear. The fifth sharer in Edmond’s bequest, was his own father.", "pos": 514472}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Too true, too true! the poor old man did die.", "pos": 514570}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I learned so much at Marseilles, but from the length of time that has elapsed since the death of the elder Dantès, I was unable to obtain any particulars of his end. Can you enlighten me on that point?", "pos": 514708}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I do not know who could if I could not. Why, I lived almost on the same floor with the poor old man. Ah, yes, about a year after the disappearance of his son the poor old man died.", "pos": 514978}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Of what did he die?", "pos": 515180}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Why, the doctors called his complaint gastro-enteritis, I believe; his acquaintances say he died of grief; but I, who saw him in his dying moments, I say he died of——", "pos": 515202}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "Of what?", "pos": 515390}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Why, of downright starvation.", "pos": 515442}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Starvation! Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very dogs that wander houseless and homeless in the streets find some pitying hand to cast them a mouthful of bread; and that a man, a Christian, should be allowed to perish of hunger in the midst of other men who call themselves Christians, is too horrible for belief. Oh, it is impossible!—utterly impossible!", "pos": 515474}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "What I have said, I have said,", "pos": 515924}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "And you are a fool for having said anything about it. Why should you meddle with what does not concern you?", "pos": 515978}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Mind your own business, wife. This gentleman asks me for information, which common politeness will not permit me to refuse.", "pos": 516417}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "Politeness, you simpleton! What have you to do with politeness, I should like to know? Better study a little common prudence. How do you know the motives that person may have for trying to extract all he can from you?", "pos": 516573}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I pledge you my word, madam, that my intentions are good; and that your husband can incur no risk, provided he answers me candidly.", "pos": 516817}
{"speaker": "woman", "text": "Ah, that’s all very fine. Nothing is easier than to begin with fair promises and assurances of nothing to fear; but when poor, silly folks, like my husband there, have been persuaded to tell all they know, the promises and assurances of safety are quickly forgotten; and at some moment when nobody is expecting it, behold trouble and misery, and all sorts of persecutions, are heaped on the unfortunate wretches, who cannot even see whence all their afflictions come.", "pos": 516968}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Nay, nay, my good woman, make yourself perfectly easy, I beg of you. Whatever evils may befall you, they will not be occasioned by my instrumentality, that I solemnly promise you. It appears, then, that the miserable old man you were telling me of was forsaken by everyone. Surely, had not such been the case, he would not have perished by so dreadful a death.", "pos": 517460}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Why, he was not altogether forsaken, for Mercédès the Catalan and Monsieur Morrel were very kind to him; but somehow the poor old man had contracted a profound hatred for Fernand—the very person, that you named just now as being one of Dantès’ faithful and attached friends.", "pos": 518233}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And was he not so?", "pos": 518574}
{"speaker": "woman", "text": "Gaspard, Gaspard! mind what you are saying!", "pos": 518611}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Can a man be faithful to another whose wife he covets and desires for himself? But Dantès was so honorable and true in his own nature, that he believed everybody’s professions of friendship. Poor Edmond, he was cruelly deceived; but it was fortunate that he never knew, or he might have found it more difficult, when on his deathbed, to pardon his enemies. And, whatever people may say. I cannot help being more frightened at the idea of the malediction of the dead than the hatred of the living.", "pos": 518841}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "Imbecile!", "pos": 519436}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do you, then, know in what manner Fernand injured Dantès?", "pos": 519471}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Do I? No one better.", "pos": 519564}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Speak out then, say what it was!", "pos": 519587}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "Gaspard! do as you will; you are master—but if you take my advice you’ll hold your tongue.", "pos": 519622}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Well, wife. I don’t know but what you’re right!", "pos": 519736}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So you will say nothing?", "pos": 519808}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Why, what good would it do? If the poor lad were living, and came to me and begged that I would candidly tell which were his true and which his false friends, why, perhaps, I should not hesitate. But you tell me he is no more, and therefore can have nothing to do with hatred or revenge, so let all such feeling be buried with him.", "pos": 519851}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You prefer, then, that I should bestow on men you say are false and treacherous, the reward intended for faithful friendship?", "pos": 520205}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "That is true enough. You say truly, the gift of poor Edmond was not meant for such traitors as Fernand and Danglars; besides, what would it be to them? no more than a drop of water in the ocean.", "pos": 520350}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "Remember, those two could crush you at a single blow!", "pos": 520570}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How so? Are these persons, then, so rich and powerful?", "pos": 520651}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Do you not know their history?", "pos": 520729}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do not. Pray relate it to me!", "pos": 520762}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "No, truly, it would take up too much time.", "pos": 520855}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, my good friend, you are at liberty, either to speak or be silent, just as you please; for my own part, I respect your scruples and admire your sentiments; so let the matter end. I shall do my duty as conscientiously as I can, and fulfil my promise to the dying man. My first business will be to dispose of this diamond.", "pos": 520900}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Wife, wife! come here!", "pos": 521505}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "Diamond! what diamond are you talking about?", "pos": 521560}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Why, did you not hear all we said? It is a beautiful diamond left by poor Edmond Dantès, to be sold, and the money divided between his father, Mercédès, his betrothed bride, Fernand, Danglars, and myself. The jewel is worth at least fifty thousand francs.", "pos": 521697}
{"speaker": "woman", "text": "Oh, what a magnificent jewel!", "pos": 521978}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "The fifth part of the profits from this stone belongs to us then, does it not?", "pos": 522038}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It does, with the addition of an equal division of that part intended for the elder Dantès, which I believe myself at liberty to divide equally with the four survivors.", "pos": 522136}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "And why among us four?", "pos": 522327}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "As being the friends Edmond esteemed most faithful and devoted to him.", "pos": 522373}
{"speaker": "the wife", "text": "I don’t call those friends who betray and ruin you,", "pos": 522446}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Of course not! no more do I, and that was what I was observing to this gentleman just now. I said I looked upon it as a sacrilegious profanation to reward treachery, perhaps crime.", "pos": 522558}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Remember, it is your fault, not mine, that I do so. You will have the goodness to furnish me with the address of both Fernand and Danglars, in order that I may execute Edmond’s last wishes.", "pos": 522772}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "There, you see, wife, this splendid diamond might all be ours, if we chose!", "pos": 523380}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "Do you believe it?", "pos": 523477}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Why, surely a man of his holy profession would not deceive us!", "pos": 523498}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "Well, do as you like. For my part, I wash my hands of the affair. Gaspard, consider well what you are about to do!", "pos": 523563}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I have both reflected and decided,", "pos": 523984}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "what have you made up your mind to do?", "pos": 524281}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "To tell you all I know,", "pos": 524322}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I certainly think you act wisely in so doing. Not because I have the least desire to learn anything you may please to conceal from me, but simply that if, through your assistance, I could distribute the legacy according to the wishes of the testator, why, so much the better, that is all.", "pos": 524363}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I hope it may be so,", "pos": 524673}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am all attention,", "pos": 524748}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Stop a minute, we might be interrupted in the most interesting part of my story, which would be a pity; and it is as well that your visit hither should be made known only to ourselves.", "pos": 524785}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "this is no affair of mine,", "pos": 525583}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Enough, enough! say no more about it; I will take all the consequences upon myself. First, sir, you must make me a promise.", "pos": 525745}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 525959}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Why, if you ever make use of the details I am about to give you, that you will never let anyone know that it was I who supplied them; for the persons of whom I am about to talk are rich and powerful, and if they only laid the tips of their fingers on me, I should break to pieces like glass.", "pos": 525994}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Make yourself easy, my friend. I am a priest, and confessions die in my breast. Recollect, our only desire is to carry out, in a fitting manner, the last wishes of our friend. Speak, then, without reserve, as without hatred; tell the truth, the whole truth; I do not know, never may know, the persons of whom you are about to speak; besides, I am an Italian, and not a Frenchman, and belong to God, and not to man, and I shall shortly retire to my convent, which I have only quitted to fulfil the last wishes of a dying man.", "pos": 526288}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Well, then, under these circumstances. I will, I even believe I ought to undeceive you as to the friendship which poor Edmond thought so sincere and unquestionable.", "pos": 526903}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Begin with his father, if you please. Edmond talked to me a great deal about the old man for whom he had the deepest love.", "pos": 527089}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "The history is a sad one, sir, perhaps you know all the earlier part of it?", "pos": 527231}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes. Edmond related to me everything until the moment when he was arrested in a small cabaret close to Marseilles.", "pos": 527346}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "At La Réserve! Oh, yes; I can see it all before me this moment.", "pos": 527484}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Was it not his betrothal feast?", "pos": 527550}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "It was and the feast that began so gayly had a very sorrowful ending; a police commissary, followed by four soldiers, entered, and Dantès was arrested.", "pos": 527584}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, and up to this point I know all. Dantès himself only knew that which personally concerned him, for he never beheld again the five persons I have named to you, or heard mention of anyone of them.", "pos": 527738}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because their deeds have brought them good fortune, while honest men have been reduced to misery.", "pos": 539499}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What has become of Danglars, the instigator, and therefore the most guilty?", "pos": 539599}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What has become of him? Why, he left Marseilles, and was taken, on the recommendation of M. Morrel, who did not know his crime, as cashier into a Spanish bank. During the war with Spain he was employed in the commissariat of the French army, and made a fortune; then with that money he speculated in the funds, and trebled or quadrupled his capital; and, having first married his banker’s daughter, who left him a widower, he has married a second time, a widow, a Madame de Nargonne, daughter of M. de Servieux, the king’s chamberlain, who is in high favor at court. He is a millionaire, and they have made him a baron, and now he is the Baron Danglars, with a fine residence in the Rue du Mont-Blanc, with ten horses in his stables, six footmen in his antechamber, and I know not how many millions in his strongbox.", "pos": 539677}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah!", "pos": 540496}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "he is happy.", "pos": 540537}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Happy? Who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to one’s self and the walls—walls have ears but no tongue; but if a large fortune produces happiness, Danglars is happy.", "pos": 540552}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And Fernand?", "pos": 540756}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Fernand? Why, much the same story.", "pos": 540771}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But how could a poor Catalan fisher-boy, without education or resources, make a fortune? I confess this staggers me.", "pos": 540808}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And it has staggered everybody. There must have been in his life some strange secret that no one knows.", "pos": 540927}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But, then, by what visible steps has he attained this high fortune or high position?", "pos": 541033}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Both, sir—he has both fortune and position—both.", "pos": 541120}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This must be impossible!", "pos": 541171}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It would seem so; but listen, and you will understand. Some days before the return of the emperor, Fernand was drafted. The Bourbons left him quietly enough at the Catalans, but Napoleon returned, a special levy was made, and Fernand was compelled to join. I went too; but as I was older than Fernand, and had just married my poor wife, I was only sent to the coast. Fernand was enrolled in the active army, went to the frontier with his regiment, and was at the battle of Ligny. The night after that battle he was sentry at the door of a general who carried on a secret correspondence with the enemy. That same night the general was to go over to the English. He proposed to Fernand to accompany him; Fernand agreed to do so, deserted his post, and followed the general.", "pos": 541198}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Fernand would have been court-martialed if Napoleon had remained on the throne, but his action was rewarded by the Bourbons. He returned to France with the epaulet of sub-lieutenant, and as the protection of the general, who is in the highest favor, was accorded to him, he was a captain in 1823, during the Spanish war—that is to say, at the time when Danglars made his early speculations. Fernand was a Spaniard, and being sent to Spain to ascertain the feeling of his fellow-countrymen, found Danglars there, got on very intimate terms with him, won over the support of the royalists at the capital and in the provinces, received promises and made pledges on his own part, guided his regiment by paths known to himself alone through the mountain gorges which were held by the royalists, and, in fact, rendered such services in this brief campaign that, after the taking of Trocadero, he was made colonel, and received the title of count and the cross of an officer of the Legion of Honor.", "pos": 541971}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Destiny! destiny!", "pos": 542965}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, but listen: this was not all. The war with Spain being ended, Fernand’s career was checked by the long peace which seemed likely to endure throughout Europe. Greece only had risen against Turkey, and had begun her war of independence; all eyes were turned towards Athens—it was the fashion to pity and support the Greeks. The French government, without protecting them openly, as you know, gave countenance to volunteer assistance. Fernand sought and obtained leave to go and serve in Greece, still having his name kept on the army roll.", "pos": 543004}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Some time after, it was stated that the Comte de Morcerf (this was the name he bore) had entered the service of Ali Pasha with the rank of instructor-general. Ali Pasha was killed, as you know, but before he died he recompensed the services of Fernand by leaving him a considerable sum, with which he returned to France, when he was gazetted lieutenant-general.", "pos": 543553}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So that now——?", "pos": 543917}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "So that now, he owns a magnificent house—No. 27, Rue du Helder, Paris.", "pos": 543953}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And Mercédès—they tell me that she has disappeared?", "pos": 544150}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Disappeared, yes, as the sun disappears, to rise the next day with still more splendor.", "pos": 544204}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Has she made a fortune also?", "pos": 544313}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Mercédès is at this moment one of the greatest ladies in Paris,", "pos": 544387}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Go on, it seems as if I were listening to the story of a dream. But I have seen things so extraordinary, that what you tell me seems less astonishing than it otherwise might.", "pos": 544473}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Mercédès was at first in the deepest despair at the blow which deprived her of Edmond. I have told you of her attempts to propitiate M. de Villefort, her devotion to the elder Dantès. In the midst of her despair, a new affliction overtook her. This was the departure of Fernand—of Fernand, whose crime she did not know, and whom she regarded as her brother. Fernand went, and Mercédès remained alone.", "pos": 544667}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Three months passed and still she wept—no news of Edmond, no news of Fernand, no companionship save that of an old man who was dying with despair. One evening, after a day of accustomed vigil at the angle of two roads leading to Marseilles from the Catalans, she returned to her home more depressed than ever. Suddenly she heard a step she knew, turned anxiously around, the door opened, and Fernand, dressed in the uniform of a sub-lieutenant, stood before her.", "pos": 545069}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It was not the one she wished for most, but it seemed as if a part of her past life had returned to her.", "pos": 545533}
{"speaker": "Old Dantès", "text": "Mercédès seized Fernand’s hands with a transport which he took for love, but which was only joy at being no longer alone in the world, and seeing at last a friend, after long hours of solitary sorrow. And then, it must be confessed, Fernand had never been hated—he was only not precisely loved. Another possessed all Mercédès’ heart; that other was absent, had disappeared, perhaps was dead. At this last thought Mercédès burst into a flood of tears, and wrung her hands in agony; but the thought, which she had always repelled before when it was suggested to her by another, came now in full force upon her mind; and then, too, old Dantès incessantly said to her, ‘Our Edmond is dead; if he were not, he would return to us.’ Our Edmond is dead; if he were not, he would return to us.", "pos": 545639}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The old man died, as I have told you; had he lived, Mercédès, perchance, had not become the wife of another, for he would have been there to reproach her infidelity. Fernand saw this, and when he learned of the old man’s death he returned. He was now a lieutenant. At his first coming he had not said a word of love to Mercédès; at the second he reminded her that he loved her.", "pos": 546366}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Mercédès begged for six months more in which to await and mourn for Edmond.", "pos": 546745}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So that, that makes eighteen months in all. What more could the most devoted lover desire? Frailty, thy name is woman.", "pos": 546823}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Six months afterwards, the marriage took place in the church of Accoules.", "pos": 547034}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "The very church in which she was to have married Edmond, there was only a change of bridegrooms.", "pos": 547134}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Well, Mercédès was married, but although in the eyes of the world she appeared calm, she nearly fainted as she passed La Réserve, where, eighteen months before, the betrothal had been celebrated with him whom she might have known she still loved, had she looked to the bottom of her heart. Fernand, more happy, but not more at his ease—for I saw at this time he was in constant dread of Edmond’s return—Fernand was very anxious to get his wife away, and to depart himself. There were too many unpleasant possibilities associated with the Catalans, and eight days after the wedding they left Marseilles.", "pos": 547256}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "Did you ever see Mercédès again?", "pos": 547885}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, during the Spanish war, at Perpignan, where Fernand had left her; she was attending to the education of her son.", "pos": 547941}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Her son?", "pos": 548079}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yes, little Albert.", "pos": 548099}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But, then, to be able to instruct her child, she must have received an education herself. I understood from Edmond that she was the daughter of a simple fisherman, beautiful but uneducated.", "pos": 548143}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Oh, did he know so little of his lovely betrothed? Mercédès might have been a queen, sir, if the crown were to be placed on the heads of the loveliest and most intelligent. Fernand’s fortune was already waxing great, and she developed with his growing fortune. She learned drawing, music—everything. Besides, I believe, between ourselves, she did this in order to distract her mind, that she might forget; and she only filled her head in order to alleviate the weight on her heart. But now her position in life is assured, no doubt fortune and honors have comforted her; she is rich, a countess, and yet——", "pos": 548357}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And yet what?", "pos": 549030}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yet, I am sure, she is not happy,", "pos": 549062}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What makes you believe this?", "pos": 549115}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Why, when I found myself utterly destitute, I thought my old friends would, perhaps, assist me. So I went to Danglars, who would not even receive me. I called on Fernand, who sent me a hundred francs by his valet-de-chambre.", "pos": 549146}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you did not see either of them?", "pos": 549373}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "No, but Madame de Morcerf saw me.", "pos": 549412}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How was that?", "pos": 549448}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "As I went away a purse fell at my feet—it contained five-and-twenty louis; I raised my head quickly, and saw Mercédès, who at once shut the blind.", "pos": 549464}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And M. de Villefort?", "pos": 549613}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Oh, he never was a friend of mine, I did not know him, and I had nothing to ask of him.", "pos": 549652}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you not know what became of him, and the share he had in Edmond’s misfortunes?", "pos": 549742}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "No; I only know that some time after Edmond’s arrest, he married Mademoiselle de Saint-Méran, and soon after left Marseilles; no doubt he has been as lucky as the rest; no doubt he is as rich as Danglars, as high in station as Fernand. I only, as you see, have remained poor, wretched, and forgotten.", "pos": 549826}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are mistaken, my friend. God may seem sometimes to forget for a time, while his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers—and behold—a proof! Here, my friend, take this diamond, it is yours.", "pos": 550129}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "What, for me only? ah, sir, do not jest with me!", "pos": 550464}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "This diamond was to have been shared among his friends. Edmond had one friend only, and thus it cannot be divided. Take the diamond, then, and sell it; it is worth fifty thousand francs, and I repeat my wish that this sum may suffice to release you from your wretchedness.", "pos": 550535}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Oh, sir. Oh, sir, do not make a jest of the happiness or despair of a man.", "pos": 550816}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange—— In exchange, give me the red silk purse that M. Morrel left on old Dantès’ chimney-piece, and which you tell me is still in your hands.", "pos": 551014}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Oh, you are a man of God, sir, for no one knew that Edmond had given you this diamond, and you might have kept it.", "pos": 551619}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Which, you would have done. Well, all you have told me is perfectly true, then, and I may believe it in every particular.", "pos": 551756}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "See, sir, in this corner is a crucifix in holy wood—here on this shelf is my wife’s testament; open this book, and I will swear upon it with my hand on the crucifix. I will swear to you by my soul’s salvation, my faith as a Christian, I have told everything to you as it occurred, and as the recording angel will tell it to the ear of God at the day of the last judgment!", "pos": 551961}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "’Tis well, ’Tis well, and may this money profit you! Adieu; I go far from men who thus so bitterly injure each other.", "pos": 552358}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "Is, then, all that I have heard really true?", "pos": 552921}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "What? That he has given the diamond to us only? yes, nothing more true! See, here it is.", "pos": 552982}
{"speaker": "woman", "text": "Suppose it’s false?", "pos": 553188}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "False! False! Why should that man give me a false diamond?", "pos": 553246}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To get your secret without paying for it, you blockhead!", "pos": 553328}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Oh! we will soon find out.", "pos": 553461}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In what way?", "pos": 553581}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Why, the fair is on at Beaucaire, there are always jewellers from Paris there, and I will show it to them. Look after the house, wife, and I shall be back in two hours,", "pos": 553596}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "Fifty thousand francs! it is a large sum of money, but it is not a fortune.", "pos": 553885}
{"speaker": "Sir", "text": "Sir. I am chief clerk of the house of Thomson & French, of Rome. We are, and have been these ten years, connected with the house of Morrel & Son, of Marseilles. We have a hundred thousand francs or thereabouts loaned on their securities, and we are a little uneasy at reports that have reached us that the firm is on the brink of ruin. I have come, therefore, express from Rome, to ask you for information.", "pos": 554410}
{"speaker": "mayor", "text": "Sir. I know very well that during the last four or five years misfortune has seemed to pursue M. Morrel. He has lost four or five vessels, and suffered by three or four bankruptcies; but it is not for me, although I am a creditor myself to the amount of ten thousand francs, to give any information as to the state of his finances. Ask of me, as mayor, what is my opinion of M. Morrel, and I shall say that he is a man honorable to the last degree, and who has up to this time fulfilled every engagement with scrupulous punctuality. This is all I can say, sir; if you wish to learn more, address yourself to M. de Boville, the inspector of prisons, No. 15, Rue de Nouailles; he has, I believe, two hundred thousand francs in Morrel’s hands, and if there be any grounds for apprehension, as this is a greater amount than mine, you will most probably find him better informed than myself.", "pos": 554830}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Oh, sir, your fears are unfortunately but too well founded, and you see before you a man in despair. I had two hundred thousand francs placed in the hands of Morrel & Son; these two hundred thousand francs were the dowry of my daughter, who was to be married in a fortnight, and these two hundred thousand francs were payable, half on the 15th of this month, and the other half on the 15th of next month. I had informed M. Morrel of my desire to have these payments punctually, and he has been here within the last half-hour to tell me that if his ship, the Pharaon, did not come into port on the 15th, he would be wholly unable to make this payment.", "pos": 556482}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But, this looks very much like a suspension of payment.", "pos": 557162}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "It looks more like bankruptcy!", "pos": 557243}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "From which it would appear, sir, that this credit inspires you with considerable apprehension?", "pos": 557374}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "To tell you the truth, I consider it lost.", "pos": 557471}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, then, I will buy it of you!", "pos": 557515}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "You?", "pos": 557551}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, I!", "pos": 557558}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "But at a tremendous discount, of course?", "pos": 557568}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, for two hundred thousand francs. Our house, does not do things in that way.", "pos": 557611}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "And you will pay——", "pos": 557730}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ready money.", "pos": 557751}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Sir, I ought to tell you that, in all probability, you will not realize six per cent of this sum.", "pos": 558008}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That’s no affair of mine, that is the affair of the house of Thomson & French, in whose name I act. They have, perhaps, some motive to serve in hastening the ruin of a rival firm. But all I know, sir, is, that I am ready to hand you over this sum in exchange for your assignment of the debt. I only ask a brokerage.", "pos": 558108}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Of course, that is perfectly just. The commission is usually one and a half; will you have two—three—five per cent, or even more? Whatever you say.", "pos": 558452}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Sir. I am like my house, and do not do such things—no, the commission I ask is quite different.", "pos": 558625}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Name it, sir, I beg.", "pos": 558759}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are the inspector of prisons?", "pos": 558782}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "I have been so these fourteen years.", "pos": 558818}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You keep the registers of entries and departures?", "pos": 558857}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "I do.", "pos": 558909}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To these registers there are added notes relative to the prisoners?", "pos": 558917}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "There are special reports on every prisoner.", "pos": 558987}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, sir, I was educated at Rome by a poor devil of an abbé, who disappeared suddenly. I have since learned that he was confined in the Château d’If, and I should like to learn some particulars of his death.", "pos": 559034}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "What was his name?", "pos": 559245}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The Abbé Faria.", "pos": 559266}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Oh, I recollect him perfectly, he was crazy.", "pos": 559284}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So they said.", "pos": 559354}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Oh, he was, decidedly.", "pos": 559370}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Very possibly; but what sort of madness was it?", "pos": 559395}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "He pretended to know of an immense treasure, and offered vast sums to the government if they would liberate him.", "pos": 559445}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Poor devil!—and he is dead?", "pos": 559560}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Yes, sir, five or six months ago, last February.", "pos": 559590}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You have a good memory, sir, to recollect dates so well.", "pos": 559641}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "I recollect this, because the poor devil’s death was accompanied by a singular incident.", "pos": 559700}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "May I ask what that was?", "pos": 559791}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Oh dear, yes, sir; the abbé’s dungeon was forty or fifty feet distant from that of one of Bonaparte’s emissaries,—one of those who had contributed the most to the return of the usurper in 1815, a very resolute and very dangerous man.", "pos": 559967}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Indeed!", "pos": 560203}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Yes. I myself had occasion to see this man in 1816 or 1817, and we could only go into his dungeon with a file of soldiers. That man made a deep impression on me; I shall never forget his countenance!", "pos": 560234}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And you say, sir, that the two dungeons——", "pos": 560505}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Were separated by a distance of fifty feet; but it appears that this Edmond Dantès——", "pos": 560566}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "This dangerous man’s name was——", "pos": 560653}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Edmond Dantès. It appears, sir, that this Edmond Dantès had procured tools, or made them, for they found a tunnel through which the prisoners held communication with one another.", "pos": 560687}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "This tunnel was dug, no doubt, with an intention of escape?", "pos": 560868}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "No doubt; but unfortunately for the prisoners, the Abbé Faria had an attack of catalepsy, and died.", "pos": 560930}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That must have cut short the projects of escape.", "pos": 561032}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "For the dead man, yes, but not for the survivor; on the contrary, this Dantès saw a means of accelerating his escape. He, no doubt, thought that prisoners who died in the Château d’If were interred in an ordinary burial-ground, and he conveyed the dead man into his own cell, took his place in the sack in which they had sewed up the corpse, and awaited the moment of interment.", "pos": 561083}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It was a bold step, and one that showed some courage,", "pos": 561489}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "As I have already told you, sir, he was a very dangerous man; and, fortunately, by his own act disembarrassed the government of the fears it had on his account.", "pos": 561570}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How was that?", "pos": 561733}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "How? Do you not comprehend?", "pos": 561749}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No.", "pos": 561779}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "The Château d’If has no cemetery, and they simply throw the dead into the sea, after fastening a thirty-six-pound cannon-ball to their feet.", "pos": 561785}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well?", "pos": 561928}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Well, they fastened a thirty-six-pound ball to his feet, and threw him into the sea.", "pos": 561997}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Really!", "pos": 562084}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Yes, sir. You may imagine the amazement of the fugitive when he found himself flung headlong over the rocks! I should like to have seen his face at that moment.", "pos": 562120}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That would have been difficult.", "pos": 562321}
{"speaker": "De Boville", "text": "No matter, no matter, I can fancy it.", "pos": 562355}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So can I, at the end of his teeth. And so, he was drowned?", "pos": 562533}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Unquestionably.", "pos": 562732}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So that the governor got rid of the dangerous and the crazy prisoner at the same time?", "pos": 562750}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Precisely.", "pos": 562839}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But some official document was drawn up as to this affair, I suppose?", "pos": 562859}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Yes, yes, the mortuary deposition. You understand, Dantès’ relations, if he had any, might have some interest in knowing if he were dead or alive.", "pos": 562956}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So that now, if there were anything to inherit from him, they may do so with easy conscience. He is dead, and no mistake about it.", "pos": 563105}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Oh, yes; and they may have the fact attested whenever they please.", "pos": 563238}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So be it. But to return to these registers.", "pos": 563307}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "True, this story has diverted our attention from them. Excuse me.", "pos": 563376}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Excuse you for what? For the story? By no means; it really seems to me very curious.", "pos": 563444}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Yes, indeed. So, sir, you wish to see all relating to the poor abbé, who really was gentleness itself.", "pos": 563531}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, you will much oblige me.", "pos": 563636}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Go into my study here, and I will show it to you.", "pos": 563668}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Thanks. I have all I want; now it is for me to perform my promise. Give me a simple assignment of your debt; acknowledge therein the receipt of the cash, and I will hand you over the money.", "pos": 566795}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Thanks, Cocles; you are the pearl of cashiers.", "pos": 570036}
{"speaker": "Cocles", "text": "M. Morrel is in his room, is he not, Mademoiselle Julie?", "pos": 572189}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Julie", "text": "Yes; I think so, at least. Go and see, Cocles, and if my father is there, announce this gentleman.", "pos": 572266}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It will be useless to announce me, mademoiselle. M. Morrel does not know my name; this worthy gentleman has only to announce the confidential clerk of the house of Thomson & French of Rome, with whom your father does business.", "pos": 572403}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Monsieur, you wish to speak to me?", "pos": 573938}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, monsieur; you are aware from whom I come?", "pos": 574042}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "The house of Thomson & French; at least, so my cashier tells me.", "pos": 574091}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He has told you rightly. The house of Thomson & French had 300,000 or 400,000 francs to pay this month in France; and, knowing your strict punctuality, have collected all the bills bearing your signature, and charged me as they became due to present them, and to employ the money otherwise.", "pos": 574158}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "So then, sir, you hold bills of mine?", "pos": 574549}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, and for a considerable sum.", "pos": 574604}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "What is the amount?", "pos": 574639}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Here is, an assignment of 200,000 francs to our house by M. de Boville, the inspector of prisons, to whom they are due. You acknowledge, of course, that you owe this sum to him?", "pos": 574720}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Yes; he placed the money in my hands at four and a half per cent nearly five years ago.", "pos": 574968}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "When are you to pay?", "pos": 575058}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Half the 15th of this month, half the 15th of next.", "pos": 575081}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Just so; and now here are 32,500 francs payable shortly; they are all signed by you, and assigned to our house by the holders.", "pos": 575135}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "I recognize them. Is this all?", "pos": 575264}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, I have for the end of the month these bills which have been assigned to us by the house of Pascal, and the house of Wild & Turner of Marseilles, amounting to nearly 55,000 francs; in all, 287,500 francs.", "pos": 575436}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Two hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hundred francs,", "pos": 575721}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, sir. I will not, conceal from you, that while your probity and exactitude up to this moment are universally acknowledged, yet the report is current in Marseilles that you are not able to meet your liabilities.", "pos": 575794}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Sir, up to this time—and it is now more than four-and-twenty years since I received the direction of this house from my father, who had himself conducted it for five-and-thirty years—never has anything bearing the signature of Morrel & Son been dishonored.", "pos": 576136}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I know that. But as a man of honor should answer another, tell me fairly, shall you pay these with the same punctuality?", "pos": 576406}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "To questions frankly put, a straightforward answer should be given. Yes, I shall pay, if, as I hope, my vessel arrives safely; for its arrival will again procure me the credit which the numerous accidents, of which I have been the victim, have deprived me; but if the Pharaon should be lost, and this last resource be gone——", "pos": 576654}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well,", "pos": 577031}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "it is a cruel thing to be forced to say, but, already used to misfortune, I must habituate myself to shame. I fear I shall be forced to suspend payment.", "pos": 577114}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Have you no friends who could assist you?", "pos": 577269}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.", "pos": 577339}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is true, then you have but one hope.", "pos": 577411}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "But one.", "pos": 577480}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The last?", "pos": 577491}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "The last.", "pos": 577503}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So that if this fail——", "pos": 577515}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "I am ruined,—completely ruined!", "pos": 577540}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "As I was on my way here, a vessel was coming into port.", "pos": 577574}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "I know it, sir; a young man, who still adheres to my fallen fortunes, passes a part of his time in a belvedere at the top of the house, in hopes of being the first to announce good news to me; he has informed me of the arrival of this ship.", "pos": 577632}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And it is not yours?", "pos": 577875}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "No, she is a Bordeaux vessel, La Gironde; she comes from India also; but she is not mine.", "pos": 577898}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Perhaps she has spoken to the Pharaon, and brings you some tidings of her?", "pos": 577990}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Shall I tell you plainly one thing, sir? I dread almost as much to receive any tidings of my vessel as to remain in doubt. Uncertainty is still hope. This delay is not natural. The Pharaon left Calcutta the 5th of February; she ought to have been here a month ago.", "pos": 578067}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What is that? What is the meaning of that noise?", "pos": 578370}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Oh, my God! what is it?", "pos": 578444}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "There are only two persons who have the key to that door, Cocles and Julie.", "pos": 579167}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Oh, father! forgive your child for being the bearer of evil tidings. courage!", "pos": 579479}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "The Pharaon has gone down, then?", "pos": 579692}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Saved, saved by the crew of the vessel that has just entered the harbor.", "pos": 579900}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Thanks, my God, at least thou strikest but me alone. Come in, come in, for I presume you are all at the door.", "pos": 580087}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "How did this happen? Draw nearer, Penelon, and tell us all about it.", "pos": 580888}
{"speaker": "Penelon", "text": "Good-day, M. Morrel,", "pos": 581099}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Good-day, Penelon, where is the captain?", "pos": 581232}
{"speaker": "Penelon", "text": "The captain, M. Morrel,—he has stayed behind sick at Palma; but please God, it won’t be much, and you will see him in a few days all alive and hearty.", "pos": 581348}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Well, now tell your story, Penelon.", "pos": 581501}
{"speaker": "Penelon", "text": "You see, M. Morrel, we were somewhere between Cape Blanc and Cape Boyador, sailing with a fair breeze, south-south-west after a week’s calm, when Captain Gaumard comes up to me—I was at the helm I should tell you—and says, ‘Penelon, what do you think of those clouds coming up over there?’ I was just then looking at them myself. ‘What do I think, captain? Why I think that they are rising faster than they have any business to do, and that they would not be so black if they didn’t mean mischief.’—‘That’s my opinion too,’ said the captain, ‘and I’ll take precautions accordingly. We are carrying too much canvas. Avast, there, all hands! Take in the studding-sails and stow the flying jib.’ It was time; the squall was on us, and the vessel began to heel. ‘Ah,’ said the captain, ‘we have still too much canvas set; all hands lower the mainsail!’ Five minutes after, it was down; and we sailed under mizzen-topsails and top-gallant sails. ‘Well, Penelon,’ said the captain, ‘what makes you shake your head?’ ‘Why,’ I says, ‘I still think you’ve got too much on.’ ‘I think you’re right,’ answered he, ‘we shall have a gale.’ ‘A gale? More than that, we shall have a tempest, or I don’t know what’s what.’ You could see the wind coming like the dust at Montredon; luckily the captain understood his business. ‘Take in two reefs in the top-sails,’ cried the captain; ‘let go the bowlin’s, haul the brace, lower the top-gallant sails, haul out the reef-tackles on the yards.’", "pos": 581742}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That was not enough for those latitudes. I should have taken four reefs in the topsails and furled the spanker.", "pos": 583236}
{"speaker": "Penelon", "text": "We did better than that, sir, we put the helm up to run before the tempest; ten minutes after we struck our top-sails and scudded under bare poles.", "pos": 583548}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The vessel was very old to risk that,", "pos": 583734}
{"speaker": "Penelon", "text": "Eh, it was that that did the business; after pitching heavily for twelve hours we sprung a leak. ‘Penelon,’ said the captain, ‘I think we are sinking, give me the helm, and go down into the hold.’ I gave him the helm, and descended; there was already three feet of water. ‘All hands to the pumps!’ I shouted; but it was too late, and it seemed the more we pumped the more came in. ‘Ah,’ said I, after four hours’ work, ‘since we are sinking, let us sink; we can die but once.’ ‘Is that the example you set, Penelon?’ cries the captain; ‘very well, wait a minute.’ He went into his cabin and came back with a brace of pistols. ‘I will blow the brains out of the first man who leaves the pump,’ said he.", "pos": 583795}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well done!", "pos": 584499}
{"speaker": "Penelon", "text": "There’s nothing gives you so much courage as good reasons, and during that time the wind had abated, and the sea gone down, but the water kept rising; not much, only two inches an hour, but still it rose. Two inches an hour does not seem much, but in twelve hours that makes two feet, and three we had before, that makes five. ‘Come,’ said the captain, ‘we have done all in our power, and M. Morrel will have nothing to reproach us with, we have tried to save the ship, let us now save ourselves. To the boats, my lads, as quick as you can.’ Now, you see, M. Morrel, a sailor is attached to his ship, but still more to his life, so we did not wait to be told twice; the more so, that the ship was sinking under us, and seemed to say, ‘Get along—save yourselves.’ We soon launched the boat, and all eight of us got into it. The captain descended last, or rather, he did not descend, he would not quit the vessel; so I took him round the waist, and threw him into the boat, and then I jumped after him. It was time, for just as I jumped the deck burst with a noise like the broadside of a man-of-war. Ten minutes after she pitched forward, then the other way, spun round and round, and then good-bye to the Pharaon. As for us, we were three days without anything to eat or drink, so that we began to think of drawing lots who should feed the rest, when we saw La Gironde; we made signals of distress, she perceived us, made for us, and took us all on board. There now, M. Morrel, that’s the whole truth, on the honor of a sailor; is not it true, you fellows there?", "pos": 584540}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Well, well. I know there was no one in fault but destiny. It was the will of God that this should happen, blessed be his name. What wages are due to you?", "pos": 586265}
{"speaker": "Penelon", "text": "Oh, don’t let us talk of that, M. Morrel.", "pos": 586439}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Yes, but we will talk of it.", "pos": 586483}
{"speaker": "Penelon", "text": "Well, then, three months,", "pos": 586514}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Cocles, pay two hundred francs to each of these good fellows. At another time. I should have said, Give them, besides, two hundred francs over as a present; but times are changed, and the little money that remains to me is not my own, so do not think me mean on this account.", "pos": 586556}
{"speaker": "Penelon", "text": "As for that, M. Morrel, as for that——", "pos": 586932}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "As for what?", "pos": 587007}
{"speaker": "Penelon", "text": "The money.", "pos": 587022}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Well——", "pos": 587035}
{"speaker": "Penelon", "text": "Well, we all say that fifty francs will be enough for us at present, and that we will wait for the rest.", "pos": 587044}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Thanks, my friends, thanks! take it—take it; and if you can find another employer, enter his service; you are free to do so.", "pos": 587151}
{"speaker": "Penelon", "text": "What, M. Morrel! you send us away; you are then angry with us!", "pos": 587427}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "No, no. I am not angry, quite the contrary, and I do not send you away; but I have no more ships, and therefore I do not want any sailors.", "pos": 587518}
{"speaker": "Penelon", "text": "No more ships! well, then, you’ll build some; we’ll wait for you.", "pos": 587677}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "I have no money to build ships with, Penelon, so I cannot accept your kind offer.", "pos": 587765}
{"speaker": "Penelon", "text": "No more money? Then you must not pay us; we can scud, like the Pharaon, under bare poles.", "pos": 587883}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Enough, enough! leave me, I pray you; we shall meet again in a happier time. Emmanuel, go with them, and see that my orders are executed.", "pos": 587975}
{"speaker": "Penelon", "text": "At least, we shall see each other again, M. Morrel?", "pos": 588151}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Yes; I hope so, at least. Now go. Now,", "pos": 588220}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "you have heard all, and I have nothing further to tell you.", "pos": 589012}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I see, that a fresh and unmerited misfortune has overwhelmed you, and this only increases my desire to serve you.", "pos": 589074}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Oh, sir!", "pos": 589217}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Let me see. I am one of your largest creditors. Your bills, at least, are the first that will fall due. Do you wish for time to pay?", "pos": 589242}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "A delay would save my honor, and consequently my life.", "pos": 589407}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How long a delay do you wish for?", "pos": 589464}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Two months,", "pos": 589518}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I will give you three,", "pos": 589541}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "But, will the house of Thomson & French consent?", "pos": 589588}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, I take everything on myself. Today is the 5th of June.", "pos": 589655}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 589716}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, renew these bills up to the 5th of September; and on the 5th of September at eleven o’clock (the hand of the clock pointed to eleven), I shall come to receive the money.", "pos": 589723}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "I shall expect you, and I will pay you—or I shall be dead.", "pos": 589901}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle", "text": "one day you will receive a letter signed ‘Sinbad the Sailor.’ Do exactly what the letter bids you, however strange it may appear.", "pos": 590554}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Yes, sir. I swear to you I will.", "pos": 590686}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle", "text": "It is well. Adieu, mademoiselle. Continue to be the good, sweet girl you are at present, and I have great hopes that Heaven will reward you by giving you Emmanuel for a husband.", "pos": 590757}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Come with me, my friend. I wish to speak to you.", "pos": 591210}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Worthy fellows! may your new master love you as I loved you, and be more fortunate than I have been!", "pos": 595658}
{"speaker": "The two women", "text": "Then, we are indeed ruined.", "pos": 597884}
{"speaker": "Cocles", "text": "Oh, mademoiselle, mademoiselle, what a dreadful misfortune! Who could ever have believed it!", "pos": 599653}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "He is writing,", "pos": 601560}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "What have I done wrong, father, that you should take this key from me?", "pos": 602680}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Nothing, my dear, nothing, only I want it.", "pos": 602765}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "I must have left it in my room,", "pos": 602936}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "Do not give this key to your father, and tomorrow morning, if possible, do not quit him for a moment.", "pos": 603070}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Remain with your mother, dearest. I wish you to do so,", "pos": 604091}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Maximilian, my dearest brother!", "pos": 604544}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Mother, what has occurred—what has happened? Your letter has frightened me, and I have come hither with all speed.", "pos": 604663}
{"speaker": "Madame Morrel", "text": "Julie, go and tell your father that Maximilian has just arrived.", "pos": 604857}
{"speaker": "The messenger", "text": "Are you not Mademoiselle Julie Morrel?", "pos": 605107}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Yes, sir, what is your pleasure? I do not know you.", "pos": 605196}
{"speaker": "The messenger", "text": "Read this letter. It concerns the best interests of your father,", "pos": 605283}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Go this moment to the Allées de Meilhan, enter the house No. 15, ask the porter for the key of the room on the fifth floor, enter the apartment, take from the corner of the mantelpiece a purse netted in red silk, and give it to your father. It is important that he should receive it before eleven o’clock. You promised to obey me implicitly. Remember your oath. It is important that you should fulfil this mission in person and alone. If you go accompanied by any other person, or should anyone else go in your place, the porter will reply that he does not know anything about it.", "pos": 605498}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "You must go, then, mademoiselle,", "pos": 607087}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Go there?", "pos": 607137}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "Yes; I will accompany you.", "pos": 607165}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "But did you not read that I must be alone?", "pos": 607194}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "And you shall be alone. I will await you at the corner of the Rue du Musée, and if you are so long absent as to make me uneasy, I will hasten to rejoin you, and woe to him of whom you shall have cause to complain to me!", "pos": 607251}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Then, Emmanuel? it is your opinion that I should obey this invitation?", "pos": 607498}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "Yes. Did not the messenger say your father’s safety depended upon it?", "pos": 607610}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "But what danger threatens him, then, Emmanuel?", "pos": 607682}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "Listen, today is the 5th of September, is it not?", "pos": 607835}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 607898}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "Today, then, at eleven o’clock, your father has nearly three hundred thousand francs to pay?", "pos": 607905}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Yes, we know that.", "pos": 608000}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "Well, then, we have not fifteen thousand francs in the house.", "pos": 608021}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "What will happen then?", "pos": 608107}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "Why, if today before eleven o’clock your father has not found someone who will come to his aid, he will be compelled at twelve o’clock to declare himself a bankrupt.", "pos": 608132}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Oh, come, then, come!", "pos": 608300}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Father, what are you going to do with that brace of pistols under your coat?", "pos": 609394}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Oh, this is what I feared!", "pos": 609512}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Father, father, in Heaven’s name, what are these weapons for?", "pos": 609554}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Maximilian, you are a man, and a man of honor. Come, and I will explain to you. Read!", "pos": 609645}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "And have you done all that is possible, father, to meet this disastrous result?", "pos": 610375}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "I have,", "pos": 610502}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "You have no money coming in on which you can rely?", "pos": 610528}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "None.", "pos": 610581}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "You have exhausted every resource?", "pos": 610589}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "All.", "pos": 610626}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "And in half an hour, our name is dishonored!", "pos": 610633}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Blood washes out dishonor,", "pos": 610717}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "You are right, father; I understand you. There is one for you and one for me—thanks!", "pos": 610759}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Your mother—your sister! Who will support them?", "pos": 610933}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Father, do you reflect that you are bidding me to live?", "pos": 611028}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Yes, I do so bid you, it is your duty. You have a calm, strong mind, Maximilian. Maximilian, you are no ordinary man. I make no requests or commands; I only ask you to examine my position as if it were your own, and then judge for yourself.", "pos": 611097}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Be it so, then, my father, die in peace, my father; I will live.", "pos": 611548}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "You know it is not my fault,", "pos": 611830}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I know, father, you are the most honorable man I have ever known.", "pos": 611900}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Good, my son. And now there is no more to be said; go and rejoin your mother and sister.", "pos": 611968}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "My father, bless me!", "pos": 612059}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Oh, yes, yes, I bless you in my own name, and in the name of three generations of irreproachable men, who say through me, ‘The edifice which misfortune has destroyed, Providence may build up again.’ On seeing me die such a death, the most inexorable will have pity on you. To you, perhaps, they will accord the time they have refused to me. Then do your best to keep our name free from dishonor. Go to work, labor, young man, struggle ardently and courageously; live, yourself, your mother and sister, with the most rigid economy, so that from day to day the property of those whom I leave in your hands may augment and fructify. Reflect how glorious a day it will be, how grand, how solemn, that day of complete restoration, on which you will say in this very office, ‘My father died because he could not do what I have this day done; but he died calmly and peaceably, because in dying he knew what I should do.’ The edifice which misfortune has destroyed, Providence may build up again.", "pos": 612240}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "My father died because he could not do what I have this day done; but he died calmly and peaceably, because in dying he knew what I should do.", "pos": 613010}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "My father, my father! why should you not live?", "pos": 613156}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "If I live, all would be changed; if I live, interest would be converted into doubt, pity into hostility; if I live I am only a man who has broken his word, failed in his engagements—in fact, only a bankrupt. If, on the contrary, I die, remember, Maximilian, my corpse is that of an honest but unfortunate man. Living, my best friends would avoid my house; dead, all Marseilles will follow me in tears to my last home. Living, you would feel shame at my name; dead, you may raise your head and say, ‘I am the son of him you killed, because, for the first time, he has been compelled to break his word.’ I am the son of him you killed, because, for the first time, he has been compelled to break his word. And now, leave me alone, and endeavor to keep your mother and sister away.", "pos": 613228}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Will you not see my sister once more?", "pos": 613978}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "I saw her this morning, and bade her adieu.", "pos": 614180}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Have you no particular commands to leave with me, my father?", "pos": 614226}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Yes; my son, and a sacred command.", "pos": 614331}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Say it, my father.", "pos": 614368}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "The house of Thomson & French is the only one who, from humanity, or, it may be, selfishness—it is not for me to read men’s hearts—has had any pity for me. Its agent, who will in ten minutes present himself to receive the amount of a bill of 287,500 francs, I will not say granted, but offered me three months. Let this house be the first repaid, my son, and respect this man.", "pos": 614389}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Father, I will,", "pos": 614768}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "And now, once more, adieu. Go, leave me; I would be alone. You will find my will in the secretaire in my bedroom. Hear me, Maximilian. Suppose I were a soldier like you, and ordered to carry a certain redoubt, and you knew I must be killed in the assault, would you not say to me, as you said just now, ‘Go, father; for you are dishonored by delay, and death is preferable to shame!’ Go, father; for you are dishonored by delay, and death is preferable to shame!", "pos": 614803}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes, yes, yes; Be it so, my father.", "pos": 615334}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "My worthy Cocles, do you remain in the antechamber. When the gentleman who came three months ago—the agent of Thomson & French—arrives, announce his arrival to me.", "pos": 615911}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "My father! saved, you are saved!", "pos": 617968}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Saved, my child! what do you mean?", "pos": 618164}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Yes, saved—saved! See, see!", "pos": 618216}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Explain, my child. Explain, my child, explain—where did you find this purse?", "pos": 618728}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "In a house in the Allées de Meilhan, No. 15, on the corner of a mantelpiece in a small room on the fifth floor.", "pos": 618829}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "But, this purse is not yours! And did you go alone?", "pos": 618943}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Emmanuel accompanied me, father. He was to have waited for me at the corner of the Rue du Musée, but, strange to say, he was not there when I returned.", "pos": 619122}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Monsieur Morrel!", "pos": 619276}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Monsieur Morrel!", "pos": 619328}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "It is his voice!", "pos": 619347}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "The Pharaon! the Pharaon!", "pos": 619454}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "What!—what!—the Pharaon! Are you mad, Emmanuel? You know the vessel is lost.", "pos": 619494}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "The Pharaon, sir—they signal the Pharaon! The Pharaon is entering the harbor!", "pos": 619573}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Father, how could you say the Pharaon was lost? The lookout has signalled her, and they say she is now coming into port.", "pos": 619845}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "My dear friends, if this be so, it must be a miracle of heaven! Impossible, impossible!", "pos": 619995}
{"speaker": "Cocles", "text": "Ah, sir, what can it mean?—the Pharaon?", "pos": 620224}
{"speaker": "M. Morrel", "text": "Come, dear ones, let us go and see, and Heaven have pity upon us if it be false intelligence!", "pos": 620286}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The Pharaon! the Pharaon!", "pos": 620629}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.", "pos": 621518}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Jacopo, Jacopo, Jacopo!", "pos": 621878}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And now,", "pos": 622279}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been Heaven’s substitute to recompense the good—now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!", "pos": 622308}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "To the Island of Elba!", "pos": 624060}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Ah, if your excellency chose, you might have capital sport.", "pos": 624571}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Where?", "pos": 624653}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Do you see that island?", "pos": 624662}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Well, what is this island?", "pos": 624766}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "The Island of Monte Cristo.", "pos": 624795}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "But I have no permission to shoot over this island.", "pos": 624825}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Your excellency does not require a permit, for the island is uninhabited.", "pos": 624879}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Ah, indeed! A desert island in the midst of the Mediterranean must be a curiosity.", "pos": 624955}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "It is very natural; this island is a mass of rocks, and does not contain an acre of land capable of cultivation.", "pos": 625062}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "To whom does this island belong?", "pos": 625177}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "To Tuscany.", "pos": 625212}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "What game shall I find there!", "pos": 625226}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Thousands of wild goats.", "pos": 625258}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Who live upon the stones, I suppose,", "pos": 625285}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "No, but by browsing the shrubs and trees that grow out of the crevices of the rocks.", "pos": 625362}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Where can I sleep?", "pos": 625449}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "On shore in the grottos, or on board in your cloak; besides, if your excellency pleases, we can leave as soon as you like—we can sail as well by night as by day, and if the wind drops we can use our oars.", "pos": 625470}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Well, what now? Is there any difficulty in the way?", "pos": 625881}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "No. but we must warn your excellency that the island is an infected port.", "pos": 625947}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "What do you mean?", "pos": 626046}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Monte Cristo although uninhabited, yet serves occasionally as a refuge for the smugglers and pirates who come from Corsica, Sardinia, and Africa, and if it becomes known that we have been there, we shall have to perform quarantine for six days on our return to Leghorn.", "pos": 626066}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "The deuce! That puts a different face on the matter. Six days! Why, that’s as long as the Almighty took to make the world! Too long a wait—too long.", "pos": 626338}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "But who will say your excellency has been to Monte Cristo?", "pos": 626489}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Oh, I shall not,", "pos": 626550}
{"speaker": "sailors", "text": "Nor I, nor I,", "pos": 626582}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Then steer for Monte Cristo. Gaetano, you tell me Monte Cristo serves as a refuge for pirates, who are, it seems to me, a very different kind of game from the goats.", "pos": 626620}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Yes, your excellency, and it is true.", "pos": 627103}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I knew there were smugglers, but I thought that since the capture of Algiers, and the destruction of the regency, pirates existed only in the romances of Cooper and Captain Marryat.", "pos": 627143}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Your excellency is mistaken; there are pirates, like the bandits who were believed to have been exterminated by Pope Leo XII., and who yet, every day, rob travellers at the gates of Rome. Has not your excellency heard that the French chargé d’affaires was robbed six months ago within five hundred paces of Velletri?", "pos": 627327}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Oh, yes, I heard that.", "pos": 627646}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Well, then, if, like us, your excellency lived at Leghorn, you would hear, from time to time, that a little merchant vessel, or an English yacht that was expected at Bastia, at Porto-Ferrajo, or at Civita Vecchia, has not arrived; no one knows what has become of it, but, doubtless, it has struck on a rock and foundered. Now this rock it has met has been a long and narrow boat, manned by six or eight men, who have surprised and plundered it, some dark and stormy night, near some desert and gloomy island, as bandits plunder a carriage in the recesses of a forest.", "pos": 627671}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "But, why do not those who have been plundered complain to the French, Sardinian, or Tuscan governments?", "pos": 628241}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "Why?", "pos": 628418}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Yes, why?", "pos": 628452}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Because, in the first place, they transfer from the vessel to their own boat whatever they think worth taking, then they bind the crew hand and foot, they attach to everyone’s neck a four-and-twenty-pound ball, a large hole is chopped in the vessel’s bottom, and then they leave her. At the end of ten minutes the vessel begins to roll heavily and settle down. First one gun’l goes under, then the other. Then they lift and sink again, and both go under at once. All at once there’s a noise like a cannon—that’s the air blowing up the deck. Soon the water rushes out of the scupper-holes like a whale spouting, the vessel gives a last groan, spins round and round, and disappears, forming a vast whirlpool in the ocean, and then all is over, so that in five minutes nothing but the eye of God can see the vessel where she lies at the bottom of the sea. Do you understand now, why no complaints are made to the government, and why the vessel never reaches port?", "pos": 628464}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Bah! I have travelled through Sicily and Calabria—I have sailed two months in the Archipelago, and yet I never saw even the shadow of a bandit or a pirate.", "pos": 630035}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "I did not tell your excellency this to deter you from your project, but you questioned me, and I have answered; that’s all.", "pos": 630204}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Yes, and your conversation is most interesting; and as I wish to enjoy it as long as possible, steer for Monte Cristo.", "pos": 630349}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "What is this light?", "pos": 632632}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "Hush! it is a fire.", "pos": 632664}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "But you told me the island was uninhabited?", "pos": 632706}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "I said there were no fixed habitations on it, but I said also that it served sometimes as a harbor for smugglers.", "pos": 632752}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And for pirates?", "pos": 632868}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "And for pirates. It is for that reason I have given orders to pass the island, for, as you see, the fire is behind us.", "pos": 632887}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "But this fire? It seems to me rather reassuring than otherwise; men who did not wish to be seen would not light a fire.", "pos": 633053}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "Oh, that goes for nothing. If you can guess the position of the island in the darkness, you will see that the fire cannot be seen from the side or from Pianosa, but only from the sea.", "pos": 633194}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "You think, then, this fire indicates the presence of unpleasant neighbors?", "pos": 633396}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "That is what we must find out,", "pos": 633473}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "How can you find out?", "pos": 633566}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "You shall see.", "pos": 633590}
{"speaker": "Franz and the sailors", "text": "Well?", "pos": 635220}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "They are Spanish smugglers, they have with them two Corsican bandits.", "pos": 635271}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And what are these Corsican bandits doing here with Spanish smugglers?", "pos": 635354}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Alas, we ought always to help one another. Very often the bandits are hard pressed by gendarmes or carbineers; well, they see a vessel, and good fellows like us on board, they come and demand hospitality of us; you can’t refuse help to a poor hunted devil; we receive them, and for greater security we stand out to sea. This costs us nothing, and saves the life, or at least the liberty, of a fellow-creature, who on the first occasion returns the service by pointing out some safe spot where we can land our goods without interruption.", "pos": 635427}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Ah! then you are a smuggler occasionally, Gaetano?", "pos": 636031}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "Your excellency, we must live somehow,", "pos": 636098}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Then you know the men who are now on Monte Cristo?", "pos": 636181}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "Oh, yes, we sailors are like freemasons, and recognize each other by signs.", "pos": 636234}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And do you think we have nothing to fear if we land?", "pos": 636312}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "Nothing at all; smugglers are not thieves.", "pos": 636367}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "But these two Corsican bandits?", "pos": 636412}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "It is not their fault that they are bandits, but that of the authorities.", "pos": 636492}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "How so?", "pos": 636568}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Because they are pursued for having made a stiff, as if it was not in a Corsican’s nature to revenge himself.", "pos": 636578}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "What do you mean by having made a stiff?—having assassinated a man?", "pos": 636690}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "I mean that they have killed an enemy, which is a very different thing,", "pos": 636802}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Well, let us demand hospitality of these smugglers and bandits. Do you think they will grant it?", "pos": 636898}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Without doubt.", "pos": 637019}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "How many are they?", "pos": 637036}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Four, and the two bandits make six.", "pos": 637057}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Just our number, so that if they prove troublesome, we shall be able to hold them in check; so, for the last time, steer to Monte Cristo. Yes, but your excellency will permit us to take all due precautions. By all means, be as wise as Nestor and as prudent as Ulysses; I do more than permit, I exhort you.", "pos": 637095}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "Silence, then!", "pos": 637407}
{"speaker": "Sentinel", "text": "Who comes there?", "pos": 639424}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "My name must rest unknown, merely say I am a Frenchman travelling for pleasure.", "pos": 639694}
{"speaker": "Sentinel", "text": "S'accommodi.", "pos": 640363}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Besides, if the smell of their roast meat tempts you, I will go and offer them two of our birds for a slice. You are a born diplomat, go and try. Well, anything new?—do they refuse?", "pos": 642312}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "On the contrary, the chief, who was told you were a young Frenchman, invites you to sup with him.", "pos": 642750}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Well, this chief is very polite, and I see no objection—the more so as I bring my share of the supper.", "pos": 642870}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "Oh, it is not that; he has plenty, and to spare, for supper; but he makes one condition, and rather a peculiar one, before he will receive you at his house.", "pos": 642993}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "His house? Has he built one here, then?", "pos": 643152}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "No, but he has a very comfortable one all the same, so they say.", "pos": 643194}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "You know this chief, then?", "pos": 643261}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "I have heard talk of him.", "pos": 643290}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Favorably or otherwise?", "pos": 643318}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "Both.", "pos": 643344}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "The deuce!—and what is this condition?", "pos": 643352}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "That you are blindfolded, and do not take off the bandage until he himself bids you. I know this is a serious matter.", "pos": 643393}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "What should you do in my place?", "pos": 643639}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "I, who have nothing to lose,—I should go.", "pos": 643673}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "You would accept?", "pos": 643724}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "Listen. I do not know if what they say is true", "pos": 643841}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "What do they say?", "pos": 643964}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "That this chief inhabits a cavern to which the Pitti Palace is nothing.", "pos": 643984}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "What nonsense!", "pos": 644058}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "It is no nonsense; it is quite true. Cama, the pilot of the Saint Ferdinand, went in once, and he came back amazed, vowing that such treasures were only to be heard of in fairy tales.", "pos": 644106}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Do you know, that with such stories you make me think of Ali Baba’s enchanted cavern?", "pos": 644292}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "I tell you what I have been told.", "pos": 644398}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Then you advise me to accept?", "pos": 644434}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "Oh, I don’t say that; your excellency will do as you please; I should be sorry to advise you in the matter.", "pos": 644466}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Never mind that. I know their vessel. Is it a very beautiful vessel?", "pos": 645110}
{"speaker": "Sailor", "text": "I would not wish for a better to sail round the world.", "pos": 645206}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Of what burden is she?", "pos": 645263}
{"speaker": "Sailor", "text": "About a hundred tons; but she is built to stand any weather. She is what the English call a yacht.", "pos": 645288}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Where was she built?", "pos": 645389}
{"speaker": "Sailor", "text": "I know not; but my own opinion is she is a Genoese.", "pos": 645412}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And how did a leader of smugglers venture to build a vessel designed for such a purpose at Genoa?", "pos": 645466}
{"speaker": "Sailor", "text": "I did not say that the owner was a smuggler,", "pos": 645586}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "No; but Gaetano did, I thought.", "pos": 645653}
{"speaker": "Sailor", "text": "Gaetano had only seen the vessel from a distance, he had not then spoken to anyone.", "pos": 645687}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And if this person be not a smuggler, who is he?", "pos": 645773}
{"speaker": "Sailor", "text": "A wealthy signor, who travels for his pleasure.", "pos": 645824}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Come, he is still more mysterious, since the two accounts do not agree. What is his name?", "pos": 645874}
{"speaker": "Sailor", "text": "If you ask him, he says Sinbad the Sailor; but I doubt if it be his real name.", "pos": 645985}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Sinbad the Sailor?", "pos": 646066}
{"speaker": "Sailor", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 646087}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And where does he reside?", "pos": 646094}
{"speaker": "Sailor", "text": "On the sea.", "pos": 646122}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "What country does he come from?", "pos": 646136}
{"speaker": "Sailor", "text": "I do not know.", "pos": 646170}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Have you ever seen him?", "pos": 646187}
{"speaker": "Sailor", "text": "Sometimes.", "pos": 646213}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "What sort of a man is he?", "pos": 646226}
{"speaker": "Sailor", "text": "Your excellency will judge for yourself.", "pos": 646254}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Where will he receive me?", "pos": 646297}
{"speaker": "Sailor", "text": "No doubt in the subterranean palace Gaetano told you of.", "pos": 646325}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Have you never had the curiosity, when you have landed and found this island deserted, to seek for this enchanted palace?", "pos": 646384}
{"speaker": "Sailor", "text": "Oh, yes, more than once, but always in vain; we examined the grotto all over, but we never could find the slightest trace of any opening; they say that the door is not opened by a key, but a magic word.", "pos": 646508}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Decidedly, this is an Arabian Nights’ adventure.", "pos": 646713}
{"speaker": "Sentinel", "text": "His excellency waits for you,", "pos": 646782}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "He promised.", "pos": 647241}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Welcome, sir. I beg you will remove your bandage.", "pos": 648102}
{"speaker": "host", "text": "Sir, a thousand excuses for the precaution taken in your introduction hither; but as, during the greater portion of the year, this island is deserted, if the secret of this abode were discovered, I should doubtless, find on my return my temporary retirement in a state of great disorder, which would be exceedingly annoying, not for the loss it occasioned me, but because I should not have the certainty I now possess of separating myself from all the rest of mankind at pleasure. Let me now endeavor to make you forget this temporary unpleasantness, and offer you what no doubt you did not expect to find here—that is to say, a tolerable supper and pretty comfortable beds.", "pos": 650121}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Ma foi, my dear sir, make no apologies. I have always observed that they bandage people’s eyes who penetrate enchanted palaces, for instance, those of Raoul in the Huguenots, and really I have nothing to complain of, for what I see makes me think of the wonders of the Arabian Nights.", "pos": 650824}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Alas! I may say with Lucullus, if I could have anticipated the honor of your visit, I would have prepared for it. But such as is my hermitage, it is at your disposal; such as is my supper, it is yours to share, if you will. Ali, is the supper ready? Now, I do not know if you are of my opinion, but I think nothing is more annoying than to remain two or three hours together without knowing by name or appellation how to address one another. Pray observe, that I too much respect the laws of hospitality to ask your name or title. I only request you to give me one by which I may have the pleasure of addressing you. As for myself, that I may put you at your ease, I tell you that I am generally called ‘Sinbad the Sailor.’", "pos": 651135}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And I, will tell you, as I only require his wonderful lamp to make me precisely like Aladdin, that I see no reason why at this moment I should not be called Aladdin. That will keep us from going away from the East whither I am tempted to think I have been conveyed by some good genius.", "pos": 652084}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, then, Signor Aladdin, you heard our repast announced, will you now take the trouble to enter the dining-room, your humble servant going first to show the way?", "pos": 652407}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, he is a poor devil who is much devoted to me, and does all he can to prove it. He remembers that I saved his life, and as he has a regard for his head, he feels some gratitude towards me for having kept it on his shoulders.", "pos": 653867}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Would it be impertinent, Signor Sinbad, to ask you the particulars of this kindness?", "pos": 654155}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, they are simple enough. It seems the fellow had been caught wandering nearer to the harem of the Bey of Tunis than etiquette permits to one of his color, and he was condemned by the Bey to have his tongue cut out, and his hand and head cut off; the tongue the first day, the hand the second, and the head the third. I always had a desire to have a mute in my service, so learning the day his tongue was cut out, I went to the Bey, and proposed to give him for Ali a splendid double-barreled gun, which I knew he was very desirous of having. He hesitated a moment, he was so very desirous to complete the poor devil’s punishment. But when I added to the gun an English cutlass with which I had shivered his highness’s yataghan to pieces, the Bey yielded, and agreed to forgive the hand and head, but on condition that the poor fellow never again set foot in Tunis. This was a useless clause in the bargain, for whenever the coward sees the first glimpse of the shores of Africa, he runs down below, and can only be induced to appear again when we are out of sight of that quarter of the globe.", "pos": 654283}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And like the celebrated sailor whose name you have assumed, you pass your life in travelling?", "pos": 655540}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes. I made a vow at a time when I little thought I should ever be able to accomplish it, and I made some others also which I hope I may fulfil in due season.", "pos": 655684}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "You have suffered a great deal, sir?", "pos": 656000}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What makes you suppose so?", "pos": 656120}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Everything—your voice, your look, your pallid complexion, and even the life you lead.", "pos": 656168}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I?—I live the happiest life possible, the real life of a pasha. I am king of all creation. I am pleased with one place, and stay there; I get tired of it, and leave it; I am free as a bird and have wings like one; my attendants obey my slightest wish. Sometimes I amuse myself by delivering some bandit or criminal from the bonds of the law. Then I have my mode of dispensing justice, silent and sure, without respite or appeal, which condemns or pardons, and which no one sees. Ah, if you had tasted my life, you would not desire any other, and would never return to the world unless you had some great project to accomplish there.", "pos": 656256}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Revenge, for instance!", "pos": 656891}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And why revenge?", "pos": 657044}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Because you seem to me like a man who, persecuted by society, has a fearful account to settle with it.", "pos": 657091}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah! You have not guessed rightly. Such as you see me I am, a sort of philosopher, and one day perhaps I shall go to Paris to rival Monsieur Appert, and the man in the little blue cloak.", "pos": 657293}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And will that be the first time you ever took that journey?", "pos": 657481}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; it will. I must seem to you by no means curious, but I assure you that it is not my fault I have delayed it so long—it will happen one day or the other.", "pos": 657543}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And do you propose to make this journey very shortly?", "pos": 657710}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do not know; it depends on circumstances which depend on certain arrangements.", "pos": 657766}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I should like to be there at the time you come, and I will endeavor to repay you, as far as lies in my power, for your liberal hospitality displayed to me at Monte Cristo.", "pos": 657849}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I should avail myself of your offer with pleasure, but, unfortunately, if I go there, it will be, in all probability, incognito.", "pos": 658023}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You cannot guess what there is in that small vase, can you?", "pos": 658929}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "No, I really cannot.", "pos": 659003}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, then, that green preserve is nothing less than the ambrosia which Hebe served at the table of Jupiter.", "pos": 659026}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "But this ambrosia, no doubt, in passing through mortal hands has lost its heavenly appellation and assumed a human name; in vulgar phrase, what may you term this composition, for which, to tell the truth, I do not feel any particular desire?", "pos": 659155}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, thus it is that our material origin is revealed. We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it. Are you a man for the substantials, and is gold your god? taste this, and the mines of Peru, Guzerat, and Golconda are opened to you. Are you a man of imagination—a poet? taste this, and the boundaries of possibility disappear; the fields of infinite space open to you, you advance free in heart, free in mind, into the boundless realms of unfettered reverie. Are you ambitious, and do you seek after the greatnesses of the earth? taste this, and in an hour you will be a king, not a king of a petty kingdom hidden in some corner of Europe like France, Spain, or England, but king of the world, king of the universe, king of creation; without bowing at the feet of Satan, you will be king and master of all the kingdoms of the earth. Is it not tempting what I offer you, and is it not an easy thing, since it is only to do thus? look!", "pos": 659399}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Diable! I do not know if the result will be as agreeable as you describe, but the thing does not appear to me as palatable as you say.", "pos": 663457}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Because your palate his not yet been attuned to the sublimity of the substances it flavors. Tell me, the first time you tasted oysters, tea, porter, truffles, and sundry other dainties which you now adore, did you like them? Could you comprehend how the Romans stuffed their pheasants with assafœtida, and the Chinese eat swallows’ nests? Eh? no! Well, it is the same with hashish; only eat for a week, and nothing in the world will seem to you to equal the delicacy of its flavor, which now appears to you flat and distasteful. Let us now go into the adjoining chamber, which is your apartment, and Ali will bring us coffee and pipes.", "pos": 663594}
{"speaker": "the unknown", "text": "How do you take it? in the French or Turkish style, strong or weak, sugar or none, cool or boiling? As you please; it is ready in all ways.", "pos": 665748}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I will take it in the Turkish style,", "pos": 665914}
{"speaker": "his host", "text": "And you are right, it shows you have a tendency for an Oriental life. Ah, those Orientals; they are the only men who know how to live. As for me, when I have completed my affairs in Paris, I shall go and die in the East; and should you wish to see me again, you must seek me at Cairo, Bagdad, or Ispahan.", "pos": 665968}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Ma foi, it would be the easiest thing in the world; for I feel eagle’s wings springing out at my shoulders, and with those wings I could make a tour of the world in four-and-twenty hours.", "pos": 666381}
{"speaker": "his host", "text": "Ah, yes, the hashish is beginning its work. Well, unfurl your wings, and fly into superhuman regions; fear nothing, there is a watch over you; and if your wings, like those of Icarus, melt before the sun, we are here to ease your fall.", "pos": 666585}
{"speaker": "the patron", "text": "The Signor Sinbad has left his compliments for your excellency, and desires us to express the regret he feels at not being able to take his leave in person; but he trusts you will excuse him, as very important business calls him to Malaga.", "pos": 673063}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "So, then, Gaetano, this is, then, all reality; there exists a man who has received me in this island, entertained me right royally, and has departed while I was asleep?", "pos": 673305}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "He exists as certainly as that you may see his small yacht with all her sails spread; and if you will use your glass, you will, in all probability, recognize your host in the midst of his crew.", "pos": 673490}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "There, do you hear? he is bidding you adieu. What are your excellency’s orders?", "pos": 674381}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "In the first place, light me a torch.", "pos": 674668}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "Ah, yes, I understand, to find the entrance to the enchanted apartment. With much pleasure, your excellency, if it would amuse you; and I will get you the torch you ask for. But I too have had the idea you have, and two or three times the same fancy has come over me; but I have always given it up. Giovanni, light a torch, and give it to his excellency.", "pos": 674708}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Why, you told me that Signor Sinbad was going to Malaga, while it seems he is in the direction of Porto-Vecchio.", "pos": 677226}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "Don’t you remember. I told you that among the crew there were two Corsican brigands?", "pos": 677367}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "True; and he is going to land them,", "pos": 677473}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "Precisely so. Ah, he is one who fears neither God nor Satan, they say, and would at any time run fifty leagues out of his course to do a poor devil a service.", "pos": 677524}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "But such services as these might involve him with the authorities of the country in which he practices this kind of philanthropy,", "pos": 677711}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "And what cares he for that, or any authorities? He smiles at them. Let them try to pursue him! Why, in the first place, his yacht is not a ship, but a bird, and he would beat any frigate three knots in every nine; and if he were to throw himself on the coast, why, is he not certain of finding friends everywhere?", "pos": 677855}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Very good, signor Pastrini, but we must have some supper instantly, and a carriage for tomorrow and the following days.", "pos": 681191}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "As to supper, you shall be served immediately; but as for the carriage——", "pos": 681327}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What as to the carriage? Come, come, Signor Pastrini, no joking; we must have a carriage.", "pos": 681426}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Sir, we will do all in our power to procure you one—this is all I can say.", "pos": 681538}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And when shall we know?", "pos": 681635}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Tomorrow morning,", "pos": 681677}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, the deuce! then we shall pay the more, that’s all, I see plainly enough. At Drake’s or Aaron’s one pays twenty-five lire for common days, and thirty or thirty-five lire a day more for Sundays and feast days; add five lire a day more for extras, that will make forty, and there’s an end of it. Then they must put horses to mine. It is a little worse for the journey, but that’s no matter. Do you understand that, my dear Franz—no horses?", "pos": 681721}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I say, that when a thing completely surpasses my comprehension, I am accustomed not to dwell on that thing, but to pass to another. Is supper ready, Signor Pastrini?", "pos": 682539}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, your excellency.", "pos": 682706}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, then, let us sup.", "pos": 682730}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "But the carriage and horses?", "pos": 682756}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Be easy, my dear boy; they will come in due season; it is only a question of how much shall be charged for them.", "pos": 682799}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Well, excellency. I feared yesterday, when I would not promise you anything, that you were too late—there is not a single carriage to be had—that is, for the three last days", "pos": 683324}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Yes, for the very three days it is most needed.", "pos": 683581}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What is the matter? no carriage to be had?", "pos": 683649}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Just so, you have guessed it.", "pos": 683719}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, your Eternal City is a nice sort of place.", "pos": 683769}
{"speaker": "Pastrini", "text": "That is to say, excellency, that there are no carriages to be had from Sunday to Tuesday evening, but from now till Sunday you can have fifty if you please.", "pos": 683820}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, that is something, today is Thursday, and who knows what may arrive between this and Sunday?", "pos": 684106}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Ten or twelve thousand travellers will arrive, which will make it still more difficult.", "pos": 684220}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My friend, let us enjoy the present without gloomy forebodings for the future.", "pos": 684327}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At least we can have a window?", "pos": 684424}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where?", "pos": 684457}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In the Corso.", "pos": 684466}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Ah, a window! utterly impossible; there was only one left on the fifth floor of the Doria Palace, and that has been let to a Russian prince for twenty sequins a day.", "pos": 684482}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Well, do you know what is the best thing we can do? It is to pass the Carnival at Venice; there we are sure of obtaining gondolas if we cannot have carriages.", "pos": 684747}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, the devil, no. I came to Rome to see the Carnival, and I will, though I see it on stilts.", "pos": 684932}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Bravo! an excellent idea. We will disguise ourselves as monster pulchinellos or shepherds of the Landes, and we shall have complete success.", "pos": 685044}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do your excellencies still wish for a carriage from now to Sunday morning?", "pos": 685187}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Parbleu! do you think we are going to run about on foot in the streets of Rome, like lawyers’ clerks?", "pos": 685264}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "I hasten to comply with your excellencies’ wishes; only, I tell you beforehand, the carriage will cost you six piastres a day.", "pos": 685383}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And, as I am not a millionaire, like the gentleman in the next apartments. I warn you, that as I have been four times before at Rome, I know the prices of all the carriages; we will give you twelve piastres for today, tomorrow, and the day after, and then you will make a good profit.", "pos": 685512}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But, excellency", "pos": 685813}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Now go, or I shall go myself and bargain with your affettatore, who is mine also; he is an old friend of mine, who has plundered me pretty well already, and, in the hope of making more out of me, he will take a less price than the one I offer you; you will lose the preference, and that will be your fault.", "pos": 685880}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Do not give yourselves the trouble, excellency. I will do all I can, and I hope you will be satisfied.", "pos": 686207}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And now we understand each other. When do you wish the carriage to be here? In an hour.", "pos": 686416}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "In an hour it will be at the door.", "pos": 686510}
{"speaker": "cicerone", "text": "Excellency, shall I bring the carriage nearer to the palace?", "pos": 686842}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Where do your excellencies wish to go?", "pos": 687431}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "To Saint Peter’s first, and then to the Colosseum,", "pos": 687482}
{"speaker": "Pastrini", "text": "Excellency. I am delighted to have your approbation, but it was not for that I came.", "pos": 688689}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Did you come to tell us you have procured a carriage?", "pos": 688793}
{"speaker": "Pastrini", "text": "No; and your excellencies will do well not to think of that any longer; at Rome things can or cannot be done; when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it.", "pos": 688883}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "It is much more convenient at Paris,—when anything cannot be done, you pay double, and it is done directly.", "pos": 689061}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "That is what all the French say, for that reason, I do not understand why they travel.", "pos": 689171}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But, only madmen, or blockheads like us, ever do travel. Men in their senses do not quit their hotel in the Rue du Helder, their walk on the Boulevard de Gand, and the Café de Paris.", "pos": 689305}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "But, you had some motive for coming here, may I beg to know what it was?", "pos": 689942}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Ah, yes; you have ordered your carriage at eight o’clock precisely?", "pos": 690087}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I have.", "pos": 690157}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "You intend visiting Il Colosseo.", "pos": 690167}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "You mean the Colosseum?", "pos": 690202}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "It is the same thing. You have told your coachman to leave the city by the Porta del Popolo, to drive round the walls, and re-enter by the Porta San Giovanni?", "pos": 690228}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "These are my words exactly.", "pos": 690389}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Well, this route is impossible.", "pos": 690419}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Impossible!", "pos": 690453}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Very dangerous, to say the least.", "pos": 690467}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Dangerous!—and why?", "pos": 690503}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "On account of the famous Luigi Vampa.", "pos": 690525}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Pray, who may this famous Luigi Vampa be? he may be very famous at Rome, but I can assure you he is quite unknown at Paris. What! do you not know him? I have not that honor. You have never heard his name? Never.", "pos": 690565}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Well, then, he is a bandit, compared to whom the Decesaris and the Gasparones were mere children.", "pos": 690806}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Now then, Albert, here is a bandit for you at last.", "pos": 690906}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I forewarn you, Signor Pastrini, that I shall not believe one word of what you are going to tell us; having told you this, begin. ‘Once upon a time——’ Well, go on.", "pos": 690975}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Excellency, if you look upon me as a liar, it is useless for me to say anything; it was for your interest I——", "pos": 691344}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Albert does not say you are a liar, Signor Pastrini, but that he will not believe what you are going to tell us,—but I will believe all you say; so proceed.", "pos": 691493}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "But if your excellency doubt my veracity——", "pos": 691666}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Signor Pastrini, you are more susceptible than Cassandra, who was a prophetess, and yet no one believed her; while you, at least, are sure of the credence of half your audience. Come, sit down, and tell us all about this Signor Vampa.", "pos": 691711}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "I had told your excellency he is the most famous bandit we have had since the days of Mastrilla.", "pos": 691966}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Well, what has this bandit to do with the order I have given the coachman to leave the city by the Porta del Popolo, and to re-enter by the Porta San Giovanni?", "pos": 692065}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "This, that you will go out by one, but I very much doubt your returning by the other.", "pos": 692234}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Why?", "pos": 692349}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Because, after nightfall, you are not safe fifty yards from the gates.", "pos": 692369}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "On your honor, is that true?", "pos": 692442}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Count. I do not say this to you, but to your companion, who knows Rome, and knows, too, that these things are not to be laughed at.", "pos": 692487}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear fellow, here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our carriage with pistols, blunderbusses, and double-barrelled guns. Luigi Vampa comes to take us, and we take him—we bring him back to Rome, and present him to his holiness the Pope, who asks how he can repay so great a service; then we merely ask for a carriage and a pair of horses, and we see the Carnival in the carriage, and doubtless the Roman people will crown us at the Capitol, and proclaim us, like Curtius and Horatius Cocles, the preservers of their country.", "pos": 692714}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And pray, where are these pistols, blunderbusses, and other deadly weapons with which you intend filling the carriage?", "pos": 693387}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Not out of my armory, for at Terracina I was plundered even of my hunting-knife. And you?", "pos": 693523}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I shared the same fate at Aquapendente.", "pos": 693615}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Do you know, Signor Pastrini, that this practice is very convenient for bandits, and that it seems to be due to an arrangement of their own.", "pos": 693657}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Your excellency knows that it is not customary to defend yourself when attacked by bandits.", "pos": 694032}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What! not make any resistance!", "pos": 694126}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "No, for it would be useless. What could you do against a dozen bandits who spring out of some pit, ruin, or aqueduct, and level their pieces at you?", "pos": 694237}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Eh, parbleu!—they should kill me.", "pos": 694388}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "your friend is decidedly mad. My dear Albert, your answer is sublime, and worthy the ‘Let him die,’ of Corneille, only, when Horace made that answer, the safety of Rome was concerned; but, as for us, it is only to gratify a whim, and it would be ridiculous to risk our lives for so foolish a motive. Well, Signor Pastrini, now that my companion is quieted, and you have seen how peaceful my intentions are, tell me who is this Luigi Vampa. Is he a shepherd or a nobleman?—young or old?—tall or short? Describe him, in order that, if we meet him by chance, like Jean Sbogar or Lara, we may recognize him.", "pos": 694486}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You could not apply to anyone better able to inform you on all these points, for I knew him when he was a child, and one day that I fell into his hands, going from Ferentino to Alatri, he, fortunately for me, recollected me, and set me free, not only without ransom, but made me a present of a very splendid watch, and related his history to me.", "pos": 695249}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Let us see the watch,", "pos": 695597}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Here it is,", "pos": 695770}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Peste! I compliment you on it; I have its fellow and it cost me 3,000 francs.", "pos": 695793}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Let us hear the history,", "pos": 695938}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your excellencies permit it?", "pos": 696020}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Pardieu! you are not a preacher, to remain standing!", "pos": 696067}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "You tell me, that you knew Luigi Vampa when he was a child—he is still a young man, then?", "pos": 696297}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "A young man? he is only two-and-twenty;—he will gain himself a reputation.", "pos": 696462}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "What do you think of that, Albert?—at two-and-twenty to be thus famous?", "pos": 696539}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, and at his age, Alexander, Cæsar, and Napoleon, who have all made some noise in the world, were quite behind him.", "pos": 696613}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "So, the hero of this history is only two-and-twenty?", "pos": 696734}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Scarcely so much.", "pos": 696808}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Is he tall or short?", "pos": 696828}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Of the middle height—about the same stature as his excellency,", "pos": 696851}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Thanks for the comparison,", "pos": 696955}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Go on, Signor Pastrini. To what class of society does he belong?", "pos": 697009}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "He was a shepherd-boy attached to the farm of the Count of San-Felice, situated between Palestrina and the Lake of Gabri; he was born at Pampinara, and entered the count’s service when he was five years old; his father was also a shepherd, who owned a small flock, and lived by the wool and the milk, which he sold at Rome. When quite a child, the little Vampa displayed a most extraordinary precocity. One day, when he was seven years old, he came to the curate of Palestrina, and asked to be taught to read; it was somewhat difficult, for he could not quit his flock; but the good curate went every day to say mass at a little hamlet too poor to pay a priest and which, having no other name, was called Borgo; he told Luigi that he might meet him on his return, and that then he would give him a lesson, warning him that it would be short, and that he must profit as much as possible by it. The child accepted joyfully. Every day Luigi led his flock to graze on the road that leads from Palestrina to Borgo; every day, at nine o’clock in the morning, the priest and the boy sat down on a bank by the wayside, and the little shepherd took his lesson out of the priest’s breviary. At the end of three months he had learned to read. This was not enough—he must now learn to write. The priest had a writing teacher at Rome make three alphabets—one large, one middling, and one small; and pointed out to him that by the help of a sharp instrument he could trace the letters on a slate, and thus learn to write. The same evening, when the flock was safe at the farm, the little Luigi hastened to the smith at Palestrina, took a large nail, heated and sharpened it, and formed a sort of stylus. The next morning he gathered an armful of pieces of slate and began. At the end of three months he had learned to write. The curate, astonished at his quickness and intelligence, made him a present of pens, paper, and a penknife. This demanded new effort, but nothing compared to the first; at the end of a week he wrote as well with this pen as with the stylus. The curate related the incident to the Count of San-Felice, who sent for the little shepherd, made him read and write before him, ordered his attendant to let him eat with the domestics, and to give him two piastres a month. With this, Luigi purchased books and pencils. He applied his imitative powers to everything, and, like Giotto, when young, he drew on his slate sheep, houses, and trees. Then, with his knife, he began to carve all sorts of objects in wood; it was thus that Pinelli, the famous sculptor, had commenced.", "pos": 697135}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A girl of six or seven—that is, a little younger than Vampa—tended sheep on a farm near Palestrina; she was an orphan, born at Valmontone and was named Teresa. The two children met, sat down near each other, let their flocks mingle together, played, laughed, and conversed together; in the evening they separated the Count of San-Felice’s flock from those of Baron Cervetri, and the children returned to their respective farms, promising to meet the next morning. The next day they kept their word, and thus they grew up together. Vampa was twelve, and Teresa eleven. And yet their natural disposition revealed itself. Beside his taste for the fine arts, which Luigi had carried as far as he could in his solitude, he was given to alternating fits of sadness and enthusiasm, was often angry and capricious, and always sarcastic. None of the lads of Pampinara, Palestrina, or Valmontone had been able to gain any influence over him or even to become his companion. His disposition (always inclined to exact concessions rather than to make them) kept him aloof from all friendships. Teresa alone ruled by a look, a word, a gesture, this impetuous character, which yielded beneath the hand of a woman, and which beneath the hand of a man might have broken, but could never have been bended. Teresa was lively and gay, but coquettish to excess. The two piastres that Luigi received every month from the Count of San-Felice’s steward, and the price of all the little carvings in wood he sold at Rome, were expended in ear-rings, necklaces, and gold hairpins. So that, thanks to her friend’s generosity, Teresa was the most beautiful and the best-attired peasant near Rome.", "pos": 699723}
{"speaker": "Cucumetto", "text": "Well, have you executed your commission?", "pos": 709401}
{"speaker": "Carlini", "text": "Yes, captain. At nine o’clock tomorrow Rita’s father will be here with the money.", "pos": 709463}
{"speaker": "Cucumetto", "text": "It is well; in the meantime, we will have a merry night; this young girl is charming, and does credit to your taste. Now, as I am not egotistical, we will return to our comrades and draw lots for her.", "pos": 709568}
{"speaker": "Carlini", "text": "You have determined, then, to abandon her to the common law?", "pos": 709772}
{"speaker": "Cucumetto", "text": "Why should an exception be made in her favor?", "pos": 709850}
{"speaker": "Carlini", "text": "I thought that my entreaties——", "pos": 709899}
{"speaker": "Cucumetto", "text": "What right have you, any more than the rest, to ask for an exception?", "pos": 709933}
{"speaker": "Carlini", "text": "It is true.", "pos": 710006}
{"speaker": "Cucumetto", "text": "But never mind, sooner or later your turn will come. Now, then, are you coming?", "pos": 710021}
{"speaker": "Carlini", "text": "I follow you.", "pos": 710234}
{"speaker": "brigands", "text": "Let us draw lots! let us draw lots!", "pos": 710884}
{"speaker": "Diavolaccio", "text": "Captain, just now Carlini would not drink your health when I proposed it to him; propose mine to him, and let us see if he will be more condescending to you than to me.", "pos": 711613}
{"speaker": "Carlini", "text": "Your health, Diavolaccio. My supper, my expedition has given me an appetite.", "pos": 711947}
{"speaker": "brigands", "text": "Well done, Carlini! that is acting like a good fellow;", "pos": 712149}
{"speaker": "chief", "text": "Ah, ah. I now understand why Carlini stayed behind.", "pos": 713168}
{"speaker": "Carlini", "text": "Now, then, does anyone dispute the possession of this woman with me?", "pos": 713397}
{"speaker": "chief", "text": "No, she is thine.", "pos": 713578}
{"speaker": "Rita's father", "text": "Here, here are three hundred piastres; give me back my child.", "pos": 713979}
{"speaker": "Cucumetto", "text": "There, demand thy child of Carlini; he will tell thee what has become of her;", "pos": 714330}
{"speaker": "Carlini", "text": "I expected thee,", "pos": 714973}
{"speaker": "Rita's father", "text": "Wretch! what hast thou done?", "pos": 715027}
{"speaker": "Carlini", "text": "Cucumetto had violated thy daughter. I loved her, therefore I slew her; for she would have served as the sport of the whole band. Now, if I have done wrongly, avenge her;", "pos": 715245}
{"speaker": "Rita's father", "text": "Thou hast done well! embrace me, my son. Now, aid me to bury my child.", "pos": 715655}
{"speaker": "Rita's father", "text": "I thank you, my son; and now leave me alone.", "pos": 716464}
{"speaker": "Carlini", "text": "Yet——", "pos": 716512}
{"speaker": "Rita's father", "text": "Leave me, I command you.", "pos": 716538}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am pursued; can you conceal me?", "pos": 718860}
{"speaker": "brigadier", "text": "That is very annoying, for the man we are looking for is the chief.", "pos": 719697}
{"speaker": "Luigi and Teresa", "text": "Cucumetto?", "pos": 719789}
{"speaker": "brigadier", "text": "Yes, and as his head is valued at a thousand Roman crowns, there would have been five hundred for you, if you had helped us to catch him.", "pos": 719846}
{"speaker": "Vampa", "text": "Yes, it is very annoying, but we have not seen him.", "pos": 720225}
{"speaker": "Carmela", "text": "Will you allow me, father?", "pos": 723619}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly, are we not in Carnival time?", "pos": 723663}
{"speaker": "Luigi", "text": "Teresa, what were you thinking of as you danced opposite the young Countess of San-Felice?", "pos": 728016}
{"speaker": "Teresa", "text": "I thought, that I would give half my life for a costume such as she wore.", "pos": 728110}
{"speaker": "Luigi", "text": "And what said your cavalier to you?", "pos": 728251}
{"speaker": "Teresa", "text": "He said it only depended on myself to have it, and I had only one word to say.’", "pos": 728290}
{"speaker": "Luigi", "text": "He was right,’ said Luigi. ‘Do you desire it as ardently as you say?", "pos": 728372}
{"speaker": "Teresa", "text": "Yes.’", "pos": 728444}
{"speaker": "Luigi", "text": "Well, then, you shall have it!", "pos": 728452}
{"speaker": "Luigi", "text": "Teresa,’ said Luigi, ‘yesterday evening you told me you would give all the world to have a costume similar to that of the count’s daughter.’", "pos": 730820}
{"speaker": "Teresa", "text": "Yes,’ replied Teresa with astonishment; ‘but I was mad to utter such a wish.’", "pos": 730963}
{"speaker": "Luigi", "text": "And I replied, “Very well, you shall have it.”’", "pos": 731043}
{"speaker": "Teresa", "text": "Yes,’ replied the young girl, whose astonishment increased at every word uttered by Luigi, ‘but of course your reply was only to please me.’", "pos": 731093}
{"speaker": "Luigi", "text": "I have promised no more than I have given you, Teresa,’ said Luigi proudly. ‘Go into the grotto and dress yourself.’", "pos": 731236}
{"speaker": "Luigi", "text": "That is your road, excellency, and now you cannot again mistake.’", "pos": 732955}
{"speaker": "traveller", "text": "And here is your recompense,’ said the traveller, offering the young herdsman some small pieces of money.", "pos": 733023}
{"speaker": "Luigi", "text": "Thank you,’ said Luigi, drawing back his hand; ‘I render a service, I do not sell it.’", "pos": 733131}
{"speaker": "traveller", "text": "Well,’ replied the traveller, who seemed used to this difference between the servility of a man of the cities and the pride of the mountaineer, ‘if you refuse wages, you will, perhaps, accept a gift.’", "pos": 733220}
{"speaker": "Luigi", "text": "Ah, yes, that is another thing.’", "pos": 733423}
{"speaker": "traveller", "text": "Then,’ said the traveller, ‘take these two Venetian sequins and give them to your bride, to make herself a pair of earrings.’", "pos": 733458}
{"speaker": "Luigi", "text": "And then do you take this poniard,’ said the young herdsman; ‘you will not find one better carved between Albano and Civita-Castellana.’", "pos": 733586}
{"speaker": "traveller", "text": "I accept it,’ answered the traveller, ‘but then the obligation will be on my side, for this poniard is worth more than two sequins.’", "pos": 733725}
{"speaker": "Luigi", "text": "For a dealer perhaps; but for me, who engraved it myself, it is hardly worth a piastre.’", "pos": 733860}
{"speaker": "traveller", "text": "What is your name?’ inquired the traveller.", "pos": 733951}
{"speaker": "Luigi", "text": "Luigi Vampa,’ replied the shepherd, with the same air as he would have replied, Alexander, King of Macedon. ‘And yours?’", "pos": 733997}
{"speaker": "traveller", "text": "I,’ said the traveller, ‘am called Sinbad the Sailor.’", "pos": 734120}
{"speaker": "Franz d’Épinay", "text": "Sinbad the Sailor? Proceed!", "pos": 734215}
{"speaker": "Vampa", "text": "Ah,’ said he—‘good, good! You are dressed; it is now my turn to dress myself.’", "pos": 737426}
{"speaker": "Vampa", "text": "Now, are you ready to share my fortune, whatever it may be?", "pos": 738969}
{"speaker": "Teresa", "text": "Oh, yes!", "pos": 739053}
{"speaker": "Vampa", "text": "And follow me wherever I go?", "pos": 739108}
{"speaker": "Teresa", "text": "To the world’s end.", "pos": 739140}
{"speaker": "Vampa", "text": "Then take my arm, and let us on; we have no time to lose.", "pos": 739163}
{"speaker": "the man", "text": "Not another step, or you are a dead man.", "pos": 740412}
{"speaker": "Vampa", "text": "What, then, do wolves rend each other?", "pos": 740467}
{"speaker": "the sentinel", "text": "Who are you?", "pos": 740641}
{"speaker": "Vampa", "text": "I am Luigi Vampa, shepherd of the San-Felice farm.", "pos": 740680}
{"speaker": "the sentinel", "text": "What do you want?", "pos": 740734}
{"speaker": "Vampa", "text": "I would speak with your companions who are in the glade at Rocca Bianca.", "pos": 740755}
{"speaker": "the sentinel", "text": "Follow me, then, or, as you know your way, go first.", "pos": 740831}
{"speaker": "the sentry", "text": "Good! you may now go on.", "pos": 741244}
{"speaker": "the sentinel", "text": "Here is a young man who seeks and wishes to speak to you,", "pos": 741787}
{"speaker": "the young man who was in command", "text": "What has he to say?", "pos": 741867}
{"speaker": "Vampa", "text": "I wish to say that I am tired of a shepherd’s life,", "pos": 741956}
{"speaker": "the lieutenant", "text": "Ah, I understand, and you seek admittance into our ranks?", "pos": 742030}
{"speaker": "several bandits", "text": "Welcome!", "pos": 742114}
{"speaker": "Vampa", "text": "Yes, but I came to ask something more than to be your companion.", "pos": 742219}
{"speaker": "the bandits", "text": "And what may that be?", "pos": 742287}
{"speaker": "the young man", "text": "I come to ask to be your captain,", "pos": 742352}
{"speaker": "the lieutenant", "text": "And what have you done to aspire to this honor?", "pos": 742445}
{"speaker": "Vampa", "text": "I have killed your chief, Cucumetto, whose dress I now wear; and I set fire to the villa San-Felice to procure a wedding-dress for my betrothed.", "pos": 742521}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Well, my dear Albert, what think you of citizen Luigi Vampa?", "pos": 742754}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I say he is a myth, and never had an existence.", "pos": 742859}
{"speaker": "Pastrini", "text": "And what may a myth be?", "pos": 742927}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "The explanation would be too long, my dear landlord,", "pos": 742972}
{"speaker": "Pastrini", "text": "And you say that Signor Vampa exercises his profession at this moment in the environs of Rome?", "pos": 743042}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And with a boldness of which no bandit before him ever gave an example.", "pos": 743139}
{"speaker": "Pastrini", "text": "Then the police have vainly tried to lay hands on him?", "pos": 743213}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Why, you see, he has a good understanding with the shepherds in the plains, the fishermen of the Tiber, and the smugglers of the coast. They seek for him in the mountains, and he is on the waters; they follow him on the waters, and he is on the open sea; then they pursue him, and he has suddenly taken refuge in the islands, at Giglio, Giannutri, or Monte Cristo; and when they hunt for him there, he reappears suddenly at Albano, Tivoli, or La Riccia.", "pos": 743270}
{"speaker": "Pastrini", "text": "And how does he behave towards travellers?", "pos": 743726}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Alas! his plan is very simple. It depends on the distance he may be from the city, whether he gives eight hours, twelve hours, or a day wherein to pay their ransom; and when that time has elapsed he allows another hour’s grace. At the sixtieth minute of this hour, if the money is not forthcoming, he blows out the prisoner’s brains with a pistol-shot, or plants his dagger in his heart, and that settles the account. Well, Albert, are you still disposed to go to the Colosseum by the outer wall?", "pos": 743771}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Quite so, if the way be picturesque.", "pos": 744307}
{"speaker": "a coachman", "text": "Excellencies, the coach is ready.", "pos": 744428}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Well, then, let us to the Colosseum.", "pos": 744475}
{"speaker": "the coachman", "text": "By the Porta del Popolo or by the streets, your excellencies?", "pos": 744528}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "By the streets, morbleu! by the streets!", "pos": 744592}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, my dear fellow, really, I thought you had more courage.", "pos": 744648}
{"speaker": "Martial", "text": "Let Memphis cease to boast the barbarous miracles of her pyramids, and the wonders of Babylon be talked of no more among us; all must bow to the superiority of the gigantic labor of the Cæsars, and the many voices of Fame spread far and wide the surpassing merits of this incomparable monument.", "pos": 747969}
{"speaker": "the man", "text": "I beg your excellency’s pardon for keeping you waiting, but I don’t think I’m many minutes after my time, ten o’clock has just struck by the clock of Saint John Lateran.", "pos": 754240}
{"speaker": "the stranger", "text": "Say not a word about being late, ’tis I who am too soon. But even if you had caused me to wait a little while, I should have felt quite sure that the delay was not occasioned by any fault of yours.", "pos": 754450}
{"speaker": "the man", "text": "Your excellency is perfectly right in so thinking. I came here direct from the Castle of St. Angelo, and I had an immense deal of trouble before I could get a chance to speak to Beppo.", "pos": 754691}
{"speaker": "the stranger", "text": "And who is Beppo?", "pos": 754894}
{"speaker": "the man", "text": "Oh, Beppo is employed in the prison, and I give him so much a year to let me know what is going on within his holiness’s castle.", "pos": 754914}
{"speaker": "the stranger", "text": "Indeed! You are a provident person, I see.", "pos": 755045}
{"speaker": "the man", "text": "Why, you see, no one knows what may happen. Perhaps some of these days I may be entrapped, like poor Peppino and may be very glad to have some little nibbling mouse to gnaw the meshes of my net, and so help me out of prison.", "pos": 755090}
{"speaker": "the stranger", "text": "Briefly, what did you learn?", "pos": 755317}
{"speaker": "the man", "text": "That two executions of considerable interest will take place the day after tomorrow at two o’clock, as is customary at Rome at the commencement of all great festivals. One of the culprits will be mazzolato;3 he is an atrocious villain, who murdered the priest who brought him up, and deserves not the smallest pity. The other sufferer is sentenced to be decapitato;4 and he, your excellency, is poor Peppino.", "pos": 755348}
{"speaker": "the stranger", "text": "The fact is, that you have inspired not only the pontifical government, but also the neighboring states, with such extreme fear, that they are glad of all opportunity of making an example.", "pos": 755759}
{"speaker": "Transteverin", "text": "But Peppino did not even belong to my band; he was merely a poor shepherd, whose only crime consisted in furnishing us with provisions.", "pos": 755949}
{"speaker": "Man in the Cloak", "text": "Which makes him your accomplice to all intents and purposes. But mark the distinction with which he is treated; instead of being knocked on the head as you would be if once they caught hold of you, he is simply sentenced to be guillotined, by which means, too, the amusements of the day are diversified, and there is a spectacle to please every spectator.", "pos": 756087}
{"speaker": "Transteverin", "text": "Without reckoning the wholly unexpected one I am preparing to surprise them with.", "pos": 756445}
{"speaker": "Man in the Cloak", "text": "My good friend, excuse me for saying that you seem to me precisely in the mood to commit some wild or extravagant act.", "pos": 756529}
{"speaker": "Transteverin", "text": "Perhaps I am; but one thing I have resolved on, and that is, to stop at nothing to restore a poor devil to liberty, who has got into this scrape solely from having served me. I should hate and despise myself as a coward did I desert the brave fellow in his present extremity.", "pos": 756679}
{"speaker": "Man in the Cloak", "text": "And what do you mean to do?", "pos": 756957}
{"speaker": "Transteverin", "text": "To surround the scaffold with twenty of my best men, who, at a signal from me, will rush forward directly Peppino is brought for execution, and, by the assistance of their stilettos, drive back the guard, and carry off the prisoner.", "pos": 756987}
{"speaker": "Man in the Cloak", "text": "That seems to me as hazardous as uncertain, and convinces me that my scheme is far better than yours.", "pos": 757222}
{"speaker": "Transteverin", "text": "And what is your excellency’s project?", "pos": 757326}
{"speaker": "Man in the Cloak", "text": "Just this. I will so advantageously bestow 2,000 piastres, that the person receiving them shall obtain a respite till next year for Peppino; and during that year, another skilfully placed 1,000 piastres will afford him the means of escaping from his prison.", "pos": 757367}
{"speaker": "Transteverin", "text": "And do you feel sure of succeeding?", "pos": 757627}
{"speaker": "Man in the Cloak", "text": "Pardieu!", "pos": 757665}
{"speaker": "Transteverin", "text": "What did your excellency say?", "pos": 757747}
{"speaker": "Man in the Cloak", "text": "I said, my good fellow, that I would do more single-handed by the means of gold than you and all your troop could effect with stilettos, pistols, carbines, and blunderbusses included. Leave me, then, to act, and have no fears for the result.", "pos": 757799}
{"speaker": "Transteverin", "text": "At least, there can be no harm in myself and party being in readiness, in case your excellency should fail.", "pos": 758043}
{"speaker": "Man in the Cloak", "text": "None whatever. Take what precautions you please, if it is any satisfaction to you to do so; but rely upon my obtaining the reprieve I seek.", "pos": 758153}
{"speaker": "Transteverin", "text": "Remember, the execution is fixed for the day after tomorrow, and that you have but one day to work in.", "pos": 758295}
{"speaker": "Man in the Cloak", "text": "And what of that? Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds very many things can be done.", "pos": 758400}
{"speaker": "Transteverin", "text": "And how shall I know whether your excellency has succeeded or not.", "pos": 758596}
{"speaker": "Man in the Cloak", "text": "Oh, that is very easily arranged. I have engaged the three lower windows at the Café Rospoli; should I have obtained the requisite pardon for Peppino, the two outside windows will be hung with yellow damasks, and the centre with white, having a large cross in red marked on it.", "pos": 758665}
{"speaker": "Transteverin", "text": "And whom will you employ to carry the reprieve to the officer directing the execution?", "pos": 758945}
{"speaker": "Man in the Cloak", "text": "Send one of your men, disguised as a penitent friar, and I will give it to him. His dress will procure him the means of approaching the scaffold itself, and he will deliver the official order to the officer, who, in his turn, will hand it to the executioner; in the meantime, it will be as well to acquaint Peppino with what we have determined on, if it be only to prevent his dying of fear or losing his senses, because in either case a very useless expense will have been incurred.", "pos": 759034}
{"speaker": "Transteverin", "text": "Your excellency, you are fully persuaded of my entire devotion to you, are you not?", "pos": 759520}
{"speaker": "Man in the Cloak", "text": "Nay, I flatter myself that there can be no doubt of it,", "pos": 759622}
{"speaker": "Transteverin", "text": "Well, then, only fulfil your promise of rescuing Peppino, and henceforward you shall receive not only devotion, but the most absolute obedience from myself and those under me that one human being can render to another.", "pos": 759715}
{"speaker": "Man in the Cloak", "text": "Have a care how far you pledge yourself, my good friend, for I may remind you of your promise at some, perhaps, not very distant period, when I, in my turn, may require your aid and influence.", "pos": 759936}
{"speaker": "Transteverin", "text": "Let that day come sooner or later, your excellency will find me what I have found you in this my heavy trouble; and if from the other end of the world you but write me word to do such or such a thing, you may regard it as done, for done it shall be, on the word and faith of——", "pos": 760131}
{"speaker": "Man in the Cloak", "text": "Hush! I hear a noise.", "pos": 760410}
{"speaker": "Transteverin", "text": "’Tis some travellers, who are visiting the Colosseum by torchlight.", "pos": 760463}
{"speaker": "Man in the Cloak", "text": "’Twere better we should not be seen together; those guides are nothing but spies, and might possibly recognize you; and, however I may be honored by your friendship, my worthy friend, if once the extent of our intimacy were known, I am sadly afraid both my reputation and credit would suffer thereby.", "pos": 760533}
{"speaker": "Transteverin", "text": "Well, then, if you obtain the reprieve?", "pos": 760835}
{"speaker": "Man in the Cloak", "text": "The middle window at the Café Rospoli will be hung with white damask, bearing a red cross.", "pos": 760877}
{"speaker": "Transteverin", "text": "And if you fail?", "pos": 760970}
{"speaker": "Man in the Cloak", "text": "Then all three windows will have yellow draperies.", "pos": 760989}
{"speaker": "Transteverin", "text": "And then?", "pos": 761042}
{"speaker": "Man in the Cloak", "text": "And then, my good fellow, use your daggers in any way you please, and I further promise you to be there as a spectator of your prowess.", "pos": 761054}
{"speaker": "Transteverin", "text": "We understand each other perfectly, then. Adieu, your excellency; depend upon me as firmly as I do upon you.", "pos": 761192}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Do you know the woman who has just entered that box?", "pos": 771332}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Yes; what do you think of her?", "pos": 771387}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, she is perfectly lovely—what a complexion! And such magnificent hair! Is she French?", "pos": 771420}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "No; a Venetian.", "pos": 771511}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And her name is——", "pos": 771529}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Countess G——.", "pos": 771549}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, I know her by name! she is said to possess as much wit and cleverness as beauty. I was to have been presented to her when I met her at Madame Villefort’s ball.", "pos": 771565}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Shall I assist you in repairing your negligence?", "pos": 771751}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear fellow, are you really on such good terms with her as to venture to take me to her box?", "pos": 771815}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Why, I have only had the honor of being in her society and conversing with her three or four times in my life; but you know that even such an acquaintance as that might warrant my doing what you ask.", "pos": 771913}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Upon my word, you seem to be on excellent terms with the beautiful countess.", "pos": 772261}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "You are mistaken in thinking so, but you merely fall into the same error which leads so many of our countrymen to commit the most egregious blunders,—I mean that of judging the habits and customs of Italy and Spain by our Parisian notions; believe me, nothing is more fallacious than to form any estimate of the degree of intimacy you may suppose existing among persons by the familiar terms they seem upon; there is a similarity of feeling at this instant between ourselves and the countess—nothing more.", "pos": 772355}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Is there, indeed, my good fellow? Pray tell me, is it sympathy of heart?", "pos": 772888}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "No; of taste,", "pos": 772963}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And in what manner has this congeniality of mind been evinced?", "pos": 773004}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "By the countess’s visiting the Colosseum, as we did last night, by moonlight, and nearly alone.", "pos": 773069}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You were with her, then?", "pos": 773167}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I was.", "pos": 773194}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And what did you say to her?", "pos": 773203}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Oh, we talked of the illustrious dead of whom that magnificent ruin is a glorious monument!", "pos": 773234}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Upon my word, you must have been a very entertaining companion alone, or all but alone, with a beautiful woman in such a place of sentiment as the Colosseum, and yet to find nothing better to talk about than the dead! All I can say is, if ever I should get such a chance, the living should be my theme.", "pos": 773328}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And you will probably find your theme ill-chosen.", "pos": 773656}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But, never mind the past; let us only remember the present. Are you not going to keep your promise of introducing me to the fair subject of our remarks?", "pos": 773708}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Certainly, directly the curtain falls on the stage.", "pos": 773910}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What a confounded long time this first act lasts. I believe, on my soul, that they never mean to finish it.", "pos": 773964}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Oh, yes, they will; only listen to that charming finale. How exquisitely Coselli sings his part.", "pos": 774074}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But what an awkward, inelegant fellow he is.", "pos": 774173}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Well, then, what do you say to La Specchia? Did you ever see anything more perfect than her acting?", "pos": 774220}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why, you know, my dear fellow, when one has been accustomed to Malibran and Sontag, such singers as these don’t make the same impression on you they perhaps do on others.", "pos": 774321}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At least, you must admire Moriani’s style and execution.", "pos": 774494}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I never fancied men of his dark, ponderous appearance singing with a voice like a woman’s.", "pos": 774553}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "My good friend, you seem determined not to approve; you are really too difficult to please.", "pos": 774646}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "All I can tell about her, is, that she has been at Rome since the beginning of the season; for I saw her where she now sits the very first night of the season, and since then she has never missed a performance. Sometimes she is accompanied by the person who is now with her, and at others she is merely attended by a black servant.", "pos": 777858}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And what do you think of her personal appearance?", "pos": 778216}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, I consider her perfectly lovely—she is just my idea of what Medora must have been.", "pos": 778268}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Countess. I asked you a short time since if you knew any particulars respecting the Albanian lady opposite; I must now beseech you to inform me who and what is her husband?", "pos": 782983}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Nay. I know no more of him than yourself.", "pos": 783208}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Perhaps you never before noticed him?", "pos": 783277}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "What a question—so truly French! Do you not know that we Italians have eyes only for the man we love?", "pos": 783317}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "True,", "pos": 783421}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "All I can say is, that the gentleman, whose history I am unable to furnish, seems to me as though he had just been dug up; he looks more like a corpse permitted by some friendly grave-digger to quit his tomb for a while, and revisit this earth of ours, than anything human. How ghastly pale he is!", "pos": 783444}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Oh, he is always as colorless as you now see him,", "pos": 783840}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Then you know him? Oh, pray do, for heaven’s sake, tell us all about—is he a vampire, or a resuscitated corpse, or what?", "pos": 783904}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I fancy I have seen him before; and I even think he recognizes me.", "pos": 784059}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "And I can well understand, that those who have once seen that man will never be likely to forget him.", "pos": 784128}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Well. what do you think of our opposite neighbor?", "pos": 784512}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why, that he is no other than Lord Ruthven himself in a living form.", "pos": 784661}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I must positively find out who and what he is,", "pos": 784981}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "No, no, you must not leave me. I depend upon you to escort me home. Oh, indeed, I cannot permit you to go.", "pos": 785064}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Is it possible, that you entertain any fear?", "pos": 785195}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "I’ll tell you. Byron had the most perfect belief in the existence of vampires, and even assured me that he had seen them. The description he gave me perfectly corresponds with the features and character of the man before us. Oh, he is the exact personification of what I have been led to expect! The coal-black hair, large bright, glittering eyes, in which a wild, unearthly fire seems burning,—the same ghastly paleness. Then observe, too, that the woman with him is altogether unlike all others of her sex. She is a foreigner—a stranger. Nobody knows who she is, or where she comes from. No doubt she belongs to the same horrible race he does, and is, like himself, a dealer in magical arts. I entreat of you not to go near him—at least tonight; and if tomorrow your curiosity still continues as great, pursue your researches if you will; but tonight you neither can nor shall. For that purpose I mean to keep you all to myself. Listen to me, and do not be so very headstrong. I am going home. I have a party at my house tonight, and therefore cannot possibly remain till the end of the opera. Now, I cannot for one instant believe you so devoid of gallantry as to refuse a lady your escort when she even condescends to ask you for it.", "pos": 785261}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Excuse my little subterfuge, but that horrid man had made me feel quite uncomfortable, and I longed to be alone, that I might compose my startled mind. Nay, do not smile; it ill accords with the expression of your countenance, and I am sure it does not spring from your heart. However, promise me one thing.", "pos": 787444}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 787886}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Promise me, I say.", "pos": 787900}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I will do anything you desire, except relinquish my determination of finding out who this man is. I have more reasons than you can imagine for desiring to know who he is, from whence he came, and whither he is going.", "pos": 787921}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Where he comes from I am ignorant; but I can readily tell you where he is going to, and that is down below, without the least doubt.", "pos": 788140}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Let us only speak of the promise you wished me to make,", "pos": 788275}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Well, then, you must give me your word to return immediately to your hotel, and make no attempt to follow this man tonight. There are certain affinities between the persons we quit and those we meet afterwards. For heaven’s sake, do not serve as a conductor between that man and me. Pursue your chase after him tomorrow as eagerly as you please; but never bring him near me, if you would not see me die of terror. And now, good-night; go to your rooms, and try to sleep away all recollections of this evening. For my own part, I am quite sure I shall not be able to close my eyes.", "pos": 788345}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear fellow! is it really you? Why, I did not expect to see you before tomorrow.", "pos": 789234}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "My dear Albert. I am glad of this opportunity to tell you, once and forever, that you entertain a most erroneous notion concerning Italian women. I should have thought the continual failures you have met with in all your own love affairs might have taught you better by this time.", "pos": 789346}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Upon my soul, these women would puzzle the very Devil to read them aright. Why, here—they give you their hand—they press yours in return—they keep up a whispering conversation—permit you to accompany them home. Why, if a Parisian were to indulge in a quarter of these marks of flattering attention, her reputation would be gone forever.", "pos": 789646}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And the very reason why the women of this fine country, ‘where sounds the si,’ as Dante writes, put so little restraint on their words and actions, is because they live so much in public, and have really nothing to conceal. Besides, you must have perceived that the countess was really alarmed.", "pos": 789985}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "At what? At the sight of that respectable gentleman sitting opposite to us in the same box with the lovely Greek girl? Now, for my part, I met them in the lobby after the conclusion of the piece; and hang me, if I can guess where you took your notions of the other world from. I can assure you that this hobgoblin of yours is a deuced fine-looking fellow—admirably dressed. Indeed, I feel quite sure, from the cut of his clothes, they are made by a first-rate Paris tailor—probably Blin or Humann. He was rather too pale, certainly; but then, you know, paleness is always looked upon as a strong proof of aristocratic descent and distinguished breeding.", "pos": 790282}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Well, that tends to confirm my own ideas, that the countess’s suspicions were destitute alike of sense and reason. Did he speak in your hearing? and did you catch any of his words?", "pos": 791069}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I did; but they were uttered in the Romaic dialect. I knew that from the mixture of Greek words. I don’t know whether I ever told you that when I was at college I was rather—rather strong in Greek.", "pos": 791266}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "He spoke the Romaic language, did he?", "pos": 791466}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I think so.", "pos": 791506}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "That settles it, ’Tis he, past all doubt.", "pos": 791520}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What do you say?", "pos": 791582}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Nothing, nothing. But tell me, what were you thinking about when I came in?", "pos": 791601}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, I was arranging a little surprise for you.", "pos": 791679}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Indeed. Of what nature?", "pos": 791728}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Why, you know it is quite impossible to procure a carriage.", "pos": 791754}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Certainly; and I also know that we have done all that human means afforded to endeavor to get one.", "pos": 791816}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Now, then, in this difficulty a bright idea has flashed across my brain. I tell you what, M. Franz, you deserve to be called out for such a misgiving and incredulous glance as that you were pleased to bestow on me just now.", "pos": 791917}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And I promise to give you the satisfaction of a gentleman if your scheme turns out as ingenious as you assert.", "pos": 792260}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, then, hearken to me.", "pos": 792373}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I listen.", "pos": 792402}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You agree, do you not, that obtaining a carriage is out of the question?", "pos": 792414}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I do.", "pos": 792489}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Neither can we procure horses?", "pos": 792496}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "True; we have offered any sum, but have failed.", "pos": 792529}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, now, what do you say to a cart? I dare say such a thing might be had.", "pos": 792579}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Very possibly.", "pos": 792657}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And a pair of oxen?", "pos": 792674}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "As easily found as the cart.", "pos": 792696}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Then you see, my good fellow, with a cart and a couple of oxen our business can be managed. The cart must be tastefully ornamented; and if you and I dress ourselves as Neapolitan reapers, we may get up a striking tableau, after the manner of that splendid picture by Léopold Robert. It would add greatly to the effect if the countess would join us in the costume of a peasant from Puzzoli or Sorrento. Our group would then be quite complete, more especially as the countess is quite beautiful enough to represent a Madonna.", "pos": 792727}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Well, this time, M. Albert, I am bound to give you credit for having hit upon a most capital idea.", "pos": 793253}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And quite a national one, too. A mere masque borrowed from our own festivities. Ha, ha, ye Romans! you thought to make us, unhappy strangers, trot at the heels of your processions, like so many lazzaroni, because no carriages or horses are to be had in your beggarly city. But you don’t know us; when we can’t have one thing we invent another.", "pos": 793368}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And have you communicated your triumphant idea to anybody?", "pos": 793753}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Only to our host. Upon my return home I sent for him, and I then explained to him what I wished to procure. He assured me that nothing would be easier than to furnish all I desired. One thing I was sorry for; when I bade him have the horns of the oxen gilded, he told me there would not be time, as it would require three days to do that; so you see we must do without this little superfluity.", "pos": 793814}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And where is he now?", "pos": 794210}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Who?", "pos": 794233}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Our host.", "pos": 794240}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Gone out in search of our equipage, by tomorrow it might be too late.", "pos": 794252}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then he will be able to give us an answer tonight.", "pos": 794324}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, I expect him every minute.", "pos": 794377}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Permesso?", "pos": 794485}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Certainly—certainly. Come in, my host.", "pos": 794510}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Now, then, have you found the desired cart and oxen?", "pos": 794566}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Better than that!", "pos": 794645}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Take care, my worthy host, better is a sure enemy to well.", "pos": 794751}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Let your excellencies only leave the matter to me,", "pos": 794827}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "But what have you done? Speak out, there’s a worthy fellow.", "pos": 794956}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Your excellencies are aware, that the Count of Monte Cristo is living on the same floor with yourselves!", "pos": 795033}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I should think we did know it, since it is owing to that circumstance that we are packed into these small rooms, like two poor students in the back streets of Paris.", "pos": 795192}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "When, then, the Count of Monte Cristo, hearing of the dilemma in which you are placed, has sent to offer you seats in his carriage and two places at his windows in the Palazzo Rospoli.", "pos": 795380}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But do you think, that we ought to accept such offers from a perfect stranger?", "pos": 795627}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "What sort of person is this Count of Monte Cristo?", "pos": 795724}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "A very great nobleman, but whether Maltese or Sicilian I cannot exactly say; but this I know, that he is noble as a Borghese and rich as a gold mine.", "pos": 795802}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "It seems to me, that if this person merited the high panegyrics of our landlord, he would have conveyed his invitation through another channel, and not permitted it to be brought to us in this unceremonious way. He would have written—or—— Come in,", "pos": 795954}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Faith, Franz, there is not much to find fault with here.", "pos": 796831}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Tell the count, that we will do ourselves the pleasure of calling on him.", "pos": 796910}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Oh, I agree with you; the windows in the Palazzo Rospoli alone decided me.", "pos": 797666}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Pray, Signor Pastrini, is not some execution appointed to take place today?", "pos": 799017}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Yes, your excellency; but if your reason for inquiry is that you may procure a window to view it from, you are much too late.", "pos": 799110}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Oh, no. I had no such intention; and even if I had felt a wish to witness the spectacle, I might have done so from Monte Pincio; could I not?", "pos": 799238}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Ah! I did not think it likely your excellency would have chosen to mingle with such a rabble as are always collected on that hill, which, indeed, they consider as exclusively belonging to themselves.", "pos": 799400}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Very possibly I may not go, but in case I feel disposed, give me some particulars of today’s executions.", "pos": 799625}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "What particulars would your excellency like to hear?", "pos": 799750}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Why, the number of persons condemned to suffer, their names, and description of the death they are to die.", "pos": 799805}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Sort of wooden tablets hung up at the corners of streets the evening before an execution, on which is pasted up a paper containing the names of the condemned persons, their crimes, and mode of punishment. The reason for so publicly announcing all this is, that all good and faithful Catholics may offer up their prayers for the unfortunate culprits, and, above all, beseech of Heaven to grant them a sincere repentance.", "pos": 800030}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And these tablets are brought to you that you may add your prayers to those of the faithful, are they?", "pos": 800452}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Oh, dear, no, your excellency! I have not time for anybody’s affairs but my own and those of my honorable guests; but I make an agreement with the man who pastes up the papers, and he brings them to me as he would the playbills, that in case any person staying at my hotel should like to witness an execution, he may obtain every requisite information concerning the time and place etc.", "pos": 800593}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Upon my word, that is a most delicate attention on your part, Signor Pastrini,", "pos": 800982}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Why, your excellency. I think I may take upon myself to say I neglect nothing to deserve the support and patronage of the noble visitors to this poor hotel.", "pos": 801076}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I see that plainly enough, my most excellent host, and you may rely upon me to proclaim so striking a proof of your attention to your guests wherever I go. Meanwhile, oblige me by a sight of one of these tavolettas.", "pos": 801319}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Nothing can be easier than to comply with your excellency’s wish. I have caused one to be placed on the landing, close by your apartment.", "pos": 801537}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "The public is informed that on Wednesday, February 23rd, being the first day of the Carnival, executions will take place in the Piazza del Popolo, by order of the Tribunal of the Rota, of two persons, named Andrea Rondolo, and Peppino, otherwise called Rocca Priori; the former found guilty of the murder of a venerable and exemplary priest, named Don César Torlini, canon of the church of St. John Lateran; and the latter convicted of being an accomplice of the atrocious and sanguinary bandit, Luigi Vampa, and his band. The first-named malefactor will be mazzolato, the second culprit decapitato. The prayers of all good Christians are entreated for these unfortunate men, that it may please God to awaken them to a sense of their guilt, and to grant them a hearty and sincere repentance for their crimes.", "pos": 801815}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Most assuredly. The Count of Monte Cristo is always an early riser; and I can answer for his having been up these two hours.", "pos": 803668}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Then you really consider we shall not be intruding if we pay our respects to him directly?", "pos": 803809}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Perfectly.", "pos": 804060}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let us go and return our best thanks for his courtesy.", "pos": 804073}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, let us do so.", "pos": 804130}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I signori Francesi.", "pos": 804343}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If your excellencies will please to be seated,", "pos": 805024}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will let the count know that you are here.", "pos": 805087}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Well, what think you of all this?", "pos": 805604}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why, upon my soul, my dear fellow, it strikes me that our elegant and attentive neighbor must either be some successful stock-jobber who has speculated in the fall of the Spanish funds, or some prince travelling incog.", "pos": 805668}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Hush, hush! we shall ascertain who and what he is—he comes!", "pos": 805889}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Gentlemen. I pray you excuse me for suffering my visit to be anticipated; but I feared to disturb you by presenting myself earlier at your apartments; besides, you sent me word that you would come to me, and I have held myself at your disposal.", "pos": 806503}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Franz and I have to thank you a thousand times, count, you extricated us from a great dilemma, and we were on the point of inventing a very fantastic vehicle when your friendly invitation reached us.", "pos": 806798}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Indeed. It was the fault of that blockhead Pastrini, that I did not sooner assist you in your distress. He did not mention a syllable of your embarrassment to me, when he knows that, alone and isolated as I am, I seek every opportunity of making the acquaintance of my neighbors. As soon as I learned I could in any way assist you, I most eagerly seized the opportunity of offering my services.", "pos": 807019}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Count, you have offered us places in your carriage, and at your windows in the Rospoli Palace. Can you tell us where we can obtain a sight of the Piazza del Popolo?", "pos": 808262}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, is there not something like an execution upon the Piazza del Popolo?", "pos": 808440}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 808577}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Stay, I think I told my steward yesterday to attend to this; perhaps I can render you this slight service also. Did you ever occupy yourself, with the employment of time and the means of simplifying the summoning your servants? I have. When I ring once, it is for my valet; twice, for my majordomo; thrice, for my steward,—thus I do not waste a minute or a word. Here he is. Monsieur Bertuccio, you have procured me windows looking on the Piazza del Popolo, as I ordered you yesterday.", "pos": 808658}
{"speaker": "M. Bertuccio", "text": "Yes, excellency, but it was very late.", "pos": 809428}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Did I not tell you I wished for one?", "pos": 809493}
{"speaker": "M. Bertuccio", "text": "And your excellency has one, which was let to Prince Lobanieff; but I was obliged to pay a hundred——", "pos": 809561}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That will do—that will do, Monsieur Bertuccio; spare these gentlemen all such domestic arrangements. You have the window, that is sufficient. Give orders to the coachman; and be in readiness on the stairs to conduct us to it. Ah! be good enough to ask Pastrini if he has received the tavoletta, and if he can send us an account of the execution.", "pos": 809664}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "There is no need to do that, for I saw the account, and copied it down.", "pos": 810088}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Very well, you can retire, M. Bertuccio; I need you no longer. Let us know when breakfast is ready. These gentlemen, will, I trust, do me the honor to breakfast with me?", "pos": 810200}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But, my dear count, we shall abuse your kindness.", "pos": 810412}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Not at all; on the contrary, you will give me great pleasure. You will, one or other of you, perhaps both, return it to me at Paris. M. Bertuccio, lay covers for three. We announce, that today, the 23rd of February, will be executed Andrea Rondolo, guilty of murder on the person of the respected and venerated Don César Torlini, canon of the church of St. John Lateran, and Peppino, called Rocca Priori, convicted of complicity with the detestable bandit Luigi Vampa, and the men of his band. Hum! ‘The first will be mazzolato, the second decapitato.’ Yes, it was at first arranged in this way; but I think since yesterday some change has taken place in the order of the ceremony.", "pos": 810479}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Really?", "pos": 811307}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, I passed the evening at the Cardinal Rospigliosi’s, and there mention was made of something like a pardon for one of the two men.", "pos": 811329}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "For Andrea Rondolo?", "pos": 811466}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, for the other (he glanced at the tablets as if to recall the name), for Peppino, called Rocca Priori. You are thus deprived of seeing a man guillotined; but the mazzolata still remains, which is a very curious punishment when seen for the first time, and even the second, while the other, as you must know, is very simple. The mandaïa6 never fails, never trembles, never strikes thirty times ineffectually, like the soldier who beheaded the Count of Chalais, and to whose tender mercy Richelieu had doubtless recommended the sufferer. Ah, do not tell me of European punishments, they are in the infancy, or rather the old age, of cruelty.", "pos": 811501}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Really, count, one would think that you had studied the different tortures of all the nations of the world.", "pos": 812222}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "There are, at least, few that I have not seen, said the count coldly.", "pos": 812349}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And you took pleasure in beholding these dreadful spectacles?", "pos": 812421}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My first sentiment was horror, the second indifference, the third curiosity.", "pos": 812485}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Curiosity—that is a terrible word.", "pos": 812564}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why so? In life, our greatest preoccupation is death; is it not then, curious to study the different ways by which the soul and body can part; and how, according to their different characters, temperaments, and even the different customs of their countries, different persons bear the transition from life to death, from existence to annihilation? As for myself, I can assure you of one thing,—the more men you see die, the easier it becomes to die yourself; and in my opinion, death may be a torture, but it is not an expiation.", "pos": 812601}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I do not quite understand you, pray explain your meaning, for you excite my curiosity to the highest pitch.", "pos": 813133}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Listen, and deep hatred mounted to his face, as the blood would to the face of any other. “If a man had by unheard-of and excruciating tortures destroyed your father, your mother, your betrothed,—a being who, when torn from you, left a desolation, a wound that never closes, in your breast,—do you think the reparation that society gives you is sufficient when it interposes the knife of the guillotine between the base of the occiput and the trapezal muscles of the murderer, and allows him who has caused us years of moral sufferings to escape with a few moments of physical pain?", "pos": 813260}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Yes, I know, that human justice is insufficient to console us; she can give blood in return for blood, that is all; but you must demand from her only what it is in her power to grant.", "pos": 813862}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I will put another case to you, continued the count; “that where society, attacked by the death of a person, avenges death by death. But are there not a thousand tortures by which a man may be made to suffer without society taking the least cognizance of them, or offering him even the insufficient means of vengeance, of which we have just spoken? Are there not crimes for which the impalement of the Turks, the augers of the Persians, the stake and the brand of the Iroquois Indians, are inadequate tortures, and which are unpunished by society? Answer me, do not these crimes exist?", "pos": 814062}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Yes, answered Franz; “and it is to punish them that duelling is tolerated.", "pos": 814651}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, duelling, cried the count; “a pleasant manner, upon my soul, of arriving at your end when that end is vengeance! A man has carried off your mistress, a man has seduced your wife, a man has dishonored your daughter; he has rendered the whole life of one who had the right to expect from Heaven that portion of happiness God has promised to everyone of his creatures, an existence of misery and infamy; and you think you are avenged because you send a ball through the head, or pass a sword through the breast, of that man who has planted madness in your brain, and despair in your heart. And remember, moreover, that it is often he who comes off victorious from the strife, absolved of all crime in the eyes of the world. No, no, continued the count, “had I to avenge myself, it is not thus I would take revenge.", "pos": 814729}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Then you disapprove of duelling? You would not fight a duel?", "pos": 815549}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, yes, replied the count; “understand me, I would fight a duel for a trifle, for an insult, for a blow; and the more so that, thanks to my skill in all bodily exercises, and the indifference to danger I have gradually acquired, I should be almost certain to kill my man. Oh, I would fight for such a cause; but in return for a slow, profound, eternal torture, I would give back the same, were it possible; an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, as the Orientalists say,—our masters in everything,—those favored creatures who have formed for themselves a life of dreams and a paradise of realities.", "pos": 815673}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "But, said Franz to the count, “with this theory, which renders you at once judge and executioner of your own cause, it would be difficult to adopt a course that would forever prevent your falling under the power of the law. Hatred is blind, rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.", "pos": 816277}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, if he be poor and inexperienced, not if he be rich and skilful; besides, the worst that could happen to him would be the punishment of which we have already spoken, and which the philanthropic French Revolution has substituted for being torn to pieces by horses or broken on the wheel. What matters this punishment, as long as he is avenged? On my word, I almost regret that in all probability this miserable Peppino will not be beheaded, as you might have had an opportunity then of seeing how short a time the punishment lasts, and whether it is worth even mentioning; but, really this is a most singular conversation for the Carnival, gentlemen; how did it arise? Ah, I recollect, you asked for a place at my window; you shall have it; but let us first sit down to table, for here comes the servant to inform us that breakfast is ready.", "pos": 816618}
{"speaker": "Servant", "text": "Al suo commodo!", "pos": 817543}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, what are you doing?", "pos": 818762}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "You must excuse us, count, but we have still much to do.", "pos": 818808}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What may that be?", "pos": 818885}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "We have no masks, and it is absolutely necessary to procure them.", "pos": 818905}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do not concern yourself about that; we have, I think, a private room in the Piazza del Popolo; I will have whatever costumes you choose brought to us, and you can dress there.", "pos": 818973}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "After the execution?", "pos": 819151}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Before or after, whichever you please.", "pos": 819187}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Opposite the scaffold?", "pos": 819228}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The scaffold forms part of the fête.", "pos": 819253}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Count, I have reflected on the matter, said Franz, “I thank you for your courtesy, but I shall content myself with accepting a place in your carriage and at your window at the Rospoli Palace, and I leave you at liberty to dispose of my place at the Piazza del Popolo.", "pos": 819292}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But I warn you, you will lose a very curious sight, returned the count.", "pos": 819563}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "You will describe it to me, replied Franz, “and the recital from your lips will make as great an impression on me as if I had witnessed it. I have more than once intended witnessing an execution, but I have never been able to make up my mind; and you, Albert?", "pos": 819637}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I, replied the viscount,—“I saw Castaing executed, but I think I was rather intoxicated that day, for I had quitted college the same morning, and we had passed the previous night at a tavern.", "pos": 819900}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Besides, it is no reason because you have not seen an execution at Paris, that you should not see one anywhere else; when you travel, it is to see everything. Think what a figure you will make when you are asked, ‘How do they execute at Rome?’ and you reply, ‘I do not know!’ And, besides, they say that the culprit is an infamous scoundrel, who killed with a log of wood a worthy canon who had brought him up like his own son. Diable! when a churchman is killed, it should be with a different weapon than a log, especially when he has behaved like a father. If you went to Spain, would you not see the bull-fights? Well, suppose it is a bull-fight you are going to see? Recollect the ancient Romans of the Circus, and the sports where they killed three hundred lions and a hundred men. Think of the eighty thousand applauding spectators, the sage matrons who took their daughters, and the charming Vestals who made with the thumb of their white hands the fatal sign that said, ‘Come, despatch the dying.’", "pos": 820095}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Shall you go, then, Albert?", "pos": 821103}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ma foi, yes; like you, I hesitated, but the count’s eloquence decides me.", "pos": 821146}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Let us go, then, said Franz, “since you wish it; but on our way to the Piazza del Popolo, I wish to pass through the Corso. Is this possible, count?", "pos": 821222}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "On foot, yes, in a carriage, no.", "pos": 821374}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I will go on foot, then.", "pos": 821409}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Is it important that you should go that way?", "pos": 821436}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Yes, there is something I wish to see.", "pos": 821483}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, we will go by the Corso. We will send the carriage to wait for us on the Piazza del Popolo, by the Via del Babuino, for I shall be glad to pass, myself, through the Corso, to see if some orders I have given have been executed.", "pos": 821524}
{"speaker": "Servant", "text": "Excellency, a man in the dress of a penitent wishes to speak to you.", "pos": 821759}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah! yes, returned the count, “I know who he is, gentlemen; will you return to the salon? you will find good cigars on the centre table. I will be with you directly.", "pos": 821866}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, what think you of the Count of Monte Cristo? What do I think? said Albert, evidently surprised at such a question from his companion; “I think he is a delightful fellow, who does the honors of his table admirably; who has travelled much, read much, is, like Brutus, of the Stoic school, and moreover,” added he, sending a volume of smoke up towards the ceiling, “that he has excellent cigars.", "pos": 822351}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "But, said he, “did you observe one very singular thing?", "pos": 822942}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What?", "pos": 823001}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "How attentively he looked at you.", "pos": 823009}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "At me? Ah, replied he, sighing, “that is not very surprising; I have been more than a year absent from Paris, and my clothes are of a most antiquated cut; the count takes me for a provincial. The first opportunity you have, undeceive him, I beg, and tell him I am nothing of the kind.", "pos": 823045}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am now quite at your service, gentlemen, said he. “The carriage is going one way to the Piazza del Popolo, and we will go another; and, if you please, by the Corso. Take some more of these cigars, M. de Morcerf.", "pos": 823410}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "With all my heart, returned Albert; “Italian cigars are horrible. When you come to Paris, I will return all this.", "pos": 823627}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I will not refuse; I intend going there soon, and since you allow me, I will pay you a visit. Come, we have not any time to lose, it is half-past twelve—let us set off. Which are your windows? asked he of the count, with as much indifference as he could assume. The three last, returned he, with a negligence evidently unaffected, for he could not imagine with what intention the question was put.", "pos": 823744}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I thought, that you told me there would be but one execution.", "pos": 830733}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I told you true,", "pos": 830824}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And yet here are two culprits.", "pos": 830862}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; but only one of these two is about to die; the other has many years to live.", "pos": 830895}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "If the pardon is to come, there is no time to lose.", "pos": 830979}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And see, here it is,", "pos": 831033}
{"speaker": "chief of the brotherhood", "text": "Heaven be praised, and his Holiness also, here is a pardon for one of the prisoners!", "pos": 831381}
{"speaker": "people", "text": "A pardon! a pardon!", "pos": 831495}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Pardon for whom?", "pos": 831588}
{"speaker": "principal friar", "text": "A pardon for Peppino, called Rocca Priori,", "pos": 831646}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "For Peppino! Why for him and not for me? We ought to die together. I was promised he should die with me. You have no right to put me to death alone. I will not die alone—I will not!", "pos": 831816}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "What is going on?", "pos": 832310}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do you not see? that this human creature who is about to die is furious that his fellow-sufferer does not perish with him? and, were he able, he would rather tear him to pieces with his teeth and nails than let him enjoy the life he himself is about to be deprived of. Oh, man, man—race of crocodiles, how well do I recognize you there, and that at all times you are worthy of yourselves!", "pos": 832439}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "He ought to die!—he shall die!—I will not die alone!", "pos": 833016}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Look, look, look, for on my soul it is curious. Here is a man who had resigned himself to his fate, who was going to the scaffold to die—like a coward, it is true, but he was about to die without resistance. Do you know what gave him strength? do you know what consoled him? It was, that another partook of his punishment—that another partook of his anguish—that another was to die before him! Lead two sheep to the butcher’s, two oxen to the slaughterhouse, and make one of them understand that his companion will not die; the sheep will bleat for pleasure, the ox will bellow with joy. But man—man, whom God created in his own image—man, upon whom God has laid his first, his sole commandment, to love his neighbor—man, to whom God has given a voice to express his thoughts—what is his first cry when he hears his fellow-man is saved? A blasphemy. Honor to man, this masterpiece of nature, this king of the creation!", "pos": 833071}
{"speaker": "people", "text": "Put him to death! put him to death!", "pos": 834363}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What are you doing? Do you pity him? If you heard the cry of ‘Mad dog!’ you would take your gun—you would unhesitatingly shoot the poor beast, who, after all, was only guilty of having been bitten by another dog. And yet you pity a man who, without being bitten by one of his race, has yet murdered his benefactor; and who, now unable to kill anyone, because his hands are bound, wishes to see his companion in captivity perish. No, no—look, look!", "pos": 834482}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Well, what has, then, happened?", "pos": 836436}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Nothing, only, as you see, the Carnival has commenced. Make haste and dress yourself.", "pos": 836495}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "In fact, this horrible scene has passed away like a dream.", "pos": 836604}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is but a dream, a nightmare, that has disturbed you.", "pos": 836679}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Yes, that I have suffered; but the culprit?", "pos": 836737}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?", "pos": 836783}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "But Peppino—what has become of him?", "pos": 836911}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Peppino is a lad of sense, who, unlike most men, who are happy in proportion as they are noticed, was delighted to see that the general attention was directed towards his companion. He profited by this distraction to slip away among the crowd, without even thanking the worthy priests who accompanied him. Decidedly man is an ungrateful and egotistical animal. But dress yourself; see, M. de Morcerf sets you the example.", "pos": 836949}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Well, Albert, do you feel much inclined to join the revels? Come, answer frankly.", "pos": 837460}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ma foi, no. But I am really glad to have seen such a sight; and I understand what the count said—that when you have once habituated yourself to a similar spectacle, it is the only one that causes you any emotion.", "pos": 837558}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character, on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed. It must be allowed that Andrea was not very handsome, the hideous scoundrel! Come, dress yourselves, gentlemen, dress yourselves.", "pos": 837799}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Gentlemen, when you are tired of being actors, and wish to become spectators of this scene, you know you have places at my windows. In the meantime, dispose of my coachman, my carriage, and my servants.", "pos": 841773}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, my dear fellow, you did not see?", "pos": 842603}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "What?", "pos": 842662}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "There,—that calash filled with Roman peasants.", "pos": 842670}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "No.", "pos": 842719}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, I am convinced they are all charming women.", "pos": 842725}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "How unfortunate that you were masked, Albert, here was an opportunity of making up for past disappointments.", "pos": 842777}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh. I hope the Carnival will not pass without some amends in one shape or the other.", "pos": 842902}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Well, there is the beginning of an adventure.", "pos": 843727}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Laugh if you please—I really think so. So I will not abandon this bouquet.", "pos": 843796}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Pardieu, in token of your ingratitude. Bravo, bravo, things go wonderfully. Shall I leave you? Perhaps you would prefer being alone?", "pos": 843873}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No. I will not be caught like a fool at a first disclosure by a rendezvous under the clock, as they say at the opera-balls. If the fair peasant wishes to carry matters any further, we shall find her, or rather, she will find us tomorrow; then she will give me some sign or other, and I shall know what I have to do.", "pos": 844286}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "On my word, you are as wise as Nestor and prudent as Ulysses, and your fair Circe must be very skilful or very powerful if she succeed in changing you into a beast of any kind.", "pos": 844618}
{"speaker": "host", "text": "A tailor, and for what?", "pos": 846308}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "To make us between now and tomorrow two Roman peasant costumes,", "pos": 846351}
{"speaker": "host", "text": "To make you two costumes between now and tomorrow? I ask your excellencies’ pardon, but this is quite a French demand; for the next week you will not find a single tailor who would consent to sew six buttons on a waistcoat if you paid him a crown a piece for each button.", "pos": 846459}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Then I must give up the idea?", "pos": 846733}
{"speaker": "host", "text": "No; we have them ready-made. Leave all to me; and tomorrow, when you awake, you shall find a collection of costumes with which you will be satisfied.", "pos": 846765}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "My dear Albert, leave all to our host; he has already proved himself full of resources; let us dine quietly, and afterwards go and see l’Italienne à Alger!", "pos": 846916}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Agreed, but remember, Signor Pastrini, that both my friend and myself attach the greatest importance to having tomorrow the costumes we have asked for.", "pos": 847087}
{"speaker": "Servant", "text": "His excellency the Count of Monte Cristo had, given positive orders that the carriage was to remain at their lordships’ orders all day, and they could therefore dispose of it without fear of indiscretion.", "pos": 848091}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Well, it seems you have nothing better to do than to make the acquaintance of this new Lord Ruthven, and you are already the best friends in the world.", "pos": 849331}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Without being so far advanced as that, my dear countess. I cannot deny that we have abused his good nature all day.", "pos": 849535}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "All day?", "pos": 849671}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Yes; this morning we breakfasted with him; we rode in his carriage all day, and now we have taken possession of his box.", "pos": 849682}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "You know him, then?", "pos": 849805}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Yes, and no.", "pos": 849827}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "How so?", "pos": 849842}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "It is a long story.", "pos": 849852}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Tell it to me.", "pos": 849874}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "It would frighten you too much.", "pos": 849891}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "So much the more reason.", "pos": 849925}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "At least wait until the story has a conclusion.", "pos": 849952}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Very well; I prefer complete histories; but tell me how you made his acquaintance? Did anyone introduce you to him?", "pos": 850002}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "No; it was he who introduced himself to us.", "pos": 850120}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "When?", "pos": 850166}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Last night, after we left you.", "pos": 850174}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Through what medium?", "pos": 850207}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "The very prosaic one of our landlord.", "pos": 850230}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "He is staying, then, at the Hôtel de Londres with you?", "pos": 850270}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Not only in the same hotel, but on the same floor.", "pos": 850327}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "What is his name; for, of course, you know?", "pos": 850380}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "The Count of Monte Cristo.", "pos": 850426}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "That is not a family name?", "pos": 850455}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "No, it is the name of the island he has purchased.", "pos": 850484}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "And he is a count?", "pos": 850537}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "A Tuscan count.", "pos": 850558}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Well, we must put up with that. What sort of a man is he?", "pos": 850576}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Ask the Vicomte de Morcerf.", "pos": 850715}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "You hear, M. de Morcerf, I am referred to you,", "pos": 850745}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "We should be very hard to please, madam, did we not think him delightful. A friend of ten years’ standing could not have done more for us, or with a more perfect courtesy.", "pos": 850813}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Come. I see my vampire is only some millionaire, who has taken the appearance of Lara in order to avoid being confounded with M. de Rothschild; and you have seen her?", "pos": 851006}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Her?", "pos": 851209}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "The beautiful Greek of yesterday.", "pos": 851223}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "No; we heard, I think, the sound of her guzla, but she remained perfectly invisible.", "pos": 851259}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "When you say invisible, it is only to keep up the mystery; for whom do you take the blue domino at the window with the white curtains?", "pos": 851346}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Where was this window with white hangings?", "pos": 851505}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "At the Rospoli Palace.", "pos": 851570}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "The count had three windows at the Rospoli Palace?", "pos": 851595}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes. Did you pass through the Corso?", "pos": 851648}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 851687}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, did you notice two windows hung with yellow damask, and one with white damask with a red cross? Those were the count’s windows.", "pos": 851694}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Why, he must be a nabob. Do you know what those three windows were worth?", "pos": 851830}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Two or three hundred Roman crowns?", "pos": 851906}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Two or three thousand.", "pos": 851943}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "The deuce!", "pos": 851968}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Does his island produce him such a revenue?", "pos": 851981}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "It does not bring him a bajocco.", "pos": 852027}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Then why did he purchase it?", "pos": 852062}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "For a whim.", "pos": 852093}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "He is an original, then?", "pos": 852107}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "In reality, he seemed to me somewhat eccentric; were he at Paris, and a frequenter of the theatres, I should say he was a poor devil literally mad. This morning he made two or three exits worthy of Didier or Anthony.", "pos": 852134}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Gentlemen, although a companion is agreeable, perfect freedom is sometimes still more agreeable. I come to say that today, and for the remainder of the Carnival, I leave the carriage entirely at your disposal. The host will tell you I have three or four more, so that you will not inconvenience me in any way. Make use of it, I pray you, for your pleasure or your business.", "pos": 854015}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, was I mistaken?", "pos": 860083}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "She has answered you!", "pos": 860118}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Read.", "pos": 860155}
{"speaker": "fair unknown", "text": "Tuesday evening, at seven o’clock, descend from your carriage opposite the Via dei Pontefici, and follow the Roman peasant who snatches your torch from you. When you arrive at the first step of the church of San Giacomo, be sure to fasten a knot of rose-colored ribbons to the shoulder of your harlequin costume, in order that you may be recognized. Until then you will not see me. —Constancy and Discretion.", "pos": 860257}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, what do you think of that?", "pos": 860668}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I think that the adventure is assuming a very agreeable appearance.", "pos": 860740}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I think so, also, and I very much fear you will go alone to the Duke of Bracciano’s ball.", "pos": 860810}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Take care, Albert. All the nobility of Rome will be present, and if your fair incognita belong to the higher class of society, she must go there.", "pos": 861011}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Whether she goes there or not, my opinion is still the same. You have read the letter?", "pos": 861173}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 861281}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You know how imperfectly the women of the mezzo cito are educated in Italy?", "pos": 861288}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 861405}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, read the letter again. Look at the writing, and find if you can, any blemish in the language or orthography.", "pos": 861412}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "You are born to good fortune,", "pos": 861604}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Laugh as much as you will. I am in love.", "pos": 861675}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "You alarm me. I see that I shall not only go alone to the Duke of Bracciano’s, but also return to Florence alone.", "pos": 861736}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "If my unknown be as amiable as she is beautiful. I shall fix myself at Rome for six weeks, at least. I adore Rome, and I have always had a great taste for archæology.", "pos": 861867}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Come, two or three more such adventures, and I do not despair of seeing you a member of the Academy.", "pos": 862058}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "The evening passed as evenings mostly pass at Italian theatres; that is, not in listening to the music, but in paying visits and conversing.", "pos": 865324}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "he had something far newer to tell her,", "pos": 865545}
{"speaker": "duke", "text": "Then he has not returned?", "pos": 874579}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I waited for him until this hour,", "pos": 874622}
{"speaker": "duke", "text": "And do you know whither he went?", "pos": 874673}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "No, not precisely; however, I think it was something very like a rendezvous.", "pos": 874708}
{"speaker": "duke", "text": "Diavolo! this is a bad day, or rather a bad night, to be out late; is it not, countess?", "pos": 874787}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "I think, on the contrary, that it is a charming night, and those who are here will complain of but one thing, that of its too rapid flight.", "pos": 875031}
{"speaker": "duke", "text": "I am not speaking, of the persons who are here; the men run no other danger than that of falling in love with you, and the women of falling ill of jealousy at seeing you so lovely; I meant persons who were out in the streets of Rome.", "pos": 875197}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Ah, who is out in the streets of Rome at this hour, unless it be to go to a ball?", "pos": 875463}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Our friend, Albert de Morcerf, countess, whom I left in pursuit of his unknown about seven o’clock this evening, and whom I have not seen since.", "pos": 875569}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "And don’t you know where he is?", "pos": 875730}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Not at all.", "pos": 875764}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Is he armed?", "pos": 875778}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "He is in masquerade.", "pos": 875793}
{"speaker": "duke", "text": "You should not have allowed him to go, you, who know Rome better than he does.", "pos": 875816}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "You might as well have tried to stop number three of the barberi, who gained the prize in the race today, and then moreover, what could happen to him?", "pos": 875923}
{"speaker": "duke", "text": "Who can tell? The night is gloomy, and the Tiber is very near the Via Macello.", "pos": 876093}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I informed them at the hotel that I had the honor of passing the night here, duke, and desired them to come and inform me of his return.", "pos": 876333}
{"speaker": "duke", "text": "Ah, here I think, is one of my servants who is seeking you.", "pos": 876486}
{"speaker": "Servant", "text": "Your excellency, the master of the Hôtel de Londres has sent to let you know that a man is waiting for you with a letter from the Viscount of Morcerf.", "pos": 876642}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "A letter from the viscount!", "pos": 876806}
{"speaker": "Servant", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 876853}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And who is the man?", "pos": 876860}
{"speaker": "Servant", "text": "I do not know.", "pos": 876882}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Why did he not bring it to me here?", "pos": 876899}
{"speaker": "Servant", "text": "The messenger did not say.", "pos": 876937}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And where is the messenger?", "pos": 876966}
{"speaker": "Servant", "text": "He went away directly he saw me enter the ball-room to find you.", "pos": 876996}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Oh, go with all speed—poor young man! Perhaps some accident has happened to him.", "pos": 877063}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I will hasten,", "pos": 877176}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Shall we see you again to give us any information?", "pos": 877208}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Yes, if it is not any serious affair, otherwise I cannot answer as to what I may do myself.", "pos": 877284}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Be prudent, in any event,", "pos": 877378}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Oh! pray be assured of that.", "pos": 877425}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "What wants your excellency of me?", "pos": 878010}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Are not you the person who brought me a letter, from the Viscount of Morcerf?", "pos": 878118}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "Your excellency lodges at Pastrini’s hotel?", "pos": 878216}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I do.", "pos": 878262}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "Your excellency is the travelling companion of the viscount?", "pos": 878270}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I am.", "pos": 878333}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "Your excellency’s name——", "pos": 878341}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Is the Baron Franz d’Épinay.", "pos": 878368}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "Then it is to your excellency that this letter is addressed.", "pos": 878406}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Is there any answer?", "pos": 878469}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "Yes—your friend at least hopes so.", "pos": 878536}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Come upstairs with me, and I will give it to you.", "pos": 878573}
{"speaker": "Messenger", "text": "I prefer waiting here,", "pos": 878625}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And why?", "pos": 878684}
{"speaker": "Messenger", "text": "Your excellency will know when you have read the letter.", "pos": 878695}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Shall I find you here, then?", "pos": 878754}
{"speaker": "Messenger", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 878785}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "Well?", "pos": 878864}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Well—what?", "pos": 878891}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "You have seen the man who desired to speak with you from your friend?", "pos": 878921}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Yes, I have seen him, and he has handed this letter to me. Light the candles in my apartment, if you please.", "pos": 879012}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear Fellow. The moment you have received this, have the kindness to take the letter of credit from my pocket-book, which you will find in the square drawer of the secrétaire; add your own to it, if it be not sufficient. Run to Torlonia, draw from him instantly four thousand piastres, and give them to the bearer. It is urgent that I should have this money without delay. I do not say more, relying on you as you may rely on me. Your friend. Albert de Morcerf. P.S.—I now believe in Italian banditti.", "pos": 879532}
{"speaker": "Luigi Vampa", "text": "Se alle sei della mattina le quattro mille piastre non sono nelle mie mani, alla sette il Conte Alberto avrà cessato di vivere. If by six in the morning the four thousand piastres are not in my hands, by seven o’clock the Count Albert will have ceased to live.", "pos": 880120}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "My dear sir, do you know if the count is within? Yes, your excellency; he has this moment returned.", "pos": 881575}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Is he in bed?", "pos": 881699}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "I should say no.", "pos": 881715}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Then ring at his door, if you please, and request him to be so kind as to give me an audience.", "pos": 881734}
{"speaker": "Signor Pastrini", "text": "The count awaits your excellency.", "pos": 881913}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, what good wind blows you hither at this hour? have you come to sup with me? It would be very kind of you.", "pos": 882142}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "No; I have come to speak to you of a very serious matter.", "pos": 882267}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A serious matter, and what may it be?", "pos": 882327}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Are we alone?", "pos": 882437}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 882453}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Read that,", "pos": 882545}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, well!", "pos": 882586}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Did you see the postscript?", "pos": 882609}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I did, indeed. ‘Se alle sei della mattina le quattro mille piastre non sono nelle mie mani, alla sette il conte Alberto avrà cessato di vivere. Luigi Vampa.", "pos": 882639}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "What think you of that?", "pos": 882802}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Have you the money he demands?", "pos": 882844}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Yes, all but eight hundred piastres.", "pos": 882877}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I hope you will not offend me by applying to anyone but myself.", "pos": 883019}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "You see, on the contrary, I come to you first and instantly,", "pos": 883085}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And I thank you; have what you will;", "pos": 883163}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Is it absolutely necessary, then, to send the money to Luigi Vampa?", "pos": 883254}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Judge for yourself. The postscript is explicit.", "pos": 883387}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I think that if you would take the trouble of reflecting, you could find a way of simplifying the negotiation,", "pos": 883451}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How so?", "pos": 883576}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "If we were to go together to Luigi Vampa, I am sure he would not refuse you Albert’s freedom.", "pos": 883621}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What influence can I possibly have over a bandit?", "pos": 883717}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Have you not just rendered him a service that can never be forgotten?", "pos": 883769}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 883841}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Have you not saved Peppino’s life?", "pos": 883857}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, well, who told you that?", "pos": 883894}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "No matter; I know it.", "pos": 883945}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And if I went to seek Vampa, would you accompany me?", "pos": 884027}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "If my society would not be disagreeable.", "pos": 884082}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Be it so. It is a lovely night, and a walk without Rome will do us both good.", "pos": 884125}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Shall I take any arms?", "pos": 884205}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "For what purpose?", "pos": 884230}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Any money?", "pos": 884250}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is useless. Where is the man who brought the letter?", "pos": 884263}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In the street.", "pos": 884321}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He awaits the answer?", "pos": 884338}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 884362}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I must learn where we are going. I will summon him hither.", "pos": 884369}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is useless; he would not come up.", "pos": 884430}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To your apartments, perhaps; but he will not make any difficulty at entering mine.", "pos": 884469}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Salite!", "pos": 884749}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, it is you, Peppino,", "pos": 885034}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah,", "pos": 885192}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you have, then, not forgotten that I saved your life; that is strange, for it is a week ago.", "pos": 885214}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "No, excellency; and never shall I forget it,", "pos": 885316}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Never? That is a long time; but it is something that you believe so. Rise and answer.", "pos": 885419}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, you may speak before his excellency,", "pos": 885543}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "he is one of my friends. You allow me to give you this title?", "pos": 885595}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "it is necessary to excite this man’s confidence.", "pos": 885690}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "You can speak before me. I am a friend of the count’s.", "pos": 885741}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "Good! I am ready to answer any questions your excellency may address to me.", "pos": 885812}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How did the Viscount Albert fall into Luigi’s hands?", "pos": 885910}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "Excellency, the Frenchman’s carriage passed several times the one in which was Teresa.", "pos": 885965}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The chief’s mistress?", "pos": 886054}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "Yes. The Frenchman threw her a bouquet; Teresa returned it—all this with the consent of the chief, who was in the carriage.", "pos": 886078}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "What? was Luigi Vampa in the carriage with the Roman peasants?", "pos": 886204}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "It was he who drove, disguised as the coachman,", "pos": 886284}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well?", "pos": 886351}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "Well, then, the Frenchman took off his mask; Teresa, with the chief’s consent, did the same. The Frenchman asked for a rendezvous; Teresa gave him one—only, instead of Teresa, it was Beppo who was on the steps of the church of San Giacomo.", "pos": 886375}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "What! the peasant girl who snatched his mocoletto from him——", "pos": 886617}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "Was a lad of fifteen. But it was no disgrace to your friend to have been deceived; Beppo has taken in plenty of others.", "pos": 886699}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And Beppo led him outside the walls?", "pos": 886840}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "Exactly so; a carriage was waiting at the end of the Via Macello. Beppo got in, inviting the Frenchman to follow him, and he did not wait to be asked twice. He gallantly offered the right-hand seat to Beppo, and sat by him. Beppo told him he was going to take him to a villa a league from Rome; the Frenchman assured him he would follow him to the end of the world. The coachman went up the Via di Ripetta and the Porta San Paolo; and when they were two hundred yards outside, as the Frenchman became somewhat too forward, Beppo put a brace of pistols to his head, the coachman pulled up and did the same. At the same time, four of the band, who were concealed on the banks of the Almo, surrounded the carriage. The Frenchman made some resistance, and nearly strangled Beppo; but he could not resist five armed men, and was forced to yield. They made him get out, walk along the banks of the river, and then brought him to Teresa and Luigi, who were waiting for him in the catacombs of St. Sebastian.", "pos": 886895}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well,", "pos": 887898}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "it seems to me that this is a very likely story. What do you say to it?", "pos": 887945}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Why, that I should think it very amusing, if it had happened to anyone but poor Albert.", "pos": 888019}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And, in truth, if you had not found me here,", "pos": 888126}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "it might have proved a gallant adventure which would have cost your friend dear; but now, be assured, his alarm will be the only serious consequence.", "pos": 888189}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And shall we go and find him?", "pos": 888341}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, decidedly, sir. He is in a very picturesque place—do you know the catacombs of St. Sebastian?", "pos": 888389}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I was never in them; but I have often resolved to visit them.", "pos": 888489}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, here is an opportunity made to your hand, and it would be difficult to contrive a better. Have you a carriage?", "pos": 888553}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "No.", "pos": 888672}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is of no consequence; I always have one ready, day and night.", "pos": 888678}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Always ready?", "pos": 888747}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes. I am a very capricious being, and I should tell you that sometimes when I rise, or after my dinner, or in the middle of the night, I resolve on starting for some particular point, and away I go.", "pos": 888763}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Order out the carriage,", "pos": 889005}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and remove the pistols which are in the holsters. You need not awaken the coachman; Ali will drive.", "pos": 889040}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Half-past twelve,", "pos": 889262}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We might start at five o’clock and be in time, but the delay may cause your friend to pass an uneasy night, and therefore we had better go with all speed to extricate him from the hands of the infidels. Are you still resolved to accompany me?", "pos": 889291}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "More determined than ever.", "pos": 889536}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, then, come along.", "pos": 889565}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In ten minutes,", "pos": 890805}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "we shall be there.", "pos": 890856}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ought we to go on?", "pos": 891565}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "or should we pause?", "pos": 891612}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let us go on; Peppino will have warned the sentry of our coming.", "pos": 891634}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "Your excellency, if you will follow me, the opening of the catacombs is close at hand.", "pos": 891831}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Go on, then,", "pos": 891958}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who comes there?", "pos": 892638}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "A friend!", "pos": 892730}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Would you like to see a camp of bandits in repose?", "pos": 893419}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Exceedingly,", "pos": 893485}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Come with me, then. Peppino, put out the torch.", "pos": 893515}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who comes there?", "pos": 895672}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, my dear Vampa, it appears to me that you receive a friend with a great deal of ceremony.", "pos": 896073}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ground arms,", "pos": 896177}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your pardon, your excellency, but I was so far from expecting the honor of a visit, that I did not really recognize you.", "pos": 896381}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It seems that your memory is equally short in everything, Vampa,", "pos": 896504}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and that not only do you forget people’s faces, but also the conditions you make with them.", "pos": 896587}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What conditions have I forgotten, your excellency?", "pos": 896681}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Was it not agreed,", "pos": 896834}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that not only my person, but also that of my friends, should be respected by you?", "pos": 896872}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And how have I broken that treaty, your excellency?", "pos": 896956}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have this evening carried off and conveyed hither the Viscount Albert de Morcerf. Well,", "pos": 897010}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "this young gentleman is one of my friends—this young gentleman lodges in the same hotel as myself—this young gentleman has been up and down the Corso for eight hours in my private carriage, and yet, I repeat to you, you have carried him off, and conveyed him hither, and,", "pos": 897160}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you have set a ransom on him, as if he were an utter stranger.", "pos": 897486}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why did you not tell me all this—you?", "pos": 897551}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why have you caused me thus to fail in my word towards a gentleman like the count, who has all our lives in his hands? By heavens! if I thought one of you knew that the young gentleman was the friend of his excellency, I would blow his brains out with my own hand!", "pos": 897679}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well,", "pos": 897953}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I told you there was some mistake in this.", "pos": 898000}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are you not alone?", "pos": 898045}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am with the person to whom this letter was addressed, and to whom I desired to prove that Luigi Vampa was a man of his word. Come, your excellency,", "pos": 898095}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "here is Luigi Vampa, who will himself express to you his deep regret at the mistake he has committed.", "pos": 898282}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Welcome among us, your excellency,", "pos": 898451}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you heard what the count just said, and also my reply; let me add that I would not for the four thousand piastres at which I had fixed your friend’s ransom, that this had happened.", "pos": 898504}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "But, where is the viscount?—I do not see him.", "pos": 898687}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nothing has happened to him, I hope,", "pos": 898777}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The prisoner is there,", "pos": 898843}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and I will go myself and tell him he is free.", "pos": 898955}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is the prisoner doing?", "pos": 899113}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ma foi, captain,", "pos": 899175}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not know; for the last hour I have not heard him stir.", "pos": 899214}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Come in, your excellency,", "pos": 899276}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "not so bad for a man who is to be shot at seven o’clock tomorrow morning.", "pos": 899683}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right, your excellency,", "pos": 899859}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "this must be one of your friends.", "pos": 899902}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Will your excellency please to awaken?", "pos": 900000}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, is it you, captain? You should have allowed me to sleep. I had such a delightful dream. I was dancing the galop at Torlonia’s with the Countess G——. Half-past one only? Why the devil do you rouse me at this hour?", "pos": 900113}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To tell you that you are free, your excellency.", "pos": 900429}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear fellow, remember, for the future, Napoleon’s maxim, ‘Never awaken me but for bad news;’ if you had let me sleep on, I should have finished my galop, and have been grateful to you all my life. So, then, they have paid my ransom?", "pos": 900479}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, your excellency.", "pos": 900762}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, then, how am I free?", "pos": 900785}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A person to whom I can refuse nothing has come to demand you.", "pos": 900814}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Come hither?", "pos": 900878}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, hither.", "pos": 900893}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Really? Then that person is a most amiable person. What, is it you, my dear Franz, whose devotion and friendship are thus displayed?", "pos": 900908}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "No, not I, but our neighbor, the Count of Monte Cristo.", "pos": 901097}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, my dear count, you are really most kind, and I hope you will consider me as under eternal obligations to you, in the first place for the carriage, and in the next for this visit,", "pos": 901172}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "My dear Albert, if you will make haste, we shall yet have time to finish the night at Torlonia’s. You may conclude your interrupted galop, so that you will owe no ill-will to Signor Luigi, who has, indeed, throughout this whole affair acted like a gentleman.", "pos": 901832}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You are decidedly right, and we may reach the Palazzo by two o’clock. Signor Luigi. Signor Luigi, is there any formality to fulfil before I take leave of your excellency?", "pos": 902104}
{"speaker": "bandit", "text": "None, sir, you are as free as air.", "pos": 902283}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, then, a happy and merry life to you. Come, gentlemen, come.", "pos": 902342}
{"speaker": "brigand chief", "text": "Peppino, give me the torch.", "pos": 902550}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What are you going to do?", "pos": 902606}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "I will show you the way back myself, that is the least honor that I can render to your excellency.", "pos": 902654}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "And now, your excellency, allow me to repeat my apologies, and I hope you will not entertain any resentment at what has occurred.", "pos": 902984}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, my dear Vampa, besides, you compensate for your mistakes in so gentlemanly a way, that one almost feels obliged to you for having committed them.", "pos": 903128}
{"speaker": "chief", "text": "Gentlemen, perhaps the offer may not appear very tempting to you; but if you should ever feel inclined to pay me a second visit, wherever I may be, you shall be welcome.", "pos": 903308}
{"speaker": "Vampa", "text": "Has your excellency anything to ask me?", "pos": 903620}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Yes, I have. I am curious to know what work you were perusing with so much attention as we entered.", "pos": 903687}
{"speaker": "bandit", "text": "Cæsar’s Commentaries, it is my favorite work.", "pos": 903806}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, are you coming?", "pos": 903873}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Yes, here I am,", "pos": 903911}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, your pardon, will you allow me, captain? Now, my dear count, let us on with all the speed we may. I am enormously anxious to finish my night at the Duke of Bracciano’s. Madame, yesterday you were so condescending as to promise me a galop; I am rather late in claiming this gracious promise, but here is my friend, whose character for veracity you well know, and he will assure you the delay arose from no fault of mine.", "pos": 904011}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear count, permit me to repeat the poor thanks I offered last night, and to assure you that the remembrance of all I owe to you will never be effaced from my memory; believe me, as long as I live, I shall never cease to dwell with grateful recollection on the prompt and important service you rendered me; and also to remember that to you I am indebted even for my life.", "pos": 906065}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My very good friend and excellent neighbor, you really exaggerate my trifling exertions. You owe me nothing but some trifle of 20,000 francs, which you have been saved out of your travelling expenses, so that there is not much of a score between us;—but you must really permit me to congratulate you on the ease and unconcern with which you resigned yourself to your fate, and the perfect indifference you manifested as to the turn events might take.", "pos": 906480}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Upon my word. I deserve no credit for what I could not help, namely, a determination to take everything as I found it, and to let those bandits see, that although men get into troublesome scrapes all over the world, there is no nation but the French that can smile even in the face of grim Death himself. All that, however, has nothing to do with my obligations to you, and I now come to ask you whether, in my own person, my family, or connections, I can in any way serve you? My father, the Comte de Morcerf, although of Spanish origin, possesses considerable influence, both at the court of France and Madrid, and I unhesitatingly place the best services of myself, and all to whom my life is dear, at your disposal.", "pos": 906968}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Monsieur de Morcerf, your offer, far from surprising me, is precisely what I expected from you, and I accept it in the same spirit of hearty sincerity with which it is made;—nay, I will go still further, and say that I had previously made up my mind to ask a great favor at your hands.", "pos": 907705}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, pray name it.", "pos": 908014}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am wholly a stranger to Paris—it is a city I have never yet seen.", "pos": 908034}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Is it possible, that you have reached your present age without visiting the finest capital in the world? I can scarcely credit it.", "pos": 908104}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Nevertheless, it is quite true; still, I agree with you in thinking that my present ignorance of the first city in Europe is a reproach to me in every way, and calls for immediate correction; but, in all probability, I should have performed so important, so necessary a duty, as that of making myself acquainted with the wonders and beauties of your justly celebrated capital, had I known any person who would have introduced me into the fashionable world, but unfortunately I possessed no acquaintance there, and, of necessity, was compelled to abandon the idea.", "pos": 908257}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "So distinguished an individual as yourself, could scarcely have required an introduction.", "pos": 908823}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are most kind; but as regards myself, I can find no merit I possess, save that, as a millionaire, I might have become a partner in the speculations of M. Aguado and M. Rothschild; but as my motive in travelling to your capital would not have been for the pleasure of dabbling in stocks, I stayed away till some favorable chance should present itself of carrying my wish into execution. Your offer, however, smooths all difficulties, and I have only to ask you, my dear M. de Morcerf whether you undertake, upon my arrival in France, to open to me the doors of that fashionable world of which I know no more than a Huron or a native of Cochin-China?", "pos": 908931}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, that I do, and with infinite pleasure, and so much the more readily as a letter received this morning from my father summons me to Paris, in consequence of a treaty of marriage (my dear Franz, do not smile, I beg of you) with a family of high standing, and connected with the very cream of Parisian society.", "pos": 909645}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Connected by marriage, you mean,", "pos": 909978}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, never mind how it is, it comes to the same thing in the end. Perhaps by the time you return to Paris, I shall be quite a sober, staid father of a family! A most edifying representative I shall make of all the domestic virtues—don’t you think so? But as regards your wish to visit our fine city, my dear count, I can only say that you may command me and mine to any extent you please.", "pos": 910037}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then it is settled, and I give you my solemn assurance that I only waited an opportunity like the present to realize plans that I have long meditated.", "pos": 910448}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But tell me now, count, tell me truly whether you are in earnest, or if this project of visiting Paris is merely one of the chimerical and uncertain air castles of which we make so many in the course of our lives, but which, like a house built on the sand, is liable to be blown over by the first puff of wind?", "pos": 910988}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I pledge you my honor, that I mean to do as I have said; both inclination and positive necessity compel me to visit Paris.", "pos": 911408}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "When do you propose going thither?", "pos": 911555}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Have you made up your mind when you shall be there yourself?", "pos": 911592}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Certainly I have; in a fortnight or three weeks’ time, that is to say, as fast as I can get there!", "pos": 911655}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Nay. I will give you three months ere I join you; you see I make an ample allowance for all delays and difficulties.", "pos": 911756}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And in three months’ time, you will be at my house?", "pos": 911892}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Shall we make a positive appointment for a particular day and hour? only let me warn you that I am proverbial for my punctilious exactitude in keeping my engagements.", "pos": 911961}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Day for day, hour for hour, that will suit me to a dot.", "pos": 912152}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So be it, then, today is the 21st of February; it is exactly half-past ten o’clock. Now promise me to remember this, and expect me the 21st of May at the same hour in the forenoon.", "pos": 912225}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Capital! your breakfast shall be waiting.", "pos": 912551}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Where do you live?", "pos": 912615}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No. 27, Rue du Helder.", "pos": 912636}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Have you bachelor’s apartments there? I hope my coming will not put you to any inconvenience.", "pos": 912661}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I reside in my father’s house, but occupy a pavilion at the farther side of the courtyard, entirely separated from the main building.", "pos": 912757}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Quite sufficient. Now then, make yourself perfectly easy; the hand of your time-piece will not be more accurate in marking the time than myself.", "pos": 912893}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Shall I see you again ere my departure?", "pos": 913223}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That depends; when do you leave?", "pos": 913279}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Tomorrow evening, at five o’clock.", "pos": 913314}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In that case I must say adieu to you, as I am compelled to go to Naples, and shall not return hither before Saturday evening or Sunday morning. And you, baron, do you also depart tomorrow?", "pos": 913351}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 913581}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "For France?", "pos": 913588}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "No, for Venice; I shall remain in Italy for another year or two.", "pos": 913602}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then we shall not meet in Paris?", "pos": 913669}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I fear I shall not have that honor.", "pos": 913704}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, since we must part, allow me to wish you both a safe and pleasant journey.", "pos": 913742}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Let us understand each other, it is agreed—is it not?—that you are to be at No. 27, in the Rue du Helder, on the 21st of May, at half-past ten in the morning, and your word of honor passed for your punctuality?", "pos": 914097}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The 21st of May, at half-past ten in the morning, Rue du Helder, No. 27,", "pos": 914325}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What is the matter? you seem more than commonly thoughtful.", "pos": 914487}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I will confess to you, Albert, the count is a very singular person, and the appointment you have made to meet him in Paris fills me with a thousand apprehensions.", "pos": 914622}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear fellow, what can there possibly be in that to excite uneasiness? Why, you must have lost your senses.", "pos": 914804}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Whether I am in my senses or not, that is the way I feel.", "pos": 914936}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Listen to me, Franz. I am glad that the occasion has presented itself for saying this to you, for I have noticed how cold you are in your bearing towards the count, while he, on the other hand, has always been courtesy itself to us. Have you anything particular against him?", "pos": 915014}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Possibly.", "pos": 915306}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Did you ever meet him previously to coming hither?", "pos": 915318}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I have.", "pos": 915371}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And where?", "pos": 915381}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Will you promise me not to repeat a single word of what I am about to tell you?", "pos": 915394}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I promise.", "pos": 915476}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Upon your honor? Upon your honor?", "pos": 915489}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Upon my honor.", "pos": 915508}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Then listen to me.", "pos": 915525}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, what do you find to object to in all you have related? The count is fond of travelling, and, being rich, possesses a vessel of his own. Go but to Portsmouth or Southampton, and you will find the harbors crowded with the yachts belonging to such of the English as can afford the expense, and have the same liking for this amusement. Now, by way of having a resting-place during his excursions, avoiding the wretched cookery—which has been trying its best to poison me during the last four months, while you have manfully resisted its effects for as many years,—and obtaining a bed on which it is possible to slumber, Monte Cristo has furnished for himself a temporary abode where you first found him; but, to prevent the possibility of the Tuscan government taking a fancy to his enchanted palace, and thereby depriving him of the advantages naturally expected from so large an outlay of capital, he has wisely enough purchased the island, and taken its name. Just ask yourself, my good fellow, whether there are not many persons of our acquaintance who assume the names of lands and properties they never in their lives were masters of?", "pos": 916830}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "But, the Corsican bandits that were among the crew of his vessel?", "pos": 918012}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Why, really the thing seems to me simple enough. Nobody knows better than yourself that the bandits of Corsica are not rogues or thieves, but purely and simply fugitives, driven by some sinister motive from their native town or village, and that their fellowship involves no disgrace or stigma; for my own part, I protest that, should I ever go to Corsica, my first visit, ere even I presented myself to the mayor or prefect, should be to the bandits of Colomba, if I could only manage to find them; for, on my conscience, they are a race of men I admire greatly.", "pos": 918094}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Still. I suppose you will allow that such men as Vampa and his band are regular villains, who have no other motive than plunder when they seize your person. How do you explain the influence the count evidently possessed over those ruffians?", "pos": 918660}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My good friend, as in all probability I own my present safety to that influence, it would ill become me to search too closely into its source; therefore, instead of condemning him for his intimacy with outlaws, you must give me leave to excuse any little irregularity there may be in such a connection; not altogether for preserving my life, for my own idea was that it never was in much danger, but certainly for saving me 4,000 piastres, which, being translated, means neither more nor less than 24,000 livres of our money—a sum at which, most assuredly, I should never have been estimated in France, proving most indisputably, that no prophet is honored in his own country.", "pos": 918921}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Talking of countries, of what country is the count, what is his native tongue, whence does he derive his immense fortune, and what were those events of his early life—a life as marvellous as unknown—that have tinctured his succeeding years with so dark and gloomy a misanthropy? Certainly these are questions that, in your place, I should like to have answered.", "pos": 919629}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear Franz, when, upon receipt of my letter, you found the necessity of asking the count’s assistance, you promptly went to him, saying, ‘My friend Albert de Morcerf is in danger; help me to deliver him.’ Was not that nearly what you said?", "pos": 920010}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "It was.", "pos": 920280}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, then, did he ask you, ‘Who is M. Albert de Morcerf? how does he come by his name—his fortune? what are his means of existence? what is his birthplace? of what country is he a native?’ Tell me, did he put all these questions to you?", "pos": 920290}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I confess he asked me none.", "pos": 920530}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No; he merely came and freed me from the hands of Signor Vampa, where, I can assure you, in spite of all my outward appearance of ease and unconcern, I did not very particularly care to remain. Now, then, Franz, when, for services so promptly and unhesitatingly rendered, he but asks me in return to do for him what is done daily for any Russian prince or Italian nobleman who may pass through Paris—merely to introduce him into society—would you have me refuse? My good fellow, you must have lost your senses to think it possible I could act with such cold-blooded policy.", "pos": 920560}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Well, do as you please my dear viscount, for your arguments are beyond my powers of refutation. Still, in spite of all, you must admit that this Count of Monte Cristo is a most singular personage.", "pos": 921305}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "He is a philanthropist, and no doubt his motive in visiting Paris is to compete for the Monthyon prize, given, as you are aware, to whoever shall be proved to have most materially advanced the interests of virtue and humanity. If my vote and interest can obtain it for him, I will readily give him the one and promise the other. And now, my dear Franz, let us talk of something else. Come, shall we take our luncheon, and then pay a last visit to St. Peter’s?", "pos": 921530}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "How did these letters come? Let Madame Danglars know that I accept the place she offers me in her box. Wait; then, during the day, tell Rosa that when I leave the Opera I will sup with her as she wishes. Take her six bottles of different wine—Cyprus, sherry, and Malaga, and a barrel of Ostend oysters; get them at Borel’s, and be sure you say they are for me. What time is it now? Very well, at half past ten. Debray will, perhaps, be obliged to go to the minister—and besides it is the hour I told the count, 21st May, at half past ten; and though I do not much rely upon his promise, I wish to be punctual. Is the countess up yet? Yes, ask her for one of her liqueur cellarets, mine is incomplete; and tell her I shall have the honor of seeing her about three o’clock, and that I request permission to introduce someone to her. These papers become more and more stupid every day. Good-morning, Lucien, good-morning, your punctuality really alarms me. What do I say? punctuality! You, whom I expected last, you arrive at five minutes to ten, when the time fixed was half-past! Has the ministry resigned?", "pos": 929750}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "No, my dear fellow, reassure yourself; we are tottering always, but we never fall, and I begin to believe that we shall pass into a state of immobility, and then the affairs of the Peninsula will completely consolidate us.", "pos": 931932}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, true; you drive Don Carlos out of Spain.", "pos": 932213}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "No, no, my dear fellow, do not confound our plans. We take him to the other side of the French frontier, and offer him hospitality at Bourges.", "pos": 932260}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "At Bourges?", "pos": 932405}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Yes, he has not much to complain of; Bourges is the capital of Charles VII. Do you not know that all Paris knew it yesterday, and the day before it had already transpired on the Bourse, and M. Danglars (I do not know by what means that man contrives to obtain intelligence as soon as we do) made a million!", "pos": 932419}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And you another order, for I see you have a blue ribbon at your button-hole.", "pos": 932728}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Yes; they sent me the order of Charles III.", "pos": 932807}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Come, do not affect indifference, but confess you were pleased to have it.", "pos": 932882}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Oh, it is very well as a finish to the toilet. It looks very neat on a black coat buttoned up.", "pos": 932959}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And makes you resemble the Prince of Wales or the Duke of Reichstadt. Because you have the order of Charles III., and you wish to announce the good news to me?", "pos": 933056}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "No, because I passed the night writing letters,—five-and-twenty despatches. I returned home at daybreak, and strove to sleep; but my head ached and I got up to have a ride for an hour. At the Bois de Boulogne, ennui and hunger attacked me at once,—two enemies who rarely accompany each other, and who are yet leagued against me, a sort of Carlo-republican alliance. I then recollected you gave a breakfast this morning, and here I am. I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.", "pos": 933265}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "It is my duty as your host. Germain, a glass of sherry and a biscuit. In the meantime, my dear Lucien, here are cigars—contraband, of course—try them, and persuade the minister to sell us such instead of poisoning us with cabbage leaves.", "pos": 933746}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Peste! I will do nothing of the kind; the moment they come from government you would find them execrable. Besides, that does not concern the home but the financial department. Address yourself to M. Humann, section of the indirect contributions, corridor A., No. 26.", "pos": 934111}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "On my word, you astonish me by the extent of your knowledge. Take a cigar.", "pos": 934380}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Really, my dear Albert, how happy you are to have nothing to do. You do not know your own good fortune!", "pos": 934472}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And what would you do, my dear diplomatist, if you did nothing? What? private secretary to a minister, plunged at once into European cabals and Parisian intrigues; having kings, and, better still, queens, to protect, parties to unite, elections to direct; making more use of your cabinet with your pen and your telegraph than Napoleon did of his battle-fields with his sword and his victories; possessing five-and-twenty thousand francs a year, besides your place; a horse, for which Château-Renaud offered you four hundred louis, and which you would not part with; a tailor who never disappoints you; with the opera, the jockey-club, and other diversions, can you not amuse yourself? Well, I will amuse you.", "pos": 934683}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "How?", "pos": 935457}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "By introducing to you a new acquaintance.", "pos": 935464}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "A man or a woman?", "pos": 935508}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "A man.", "pos": 935528}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "I know so many men already.", "pos": 935537}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But you do not know this man.", "pos": 935567}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Where does he come from—the end of the world?", "pos": 935599}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Farther still, perhaps.", "pos": 935647}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "The deuce! I hope he does not bring our breakfast with him.", "pos": 935673}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, no; our breakfast comes from my father’s kitchen. Are you hungry?", "pos": 935735}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Humiliating as such a confession is, I am. But I dined at M. de Villefort’s, and lawyers always give you very bad dinners. You would think they felt some remorse; did you ever remark that?", "pos": 935807}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, depreciate other persons’ dinners; you ministers give such splendid ones.", "pos": 935998}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Yes; but we do not invite people of fashion. If we were not forced to entertain a parcel of country boobies because they think and vote with us, we should never dream of dining at home, I assure you.", "pos": 936078}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, take another glass of sherry and another biscuit.", "pos": 936280}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Willingly. Your Spanish wine is excellent. You see we were quite right to pacify that country.", "pos": 936338}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes; but Don Carlos?", "pos": 936435}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Well, Don Carlos will drink Bordeaux, and in ten years we will marry his son to the little queen.", "pos": 936458}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You will then obtain the Golden Fleece, if you are still in the ministry. I think, Albert, you have adopted the system of feeding me on smoke this morning. Well, you must allow it is the best thing for the stomach; but I hear Beauchamp in the next room; you can dispute together, and that will pass away the time.", "pos": 936558}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "About what?", "pos": 936878}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "About the papers.", "pos": 936892}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "My dear friend, do I ever read the papers?", "pos": 936912}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Then you will dispute the more. Come in, come in. Here is Debray, who detests you without reading you, so he says.", "pos": 937006}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "He is quite right, for I criticise him without knowing what he does. Good-day, commander!", "pos": 937223}
{"speaker": "private secretary", "text": "Ah, you know that already,", "pos": 937336}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Pardieu!", "pos": 937429}
{"speaker": "private secretary", "text": "And what do they say of it in the world?", "pos": 937440}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "In which world? we have so many worlds in the year of grace 1838.", "pos": 937483}
{"speaker": "private secretary", "text": "In the entire political world, of which you are one of the leaders.", "pos": 937551}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "They say that it is quite fair, and that sowing so much red, you ought to reap a little blue.", "pos": 937621}
{"speaker": "Lucien", "text": "Come, come, that is not bad! Why do you not join our party, my dear Beauchamp? With your talents you would make your fortune in three or four years.", "pos": 937717}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "I only await one thing before following your advice; that is, a minister who will hold office for six months. My dear Albert, one word, for I must give poor Lucien a respite. Do we breakfast or dine? I must go to the Chamber, for our life is not an idle one.", "pos": 937883}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You only breakfast; I await two persons, and the instant they arrive we shall sit down to table.", "pos": 938144}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "And what sort of persons do you expect to breakfast?", "pos": 938268}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A gentleman, and a diplomatist.", "pos": 938339}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Then we shall have to wait two hours for the gentleman, and three for the diplomatist. I shall come back to dessert; keep me some strawberries, coffee, and cigars. I shall take a cutlet on my way to the Chamber.", "pos": 938373}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do not do anything of the sort; for were the gentleman a Montmorency, and the diplomatist a Metternich, we will breakfast at eleven; in the meantime, follow Debray’s example, and take a glass of sherry and a biscuit.", "pos": 938587}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Be it so; I will stay; I must do something to distract my thoughts.", "pos": 938806}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are like Debray, and yet it seems to me that when the minister is out of spirits, the opposition ought to be joyous.", "pos": 938876}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, you do not know with what I am threatened. I shall hear this morning that M. Danglars make a speech at the Chamber of Deputies, and at his wife’s this evening I shall hear the tragedy of a peer of France. The devil take the constitutional government, and since we had our choice, as they say, at least, how could we choose that?", "pos": 938999}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I understand; you must lay in a stock of hilarity.", "pos": 939334}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Do not run down M. Danglars’ speeches, he votes for you, for he belongs to the opposition.", "pos": 939387}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Pardieu, that is exactly the worst of all. I am waiting until you send him to speak at the Luxembourg, to laugh at my ease.", "pos": 939495}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear friend, it is plain that the affairs of Spain are settled, for you are most desperately out of humor this morning. Recollect that Parisian gossip has spoken of a marriage between myself and Mlle. Eugénie Danglars; I cannot in conscience, therefore, let you run down the speeches of a man who will one day say to me, ‘Vicomte, you know I give my daughter two millions.’", "pos": 939621}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Ah, this marriage will never take place. The king has made him a baron, and can make him a peer, but he cannot make him a gentleman, and the Count of Morcerf is too aristocratic to consent, for the paltry sum of two million francs, to a mésalliance. The Viscount of Morcerf can only wed a marchioness.", "pos": 940028}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But two million francs make a nice little sum,", "pos": 940350}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is the social capital of a theatre on the boulevard, or a railroad from the Jardin des Plantes to La Râpée.", "pos": 940416}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Never mind what he says, Morcerf, do you marry her. You marry a money-bag label, it is true; well, but what does that matter? It is better to have a blazon less and a figure more on it. You have seven martlets on your arms; give three to your wife, and you will still have four; that is one more than M. de Guise had, who so nearly became King of France, and whose cousin was Emperor of Germany.", "pos": 940529}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "On my word, I think you are right, Lucien,", "pos": 940942}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To be sure; besides, every millionaire is as noble as a bastard—that is, he can be.", "pos": 941009}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Do not say that, Debray, for here is Château-Renaud, who, to cure you of your mania for paradoxes, will pass the sword of Renaud de Montauban, his ancestor, through your body.", "pos": 941095}
{"speaker": "Lucien", "text": "He will sully it then, for I am low—very low.", "pos": 941305}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Oh, heavens, the minister quotes Béranger, what shall we come to next?", "pos": 941372}
{"speaker": "Servant", "text": "M. de Château-Renaud—M. Maximilian Morrel, announcing two fresh guests.", "pos": 941464}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Now, then, to breakfast, for, if I remember, you told me you only expected two persons, Albert.", "pos": 941556}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Morrel, who is he?", "pos": 941672}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "My dear Albert, let me introduce to you M. Maximilian Morrel, captain of Spahis, my friend; and what is more—however the man speaks for himself—my preserver. Salute my hero, viscount.", "pos": 941905}
{"speaker": "Monsieur", "text": "the count of Château-Renaud knew how much pleasure this introduction would give me; you are his friend, be ours also.", "pos": 942636}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "and pray that, if you should ever be in a similar predicament, he may do as much for you as he did for me.", "pos": 942797}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What has he done?", "pos": 942906}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, nothing worth speaking of. M. de Château-Renaud exaggerates.", "pos": 942940}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Not worth speaking of? life is not worth speaking of!—that is rather too philosophical, on my word, Morrel. It is very well for you, who risk your life every day, but for me, who only did so once——", "pos": 943022}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "We gather from all this, baron, that Captain Morrel saved your life.", "pos": 943246}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Exactly so.", "pos": 943317}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "On what occasion?", "pos": 943331}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Beauchamp, my good fellow, you know I am starving, do not set him off on some long story.", "pos": 943368}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Well, I do not prevent your sitting down to table. Château-Renaud can tell us while we eat our breakfast.", "pos": 943475}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Gentlemen, it is only a quarter past ten, and I expect someone else.", "pos": 943604}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Ah, true, a diplomatist!", "pos": 943691}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Diplomat or not, I don’t know; I only know that he charged himself on my account with a mission, which he terminated so entirely to my satisfaction, that had I been king, I should have instantly created him knight of all my orders, even had I been able to offer him the Golden Fleece and the Garter.", "pos": 943735}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Well, since we are not to sit down to table, take a glass of sherry, and tell us all about it.", "pos": 944037}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You all know that I had the fancy of going to Africa. It is a road your ancestors have traced for you, gallantly.", "pos": 944149}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Yes? but I doubt that your object was like theirs—to rescue the Holy Sepulchre.", "pos": 944279}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You are quite right, Beauchamp. It was only to fight as an amateur. I cannot bear duelling ever since two seconds, whom I had chosen to arrange an affair, forced me to break the arm of one of my best friends, one whom you all know—poor Franz d’Épinay.", "pos": 944361}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Ah, true, you did fight some time ago; about what?", "pos": 944648}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "The devil take me, if I remember. But I recollect perfectly one thing, that, being unwilling to let such talents as mine sleep, I wished to try upon the Arabs the new pistols that had been given to me. In consequence I embarked for Oran, and went from thence to Constantine, where I arrived just in time to witness the raising of the siege. I retreated with the rest, for eight-and-forty hours. I endured the rain during the day, and the cold during the night tolerably well, but the third morning my horse died of cold. Poor brute—accustomed to be covered up and to have a stove in the stable, the Arabian finds himself unable to bear ten degrees of cold in Arabia.", "pos": 944723}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "That’s why you want to purchase my English horse, you think he will bear the cold better.", "pos": 945419}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "You are mistaken, for I have made a vow never to return to Africa.", "pos": 945526}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "You were very much frightened, then?", "pos": 945595}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Well, yes, and I had good reason to be so. I was retreating on foot, for my horse was dead. Six Arabs came up, full gallop, to cut off my head. I shot two with my double-barrelled gun, and two more with my pistols, but I was then disarmed, and two were still left; one seized me by the hair (that is why I now wear it so short, for no one knows what may happen), the other swung a yataghan, and I already felt the cold steel on my neck, when this gentleman whom you see here charged them, shot the one who held me by the hair, and cleft the skull of the other with his sabre. He had assigned himself the task of saving a man’s life that day; chance caused that man to be myself. When I am rich I will order a statue of Chance from Klagmann or Marochetti.", "pos": 945651}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes, it was the 5th of September, the anniversary of the day on which my father was miraculously preserved; therefore, as far as it lies in my power, I endeavor to celebrate it by some——", "pos": 946434}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Heroic action. I was chosen. But that is not all—after rescuing me from the sword, he rescued me from the cold, not by sharing his cloak with me, like St. Martin, but by giving me the whole; then from hunger by sharing with me—guess what?", "pos": 946654}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "A Strasbourg pie?", "pos": 946925}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "No, his horse; of which we each of us ate a slice with a hearty appetite. It was very hard.", "pos": 946962}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "The horse?", "pos": 947056}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "No, the sacrifice, ask Debray if he would sacrifice his English steed for a stranger?", "pos": 947093}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Not for a stranger, but for a friend I might, perhaps.", "pos": 947208}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I divined that you would become mine, count, besides, as I had the honor to tell you, heroism or not, sacrifice or not, that day I owed an offering to bad fortune in recompense for the favors good fortune had on other days granted to us.", "pos": 947280}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "The history to which M. Morrel alludes, is an admirable one, which he will tell you some day when you are better acquainted with him; today let us fill our stomachs, and not our memories. What time do you breakfast, Albert?", "pos": 947538}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "At half-past ten.", "pos": 947792}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Precisely?", "pos": 947812}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Oh, you will give me five minutes’ grace, replied Morcerf, “for I also expect a preserver.”", "pos": 947861}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Of whom? Of myself, parbleu! do you think I cannot be saved as well as anyone else, and that there are only Arabs who cut off heads? Our breakfast is a philanthropic one, and we shall have at table—at least, I hope so—two benefactors of humanity.", "pos": 947955}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "What shall we do? we have only one Monthyon prize.", "pos": 948223}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Well, it will be given to someone who has done nothing to deserve it, that is the way the Academy mostly escapes from the dilemma.", "pos": 948291}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "And where does he come from? You have already answered the question once, but so vaguely that I venture to put it a second time.", "pos": 948442}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Really. I do not know; when I invited him three months ago, he was then at Rome, but since that time who knows where he may have gone?", "pos": 948589}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "And you think him capable of being exact?", "pos": 948741}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I think him capable of everything. I will profit by them to tell you something about my guest.", "pos": 948802}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "I beg pardon, are there any materials for an article in what you are going to tell us?", "pos": 948962}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, and for a most curious one.", "pos": 949076}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Go on, then, for I see I shall not get to the Chamber this morning, and I must make up for it.", "pos": 949111}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I was at Rome during the last Carnival.", "pos": 949208}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "We know that,", "pos": 949250}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, but what you do not know is that I was carried off by bandits.", "pos": 949282}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "There are no bandits,", "pos": 949352}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes there are, and most hideous, or rather most admirable ones, for I found them ugly enough to frighten me.", "pos": 949390}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Come, my dear Albert, confess that your cook is behindhand, that the oysters have not arrived from Ostend or Marennes, and that, like Madame de Maintenon, you are going to replace the dish by a story. Say so at once; we are sufficiently well-bred to excuse you, and to listen to your history, fabulous as it promises to be.", "pos": 949501}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And I say to you, fabulous as it may seem, I tell it as a true one from beginning to end. The brigands had carried me off, and conducted me to a gloomy spot, called the Catacombs of Saint Sebastian.", "pos": 949842}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "I know it. I narrowly escaped catching a fever there.", "pos": 950043}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And I did more than that, for I caught one. I was informed that I was prisoner until I paid the sum of 4,000 Roman crowns—about 24,000 francs. Unfortunately, I had not above 1,500. I was at the end of my journey and of my credit. I wrote to Franz—and were he here he would confirm every word—I wrote then to Franz that if he did not come with the four thousand crowns before six, at ten minutes past I should have gone to join the blessed saints and glorious martyrs in whose company I had the honor of being; and Signor Luigi Vampa, such was the name of the chief of these bandits, would have scrupulously kept his word.", "pos": 950122}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "But Franz did come with the four thousand crowns. A man whose name is Franz d’Épinay or Albert de Morcerf has not much difficulty in procuring them.", "pos": 950765}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No, he arrived accompanied simply by the guest I am going to present to you.", "pos": 950939}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Ah, this gentleman is a Hercules killing Cacus, a Perseus freeing Andromeda.", "pos": 951018}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No, he is a man about my own size.", "pos": 951097}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Armed to the teeth?", "pos": 951134}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "He had not even a knitting-needle.", "pos": 951156}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "But he paid your ransom?", "pos": 951193}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "He said two words to the chief and I was free.", "pos": 951220}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "And they apologized to him for having carried you off?", "pos": 951269}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Just so.", "pos": 951342}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Why, he is a second Ariosto.", "pos": 951353}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No, his name is the Count of Monte Cristo.", "pos": 951384}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "There is no Count of Monte Cristo", "pos": 951429}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "I do not think so, added Château-Renaud, with the air of a man who knows the whole of the European nobility perfectly.", "pos": 951478}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Does anyone know anything of a Count of Monte Cristo?", "pos": 951599}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He comes possibly from the Holy Land, and one of his ancestors possessed Calvary, as the Mortemarts did the Dead Sea.", "pos": 951655}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I think I can assist your researches. Monte Cristo is a little island I have often heard spoken of by the old sailors my father employed—a grain of sand in the centre of the Mediterranean, an atom in the infinite.", "pos": 951775}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Precisely! Well, he of whom I speak is the lord and master of this grain of sand, of this atom; he has purchased the title of count somewhere in Tuscany.", "pos": 952010}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "He is rich, then?", "pos": 952182}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I believe so.", "pos": 952202}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "But that ought to be visible.", "pos": 952218}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "That is what deceives you, Debray.", "pos": 952250}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "I do not understand you.", "pos": 952287}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Have you read the Arabian Nights?", "pos": 952314}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "What a question!", "pos": 952350}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, do you know if the persons you see there are rich or poor, if their sacks of wheat are not rubies or diamonds? They seem like poor fishermen, and suddenly they open some mysterious cavern filled with the wealth of the Indies.", "pos": 952369}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Which means?", "pos": 952603}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Which means that my Count of Monte Cristo is one of those fishermen. He has even a name taken from the book, since he calls himself Sinbad the Sailor, and has a cave filled with gold.", "pos": 952618}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "And you have seen this cavern, Morcerf?", "pos": 952804}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No, but Franz has; for heaven’s sake, not a word of this before him. Franz went in with his eyes blindfolded, and was waited on by mutes and by women to whom Cleopatra was a painted strumpet. Only he is not quite sure about the women, for they did not come in until after he had taken hashish, so that what he took for women might have been simply a row of statues.", "pos": 952863}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "have heard something like this from an old sailor named Penelon.", "pos": 953363}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, it is very lucky that M. Morrel comes to aid me; you are vexed, are you not, that he thus gives a clew to the labyrinth?", "pos": 953430}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "My dear Albert, what you tell us is so extraordinary.", "pos": 953573}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, because your ambassadors and your consuls do not tell you of them—they have no time. They are too much taken up with interfering in the affairs of their countrymen who travel.", "pos": 953644}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Now you get angry, and attack our poor agents. How will you have them protect you? The Chamber cuts down their salaries every day, so that now they have scarcely any. Will you be ambassador, Albert? I will send you to Constantinople.", "pos": 953826}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No, lest on the first demonstration I make in favor of Mehemet Ali, the Sultan send me the bowstring, and make my secretaries strangle me.", "pos": 954062}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "You say very true, responded Debray.", "pos": 954203}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, but this has nothing to do with the existence of the Count of Monte Cristo.", "pos": 954242}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Pardieu! everyone exists.", "pos": 954340}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Doubtless, but not in the same way; everyone has not black slaves, a princely retinue, an arsenal of weapons that would do credit to an Arabian fortress, horses that cost six thousand francs apiece, and Greek mistresses.", "pos": 954368}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Have you seen the Greek mistress?", "pos": 954591}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I have both seen and heard her. I saw her at the theatre, and heard her one morning when I breakfasted with the count.", "pos": 954627}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "He eats, then?", "pos": 954748}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes; but so little, it can hardly be called eating.", "pos": 954765}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "He must be a vampire.", "pos": 954819}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Laugh, if you will; the Countess G——, who knew Lord Ruthven, declared that the count was a vampire.", "pos": 954843}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Ah, capital. For a man not connected with newspapers, here is the pendant to the famous sea-serpent of the Constitutionnel.", "pos": 954945}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Wild eyes, the iris of which contracts or dilates at pleasure, facial angle strongly developed, magnificent forehead, livid complexion, black beard, sharp and white teeth, politeness unexceptionable.", "pos": 955088}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Just so, Lucien, you have described him feature for feature. Yes, keen and cutting politeness. This man has often made me shudder; and one day when we were viewing an execution, I thought I should faint, more from hearing the cold and calm manner in which he spoke of every description of torture, than from the sight of the executioner and the culprit.", "pos": 955305}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Did he not conduct you to the ruins of the Colosseum and suck your blood? Or, having delivered you, make you sign a flaming parchment, surrendering your soul to him as Esau did his birth-right?", "pos": 955681}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Rail on, rail on at your ease, gentlemen. When I look at you Parisians, idlers on the Boulevard de Gand or the Bois de Boulogne, and think of this man, it seems to me we are not of the same race.", "pos": 955896}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "I am highly flattered,", "pos": 956127}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "At the same time, your Count of Monte Cristo is a very fine fellow, always excepting his little arrangements with the Italian banditti.", "pos": 956172}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "There are no Italian banditti,", "pos": 956334}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "No vampire,", "pos": 956380}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "No Count of Monte Cristo There is half-past ten striking, Albert.", "pos": 956411}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Confess you have dreamed this, and let us sit down to breakfast,", "pos": 956502}
{"speaker": "Germain", "text": "His excellency the Count of Monte Cristo.", "pos": 956659}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Punctuality, is the politeness of kings, according to one of your sovereigns, I think; but it is not the same with travellers. However, I hope you will excuse the two or three seconds I am behindhand; five hundred leagues are not to be accomplished without some trouble, and especially in France, where, it seems, it is forbidden to beat the postilions.", "pos": 957483}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear count. I was announcing your visit to some of my friends, whom I had invited in consequence of the promise you did me the honor to make, and whom I now present to you. They are the Count of Château-Renaud, whose nobility goes back to the twelve peers, and whose ancestors had a place at the Round Table; M. Lucien Debray, private secretary to the minister of the interior; M. Beauchamp, an editor of a paper, and the terror of the French government, but of whom, in spite of his national celebrity, you perhaps have not heard in Italy, since his paper is prohibited there; and M. Maximilian Morrel, captain of Spahis.", "pos": 957860}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You wear the uniform of the new French conquerors, monsieur, it is a handsome uniform.", "pos": 958704}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You have never seen our Africans, count?", "pos": 958977}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Never,", "pos": 959033}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, beneath this uniform beats one of the bravest and noblest hearts in the whole army.", "pos": 959117}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Let me go on, captain. And we have just heard, of a new deed of his, and so heroic a one, that, although I have seen him today for the first time, I request you to allow me to introduce him as my friend.", "pos": 959250}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, you have a noble heart, so much the better.", "pos": 959633}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Why should he doubt it?", "pos": 960030}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "In reality. Albert has not deceived us, for the count is a most singular being. What say you, Morrel!", "pos": 960090}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Ma foi, he has an open look about him that pleases me, in spite of the singular remark he has made about me.", "pos": 960346}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Gentlemen. Germain informs me that breakfast is ready. My dear count, allow me to show you the way.", "pos": 960457}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Gentlemen, permit me to make a confession which must form my excuse for any improprieties I may commit. I am a stranger, and a stranger to such a degree, that this is the first time I have ever been at Paris. The French way of living is utterly unknown to me, and up to the present time I have followed the Eastern customs, which are entirely in contrast to the Parisian. I beg you, therefore, to excuse if you find anything in me too Turkish, too Italian, or too Arabian. Now, then, let us breakfast.", "pos": 960649}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "With what an air he says all this, decidedly he is a great man.", "pos": 961188}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "A great man in his own country,", "pos": 961276}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "A great man in every country, M. Debray,", "pos": 961324}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear count. I fear one thing, and that is, that the fare of the Rue du Helder is not so much to your taste as that of the Piazza di Spagna. I ought to have consulted you on the point, and have had some dishes prepared expressly.", "pos": 961599}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Did you know me better, you would not give one thought of such a thing for a traveller like myself, who has successively lived on macaroni at Naples, polenta at Milan, olla podrida at Valencia, pilau at Constantinople, curry in India, and swallows’ nests in China. I eat everywhere, and of everything, only I eat but little; and today, that you reproach me with my want of appetite, is my day of appetite, for I have not eaten since yesterday morning.", "pos": 961844}
{"speaker": "Guests", "text": "What, you have not eaten for four-and-twenty hours?", "pos": 962329}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No. I was forced to go out of my road to obtain some information near Nîmes, so that I was somewhat late, and therefore I did not choose to stop.", "pos": 962407}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And you ate in your carriage?", "pos": 962576}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, I slept, as I generally do when I am weary without having the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry without feeling inclined to eat.", "pos": 962623}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "But you can sleep when you please, monsieur?", "pos": 962769}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 962829}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "You have a recipe for it?", "pos": 962836}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "An infallible one.", "pos": 962864}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "That would be invaluable to us in Africa, who have not always any food to eat, and rarely anything to drink.", "pos": 962885}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, but, unfortunately, a recipe excellent for a man like myself would be very dangerous applied to an army, which might not awake when it was needed.", "pos": 962996}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "May we inquire what is this recipe?", "pos": 963171}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, yes. I make no secret of it. It is a mixture of excellent opium, which I fetched myself from Canton in order to have it pure, and the best hashish which grows in the East—that is, between the Tigris and the Euphrates. These two ingredients are mixed in equal proportions, and formed into pills. Ten minutes after one is taken, the effect is produced. Ask Baron Franz d’Épinay; I think he tasted them one day.", "pos": 963223}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, he said something about it to me.", "pos": 963663}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "But, you always carry this drug about you?", "pos": 963723}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Always.", "pos": 963837}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Would it be an indiscretion to ask to see those precious pills?", "pos": 963847}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, monsieur, and he drew from his pocket a marvellous casket, formed out of a single emerald and closed by a golden lid which unscrewed and gave passage to a small greenish colored pellet about the size of a pea. This ball had an acrid and penetrating odor. There were four or five more in the emerald, which would contain about a dozen. The casket passed around the table, but it was more to examine the admirable emerald than to see the pills that it passed from hand to hand.", "pos": 963972}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "And is it your cook who prepares these pills?", "pos": 964474}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, no, monsieur. I do not thus betray my enjoyments to the vulgar. I am a tolerable chemist, and prepare my pills myself.", "pos": 964539}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "This is a magnificent emerald, and the largest I have ever seen, although my mother has some remarkable family jewels.", "pos": 964688}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I had three similar ones. I gave one to the Sultan, who mounted it in his sabre; another to our holy father the Pope, who had it set in his tiara, opposite to one nearly as large, though not so fine, given by the Emperor Napoleon to his predecessor, Pius VII. I kept the third for myself, and I had it hollowed out, which reduced its value, but rendered it more commodious for the purpose I intended.", "pos": 964832}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "And what did these two sovereigns give you in exchange for these magnificent presents?", "pos": 965488}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The Sultan, the liberty of a woman, the Pope, the life of a man; so that once in my life I have been as powerful as if heaven had brought me into the world on the steps of a throne.", "pos": 965591}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And it was Peppino you saved, was it not? it was for him that you obtained pardon?", "pos": 965796}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Perhaps,", "pos": 965898}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear count, you have no idea what pleasure it gives me to hear you speak thus. I had announced you beforehand to my friends as an enchanter of the Arabian Nights, a wizard of the Middle Ages; but the Parisians are so subtle in paradoxes that they mistake for caprices of the imagination the most incontestable truths, when these truths do not form a part of their daily existence. For example, here is Debray who reads, and Beauchamp who prints, every day, ‘A member of the Jockey Club has been stopped and robbed on the Boulevard;’ ‘four persons have been assassinated in the Rue St. Denis’ or ‘the Faubourg St. Germain;’ ‘ten, fifteen, or twenty thieves, have been arrested in a café on the Boulevard du Temple, or in the Thermes de Julien,’—and yet these same men deny the existence of the bandits in the Maremma, the Campagna di Romana, or the Pontine Marshes. Tell them yourself that I was taken by bandits, and that without your generous intercession I should now have been sleeping in the Catacombs of St. Sebastian, instead of receiving them in my humble abode in the Rue du Helder.", "pos": 965938}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, you promised me never to mention that circumstance.", "pos": 967050}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "It was not I who made that promise, it must have been someone else whom you have rescued in the same manner, and whom you have forgotten. Pray speak of it, for I shall not only, I trust, relate the little I do know, but also a great deal I do not know.", "pos": 967128}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It seems to me, that you played a sufficiently important part to know as well as myself what happened.", "pos": 967400}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, you promise me, if I tell all I know, to relate, in your turn, all that I do not know?", "pos": 967543}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That is but fair,", "pos": 967638}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, for three days I believed myself the object of the attentions of a masque, whom I took for a descendant of Tullia or Poppæa, while I was simply the object of the attentions of a contadina, and I say contadina to avoid saying peasant girl. What I know is, that, like a fool, a greater fool than he of whom I spoke just now, I mistook for this peasant girl a young bandit of fifteen or sixteen, with a beardless chin and slim waist, and who, just as I was about to imprint a chaste salute on his lips, placed a pistol to my head, and, aided by seven or eight others, led, or rather dragged me, to the Catacombs of St. Sebastian, where I found a highly educated brigand chief perusing Cæsar’s Commentaries, and who deigned to leave off reading to inform me, that unless the next morning, before six o’clock, four thousand piastres were paid into his account at his banker’s, at a quarter past six I should have ceased to exist. The letter is still to be seen, for it is in Franz d’Épinay’s possession, signed by me, and with a postscript of M. Luigi Vampa. This is all I know, but I know not, count, how you contrived to inspire so much respect in the bandits of Rome who ordinarily have so little respect for anything. I assure you, Franz and I were lost in admiration.", "pos": 967680}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Nothing more simple. I had known the famous Vampa for more than ten years. When he was quite a child, and only a shepherd, I gave him a few gold pieces for showing me my way, and he, in order to repay me, gave me a poniard, the hilt of which he had carved with his own hand, and which you may have seen in my collection of arms. In after years, whether he had forgotten this interchange of presents, which ought to have cemented our friendship, or whether he did not recollect me, he sought to take me, but, on the contrary, it was I who captured him and a dozen of his band. I might have handed him over to Roman justice, which is somewhat expeditious, and which would have been particularly so with him; but I did nothing of the sort—I suffered him and his band to depart.", "pos": 968972}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "With the condition that they should sin no more. I see they kept their promise.", "pos": 969771}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, monsieur, upon the simple condition that they should respect myself and my friends. Perhaps what I am about to say may seem strange to you, who are socialists, and vaunt humanity and your duty to your neighbor, but I never seek to protect a society which does not protect me, and which I will even say, generally occupies itself about me only to injure me; and thus by giving them a low place in my esteem, and preserving a neutrality towards them, it is society and my neighbor who are indebted to me.", "pos": 969881}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Bravo, you are the first man I ever met sufficiently courageous to preach egotism. Bravo, count, bravo!", "pos": 970414}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "It is frank, at least. But I am sure that the count does not regret having once deviated from the principles he has so boldly avowed.", "pos": 970544}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How have I deviated from those principles, monsieur?", "pos": 970695}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Why, it seems to me, that in delivering M. de Morcerf, whom you did not know, you did good to your neighbor and to society.", "pos": 970928}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Of which he is the brightest ornament, drinking off a glass of champagne.", "pos": 971072}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear count, you are at fault—you, one of the most formidable logicians I know—and you must see it clearly proved that instead of being an egotist, you are a philanthropist. Ah, you call yourself Oriental, a Levantine, Maltese, Indian, Chinese; your family name is Monte Cristo; Sinbad the Sailor is your baptismal appellation, and yet the first day you set foot in Paris you instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians,—that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.", "pos": 971164}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My dear vicomte. I do not see, in all I have done, anything that merits, either from you or these gentlemen, the pretended eulogies I have received. You were no stranger to me, for I knew you from the time I gave up two rooms to you, invited you to breakfast with me, lent you one of my carriages, witnessed the Carnival in your company, and saw with you from a window in the Piazza del Popolo the execution that affected you so much that you nearly fainted. I will appeal to any of these gentlemen, could I leave my guest in the hands of a hideous bandit, as you term him? Besides, you know, I had the idea that you could introduce me into some of the Paris salons when I came to France. You might some time ago have looked upon this resolution as a vague project, but today you see it was a reality, and you must submit to it under penalty of breaking your word.", "pos": 971740}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I will keep it, but I fear that you will be much disappointed, accustomed as you are to picturesque events and fantastic horizons. Amongst us you will not meet with any of those episodes with which your adventurous existence has so familiarized you; our Chimborazo is Mortmartre, our Himalaya is Mount Valérien, our Great Desert is the plain of Grenelle, where they are now boring an artesian well to water the caravans. We have plenty of thieves, though not so many as is said; but these thieves stand in far more dread of a policeman than a lord. France is so prosaic, and Paris so civilized a city, that you will not find in its eighty-five departments—I say eighty-five, because I do not include Corsica—you will not find, then, in these eighty-five departments a single hill on which there is not a telegraph, or a grotto in which the commissary of police has not put up a gaslamp. There is but one service I can render you, and for that I place myself entirely at your orders, that is, to present, or make my friends present, you everywhere; besides, you have no need of anyone to introduce you—with your name, and your fortune, and your talent", "pos": 972631}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "bowed with a somewhat ironical smile", "pos": 973817}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "you can present yourself everywhere, and be well received. I can be useful in one way only—if knowledge of Parisian habits, of the means of rendering yourself comfortable, or of the bazaars, can assist, you may depend upon me to find you a fitting dwelling here. I do not dare offer to share my apartments with you, as I shared yours at Rome—I, who do not profess egotism, but am yet egotist par excellence; for, except myself, these rooms would not hold a shadow more, unless that shadow were feminine.", "pos": 973856}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, that is a most conjugal reservation; I recollect that at Rome you said something of a projected marriage. May I congratulate you?", "pos": 974362}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "The affair is still in projection.", "pos": 974516}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "And he who says in ‘projection,’ means already decided,", "pos": 974553}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "my father is most anxious about it; and I hope, ere long, to introduce you, if not to my wife, at least to my betrothed—Mademoiselle Eugénie Danglars.", "pos": 974647}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Eugénie Danglars, tell me, is not her father Baron Danglars?", "pos": 974800}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, a baron of a new creation.", "pos": 974884}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What matter, if he has rendered the State services which merit this distinction?", "pos": 974938}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Enormous ones. Although in reality a Liberal, he negotiated a loan of six millions for Charles X., in 1829, who made him a baron and chevalier of the Legion of Honor; so that he wears the ribbon, not, as you would think, in his waistcoat-pocket, but at his button-hole.", "pos": 975041}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah. Beauchamp, Beauchamp, keep that for the Corsaire or the Charivari, but spare my future father-in-law before me. You just now spoke his name as if you knew the baron?", "pos": 975335}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do not know him, but I shall probably soon make his acquaintance, for I have a credit opened with him by the house of Richard & Blount, of London, Arstein & Eskeles of Vienna, and Thomson & French at Rome.", "pos": 975573}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Thomson & French, do you know this house, monsieur?", "pos": 976012}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "They are my bankers in the capital of the Christian world. Can my influence with them be of any service to you?", "pos": 976084}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, count, you could assist me perhaps in researches which have been, up to the present, fruitless. This house, in past years, did ours a great service, and has, I know not for what reason, always denied having rendered us this service.", "pos": 976228}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I shall be at your orders,", "pos": 976467}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "à propos of Danglars,—we have strangely wandered from the subject. We were speaking of a suitable habitation for the Count of Monte Cristo. Come, gentlemen, let us all propose some place. Where shall we lodge this new guest in our great capital?", "pos": 976548}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Faubourg Saint-Germain. The count will find there a charming hotel, with a court and garden.", "pos": 976796}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Bah! Château-Renaud, you only know your dull and gloomy Faubourg Saint-Germain; do not pay any attention to him, count—live in the Chaussée d’Antin, that’s the real centre of Paris.", "pos": 976914}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Boulevard de l’Opéra, the second floor—a house with a balcony. The count will have his cushions of silver cloth brought there, and as he smokes his chibouque, see all Paris pass before him.", "pos": 977117}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "You have no idea, then, Morrel? you do not propose anything.", "pos": 977327}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, yes, on the contrary, I have one, but I expected the count would be tempted by one of the brilliant proposals made him, yet as he has not replied to any of them, I will venture to offer him a suite of apartments in a charming hotel, in the Pompadour style, that my sister has inhabited for a year, in the Rue Meslay.", "pos": 977414}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You have a sister? Yes, monsieur, a most excellent sister. Married?", "pos": 977772}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Nearly nine years.", "pos": 977863}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Happy?", "pos": 977884}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "As happy as it is permitted to a human creature to be. She married the man she loved, who remained faithful to us in our fallen fortunes—Emmanuel Herbaut.", "pos": 977916}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "smiled imperceptibly", "pos": 978107}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I live there during my leave of absence, and I shall be, together with my brother-in-law Emmanuel, at the disposition of the Count, whenever he thinks fit to honor us.", "pos": 978130}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "One minute. Take care, you are going to immure a traveller, Sinbad the Sailor, a man who comes to see Paris; you are going to make a patriarch of him.", "pos": 978324}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "my sister is five-and-twenty, my brother-in-law is thirty, they are gay, young, and happy. Besides, the count will be in his own house, and only see them when he thinks fit to do so.", "pos": 978570}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Thanks, monsieur. I shall content myself with being presented to your sister and her husband, if you will do me the honor to introduce me; but I cannot accept the offer of anyone of these gentlemen, since my habitation is already prepared.", "pos": 978755}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What, you are, then, going to a hotel—that will be very dull for you.", "pos": 979018}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Was I so badly lodged at Rome?", "pos": 979107}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Parbleu! at Rome you spent fifty thousand piastres in furnishing your apartments, but I presume that you are not disposed to spend a similar sum every day.", "pos": 979167}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is not that which deterred me, but as I determined to have a house to myself, I sent on my valet de chambre, and he ought by this time to have bought the house and furnished it.", "pos": 979325}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "But you have, then, a valet de chambre who knows Paris?", "pos": 979532}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is the first time he has ever been in Paris. He is black, and cannot speak,", "pos": 979606}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "It is Ali! Certainly. I recollect him perfectly. But how could you charge a Nubian to purchase a house, and a mute to furnish it?—he will do everything wrong.", "pos": 979710}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Undeceive yourself, monsieur. I am quite sure, that, on the contrary, he will choose everything as I wish. He knows my tastes, my caprices, my wants. He has been here a week, with the instinct of a hound, hunting by himself. He will arrange everything for me. He knew, that I should arrive today at ten o’clock; he was waiting for me at nine at the Barrière de Fontainebleau. He gave me this paper; it contains the number of my new abode; read it yourself,", "pos": 980009}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Ah, that is really original,", "pos": 980535}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "And very princely,", "pos": 980582}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "What, do you not know your house?", "pos": 980625}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No. I told you I did not wish to be behind my time; I dressed myself in the carriage, and descended at the viscount’s door.", "pos": 980675}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "We must content ourselves, then, with rendering the count all the little services in our power. I, in my quality of journalist, open all the theatres to him.", "pos": 981076}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Thanks, monsieur, my steward has orders to take a box at each theatre.", "pos": 981254}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Is your steward also a Nubian?", "pos": 981352}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, he is a countryman of yours, if a Corsican is a countryman of anyone’s. But you know him, M. de Morcerf.", "pos": 981399}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Is it that excellent M. Bertuccio, who understands hiring windows so well?", "pos": 981510}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, you saw him the day I had the honor of receiving you; he has been a soldier, a smuggler—in fact, everything. I would not be quite sure that he has not been mixed up with the police for some trifle—a stab with a knife, for instance.", "pos": 981587}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "And you have chosen this honest citizen for your steward. Of how much does he rob you every year?", "pos": 981826}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "On my word, not more than another. I am sure he answers my purpose, knows no impossibility, and so I keep him.", "pos": 981941}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Then, since you have an establishment, a steward, and a hotel in the Champs-Élysées, you only want a mistress.", "pos": 982075}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have something better than that. I have a slave. You procure your mistresses from the opera, the Vaudeville, or the Variétés; I purchased mine at Constantinople; it cost me more, but I have nothing to fear.", "pos": 982328}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "But you forget, that we are Franks by name and franks by nature, as King Charles said, and that the moment she puts her foot in France your slave becomes free. Who will tell her? The first person who sees her. She only speaks Romaic. That is different.", "pos": 982560}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "But at least we shall see her, or do you keep eunuchs as well as mutes?", "pos": 982851}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, no. I do not carry brutalism so far. Everyone who surrounds me is free to quit me, and when they leave me will no longer have any need of me or anyone else; it is for that reason, perhaps, that they do not quit me.", "pos": 982943}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "My dear Albert, it is half-past two. Your guest is charming, but you leave the best company to go into the worst sometimes. I must return to the minister’s. I will tell him of the count, and we shall soon know who he is.", "pos": 983238}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Take care, no one has been able to accomplish that.", "pos": 983484}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Oh, we have three millions for our police; it is true they are almost always spent beforehand, but, no matter, we shall still have fifty thousand francs to spend for this purpose.", "pos": 983557}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And when you know, will you tell me?", "pos": 983739}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "I promise you. Au revoir, Albert. Gentlemen, good morning.", "pos": 983778}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Bravo I shall not go to the Chamber, but I have something better to offer my readers than a speech of M. Danglars.", "pos": 983901}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "For heaven’s sake, Beauchamp, do not deprive me of the merit of introducing him everywhere. Is he not peculiar?", "pos": 984047}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "He is more than that, he is one of the most extraordinary men I ever saw in my life. Are you coming, Morrel?", "pos": 984181}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Directly I have given my card to the count, who has promised to pay us a visit at Rue Meslay, No. 14.", "pos": 984318}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Be sure I shall not fail to do so,", "pos": 984422}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear count, allow me to commence my services as cicerone by showing you a specimen of a bachelor’s apartment. You, who are accustomed to the palaces of Italy, can amuse yourself by calculating in how many square feet a young man who is not the worst lodged in Paris can live. As we pass from one room to another, I will open the windows to let you breathe.", "pos": 984678}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You have there a most charming mistress, viscount, and this costume—a ball costume, doubtless—becomes her admirably.", "pos": 988152}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, monsieur. I would never forgive you this mistake if you had seen another picture beside this. You do not know my mother; she it is whom you see here. She had her portrait painted thus six or eight years ago. This costume is a fancy one, it appears, and the resemblance is so great that I think I still see my mother the same as she was in 1830. The countess had this portrait painted during the count’s absence. She doubtless intended giving him an agreeable surprise; but, strange to say, this portrait seemed to displease my father, and the value of the picture, which is, as you see, one of the best works of Léopold Robert, could not overcome his dislike to it. It is true, between ourselves, that M. de Morcerf is one of the most assiduous peers at the Luxembourg, a general renowned for theory, but a most mediocre amateur of art. It is different with my mother, who paints exceedingly well, and who, unwilling to part with so valuable a picture, gave it to me to put here, where it would be less likely to displease M. de Morcerf, whose portrait, by Gros, I will also show you. Excuse my talking of family matters, but as I shall have the honor of introducing you to the count, I tell you this to prevent you making any allusions to this picture. The picture seems to have a malign influence, for my mother rarely comes here without looking at it, and still more rarely does she look at it without weeping. This disagreement is the only one that has ever taken place between the count and countess, who are still as much united, although married more than twenty years, as on the first day of their wedding. Now, that you have seen all my treasures, allow me to offer them to you, unworthy as they are. Consider yourself as in your own house, and to put yourself still more at your ease, pray accompany me to the apartments of M. de Morcerf, he whom I wrote from Rome an account of the services you rendered me, and to whom I announced your promised visit, and I may say that both the count and countess anxiously desire to thank you in person. You are somewhat blasé I know, and family scenes have not much effect on Sinbad the Sailor, who has seen so many others. However, accept what I propose to you as an initiation into Parisian life—a life of politeness, visiting, and introductions.", "pos": 988314}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Azure seven merlets, or, placed bender. These are, doubtless, your family arms? Except the knowledge of blazons, that enables me to decipher them, I am very ignorant of heraldry—I, a count of a fresh creation, fabricated in Tuscany by the aid of a commandery of St. Stephen, and who would not have taken the trouble had I not been told that when you travel much it is necessary. Besides, you must have something on the panels of your carriage, to escape being searched by the custom-house officers. Excuse my putting such a question to you.", "pos": 991438}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "It is not indiscreet. You have guessed rightly. These are our arms, that is, those of my father, but they are, as you see, joined to another shield, which has gules, a silver tower, which are my mother’s. By her side I am Spanish, but the family of Morcerf is French, and, I have heard, one of the oldest of the south of France.", "pos": 991992}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, these blazons prove that. Almost all the armed pilgrims that went to the Holy Land took for their arms either a cross, in honor of their mission, or birds of passage, in sign of the long voyage they were about to undertake, and which they hoped to accomplish on the wings of faith. One of your ancestors had joined the Crusades, and supposing it to be only that of St. Louis, that makes you mount to the thirteenth century, which is tolerably ancient.", "pos": 992378}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "It is possible, my father has in his study a genealogical tree which will tell you all that, and on which I made commentaries that would have greatly edified d’Hozier and Jaucourt. At present I no longer think of it, and yet I must tell you that we are beginning to occupy ourselves greatly with these things under our popular government.", "pos": 992860}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, then, your government would do well to choose from the past something better than the things that I have noticed on your monuments, and which have no heraldic meaning whatever. As for you, viscount, continued Monte Cristo to Morcerf, “you are more fortunate than the government, for your arms are really beautiful, and speak to the imagination. Yes, you are at once from Provence and Spain; that explains, if the portrait you showed me be like, the dark hue I so much admired on the visage of the noble Catalan.”", "pos": 993217}
{"speaker": "Father", "text": "I have the honor of presenting to you the Count of Monte Cristo, the generous friend whom I had the good fortune to meet in the critical situation of which I have told you.", "pos": 995504}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "You are most welcome, monsieur, and monsieur has rendered our house, in preserving its only heir, a service which insures him our eternal gratitude. The countess, was at her toilet when she was informed of the visit she was about to receive. She will, however, be in the salon in ten minutes.", "pos": 995679}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is a great honor to me, to be thus, on the first day of my arrival in Paris, brought in contact with a man whose merit equals his reputation, and to whom fortune has for once been equitable, but has she not still on the plains of Mitidja, or in the mountains of Atlas, a marshal’s staff to offer you?", "pos": 996469}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh. I have left the service, monsieur. Made a peer at the Restoration, I served through the first campaign under the orders of Marshal Bourmont. I could, therefore, expect a higher rank, and who knows what might have happened had the elder branch remained on the throne? But the Revolution of July was, it seems, sufficiently glorious to allow itself to be ungrateful, and it was so for all services that did not date from the imperial period. I tendered my resignation, for when you have gained your epaulets on the battle-field, you do not know how to manœuvre on the slippery grounds of the salons. I have hung up my sword, and cast myself into politics. I have devoted myself to industry; I study the useful arts. During the twenty years I served, I often wished to do so, but I had not the time.", "pos": 996800}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "These are the ideas that render your nation superior to any other. A gentleman of high birth, possessor of an ample fortune, you have consented to gain your promotion as an obscure soldier, step by step—this is uncommon; then become general, peer of France, commander of the Legion of Honor, you consent to again commence a second apprenticeship, without any other hope or any other desire than that of one day becoming useful to your fellow-creatures; this, indeed, is praiseworthy,—nay, more, it is sublime. Alas, we do not act thus in Italy; we grow according to our race and our species, and we pursue the same lines, and often the same uselessness, all our lives.", "pos": 997642}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "But, monsieur, for a man of your merit, Italy is not a country, and France opens her arms to receive you; respond to her call. France will not, perhaps, be always ungrateful. She treats her children ill, but she always welcomes strangers.", "pos": 998564}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, father, it is evident you do not know the Count of Monte Cristo; he despises all honors, and contents himself with those written on his passport.", "pos": 998834}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That is the most just remark. I ever heard made concerning myself.", "pos": 999014}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "You have been free to choose your career, and you have chosen the path strewed with flowers.", "pos": 999107}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Precisely, monsieur, replied Monte Cristo with one of those smiles that a painter could never represent or a physiologist analyze.", "pos": 999248}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "If I did not fear to fatigue you. I would have taken you to the Chamber; there is a debate very curious to those who are strangers to our modern senators.", "pos": 999381}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I shall be most grateful, monsieur, if you will, at some future time, renew your offer, but I have been flattered with the hope of being introduced to the countess, and I will therefore wait.", "pos": 999602}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, here is my mother,", "pos": 999796}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "No, but I feel some emotion on seeing, for the first time, the man without whose intervention we should have been in tears and desolation. Monsieur, I owe to you the life of my son, and for this I bless you. Now, I thank you for the pleasure you give me in thus affording me the opportunity of thanking you as I have blessed you, from the bottom of my heart.", "pos": 1000512}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Madame, the count and yourself recompense too generously a simple action. To save a man, to spare a father’s feelings, or a mother’s sensibility, is not to do a good action, but a simple deed of humanity.", "pos": 1001033}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "It is very fortunate for my son, monsieur, that he found such a friend, and I thank God that things are thus. Madame. I have already made my excuses to the count for quitting him, and I pray you to do so also. The sitting commences at two; it is now three, and I am to speak. Go, then, and monsieur and I will strive our best to forget your absence. Monsieur, will you do us the honor of passing the rest of the day with us?", "pos": 1001352}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Believe me, madame, I feel most grateful for your kindness, but I got out of my travelling carriage at your door this morning, and I am ignorant how I am installed in Paris, which I scarcely know; this is but a trifling inquietude, I know, but one that may be appreciated.", "pos": 1002059}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "We shall have the pleasure another time, you promise that? I would not have our gratitude become indiscreet or importunate.", "pos": 1002334}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear Count. I will endeavor to return your politeness at Rome, and place my coupé at your disposal until your own be ready.", "pos": 1002630}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A thousand thanks for your kindness, viscount, but I suppose that M. Bertuccio has suitably employed the four hours and a half I have given him, and that I shall find a carriage of some sort ready at the door.", "pos": 1002774}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Monsieur. I do not ask you to accompany me to my house, as I can only show you a habitation fitted up in a hurry, and I have, as you know, a reputation to keep up as regards not being taken by surprise. Give me, therefore, one more day before I invite you; I shall then be certain not to fail in my hospitality.", "pos": 1003795}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "If you ask me for a day, count, I know what to anticipate; it will not be a house I shall see, but a palace. You have decidedly some genius at your control.", "pos": 1004137}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ma foi, spread that idea, and that will be worth something to me among the ladies.", "pos": 1004296}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear mother, have you been ill during my absence?", "pos": 1005551}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "No, no, Albert, but you know these roses, tuberoses, and orange-flowers throw out at first, before one is used to them, such violent perfumes.", "pos": 1005606}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Then, my dear mother, they must be taken into the antechamber. You are really ill, and just now were so pale as you came into the room——", "pos": 1005751}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Was I pale, Albert?", "pos": 1005935}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes; a pallor that suits you admirably, mother, but which did not the less alarm my father and myself.", "pos": 1005957}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Did your father speak of it? Yes, I do remember. Take these flowers into the anteroom or dressing-room, they make the countess ill. is it a family name, or the name of the estate, or a simple title?", "pos": 1006062}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I believe, mother, it is merely a title. The count purchased an island in the Tuscan archipelago, and, as he told you today, has founded a commandery. You know the same thing was done for Saint Stephen of Florence, Saint George Constantinian of Parma, and even for the Order of Malta. Except this, he has no pretension to nobility, and calls himself a chance count, although the general opinion at Rome is that the count is a man of very high distinction.", "pos": 1006695}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "His manners are admirable, at least, as far as I could judge in the few minutes he remained here.", "pos": 1007153}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "They are perfect mother, so perfect, that they surpass by far all I have known in the leading aristocracy of the three proudest nobilities of Europe—the English, the Spanish, and the German.", "pos": 1007274}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "You have seen, my dear Albert—I ask the question as a mother—you have seen M. de Monte Cristo in his house, you are quicksighted, have much knowledge of the world, more tact than is usual at your age, do you think the count is really what he appears to be?", "pos": 1007543}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What does he appear to be?", "pos": 1007802}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Why, you have just said,—a man of high distinction.", "pos": 1007831}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I told you, my dear mother, he was esteemed such.", "pos": 1007885}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "But what is your own opinion, Albert?", "pos": 1007937}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I must tell you that I have not come to any decided opinion respecting him, but I think him a Maltese.", "pos": 1007977}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "I do not ask you of his origin but what he is.", "pos": 1008082}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah! what he is; that is quite another thing. I have seen so many remarkable things in him, that if you would have me really say what I think, I shall reply that I really do look upon him as one of Byron’s heroes, whom misery has marked with a fatal brand; some Manfred, some Lara, some Werner, one of those wrecks, as it were, of some ancient family, who, disinherited of their patrimony, have achieved one by the force of their adventurous genius, which has placed them above the laws of society.", "pos": 1008131}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "You say——", "pos": 1008631}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I say that Monte Cristo is an island in the midst of the Mediterranean, without inhabitants or garrison, the resort of smugglers of all nations, and pirates of every flag. Who knows whether or not these industrious worthies do not pay to their feudal lord some dues for his protection?", "pos": 1008642}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "That is possible,", "pos": 1008930}
{"speaker": "young man", "text": "Never mind, smuggler or not, you must agree, mother dear, as you have seen him, that the Count of Monte Cristo is a remarkable man, who will have the greatest success in the salons of Paris. Why, this very morning, in my rooms, he made his entrée amongst us by striking every man of us with amazement, not even excepting Château-Renaud.", "pos": 1008981}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "And what do you suppose is the count’s age?", "pos": 1009347}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Thirty-five or thirty-six, mother.", "pos": 1009467}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "So young,—it is impossible,", "pos": 1009504}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "It is the truth, however. Three or four times he has said to me, and certainly without the slightest premeditation, ‘at such a period I was five years old, at another ten years old, at another twelve,’ and I, induced by curiosity, which kept me alive to these details, have compared the dates, and never found him inaccurate. The age of this singular man, who is of no age, is then, I am certain, thirty-five. Besides, mother, remark how vivid his eye, how raven-black his hair, and his brow, though so pale, is free from wrinkles,—he is not only vigorous, but also young.", "pos": 1009637}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "And has this man displayed a friendship for you, Albert?", "pos": 1010287}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I am inclined to think so.", "pos": 1010380}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "And—do—you—like—him?", "pos": 1010409}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Why, he pleases me in spite of Franz d’Épinay, who tries to convince me that he is a being returned from the other world.", "pos": 1010432}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Albert. I have always put you on your guard against new acquaintances. Now you are a man, and are able to give me advice; yet I repeat to you, Albert, be prudent.", "pos": 1010580}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Why, my dear mother, it is necessary, in order to make your advice turn to account, that I should know beforehand what I have to distrust. The count never plays, he only drinks pure water tinged with a little sherry, and is so rich that he cannot, without intending to laugh at me, try to borrow money. What, then, have I to fear from him?", "pos": 1010798}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "You are right, and my fears are weakness, especially when directed against a man who has saved your life. How did your father receive him, Albert? It is necessary that we should be more than complaisant to the count. M. de Morcerf is sometimes occupied, his business makes him reflective, and he might, without intending it——", "pos": 1011140}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Nothing could be in better taste than my father’s demeanor, madame, nay, more, he seemed greatly flattered at two or three compliments which the count very skilfully and agreeably paid him with as much ease as if he had known him these thirty years. Each of these little tickling arrows must have pleased my father. And thus they parted the best possible friends, and M. de Morcerf even wished to take him to the Chamber to hear the speakers. This devil of a fellow,", "pos": 1011489}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I said at the time he would create a sensation here, and I measure his effect by an infallible thermometer. My mother has noticed him, and he must therefore, perforce, be remarkable.", "pos": 1012492}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Most decidedly, men are not equal, and I must beg my father to develop this theorem in the Chamber of Peers.", "pos": 1012898}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Thanks, M. Bertuccio, and the notary?", "pos": 1014655}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "He is in the small salon, excellency,", "pos": 1014766}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And the cards I ordered to be engraved as soon as you knew the number of the house?", "pos": 1014826}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Your excellency, it is done already. I have been myself to the best engraver of the Palais Royal, who did the plate in my presence. The first card struck off was taken, according to your orders, to the Baron Danglars, Rue de la Chaussée d’Antin, No. 7; the others are on the mantle-piece of your excellency’s bedroom.", "pos": 1014912}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Good; what o’clock is it?", "pos": 1015232}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Four o’clock.", "pos": 1015260}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "These are but indifferent marbles in this antechamber. I trust all this will soon be taken away. You are the notary empowered to sell the country house that I wish to purchase, monsieur?", "pos": 1015490}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "Yes, count,", "pos": 1015912}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Is the deed of sale ready?", "pos": 1015947}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "Yes, count.", "pos": 1015976}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Have you brought it?", "pos": 1015990}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "Here it is.", "pos": 1016013}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Very well; and where is this house that I purchase?", "pos": 1016027}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "What! does not the count know where the house he purchases is situated?", "pos": 1016277}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No,", "pos": 1016362}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "The count does not know?", "pos": 1016388}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How should I know? I have arrived from Cadiz this morning. I have never before been at Paris, and it is the first time I have ever even set my foot in France.", "pos": 1016415}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "Ah, that is different; the house you purchase is at Auteuil.", "pos": 1016576}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And where is Auteuil?", "pos": 1016677}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "Close by here, monsieur, a little beyond Passy; a charming situation, in the heart of the Bois de Boulogne.", "pos": 1016718}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So near as that? but that is not in the country. What made you choose a house at the gates of Paris, M. Bertuccio?", "pos": 1016849}
{"speaker": "steward", "text": "I. His excellency did not charge me to purchase this house. If his excellency will recollect—if he will think——", "pos": 1016984}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, true. I recollect now. I read the advertisement in one of the papers, and was tempted by the false title, ‘a country house.’", "pos": 1017145}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "It is not yet too late, and if your excellency will intrust me with the commission, I will find you a better at Enghien, at Fontenay-aux-Roses, or at Bellevue.", "pos": 1017301}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, no, since I have this, I will keep it.", "pos": 1017491}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "And you are quite right. It is a charming place, well supplied with spring-water and fine trees; a comfortable habitation, although abandoned for a long time, without reckoning the furniture, which, although old, is yet valuable, now that old things are so much sought after. I suppose the count has the tastes of the day?", "pos": 1017573}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To be sure, it is very convenient, then?", "pos": 1017945}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "It is more—it is magnificent.", "pos": 1018013}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Peste! let us not lose such an opportunity. The deed, if you please, Mr. Notary. Bertuccio, give fifty-five thousand francs to monsieur. And now, are all the forms complied with?", "pos": 1018045}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "All, sir.", "pos": 1018660}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Have you the keys?", "pos": 1018672}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "They are in the hands of the concierge, who takes care of the house, but here is the order I have given him to install the count in his new possessions.", "pos": 1018693}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Very well;", "pos": 1018848}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "But, the count is, I think, mistaken; it is only fifty thousand francs, everything included.", "pos": 1018976}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And your fee?", "pos": 1019101}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "Is included in this sum.", "pos": 1019117}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But have you not come from Auteuil here?", "pos": 1019144}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "Yes, certainly.", "pos": 1019187}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, then, it is but fair that you should be paid for your loss of time and trouble. See this gentleman out, ‘Auteuil, Rue de la Fontaine, No. 28;’ it is indeed the same, and now, am I to rely upon an avowal extorted by religious or physical terror? However, in an hour I shall know all. Bertuccio!", "pos": 1019205}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Bertuccio!", "pos": 1020204}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Monsieur Bertuccio, did you never tell me that you had travelled in France?", "pos": 1020251}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "In some parts of France—yes, excellency.", "pos": 1020347}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You know the environs of Paris, then?", "pos": 1020390}
{"speaker": "steward", "text": "No, excellency, no,", "pos": 1020430}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is unfortunate, that you have never visited the environs, for I wish to see my new property this evening, and had you gone with me, you could have given me some useful information.", "pos": 1020600}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "To Auteuil! I go to Auteuil?", "pos": 1020801}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, what is there surprising in that? When I live at Auteuil, you must come there, as you belong to my service. Why, what has happened to you?—are you going to make me ring a second time for the carriage?", "pos": 1020888}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "His excellency’s horses! Your excellency’s carriage is at the door,", "pos": 1021413}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, take your hat and gloves,", "pos": 1021583}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Am I to accompany you, your excellency?", "pos": 1021640}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly, you must give the orders, for I intend residing at the house.", "pos": 1021699}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Tell them to stop at Rue de la Fontaine, No. 28,", "pos": 1022804}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Rue de la Fontaine, No. 28.", "pos": 1023061}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, you do not get out, M. Bertuccio—you are going to stay in the carriage, then? What are you thinking of this evening? Knock, and announce me.", "pos": 1023339}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 1023731}
{"speaker": "footman", "text": "It is your new master, my good fellow,", "pos": 1023755}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "The house is sold, then? and this gentleman is coming to live here?", "pos": 1023867}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, my friend, and I will endeavor to give you no cause to regret your old master.", "pos": 1023963}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "Oh, monsieur. I shall not have much cause to regret him, for he came here but seldom; it is five years since he was here last, and he did well to sell the house, for it did not bring him in anything at all.", "pos": 1024071}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What was the name of your old master?", "pos": 1024302}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "The Marquis of Saint-Méran. Ah, I am sure he has not sold the house for what he gave for it.", "pos": 1024361}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The Marquis of Saint-Méran! The name is not unknown to me; the Marquis of Saint-Méran!", "pos": 1024456}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "An old gentleman, a staunch follower of the Bourbons; he had an only daughter, who married M. de Villefort, who had been the king’s attorney at Nîmes, and afterwards at Versailles.", "pos": 1024596}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And is not this daughter dead? I fancy I have heard so.", "pos": 1024930}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "Yes, monsieur, one-and-twenty years ago; and since then we have not seen the poor marquis three times.", "pos": 1025013}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Thanks, thanks. Give me a light.", "pos": 1025118}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "Shall I accompany you, monsieur?", "pos": 1025293}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, it is unnecessary; Bertuccio will show me a light.", "pos": 1025328}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "Ah, monsieur. I have not got any candles.", "pos": 1025527}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Take one of the carriage-lamps, Bertuccio, and show me the apartments. Ah, here is a private staircase, that is convenient. Light me, M. Bertuccio, and go first; we will see where it leads to.", "pos": 1025648}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Monsieur, it leads to the garden.", "pos": 1026230}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And, pray, how do you know that?", "pos": 1026287}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "It ought to do so, at least.", "pos": 1026322}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, let us be sure of that. Go on, Monsieur Bertuccio. Well!", "pos": 1026353}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "No, no. No, monsieur, it is impossible; I can go no farther.", "pos": 1026817}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What does this mean?", "pos": 1026958}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Why, you must see, your excellency, that this is not natural; that, having a house to purchase, you purchase it exactly at Auteuil, and that, purchasing it at Auteuil, this house should be No. 28, Rue de la Fontaine. Oh, why did I not tell you all? I am sure you would not have forced me to come. I hoped your house would have been some other one than this; as if there was not another house at Auteuil than that of the assassination!", "pos": 1027030}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What, what! what words do you utter? Devil of a man, Corsican that you are—always mysteries or superstitions. Come, take the lantern, and let us visit the garden; you are not afraid of ghosts with me, I hope? No, no, monsieur. What is the use of following the alleys? Here is a beautiful lawn; let us go on straight forwards.", "pos": 1027488}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Move, monsieur—move away, I entreat you; you are exactly in the spot! Where he fell.", "pos": 1028422}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My dear Monsieur Bertuccio, control yourself; we are not at Sartène or at Corte. This is not a Corsican maquis but an English garden; badly kept, I own, but still you must not calumniate it for that.", "pos": 1028531}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Monsieur, I implore you do not stay there!", "pos": 1028764}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I think you are going mad, Bertuccio. If that is the case, I warn you, I shall have you put in a lunatic asylum.", "pos": 1028809}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Alas! excellency. Alas! excellency, the evil has arrived!", "pos": 1028949}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "M. Bertuccio. I am very glad to tell you, that while you gesticulate, you wring your hands and roll your eyes like a man possessed by a devil who will not leave him; and I have always observed, that the devil most obstinate to be expelled is a secret. I knew you were a Corsican. I knew you were gloomy, and always brooding over some old history of the vendetta; and I overlooked that in Italy, because in Italy those things are thought nothing of. But in France they are considered in very bad taste; there are gendarmes who occupy themselves with such affairs, judges who condemn, and scaffolds which avenge. The Abbé Busoni, then told me an untruth, when, after his journey in France, in 1829, he sent you to me, with a letter of recommendation, in which he enumerated all your valuable qualities. Well, I shall write to the abbé; I shall hold him responsible for his protégé’s misconduct, and I shall soon know all about this assassination. Only I warn you, that when I reside in a country, I conform to all its code, and I have no wish to put myself within the compass of the French laws for your sake.", "pos": 1029263}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Oh, do not do that, excellency; I have always served you faithfully. I have always been an honest man, and, as far as lay in my power, I have done good.", "pos": 1030736}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do not deny it, but why are you thus agitated. It is a bad sign; a quiet conscience does not occasion such paleness in the cheeks, and such fever in the hands of a man.", "pos": 1030922}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "But, your excellency, did not the Abbé Busoni, who heard my confession in the prison at Nîmes, tell you that I had a heavy burden upon my conscience?", "pos": 1031117}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; but as he said you would make an excellent steward, I concluded you had stolen—that was all.", "pos": 1031303}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Oh, your excellency!", "pos": 1031403}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Or, as you are a Corsican, that you had been unable to resist the desire of making a ‘stiff,’ as you call it.", "pos": 1031463}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Yes, my good master, it was simply vengeance—nothing else.", "pos": 1031575}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I understand that, but I do not understand what it is that galvanizes you in this manner.", "pos": 1031692}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "But, monsieur, it is very natural, since it was in this house that my vengeance was accomplished.", "pos": 1031784}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What! my house?", "pos": 1031906}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Oh, your excellency, it was not yours, then.", "pos": 1031924}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Whose, then? The Marquis de Saint-Méran, I think, the concierge said. What had you to revenge on the Marquis de Saint-Méran?", "pos": 1031971}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Oh, it was not on him, monsieur; it was on another.", "pos": 1032098}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "This is strange, that you should find yourself without any preparation in a house where the event happened that causes you so much remorse.", "pos": 1032152}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Monsieur, it is fatality, I am sure. First, you purchase a house at Auteuil—this house is the one where I have committed an assassination; you descend to the garden by the same staircase by which he descended; you stop at the spot where he received the blow; and two paces farther is the grave in which he had just buried his child. This is not chance, for chance, in this case, is too much like Providence.", "pos": 1032356}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, amiable Corsican, let us suppose it is Providence. I always suppose anything people please, and, besides, you must concede something to diseased minds. Come, collect yourself, and tell me all.", "pos": 1032786}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "I have related it but once, and that was to the Abbé Busoni. Such things, are only related under the seal of confession.", "pos": 1032987}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then. I refer you to your confessor. Turn Chartreux or Trappist, and relate your secrets, but, as for me, I do not like anyone who is alarmed by such phantasms, and I do not choose that my servants should be afraid to walk in the garden of an evening. I confess I am not very desirous of a visit from the commissary of police, for, in Italy, justice is only paid when silent—in France she is paid only when she speaks. Peste! I thought you somewhat Corsican, a great deal smuggler, and an excellent steward; but I see you have other strings to your bow. You are no longer in my service, Monsieur Bertuccio.", "pos": 1033151}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Oh, your excellency, your excellency! if that is the only reason I cannot remain in your service, I will tell all, for if I quit you, it will only be to go to the scaffold.", "pos": 1033778}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That is different, but if you intend to tell an untruth, reflect it were better not to speak at all.", "pos": 1034009}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "No, monsieur, I swear to you, by my hopes of salvation, I will tell you all, for the Abbé Busoni himself only knew a part of my secret; but, I pray you, go away from that plane-tree. The moon is just bursting through the clouds, and there, standing where you do, and wrapped in that cloak that conceals your figure, you remind me of M. de Villefort.", "pos": 1034136}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What! it was M. de Villefort?", "pos": 1034488}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Your excellency knows him?", "pos": 1034542}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The former royal attorney at Nîmes?", "pos": 1034571}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1034609}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Who married the Marquis of Saint-Méran’s daughter?", "pos": 1034616}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1034669}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Who enjoyed the reputation of being the most severe, the most upright, the most rigid magistrate on the bench?", "pos": 1034676}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Well, monsieur, this man with this spotless reputation——", "pos": 1034789}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well?", "pos": 1034866}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Was a villain.", "pos": 1034874}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Bah, impossible!", "pos": 1034891}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "It is as I tell you.", "pos": 1034934}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, really. Have you proof of this?", "pos": 1034957}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "I had it.", "pos": 1035016}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And you have lost it; how stupid!", "pos": 1035028}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Yes; but by careful search it might be recovered.", "pos": 1035064}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Really, relate it to me, for it begins to interest me.", "pos": 1035116}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "At what point shall I begin my story, your excellency?", "pos": 1035392}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Where you please, since I know nothing at all of it. I thought the Abbé Busoni had told your excellency. Some particulars, doubtless, but that is seven or eight years ago, and I have forgotten them.", "pos": 1035466}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Then I can speak without fear of tiring your excellency.", "pos": 1035696}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Go on, M. Bertuccio; you will supply the want of the evening papers.", "pos": 1035755}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "The story begins in 1815.", "pos": 1035826}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, 1815 is not yesterday.", "pos": 1035854}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "No, monsieur, and yet I recollect all things as clearly as if they had happened but then. I had a brother, an elder brother, who was in the service of the emperor; he had become lieutenant in a regiment composed entirely of Corsicans. This brother was my only friend; we became orphans—I at five, he at eighteen. He brought me up as if I had been his son, and in 1814 he married. When the emperor returned from the Island of Elba, my brother instantly joined the army, was slightly wounded at Waterloo, and retired with the army beyond the Loire.", "pos": 1035904}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But that is the history of the Hundred Days, M. Bertuccio, unless I am mistaken, it has been already written.", "pos": 1036453}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Excuse me, excellency, but these details are necessary, and you promised to be patient.", "pos": 1036583}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Go on; I will keep my word.", "pos": 1036673}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "One day we received a letter. I should tell you that we lived in the little village of Rogliano, at the extremity of Cap Corse. This letter was from my brother. He told us that the army was disbanded, and that he should return by Châteauroux, Clermont-Ferrand, Le Puy, and Nîmes; and, if I had any money, he prayed me to leave it for him at Nîmes, with an innkeeper with whom I had dealings.", "pos": 1036703}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In the smuggling line?", "pos": 1037097}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Eh, your excellency? Everyone must live.", "pos": 1037141}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly; go on.", "pos": 1037184}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "I loved my brother tenderly, as I told your excellency, and I resolved not to send the money, but to take it to him myself. I possessed a thousand francs. I left five hundred with Assunta, my sister-in-law, and with the other five hundred I set off for Nîmes. It was easy to do so, and as I had my boat and a lading to take in at sea, everything favored my project. But, after we had taken in our cargo, the wind became contrary, so that we were four or five days without being able to enter the Rhône. At last, however, we succeeded, and worked up to Arles. I left the boat between Bellegarde and Beaucaire, and took the road to Nîmes.", "pos": 1037204}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "We are getting to the story now?", "pos": 1037843}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Yes, your excellency; excuse me, but, as you will see, I only tell you what is absolutely necessary. Just at this time the famous massacres took place in the south of France. Three brigands, called Trestaillon, Truphemy, and Graffan, publicly assassinated everybody whom they suspected of Bonapartism. You have doubtless heard of these massacres, your excellency?", "pos": 1037878}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Vaguely; I was far from France at that period. Go on.", "pos": 1038244}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "As I entered Nîmes, I literally waded in blood; at every step you encountered dead bodies and bands of murderers, who killed, plundered, and burned. At the sight of this slaughter and devastation I became terrified, not for myself—for I, a simple Corsican fisherman, had nothing to fear; on the contrary, that time was most favorable for us smugglers—but for my brother, a soldier of the empire, returning from the army of the Loire, with his uniform and his epaulets, there was everything to apprehend. I hastened to the innkeeper. My misgivings had been but too true. My brother had arrived the previous evening at Nîmes, and, at the very door of the house where he was about to demand hospitality, he had been assassinated. I did all in my power to discover the murderers, but no one durst tell me their names, so much were they dreaded. I then thought of that French justice of which I had heard so much, and which feared nothing, and I went to the king’s attorney.", "pos": 1038300}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And this king’s attorney was named Villefort?", "pos": 1039272}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Yes, your excellency; he came from Marseilles, where he had been deputy procureur. His zeal had procured him advancement, and he was said to be one of the first who had informed the government of the departure from the Island of Elba.", "pos": 1039351}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then, you went to him?", "pos": 1039588}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Monsieur,’ I said, ‘my brother was assassinated yesterday in the streets of Nîmes, I know not by whom, but it is your duty to find out. You are the representative of justice here, and it is for justice to avenge those she has been unable to protect. ‘Who was your brother?’ asked he. A lieutenant in the Corsican battalion. A soldier of the usurper, then? A soldier of the French army. Well,’ replied he, ‘he has smitten with the sword, and he has perished by the sword. You are mistaken, monsieur,’ I replied; ‘he has perished by the poniard. ‘What do you want me to do?’ asked the magistrate. I have already told you—avenge him. On whom? On his murderers. How should I know who they are? Order them to be sought for. Why, your brother has been involved in a quarrel, and killed in a duel. All these old soldiers commit excesses which were tolerated in the time of the emperor, but which are not suffered now, for the people here do not like soldiers of such disorderly conduct. Monsieur,’ I replied, ‘it is not for myself that I entreat your interference—I should grieve for him or avenge him, but my poor brother had a wife, and were anything to happen to me, the poor creature would perish from want, for my brother’s pay alone kept her. Pray, try and obtain a small government pension for her. Every revolution has its catastrophes,’ returned M. de Villefort; ‘your brother has been the victim of this. It is a misfortune, and government owes nothing to his family. If we are to judge by all the vengeance that the followers of the usurper exercised on the partisans of the king, when, in their turn, they were in power, your brother would be today, in all probability, condemned to death. What has happened is quite natural, and in conformity with the law of reprisals. What,’ cried I, ‘do you, a magistrate, speak thus to me? All these Corsicans are mad, on my honor,’ replied M. de Villefort; ‘they fancy that their countryman is still emperor. You have mistaken the time, you should have told me this two months ago, it is too late now. Go now, at once, or I shall have you put out. I looked at him an instant to see if there was anything to hope from further entreaty. But he was a man of stone. I approached him, and said in a low voice, ‘Well, since you know the Corsicans so well, you know that they always keep their word. You think that it was a good deed to kill my brother, who was a Bonapartist, because you are a royalist. Well, I, who am a Bonapartist also, declare one thing to you, which is, that I will kill you. From this moment I declare the vendetta against you, so protect yourself as well as you can, for the next time we meet your last hour has come.’ And before he had recovered from his surprise, I opened the door and left the room.", "pos": 1039634}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, well, such an innocent looking person as you are to do those things, M. Bertuccio, and to a king’s attorney at that! But did he know what was meant by the terrible word ‘vendetta’?", "pos": 1042450}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "He knew so well, that from that moment he shut himself in his house, and never went out unattended, seeking me high and low. Fortunately, I was so well concealed that he could not find me. Then he became alarmed, and dared not stay any longer at Nîmes, so he solicited a change of residence, and, as he was in reality very influential, he was nominated to Versailles. But, as you know, a Corsican who has sworn to avenge himself cares not for distance, so his carriage, fast as it went, was never above half a day’s journey before me, who followed him on foot. The most important thing was, not to kill him only—for I had an opportunity of doing so a hundred times—but to kill him without being discovered—at least, without being arrested. I no longer belonged to myself, for I had my sister-in-law to protect and provide for. For three months I watched M. de Villefort, for three months he took not a step out-of-doors without my following him. At length I discovered that he went mysteriously to Auteuil. I followed him thither, and I saw him enter the house where we now are, only, instead of entering by the great door that looks into the street, he came on horseback, or in his carriage, left the one or the other at the little inn, and entered by the gate you see there.", "pos": 1042660}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "As I had nothing more to do at Versailles, I went to Auteuil, and gained all the information I could. If I wished to surprise him, it was evident this was the spot to lie in wait for him. The house belonged, as the concierge informed your excellency, to M. de Saint-Méran, Villefort’s father-in-law. M. de Saint-Méran lived at Marseilles, so that this country house was useless to him, and it was reported to be let to a young widow, known only by the name of ‘the Baroness.’", "pos": 1044062}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And, did you ever know the name of this woman?", "pos": 1045348}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "No, excellency, you will see that I had no time to learn it.", "pos": 1045416}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Go on.", "pos": 1045501}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "That evening. I could have killed the procureur, but as I was not sufficiently acquainted with the neighborhood, I was fearful of not killing him on the spot, and that if his cries were overheard I might be taken; so I put it off until the next occasion, and in order that nothing should escape me, I took a chamber looking into the street bordered by the wall of the garden. Three days after, about seven o’clock in the evening, I saw a servant on horseback leave the house at full gallop, and take the road to Sèvres. I concluded that he was going to Versailles, and I was not deceived. Three hours later, the man returned covered with dust, his errand was performed, and two minutes after, another man on foot, muffled in a mantle, opened the little door of the garden, which he closed after him. I descended rapidly; although I had not seen Villefort’s face, I recognized him by the beating of my heart. I crossed the street, and stopped at a post placed at the angle of the wall, and by means of which I had once before looked into the garden. This time I did not content myself with looking, but I took my knife out of my pocket, felt that the point was sharp, and sprang over the wall. My first care was to run to the door; he had left the key in it, taking the simple precaution of turning it twice in the lock. Nothing, then, preventing my escape by this means, I examined the grounds. The garden was long and narrow; a stretch of smooth turf extended down the middle, and at the corners were clumps of trees with thick and massy foliage, that made a background for the shrubs and flowers. In order to go from the door to the house, or from the house to the door, M. de Villefort would be obliged to pass by one of these clumps of trees. It was the end of September; the wind blew violently. The faint glimpses of the pale moon, hidden momentarily by masses of dark clouds that were sweeping across the sky, whitened the gravel walks that led to the house, but were unable to pierce the obscurity of the thick shrubberies, in which a man could conceal himself without any fear of discovery. I hid myself in the one nearest to the path Villefort must take, and scarcely was I there when, amidst the gusts of wind, I fancied I heard groans; but you know, or rather you do not know, your excellency, that he who is about to commit an assassination fancies that he hears low cries perpetually ringing in his ears. Two hours passed thus, during which I imagined I heard moans repeatedly. Midnight struck. As the last stroke died away, I saw a faint light shine through the windows of the private staircase by which we have just descended. The door opened, and the man in the mantle reappeared. The terrible moment had come, but I had so long been prepared for it that my heart did not fail in the least. I drew my knife from my pocket again, opened it, and made ready to strike. The man in the mantle advanced towards me, but as he drew near I saw that he had a weapon in his hand. I was afraid, not of a struggle, but of a failure. When he was only a few paces from me, I saw that what I had taken for a weapon was only a spade. I was still unable to divine for what reason M. de Villefort had this spade in his hands, when he stopped close to the thicket where I was, glanced round, and began to dig a hole in the earth. I then perceived that he was hiding something under his mantle, which he laid on the grass in order to dig more freely. Then, I confess, curiosity mingled with hatred; I wished to see what Villefort was going to do there, and I remained motionless, holding my breath. Then an idea crossed my mind, which was confirmed when I saw the procureur lift from under his mantle a box, two feet long, and six or eight inches deep. I let him place the box in the hole he had made, then, while he stamped with his feet to remove all traces of his occupation, I rushed on him and plunged my knife into his breast, exclaiming: I am Giovanni Bertuccio; thy death for my brother’s; thy treasure for his widow; thou seest that my vengeance is more complete than I had hoped.", "pos": 1045510}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, it seems to me this was nothing but murder and robbery.", "pos": 1050056}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "No, your excellency, it was a vendetta followed by restitution.", "pos": 1050138}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And was the sum a large one?", "pos": 1050226}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "It was not money.", "pos": 1050257}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, I recollect, did you not say something of an infant?", "pos": 1050277}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Yes, excellency; I hastened to the river, sat down on the bank, and with my knife forced open the lock of the box. In a fine linen cloth was wrapped a new-born child. Its purple visage, and its violet-colored hands showed that it had perished from suffocation, but as it was not yet cold, I hesitated to throw it into the water that ran at my feet. After a moment I fancied that I felt a slight pulsation of the heart, and as I had been assistant at the hospital at Bastia, I did what a doctor would have done—I inflated the lungs by blowing air into them, and at the expiration of a quarter of an hour, it began to breathe, and cried feebly. In my turn I uttered a cry, but a cry of joy. God has not cursed me then, since he permits me to save the life of a human creature, in exchange for the life I have taken away.", "pos": 1050357}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And what did you do with the child? It was an embarrassing load for a man seeking to escape.", "pos": 1051199}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "I had not for a moment the idea of keeping it, but I knew that at Paris there was an asylum where they receive such creatures. As I passed the city gates I declared that I had found the child on the road, and I inquired where the asylum was; the box confirmed my statement, the linen proved that the infant belonged to wealthy parents, the blood with which I was covered might have proceeded from the child as well as from anyone else. No objection was raised, but they pointed out the asylum, which was situated at the upper end of the Rue d’Enfer, and after having taken the precaution of cutting the linen in two pieces, so that one of the two letters which marked it was on the piece wrapped around the child, while the other remained in my possession, I rang the bell, and fled with all speed. A fortnight after I was at Rogliano, and I said to Assunta: Console thyself, sister; Israel is dead, but he is avenged. Giovanni, you should have brought this child with you; we would have replaced the parents it has lost, have called it Benedetto, and then, in consequence of this good action, God would have blessed us.", "pos": 1051316}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What letters were marked on the linen?", "pos": 1052609}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "An H and an N, surmounted by a baron’s coronet.", "pos": 1052669}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "By heaven, M. Bertuccio, you make use of heraldic terms; where did you study heraldry?", "pos": 1052719}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "In your service, excellency, where everything is learned.", "pos": 1052808}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Go on, I am curious to know two things.", "pos": 1052868}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "What are they, your excellency?", "pos": 1052910}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What became of this little boy? for I think you told me it was a boy, M. Bertuccio.", "pos": 1052944}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "No excellency, I do not recollect telling you that.", "pos": 1053030}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I thought you did; I must have been mistaken.", "pos": 1053084}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "No, you were not, for it was in reality a little boy. But your excellency wished to know two things; what was the second?", "pos": 1053132}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The second was the crime of which you were accused when you asked for a confessor, and the Abbé Busoni came to visit you at your request in the prison at Nîmes.", "pos": 1053256}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "The story will be very long, excellency.", "pos": 1053419}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What matter? you know I take but little sleep, and I do not suppose you are very much inclined for it either.", "pos": 1053462}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Partly to drown the recollections of the past that haunted me, partly to supply the wants of the poor widow, I eagerly returned to my trade of smuggler, which had become more easy since that relaxation of the laws which always follows a revolution. The southern districts were ill-watched in particular, in consequence of the disturbances that were perpetually breaking out in Avignon, Nîmes, or Uzès. We profited by this respite on the part of the government to make friends everywhere. Since my brother’s assassination in the streets of Nîmes, I had never entered the town; the result was that the innkeeper 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. We had thus, at Aigues-Mortes, Martigues, or Bouc, a dozen places where we left our goods, and where, in case of necessity, we concealed ourselves from the gendarmes and custom-house officers. Smuggling is a profitable trade, when a certain degree of vigor and intelligence is employed; as for myself, brought up in the mountains, I had a double motive for fearing the gendarmes and custom-house officers, as my appearance before the judges would cause an inquiry, and an inquiry always looks back into the past. And in my past life they might find something far more grave than the selling of smuggled cigars, or barrels of brandy without a permit. So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more than once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the success of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.", "pos": 1053614}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Philosophy, M. Bertuccio, you have done a little of everything in your life.", "pos": 1055617}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Oh, excellency!", "pos": 1055721}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, no; but philosophy at half-past ten at night is somewhat late; yet I have no other observation to make, for what you say is correct, which is more than can be said for all philosophy.", "pos": 1055739}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "My journeys became more and more extensive and more productive. Assunta took care of all, and our little fortune increased. One day as I was setting off on an expedition, ‘Go,’ said she; ‘at your return I will give you a surprise.’ I questioned her, but in vain; she would tell me nothing, and I departed. Our expedition lasted nearly six weeks; we had been to Lucca to take in oil, to Leghorn for English cottons, and we ran our cargo without opposition, and returned home full of joy. When I entered the house, the first thing I beheld in the middle of Assunta’s chamber was a cradle that might be called sumptuous compared with the rest of the furniture, and in it a baby seven or eight months old. I uttered a cry of joy; the only moments of sadness I had known since the assassination of the procureur were caused by the recollection that I had abandoned this child. For the assassination itself I had never felt any remorse. Poor Assunta had guessed all. She had profited by my absence, and furnished with the half of the linen, and having written down the day and hour at which I had deposited the child at the asylum, had set off for Paris, and had reclaimed it. No objection was raised, and the infant was given up to her. Ah, I confess, your excellency, when I saw this poor creature sleeping peacefully in its cradle, I felt my eyes filled with tears. ‘Ah, Assunta,’ cried I, ‘you are an excellent woman, and Heaven will bless you.’", "pos": 1055929}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "This, is less correct than your philosophy,—it is only faith.", "pos": 1057375}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Alas, your excellency is right, and God made this infant the instrument of our punishment. Never did a perverse nature declare itself more prematurely, and yet it was not owing to any fault in his bringing up. He was a most lovely child, with large blue eyes, of that deep color that harmonizes so well with the blond complexion; only his hair, which was too light, gave his face a most singular expression, and added to the vivacity of his look, and the malice of his smile. Unfortunately, there is a proverb which says that ‘red is either altogether good or altogether bad.’ The proverb was but too correct as regarded Benedetto, and even in his infancy he manifested the worst disposition. It is true that the indulgence of his foster-mother encouraged him. 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. One day, when Benedetto was about five or six, our neighbor Wasilio, who, according to the custom of the country, never locked up his purse or his valuables—for, as your excellency knows, there are no thieves in Corsica—complained that he had lost a louis out of his purse; we thought he must have made a mistake in counting his money, but he persisted in the accuracy of his statement. One day, Benedetto, who had been gone from the house since morning, to our great anxiety, did not return until late in the evening, dragging a monkey after him, which he said he had found chained to the foot of a tree. For more than a month past, the mischievous child, who knew not what to wish for, had taken it into his head to have a monkey. A boatman, who had passed by Rogliano, and who had several of these animals, whose tricks had greatly diverted him, had, doubtless, suggested this idea to him. ‘Monkeys are not found in our woods chained to trees,’ said I; ‘confess how you obtained this animal.’ Benedetto maintained the truth of what he had said, and accompanied it with details that did more honor to his imagination than to his veracity. I became angry; he began to laugh, I threatened to strike him, and he made two steps backwards. ‘You cannot beat me,’ said he; ‘you have no right, for you are not my father.’ We never knew who had revealed this fatal secret, which we had so carefully concealed from him; however, it was this answer, in which the child’s whole character revealed itself, that almost terrified me, and my arm fell without touching him. The boy triumphed, and this victory rendered him so audacious, that all the money of Assunta, whose affection for him seemed to increase as he became more unworthy of it, was spent in caprices she knew not how to contend against, and follies she had not the courage to prevent. When I was at Rogliano everything went on properly, but no sooner was my back turned than Benedetto became master, and everything went ill. When he was only eleven, he chose his companions from among the young men of eighteen or twenty, the worst characters in Bastia, or, indeed, in Corsica, and they had already, for some mischievous pranks, been several times threatened with a prosecution. I became alarmed, as any prosecution might be attended with serious consequences. I was compelled, at this period, to leave Corsica on an important expedition; I reflected for a long time, and with the hope of averting some impending misfortune, I resolved that Benedetto should accompany me. I hoped that the active and laborious life of a smuggler, with the severe discipline on board, would have a salutary effect on his character, which was now well-nigh, if not quite, corrupt. I spoke to Benedetto alone, and proposed to him to accompany me, endeavoring to tempt him by all the promises most likely to dazzle the imagination of a child of twelve. He heard me patiently, and when I had finished, burst out laughing. Are you mad, uncle? do you think I am going to change the life I lead for your mode of existence—my agreeable indolence for the hard and precarious toil you impose on yourself, exposed to the bitter frost at night, and the scorching heat by day, compelled to conceal yourself, and when you are perceived, receive a volley of bullets, all to earn a paltry sum? Why, I have as much money as I want; mother Assunta always furnishes me when I ask for it! You see that I should be a fool to accept your offer. The arguments, and his audacity, perfectly stupefied me. Benedetto rejoined his associates, and I saw him from a distance point me out to them as a fool.", "pos": 1057460}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Sweet child,", "pos": 1062278}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Oh, had he been my own son, or even my nephew, I would have brought him back to the right road, for the knowledge that you are doing your duty gives you strength, but the idea that I was striking a child whose father I had killed, made it impossible for me to punish him. I gave my sister, who constantly defended the unfortunate boy, good advice, and as she confessed that she had several times missed money to a considerable amount, I showed her a safe place in which to conceal our little treasure for the future. My mind was already made up. Benedetto could read, write, and cipher perfectly, for when the fit seized him, he learned more in a day than others in a week. My intention was to enter him as a clerk in some ship, and without letting him know anything of my plan, to convey him some morning on board; by this means his future treatment would depend upon his own conduct. I set off for France, after having fixed upon the plan. Our cargo was to be landed in the Gulf of Lyons, and this was a difficult thing to do because it was then the year 1829. The most perfect tranquillity was restored, and the vigilance of the custom-house officers was redoubled, and their strictness was increased at this time, in consequence of the fair at Beaucaire. Our expedition made a favorable beginning. We anchored our vessel—which had a double hold, where our goods were concealed—amidst a number of other vessels that bordered the banks of the Rhône from Beaucaire to Arles. On our arrival we began to discharge our cargo in the night, and to convey it into the town, by the help of the innkeeper with whom we were connected. Whether success rendered us imprudent, or whether we were betrayed, I know not; but one evening, about five o’clock, our little cabin-boy came breathlessly, to inform us that he had seen a detachment of custom-house officers advancing in our direction. It was not their proximity that alarmed us, for detachments were constantly patrolling along the banks of the Rhône, but the care, according to the boy’s account, that they took to avoid being seen. In an instant we were on the alert, but it was too late; our vessel was surrounded, and amongst the custom-house officers I observed several gendarmes, and, as terrified at the sight of their uniforms as I was brave at the sight of any other, I sprang into the hold, opened a port, and dropped into the river, dived, and only rose at intervals to breathe, until I reached a ditch that had recently been made from the Rhône to the canal that runs from Beaucaire to Aigues-Mortes. I was now safe, for I could swim along the ditch without being seen, and I reached the canal in safety. I had designedly taken this direction. I have already told your excellency of an innkeeper from Nîmes who had set up a little tavern on the road from Bellegarde to Beaucaire.", "pos": 1062316}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes. I perfectly recollect him; I think he was your colleague.", "pos": 1065185}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Precisely, but he had, seven or eight years before this period, sold his establishment to a tailor at Marseilles, who, having almost ruined himself in his old trade, wished to make his fortune in another. Of course, we made the same arrangements with the new landlord that we had with the old; and it was of this man that I intended to ask shelter.", "pos": 1065270}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What was his name?", "pos": 1065643}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Gaspard Caderousse; he had married a woman from the village of Carconte, and whom we did not know by any other name than that of her village. She was suffering from malarial fever, and seemed dying by inches. As for her husband, he was a strapping fellow of forty, or five-and-forty, who had more than once, in time of danger, given ample proof of his presence of mind and courage.", "pos": 1065747}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "that this took place towards the year——", "pos": 1066171}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "1829, your excellency.", "pos": 1066213}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In what month?", "pos": 1066238}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "June.", "pos": 1066255}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The beginning or the end?", "pos": 1066263}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "The evening of the 3rd.", "pos": 1066291}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, the evening of the 3rd of June, 1829. Go on.", "pos": 1066324}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "It was from Caderousse that I intended demanding shelter, and, as we never entered by the door that opened onto the road, I resolved not to break through the rule, so climbing over the garden-hedge, I crept amongst the olive and wild fig trees, and fearing that Caderousse might have some guest, I entered a kind of shed in which I had often passed the night, and which was only separated from the inn by a partition, in which holes had been made in order to enable us to watch an opportunity of announcing our presence. My intention was, if Caderousse was alone, to acquaint him with my presence, finish the meal the custom-house officers had interrupted, and profit by the threatened storm to return to the Rhône, and ascertain the state of our vessel and its crew. I stepped into the shed, and it was fortunate I did so, for at that moment Caderousse entered with a stranger.", "pos": 1066395}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Hello, Carconte, the worthy priest has not deceived us; the diamond is real. What do you say? I say that the diamond is real, and that this gentleman, one of the first jewellers of Paris, will give us 50,000 francs for it. Only, in order to satisfy himself that it really belongs to us, he wishes you to relate to him, as I have done already, the miraculous manner in which the diamond came into our possession. In the meantime please to sit down, monsieur, and I will fetch you some refreshment. Relate your story, madame. Oh, it was a gift of heaven. My husband was a great friend, in 1814 or 1815, of a sailor named Edmond Dantès. This poor fellow, whom Caderousse had forgotten, had not forgotten him, and at his death he bequeathed this diamond to him. But how did he obtain it? had he it before he was imprisoned? No, monsieur; but it appears that in prison he made the acquaintance of a rich Englishman, and as in prison he fell sick, and Dantès took the same care of him as if he had been his brother, the Englishman, when he was set free, gave this stone to Dantès, who, less fortunate, died, and, in his turn, left it to us, and charged the excellent abbé, who was here this morning, to deliver it. The same story, and improbable as it seemed at first, it may be true. There’s only the price we are not agreed about. How not agreed about? I thought we agreed for the price I asked. That is. I offered 40,000 francs. Forty thousand, we will not part with it for that sum. The abbé told us it was worth 50,000 without the setting. The Abbé Busoni. He was a foreigner? An Italian from the neighborhood of Mantua, I believe. Let me see this diamond again, the first time you are often mistaken as to the value of a stone.", "pos": 1067910}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And what did you think of this fine story, eavesdropper? did you credit it?", "pos": 1070601}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Yes, your excellency. I did not look on Caderousse as a bad man, and I thought him incapable of committing a crime, or even a theft.", "pos": 1070700}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That did more honor to your heart than to your experience, M. Bertuccio. Had you known this Edmond Dantès, of whom they spoke?", "pos": 1070835}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "No, your excellency, I had never heard of him before, and never but once afterwards, and that was from the Abbé Busoni himself, when I saw him in the prison at Nîmes.", "pos": 1070964}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Go on.", "pos": 1071133}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "The jeweller took the ring, and drawing from his pocket a pair of steel pliers and a small set of copper scales, he took the stone out of its setting, and weighed it carefully. I will give you 45,000, but not a sou more; besides, as that is the exact value of the stone, I brought just that sum with me. Oh, that’s no matter. I will go back with you to fetch the other 5,000 francs. No, no, it is worth no more, and I am sorry I offered so much, for the stone has a flaw in it, which I had not seen. However, I will not go back on my word, and I will give 45,000. At least, replace the diamond in the ring. Ah, true. No matter, someone else will purchase it. Yes, but someone else will not be so easy as I am, or content himself with the same story. It is not natural that a man like you should possess such a diamond. He will inform against you. You will have to find the Abbé Busoni; and abbés who give diamonds worth two thousand louis are rare. The law would seize it, and put you in prison; if at the end of three or four months you are set at liberty, the ring will be lost, or a false stone, worth three francs, will be given you, instead of a diamond worth 50,000 or perhaps 55,000 francs; from which you must allow that one runs considerable risk in purchasing. No, we are not rich enough to lose 5,000 francs. As you please, my dear sir. I had, however, as you see, brought you the money in bright coin. What do you think of this? Let him have it—let him have it. If he returns to Beaucaire without the diamond, he will inform against us, and, as he says, who knows if we shall ever again see the Abbé Busoni?—in all probability we shall never see him. Well, then, so I will! so you may have the diamond for 45,000 francs. But my wife wants a gold chain, and I want a pair of silver buckles. Here. I am very straightforward in my dealings—take your choice. I hope you will not complain now? The abbé told me it was worth 50,000 francs. Come, come—give it to me! What a strange fellow you are. I give you 45,000 francs—that is, 2,500 livres of income,—a fortune such as I wish I had myself, and you are not satisfied! And the five-and-forty thousand francs, where are they? Come—let us see them. Here they are. Wait whilst I light the lamp, it is growing dark, and there may be some mistake.", "pos": 1071142}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Well, is the cash all right? Yes. Give me the pocket-book, La Carconte, and find a bag somewhere. There, and now, although you have wronged us of perhaps 10,000 francs, will you have your supper with us? I invite you with good-will. Thank you, it must be getting late, and I must return to Beaucaire—my wife will be getting uneasy. Morbleu! nearly nine o’clock—why, I shall not get back to Beaucaire before midnight! Good-night, my friends. If the Abbé Busoni should by any accident return, think of me. In another week you will have left Beaucaire, for the fair ends in a few days. True, but that makes no difference. Write to me at Paris, to M. Joannes, in the Palais Royal, arcade Pierre, No. 45. I will make the journey on purpose to see him, if it is worth while. See here. You cannot think of going out in such weather as this. Oh, I am not afraid of thunder. And then there are robbers. The road is never very safe during fair time. Oh, as to the robbers, here is something for them, are dogs who bark and bite at the same time, they are for the two first who shall have a longing for your diamond, Friend Caderousse. Well, then, a good journey to you. Thanks, this is very nice weather, and two leagues to go in such a storm. Remain. Yes; do stay, we will take every care of you. No; I must sleep at Beaucaire. So, once more, good-night. I can see neither heaven nor earth. Do I turn to the right, or to the left hand? To the right. You cannot go wrong—the road is bordered by trees on both sides. Good—all right. Close the door. I do not like open doors when it thunders. Particularly when there is money in the house, eh? He came into the room, went to the cupboard, took out the bag and pocket-book, and both began, for the third time, to count their gold and bank-notes. I never saw such an expression of cupidity as the flickering lamp revealed in those two countenances. The woman, especially, was hideous; her usual feverish tremulousness was intensified, her countenance had become livid, and her eyes resembled burning coals. Why, did you invite him to sleep here tonight? Why? why, that he might not have the trouble of returning to Beaucaire. Ah. I thought it was for something else. Woman, woman—why do you have such ideas? or, if you have them, why don’t you keep them to yourself? Well, you are not a man. What do you mean? If you had been a man, you would not have let him go from here. Woman! Or else he should not have reached Beaucaire. Woman!", "pos": 1075727}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "The road takes a turn—he is obliged to follow it—while alongside of the canal there is a shorter road.", "pos": 1079998}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Woman!—you offend the good God. There—listen! Mercy! Who’s there?", "pos": 1080104}
{"speaker": "Joannes", "text": "It is I,", "pos": 1080768}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "And who are you?", "pos": 1080797}
{"speaker": "Joannes", "text": "Eh, pardieu! Joannes, the jeweller.", "pos": 1080817}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "Well, and you said I offended the good God. Why, the good God sends him back again. Come in, dear M. Joannes.", "pos": 1080856}
{"speaker": "Joannes", "text": "Ma foi. I am not destined to return to Beaucaire tonight. The shortest follies are best, my dear Caderousse. You offered me hospitality, and I accept it, and have returned to sleep beneath your friendly roof.", "pos": 1081180}
{"speaker": "Joannes", "text": "Well, well, you seem, my good friends, to have had some fears respecting the accuracy of your money, by counting it over so carefully directly I was gone.", "pos": 1081961}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Oh, no, that was not my reason, I can assure you; but the circumstances by which we have become possessed of this wealth are so unexpected, as to make us scarcely credit our good fortune, and it is only by placing the actual proof of our riches before our eyes that we can persuade ourselves that the whole affair is not a dream.", "pos": 1082140}
{"speaker": "Joannes", "text": "Have you any other guests in your house?", "pos": 1082517}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Nobody but ourselves, the fact is, we do not lodge travellers—indeed, our tavern is so near the town, that nobody would think of stopping here.", "pos": 1082574}
{"speaker": "Joannes", "text": "Then I am afraid I shall very much inconvenience you.", "pos": 1082743}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "Inconvenience us? Not at all, my dear sir. Not at all, I assure you.", "pos": 1082800}
{"speaker": "Joannes", "text": "But where will you manage to stow me?", "pos": 1082920}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "In the chamber overhead.", "pos": 1082961}
{"speaker": "Joannes", "text": "Surely that is where you yourselves sleep?", "pos": 1082989}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "Never mind that; we have a second bed in the adjoining room.", "pos": 1083035}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "There, supper is ready whenever you are.", "pos": 1083957}
{"speaker": "Joannes", "text": "And you?", "pos": 1084066}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I don’t want any supper,", "pos": 1084093}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "We dined so very late,", "pos": 1084138}
{"speaker": "Joannes", "text": "Then it seems I am to eat alone,", "pos": 1084196}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "Oh, we shall have the pleasure of waiting upon you. There, there, do you hear that? upon my word, you did well to come back.", "pos": 1084255}
{"speaker": "Joannes", "text": "Nevertheless, if by the time I have finished my supper the tempest has at all abated, I shall make another start.", "pos": 1084666}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "It’s the mistral, and it will be sure to last till tomorrow morning.", "pos": 1084807}
{"speaker": "Joannes", "text": "Well, all I can say is, so much the worse for those who are abroad.", "pos": 1084917}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "Yes, they will have a wretched night of it.", "pos": 1085040}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I believe the storm is over,", "pos": 1085747}
{"speaker": "La Carconte", "text": "You must be tired. I have spread a pair of white sheets on your bed; go up when you are ready, and sleep well.", "pos": 1086188}
{"speaker": "A gendarme", "text": "What does he mean?", "pos": 1093676}
{"speaker": "the man", "text": "He means, that he got in that way;", "pos": 1093767}
{"speaker": "Narrator", "text": "I did not do it! Indeed, indeed I did not!", "pos": 1094066}
{"speaker": "gendarmes", "text": "Stir but a step, and you are a dead man.", "pos": 1094189}
{"speaker": "Narrator", "text": "Why should you threaten me with death, when I have already declared my innocence?", "pos": 1094246}
{"speaker": "The men", "text": "Tush, tush, keep your innocent stories to tell to the judge at Nîmes. Meanwhile, come along with us; and the best advice we can give you is to do so unresistingly.", "pos": 1094342}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "In the interim it pleased Providence to cause the apprehension of Caderousse, who was discovered in some distant country, and brought back to France, where he made a full confession, refusing to make the fact of his wife’s having suggested and arranged the murder any excuse for his own guilt. The wretched man was sentenced to the galleys for life, and I was immediately set at liberty.", "pos": 1097819}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And then it was, I presume, that you came to me as the bearer of a letter from the Abbé Busoni?", "pos": 1098209}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "It was, your excellency; the benevolent abbé took an evident interest in all that concerned me.", "pos": 1098327}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Your mode of life as a smuggler, will be the ruin of you; if you get out, don’t take it up again.", "pos": 1098425}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "But how, am I to maintain myself and my poor sister?", "pos": 1098551}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A person, whose confessor I am,", "pos": 1098621}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and who entertains a high regard for me, applied to me a short time since to procure him a confidential servant. Would you like such a post? If so, I will give you a letter of introduction to him.", "pos": 1098667}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, father,", "pos": 1098867}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I exclaimed, you are very good.", "pos": 1098880}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But you must swear solemnly that I shall never have reason to repent my recommendation.", "pos": 1098916}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is unnecessary for you to bind yourself by any vow,", "pos": 1099111}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I know and admire the Corsican nature too well to fear you. Here, take this,", "pos": 1099177}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No,", "pos": 1099495}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I take pleasure in saying that you have served me faithfully, Bertuccio; but you might have shown more confidence in me.", "pos": 1099520}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I, your excellency? Yes; you. How comes it, that having both a sister and an adopted son, you have never spoken to me of either?", "pos": 1099643}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Alas, I have still to recount the most distressing period of my life. Anxious as you may suppose I was to behold and comfort my dear sister, I lost no time in hastening to Corsica, but when I arrived at Rogliano I found a house of mourning, the consequences of a scene so horrible that the neighbors remember and speak of it to this day. Acting by my advice, my poor sister had refused to comply with the unreasonable demands of Benedetto, who was continually tormenting her for money, as long as he believed there was a sou left in her possession. One morning he threatened her with the severest consequences if she did not supply him with what he desired, and disappeared and remained away all day, leaving the kind-hearted Assunta, who loved him as if he were her own child, to weep over his conduct and bewail his absence. Evening came, and still, with all the patient solicitude of a mother, she watched for his return.", "pos": 1099783}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As the eleventh hour struck, he entered with a swaggering air, attended by two of the most dissolute and reckless of his boon companions. She stretched out her arms to him, but they seized hold of her, and one of the three—none other than the accursed Benedetto exclaimed:", "pos": 1100709}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Put her to torture and she’ll soon tell us where her money is.", "pos": 1100984}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It was subsequently to these dreadful events that I waited on your excellency, to whom it would have been folly to have mentioned Benedetto, since all trace of him seemed entirely lost; or of my sister, since she was dead.", "pos": 1102530}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And in what light did you view the occurrence?", "pos": 1102755}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "As a punishment for the crime I had committed. Oh, those Villeforts are an accursed race!", "pos": 1102827}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Truly they are,", "pos": 1102941}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "your excellency may, perhaps, be able to comprehend that this place, which I revisit for the first time—this garden, the actual scene of my crime—must have given rise to reflections of no very agreeable nature, and produced that gloom and depression of spirits which excited the notice of your excellency, who was pleased to express a desire to know the cause. At this instant a shudder passes over me as I reflect that possibly I am now standing on the very grave in which lies M. de Villefort, by whose hand the ground was dug to receive the corpse of his child.", "pos": 1103030}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Everything is possible, even, even that the procureur be not dead. The Abbé Busoni did right to send you to me, and you have done well in relating to me the whole of your history, as it will prevent my forming any erroneous opinions concerning you in future. As for that Benedetto, who so grossly belied his name, have you never made any effort to trace out whither he has gone, or what has become of him?", "pos": 1103597}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "No; far from wishing to learn whither he has betaken himself, I should shun the possibility of meeting him as I would a wild beast. Thank God, I have never heard his name mentioned by any person, and I hope and believe he is dead.", "pos": 1104147}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do not think so, Bertuccio, for the wicked are not so easily disposed of, for God seems to have them under his special watch-care to make of them instruments of his vengeance.", "pos": 1104380}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "So be it, all I ask of heaven is that I may never see him again. And now, your excellency, you know everything—you are my judge on earth, as the Almighty is in heaven; have you for me no words of consolation?", "pos": 1104579}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My good friend, I can only repeat the words addressed to you by the Abbé Busoni. Villefort merited punishment for what he had done to you, and, perhaps, to others. Benedetto, if still living, will become the instrument of divine retribution in some way or other, and then be duly punished in his turn. As far as you yourself are concerned, I see but one point in which you are really guilty. Ask yourself, wherefore, after rescuing the infant from its living grave, you did not restore it to its mother? There was the crime, Bertuccio—that was where you became really culpable.", "pos": 1104842}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "True, excellency, that was the crime, the real crime, for in that I acted like a coward. My first duty, directly I had succeeded in recalling the babe to life, was to restore it to its mother; but, in order to do so, I must have made close and careful inquiry, which would, in all probability, have led to my own apprehension; and I clung to life, partly on my sister’s account, and partly from that feeling of pride inborn in our hearts of desiring to come off untouched and victorious in the execution of our vengeance. Perhaps, too, the natural and instinctive love of life made me wish to avoid endangering my own. And then, again, I am not as brave and courageous as was my poor brother.", "pos": 1105422}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In order to bring this conversation to a fitting termination (the last we shall ever hold upon this subject), I will repeat to you some words I have heard from the lips of the Abbé Busoni. For all evils there are two remedies—time and silence. And now leave me, Monsieur Bertuccio, to walk alone here in the garden. The very circumstances which inflict on you, as a principal in the tragic scene enacted here, such painful emotions, are to me, on the contrary, a source of something like contentment, and serve but to enhance the value of this dwelling in my estimation. The chief beauty of trees consists in the deep shadow of their umbrageous boughs, while fancy pictures a moving multitude of shapes and forms flitting and passing beneath that shade. Here I have a garden laid out in such a way as to afford the fullest scope for the imagination, and furnished with thickly grown trees, beneath whose leafy screen a visionary like myself may conjure up phantoms at will. This to me, who expected but to find a blank enclosure surrounded by a straight wall, is, I assure you, a most agreeable surprise. I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during six thousand years as is wrought by the living in a single day. Retire within, Bertuccio, and tranquillize your mind. Should your confessor be less indulgent to you in your dying moments than you found the Abbé Busoni, send for me, if I am still on earth, and I will soothe your ears with words that shall effectually calm and soothe your parting soul ere it goes forth to traverse the ocean called eternity. Here, beneath this plane-tree, must have been where the infant’s grave was dug. There is the little door opening into the garden. At this corner is the private staircase communicating with the sleeping apartment. There will be no necessity for me to make a note of these particulars, for there, before my eyes, beneath my feet, all around me, I have the plan sketched with all the living reality of truth.", "pos": 1106388}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is half-past eleven o’clock; Haydée will soon be here. Have the French attendants been summoned to await her coming? I understand, you mean to tell me that three female attendants await their new mistress in her sleeping-chamber. Madame will be tired tonight, and will, no doubt, wish to rest. Desire the French attendants not to weary her with questions, but merely to pay their respectful duty and retire. You will also see that the Greek servants hold no communication with those of this country.", "pos": 1109480}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That fellow has a decidedly bad countenance. How comes it that all do not retreat in aversion at sight of that flat, receding, serpent-like forehead, round, vulture-shaped head, and sharp-hooked nose, like the beak of a buzzard? Ali. Summon Bertuccio,", "pos": 1114926}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Did your excellency desire to see me?", "pos": 1115404}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I did. You no doubt observed the horses standing a few minutes since at the door?", "pos": 1115457}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Certainly, your excellency. I noticed them for their remarkable beauty.", "pos": 1115562}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then how comes it, that, when I desired you to purchase for me the finest pair of horses to be found in Paris, there is another pair, fully as fine as mine, not in my stables? It is not your fault, my good Ali, it is not your fault. You do not understand the points of English horses.", "pos": 1115636}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Permit me to assure your excellency, that the horses you speak of were not to be sold when I purchased yours.", "pos": 1116263}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It seems, sir steward, that you have yet to learn that all things are to be sold to such as care to pay the price.", "pos": 1116430}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "His excellency is not, perhaps, aware that M. Danglars gave 16,000 francs for his horses?", "pos": 1116558}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Very well. Then offer him double that sum; a banker never loses an opportunity of doubling his capital.", "pos": 1116650}
{"speaker": "the steward", "text": "Is your excellency really in earnest?", "pos": 1116756}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have to pay a visit this evening. I desire that these horses, with completely new harness, may be at the door with my carriage.", "pos": 1116943}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "At what o’clock does your excellency wish the carriage and horses to be ready?”", "pos": 1117187}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "At five o’clock,” replied the count.", "pos": 1117268}
{"speaker": "Baptistin", "text": "Oh, your excellency!”", "pos": 1118212}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Listen, if you please, till I have finished speaking,” replied Monte Cristo. “You receive 1,500 francs per annum for your services here—more than many a brave subaltern, who continually risks his life for his country, obtains. You live in a manner far superior to many clerks who work ten times harder than you do for their money. Then, though yourself a servant, you have other servants to wait upon you, take care of your clothes, and see that your linen is duly prepared for you. Again, you make a profit upon each article you purchase for my toilet, amounting in the course of a year to a sum equalling your wages.”", "pos": 1118264}
{"speaker": "Baptistin", "text": "Nay, indeed, your excellency.”", "pos": 1118885}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am not condemning you for this, Monsieur Baptistin; but let your profits end here. It would be long indeed ere you would find so lucrative a post as that you have now the good fortune to fill. I neither ill-use nor ill-treat my servants by word or action. An error I readily forgive, but wilful negligence or forgetfulness, never. My commands are ordinarily short, clear, and precise; and I would rather be obliged to repeat my words twice, or even three times, than they should be misunderstood. I am rich enough to know whatever I desire to know, and I can promise you I am not wanting in curiosity. If, then, I should learn that you had taken upon yourself to speak of me to anyone favorably or unfavorably, to comment on my actions, or watch my conduct, that very instant you would quit my service. You may now retire. I never caution my servants a second time—remember that.” that I lay yearly aside a certain sum for each servant in my establishment; those whom I am compelled to dismiss lose (as a matter of course) all participation in this money, while their portion goes to the fund accumulating for those domestics who remain with me, and among whom it will be divided at my death. You have been in my service a year, your fund has already begun to accumulate—let it continue to do so.”", "pos": 1118917}
{"speaker": "Baptistin", "text": "I assure your excellency, that at least it shall be my study to merit your approbation in all things, and I will take M. Ali as my model.”", "pos": 1120602}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "By no means,” replied the count in the most frigid tones; “Ali has many faults mixed with most excellent qualities. He cannot possibly serve you as a pattern for your conduct, not being, as you are, a paid servant, but a mere slave—a dog, who, should he fail in his duty towards me, I should not discharge from my service, but kill.” You seem incredulous,” said Monte Cristo, who repeated to Ali in the Arabic language what he had just been saying to Baptistin in French.", "pos": 1120753}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "They are at the door harnessed to the carriage as your excellency desired. Does your excellency wish me to accompany him?” No, the coachman, Ali, and Baptistin will go.” They are extremely handsome certainly, and you have done well to purchase them, although you were somewhat remiss not to have procured them sooner.” Indeed, your excellency, I had very considerable difficulty in obtaining them, and, as it is, they have cost an enormous price.” inquired the count, shrugging his shoulders.” Nay, if your excellency is satisfied, it is all that I could wish. Whither does your excellency desire to be driven?” To the residence of Baron Danglars, Rue de la Chaussée d’Antin.”", "pos": 1121884}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Certainly, your excellency; I saw her put to sea the same evening we quitted Marseilles.” Was ordered to remain at Martigues.” She is at Châlons?” Yes.” Your excellency may depend upon me.”", "pos": 1123787}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Gentlemen, pardon me for leaving you so abruptly; but a most ridiculous circumstance has occurred, which is this,—Thomson & French, the Roman bankers, have sent to me a certain person calling himself the Count of Monte Cristo, and have given him an unlimited credit with me. I confess this is the drollest thing I have ever met with in the course of my extensive foreign transactions, and you may readily suppose it has greatly roused my curiosity. I took the trouble this morning to call on the pretended count—if he were a real count he wouldn’t be so rich. But, would you believe it, ‘He was not receiving.’ So the master of Monte Cristo gives himself airs befitting a great millionaire or a capricious beauty. I made inquiries, and found that the house in the Champs-Élysées is his own property, and certainly it was very decently kept up. But,” pursued Danglars with one of his sinister smiles, “an order for unlimited credit calls for something like caution on the part of the banker to whom that order is given. I am very anxious to see this man. I suspect a hoax is intended, but the instigators of it little knew whom they had to deal with. ‘They laugh best who laugh last!’”", "pos": 1124805}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have the honor, I presume, of addressing M. de Monte Cristo.” And I of speaking to Baron Danglars, chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and member of the Chamber of Deputies?”", "pos": 1126966}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "You will, I trust, excuse me, monsieur, for not calling you by your title when I first addressed you,” he said, “but you are aware that we are living under a popular form of government, and that I am myself a representative of the liberties of the people.”", "pos": 1127279}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So much so,” replied Monte Cristo, “that while you call yourself baron you are not willing to call anybody else count.”", "pos": 1127537}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Upon my word, monsieur,” said Danglars with affected carelessness, “I attach no sort of value to such empty distinctions; but the fact is, I was made baron, and also chevalier of the Legion of Honor, in return for services rendered, but——”", "pos": 1127658}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But you have discarded your titles after the example set you by Messrs. de Montmorency and Lafayette? That was a noble example to follow, monsieur.”", "pos": 1127899}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Why,” replied Danglars, “not entirely so; with the servants,—you understand.”", "pos": 1128049}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I see; to your domestics you are ‘my lord,’ the journalists style you ‘monsieur,’ while your constituents call you ‘citizen.’ These are distinctions very suitable under a constitutional government. I understand perfectly.”", "pos": 1128128}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Permit me to inform you, Count,” said he, bowing, “that I have received a letter of advice from Thomson & French, of Rome.”", "pos": 1128517}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am glad to hear it, baron,—for I must claim the privilege of addressing you after the manner of your servants. I have acquired the bad habit of calling persons by their titles from living in a country where barons are still barons by right of birth. But as regards the letter of advice, I am charmed to find that it has reached you; that will spare me the troublesome and disagreeable task of coming to you for money myself. You have received a regular letter of advice?”", "pos": 1128642}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes,” said Danglars, “but I confess I didn’t quite comprehend its meaning.”", "pos": 1129117}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Indeed?”", "pos": 1129194}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "And for that reason I did myself the honor of calling upon you, in order to beg for an explanation.”", "pos": 1129204}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Go on, monsieur. Here I am, ready to give you any explanation you desire.”", "pos": 1129306}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Why,” said Danglars, “in the letter—I believe I have it about me”—here he felt in his breast-pocket—“yes, here it is. Well, this letter gives the Count of Monte Cristo unlimited credit on our house.”", "pos": 1129382}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, baron, what is there difficult to understand about that?”", "pos": 1129583}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Merely the term unlimited—nothing else, certainly.”", "pos": 1129648}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Is not that word known in France? The people who wrote are Anglo-Germans, you know.”", "pos": 1129701}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, as for the composition of the letter, there is nothing to be said; but as regards the competency of the document, I certainly have doubts.”", "pos": 1129787}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Is it possible?” asked the count, assuming all air and tone of the utmost simplicity and candor. “Is it possible that Thomson & French are not looked upon as safe and solvent bankers? Pray tell me what you think, baron, for I feel uneasy, I can assure you, having some considerable property in their hands.”", "pos": 1129932}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Thomson & French are perfectly solvent,” replied Danglars, with an almost mocking smile; “but the word unlimited, in financial affairs, is so extremely vague.”", "pos": 1130241}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Is, in fact, unlimited,” said Monte Cristo.”", "pos": 1130402}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Precisely what I was about to say,” cried Danglars. “Now what is vague is doubtful; and it was a wise man who said, ‘when in doubt, keep out.’”", "pos": 1130447}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Meaning to say,” rejoined Monte Cristo, “that however Thomson & French may be inclined to commit acts of imprudence and folly, the Baron Danglars is not disposed to follow their example.”", "pos": 1130592}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Not at all.”", "pos": 1130781}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Plainly enough; Messrs. Thomson & French set no bounds to their engagements while those of M. Danglars have their limits; he is a wise man, according to his own showing.”", "pos": 1130795}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Monsieur,” replied the banker, drawing himself up with a haughty air, “the extent of my resources has never yet been questioned.”", "pos": 1130967}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It seems, then, reserved for me,” said Monte Cristo coldly, “to be the first to do so.”", "pos": 1131098}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "By what right, sir?”", "pos": 1131187}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "By right of the objections you have raised, and the explanations you have demanded, which certainly must have some motive.”", "pos": 1131209}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Well, sir,” resumed Danglars, after a brief silence, “I will endeavor to make myself understood, by requesting you to inform me for what sum you propose to draw upon me?”", "pos": 1131704}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why, truly,” replied Monte Cristo, determined not to lose an inch of the ground he had gained, “my reason for desiring an ‘unlimited’ credit was precisely because I did not know how much money I might need.”", "pos": 1131876}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Let me beg of you not to hesitate in naming your wishes; you will then be convinced that the resources of the house of Danglars, however limited, are still equal to meeting the largest demands; and were you even to require a million——”", "pos": 1132243}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I beg your pardon,” interposed Monte Cristo.", "pos": 1132480}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I said a million,” replied Danglars, with the confidence of ignorance.”", "pos": 1132526}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But could I do with a million?” retorted the count. “My dear sir, if a trifle like that could suffice me, I should never have given myself the trouble of opening an account. A million? Excuse my smiling when you speak of a sum I am in the habit of carrying in my pocket-book or dressing-case.” Come, come,” said Monte Cristo, “confess honestly that you have not perfect confidence in Thomson & French. I understand, and foreseeing that such might be the case, I took, in spite of my ignorance of affairs, certain precautions. See, here are two similar letters to that you have yourself received; one from the house of Arstein & Eskeles of Vienna, to Baron Rothschild, the other drawn by Baring of London, upon M. Lafitte. Now, sir, you have but to say the word, and I will spare you all uneasiness by presenting my letter of credit to one or other of these two firms.”", "pos": 1132598}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, sir, three letters of unlimited credit! I can be no longer mistrustful, but you must pardon me, my dear count, for confessing to some degree of astonishment.", "pos": 1134263}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Nay, ’tis not for such trifling sums as these that your banking house is to be incommoded. Then, you can let me have some money, can you not?", "pos": 1134601}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Whatever you say, my dear count; I am at your orders.", "pos": 1134801}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why, since we mutually understand each other—for such I presume is the case? You are quite sure that not a lurking doubt or suspicion lingers in your mind?", "pos": 1134857}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, my dear count. I never for an instant entertained such a feeling towards you.", "pos": 1135069}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, you merely wished to be convinced, nothing more; but now that we have come to so clear an understanding, and that all distrust and suspicion are laid at rest, we may as well fix a sum as the probable expenditure of the first year, suppose we say six millions to——", "pos": 1135175}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Six millions! so be it.", "pos": 1135445}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then, if I should require more, why, of course, I should draw upon you; but my present intention is not to remain in France more than a year, and during that period I scarcely think I shall exceed the sum I mentioned. However, we shall see. Be kind enough, then, to send me 500,000 francs tomorrow. I shall be at home till midday, or if not, I will leave a receipt with my steward.", "pos": 1135489}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "The money you desire shall be at your house by ten o’clock tomorrow morning, my dear count. How would you like to have it? in gold, silver, or notes?", "pos": 1135920}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Half in gold, and the other half in bank-notes, if you please,", "pos": 1136092}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I must confess to you, count, that I have hitherto imagined myself acquainted with the degree of all the great fortunes of Europe, and still wealth such as yours has been wholly unknown to me. May I presume to ask whether you have long possessed it?", "pos": 1136195}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It has been in the family a very long while, a sort of treasure expressly forbidden to be touched for a certain period of years, during which the accumulated interest has doubled the capital. The period appointed by the testator for the disposal of these riches occurred only a short time ago, and they have only been employed by me within the last few years. Your ignorance on the subject, therefore, is easily accounted for. However, you will be better informed as to me and my possessions ere long.", "pos": 1136464}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "With your tastes, and means of gratifying them, you will exhibit a splendor that must effectually put us poor miserable millionaires quite in the shade. If I mistake not you are an admirer of paintings, at least I judged so from the attention you appeared to be bestowing on mine when I entered the room. If you will permit me, I shall be happy to show you my picture gallery, composed entirely of works by the ancient masters—warranted as such. Not a modern picture among them. I cannot endure the modern school of painting.", "pos": 1137149}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are perfectly right in objecting to them, for this one great fault—that they have not yet had time to become old.", "pos": 1137699}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Or will you allow me to show you several fine statues by Thorwaldsen, Bartoloni, and Canova?—all foreign artists, for, as you may perceive, I think but very indifferently of our French sculptors.", "pos": 1137819}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You have a right to be unjust to them, monsieur; they are your compatriots.", "pos": 1138017}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "But all this may come later, when we shall be better known to each other. For the present, I will confine myself (if perfectly agreeable to you) to introducing you to the Baroness Danglars—excuse my impatience, my dear count, but a client like you is almost like a member of the family. Is the baroness at home?", "pos": 1138095}
{"speaker": "Servant", "text": "Yes, my lord,", "pos": 1138559}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "And alone?", "pos": 1138593}
{"speaker": "Servant", "text": "No, my lord, madame has visitors.", "pos": 1138606}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, indeed. I do not arrogate to myself the right of so doing.", "pos": 1138760}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "M. Lucien Debray is an old friend of ours, and private secretary to the Minister of the Interior. As for my wife, I must tell you, she lowered herself by marrying me, for she belongs to one of the most ancient families in France. Her maiden name was De Servières, and her first husband was Colonel the Marquis of Nargonne.", "pos": 1139187}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have not the honor of knowing Madame Danglars; but I have already met M. Lucien Debray.", "pos": 1139512}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Ah, indeed? and where was that?", "pos": 1139604}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "At the house of M. de Morcerf.", "pos": 1139655}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Ah! you are acquainted with the young viscount, are you?", "pos": 1139688}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "We were together a good deal during the Carnival at Rome.", "pos": 1139747}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "True, true. Let me see; have I not heard talk of some strange adventure with bandits or thieves hid in ruins, and of his having had a miraculous escape? I forget how, but I know he used to amuse my wife and daughter by telling them about it after his return from Italy.", "pos": 1139807}
{"speaker": "Servant", "text": "Her ladyship is waiting to receive you, gentlemen,", "pos": 1140097}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "With your permission. I will precede you, to show you the way.", "pos": 1140222}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "By all means. I follow you.", "pos": 1140312}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Baroness, give me leave to present to you the Count of Monte Cristo, who has been most warmly recommended to me by my correspondents at Rome. I need but mention one fact to make all the ladies in Paris court his notice, and that is, that he has come to take up his abode in Paris for a year, during which brief period he proposes to spend six millions of money. That means balls, dinners, and lawn parties without end, in all of which I trust the count will remember us, as he may depend upon it we shall him, in our own humble entertainments.", "pos": 1143529}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "And when did you arrive here?", "pos": 1144355}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yesterday morning, madame.", "pos": 1144401}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Coming, as usual, I presume, from the extreme end of the globe? Pardon me—at least, such I have heard is your custom.", "pos": 1144430}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Nay, madame. This time I have merely come from Cadiz.", "pos": 1144550}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "You have selected a most unfavorable moment for your first visit. Paris is a horrible place in summer. Balls, parties, and fêtes are over; the Italian opera is in London; the French opera everywhere except in Paris. As for the Théatre Français, you know, of course, that it is nowhere. The only amusements left us are the indifferent races at the Champ-de-Mars and Satory. Do you propose entering any horses at either of these races, count?", "pos": 1144606}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I shall do whatever they do at Paris, madame, if I have the good fortune to find someone who will initiate me into the prevalent ideas of amusement.", "pos": 1145049}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Are you fond of horses, count?", "pos": 1145200}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have passed a considerable part of my life in the East, madame, and you are doubtless aware that the Orientals value only two things—the fine breeding of their horses and the beauty of their women.", "pos": 1145233}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Nay, count, it would have been somewhat more gallant to have placed the ladies first.", "pos": 1145435}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You see, madame, how rightly I spoke when I said I required a preceptor to guide me in all my sayings and doings here.", "pos": 1145544}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "I cannot believe it; the thing is impossible.", "pos": 1145858}
{"speaker": "Servant", "text": "it is as I have said.", "pos": 1145949}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Is this true?", "pos": 1146040}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Is what true, madame?", "pos": 1146056}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "What my maid tells me.", "pos": 1146117}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "But what does she tell you?", "pos": 1146142}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "That when my coachman was about to harness the horses to my carriage, he discovered that they had been removed from the stables without his knowledge. I desire to know what is the meaning of this?", "pos": 1146172}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Be kind enough, madame, to listen to me,", "pos": 1146371}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Oh, yes; I will listen, monsieur, for I am most curious to hear what explanation you will give. These two gentlemen shall decide between us; but, first, I will state the case to them. Gentlemen, among the ten horses in the stables of Baron Danglars, are two that belong exclusively to me—a pair of the handsomest and most spirited creatures to be found in Paris. But to you, at least, M. Debray, I need not give a further description, because to you my beautiful pair of dappled grays were well known. Well, I had promised Madame de Villefort the loan of my carriage to drive tomorrow to the Bois; but when my coachman goes to fetch the grays from the stables they are gone—positively gone. No doubt M. Danglars has sacrificed them to the selfish consideration of gaining some thousands of paltry francs. Oh, what a detestable crew they are, these mercenary speculators!", "pos": 1146429}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Madame, the horses were not sufficiently quiet for you; they were scarcely four years old, and they made me extremely uneasy on your account.", "pos": 1147348}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Nonsense, you could not have entertained any alarm on the subject, because you are perfectly well aware that I have had for a month in my service the very best coachman in Paris. But, perhaps, you have disposed of the coachman as well as the horses?", "pos": 1147492}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "My dear love, pray do not say any more about them, and I promise you another pair exactly like them in appearance, only more quiet and steady. Upon my word, count, I am quite sorry not to have met you sooner. You are setting up an establishment, of course?", "pos": 1147769}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why, yes,", "pos": 1148208}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I should have liked to have made you the offer of these horses. I have almost given them away, as it is; but, as I before said, I was anxious to get rid of them upon any terms. They were only fit for a young man.", "pos": 1148239}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am much obliged by your kind intentions towards me; but this morning I purchased a very excellent pair of carriage-horses, and I do not think they were dear. There they are. Come, M. Debray, you are a connoisseur, I believe, let me have your opinion upon them.", "pos": 1148454}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I could not tell you before others, the reason of my parting with the horses; but a most enormous price was offered me this morning for them. Some madman or fool, bent upon ruining himself as fast as he can, actually sent his steward to me to purchase them at any cost; and the fact is, I have gained 16,000 francs by the sale of them. Come, don’t look so angry, and you shall have 4,000 francs of the money to do what you like with, and Eugénie shall have 2,000. There, what do you think now of the affair? Wasn’t I right to part with the horses?", "pos": 1148807}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Great heavens? I cannot be mistaken; there are your horses! The very animals we were speaking of, harnessed to the count’s carriage!", "pos": 1149454}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "My dappled grays? ’Tis indeed they!", "pos": 1149652}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How very singular. I cannot believe it,", "pos": 1149788}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "The baroness wishes to know what you paid her husband for the horses.", "pos": 1150001}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I scarcely know, it was a little surprise prepared for me by my steward, and cost me—well, somewhere about 30,000 francs. See, how very ungrateful women are. Your kind attention, in providing for the safety of the baroness by disposing of the horses, does not seem to have made the least impression on her. But so it is; a woman will often, from mere wilfulness, prefer that which is dangerous to that which is safe. Therefore, in my opinion, my dear baron, the best and easiest way is to leave them to their fancies, and allow them to act as they please, and then, if any mischief follows, why, at least, they have no one to blame but themselves.", "pos": 1150073}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ali, you have frequently explained to me how more than commonly skilful you are in throwing the lasso, have you not? I thought I did not mistake. With your lasso you could stop an ox? Or a tiger? A lion even? I understand, you wish to tell me you have hunted the lion? But do you believe you could arrest the progress of two horses rushing forwards with ungovernable fury? It is well. Then listen to me. Ere long a carriage will dash past here, drawn by the pair of dappled gray horses you saw me with yesterday; now, at the risk of your own life, you must manage to stop those horses before my door.", "pos": 1153092}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Compose yourself, madame, all danger is over. I understand the nature of your alarms, madame, but I assure you there is not the slightest occasion for uneasiness; your little charge has not received the least injury; his insensibility is merely the effects of terror, and will soon pass.", "pos": 1157083}
{"speaker": "The woman", "text": "Are you quite sure you do not say so to tranquillize my fears? See how deadly pale he is! My child, my darling Edward; speak to your mother—open your dear eyes and look on me once again! Oh, sir, in pity send for a physician; my whole fortune shall not be thought too much for the recovery of my boy.", "pos": 1157601}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Where am I? and to whom am I indebted for so happy a termination to my late dreadful alarm?", "pos": 1158404}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Madame, you are under the roof of one who esteems himself most fortunate in having been able to save you from a further continuance of your sufferings.", "pos": 1158515}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "My wretched curiosity has brought all this about. All Paris rung with the praises of Madame Danglars’ beautiful horses, and I had the folly to desire to know whether they really merited the high praise given to them.", "pos": 1158691}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Is it possible, that these horses belong to the baroness?", "pos": 1158930}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "They do, indeed. May I inquire if you are acquainted with Madame Danglars?", "pos": 1159044}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have that honor; and my happiness at your escape from the danger that threatened you is redoubled by the consciousness that I have been the unwilling and the unintentional cause of all the peril you have incurred. I yesterday purchased these horses of the baron; but as the baroness evidently regretted parting with them, I ventured to send them back to her, with a request that she would gratify me by accepting them from my hands.", "pos": 1159128}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "You are, then, doubtless, the Count of Monte Cristo, of whom Hermine has talked to me so much?", "pos": 1159565}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You have rightly guessed, madame,", "pos": 1159662}
{"speaker": "Madame Héloïse de Villefort", "text": "And I am Madame Héloïse de Villefort.", "pos": 1159717}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "How grateful will M. de Villefort be for all your goodness; how thankfully will he acknowledge that to you alone he owes the existence of his wife and child! Most certainly, but for the prompt assistance of your intrepid servant, this dear child and myself must both have perished.", "pos": 1159835}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Indeed, I still shudder at the fearful danger you were placed in.", "pos": 1160119}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "I trust you will allow me to recompense worthily the devotion of your man.", "pos": 1160187}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I beseech you, madame, not to spoil Ali, either by too great praise or rewards. I cannot allow him to acquire the habit of expecting to be recompensed for every trifling service he may render. Ali is my slave, and in saving your life he was but discharging his duty to me.", "pos": 1160264}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Nay, nay, but consider that to preserve my life he has risked his own.", "pos": 1160562}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "His life, madame, belongs not to him; it is mine, in return for my having myself saved him from death.", "pos": 1160746}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Touch nothing, my little friend, some of those liquids are not only dangerous to taste, but even to inhale.", "pos": 1162194}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Edward, dearest, do you see that good man? He has shown very great courage and resolution, for he exposed his own life to stop the horses that were running away with us, and would certainly have dashed the carriage to pieces. Thank him, then, my child, in your very best manner; for, had he not come to our aid, neither you nor I would have been alive to speak our thanks.", "pos": 1162715}
{"speaker": "The child", "text": "He’s too ugly.", "pos": 1163176}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "This lady, is desirous that her son should thank you for saving both their lives; but the boy refuses, saying you are too ugly.", "pos": 1163417}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Will you permit me to inquire, whether you usually reside here?", "pos": 1163839}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, I do not, it is a small place I have purchased quite lately. My place of abode is No. 30, Avenue des Champs-Élysées; but I see you have quite recovered from your fright, and are, no doubt, desirous of returning home. Anticipating your wishes, I have desired the same horses you came with to be put to one of my carriages, and Ali, he whom you think so very ugly, will have the honor of driving you home, while your coachman remains here to attend to the necessary repairs of your calash. As soon as that important business is concluded, I will have a pair of my own horses harnessed to convey it direct to Madame Danglars.", "pos": 1163965}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "I dare not return with those dreadful horses,", "pos": 1164673}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You will see, that they will be as different as possible in the hands of Ali. With him they will be gentle and docile as lambs.", "pos": 1164747}
{"speaker": "Héloïse de Villefort", "text": "Dear Hermine,—I have just had a wonderful escape from the most imminent danger, and I owe my safety to the very Count of Monte Cristo we were talking about yesterday, but whom I little expected to see today. I remember how unmercifully I laughed at what I considered your eulogistic and exaggerated praises of him; but I have now ample cause to admit that your enthusiastic description of this wonderful man fell far short of his merits. Your horses got as far as Ranelagh, when they darted forward like mad things, and galloped away at so fearful a rate, that there seemed no other prospect for myself and my poor Edward but that of being dashed to pieces against the first object that impeded their progress, when a strange-looking man,—an Arab, a negro, or a Nubian, at least a black of some nation or other—at a signal from the count, whose domestic he is, suddenly seized and stopped the infuriated animals, even at the risk of being trampled to death himself; and certainly he must have had a most wonderful escape. The count then hastened to us, and took us into his house, where he speedily recalled my poor Edward to life. He sent us home in his own carriage. Yours will be returned to you tomorrow. You will find your horses in bad condition, from the results of this accident; they seem thoroughly stupefied, as if sulky and vexed at having been conquered by man. The count, however, has commissioned me to assure you that two or three days’ rest, with plenty of barley for their sole food during that time, will bring them back to as fine, that is as terrifying, a condition as they were in yesterday.", "pos": 1166148}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sir, sir, the signal service which you yesterday rendered to my wife and son has made it a duty for me to offer you my thanks. I have come, therefore, to discharge this duty, and to express to you my overwhelming gratitude.", "pos": 1174989}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Monsieur. I am very happy to have been the means of preserving a son to his mother, for they say that the sentiment of maternity is the most holy of all; and the good fortune which occurred to me, monsieur, might have enabled you to dispense with a duty which, in its discharge, confers an undoubtedly great honor; for I am aware that M. de Villefort is not usually lavish of the favor which he now bestows on me,—a favor which, however estimable, is unequal to the satisfaction which I have in my own consciousness.", "pos": 1175677}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You seem geographically engaged, sir? It is a rich study for you, who, as I learn, have seen as many lands as are delineated on this map.", "pos": 1176769}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, sir. I have sought to make of the human race, taken in the mass, what you practice every day on individuals—a physiological study. I have believed it was much easier to descend from the whole to a part than to ascend from a part to the whole. It is an algebraic axiom, which makes us proceed from a known to an unknown quantity, and not from an unknown to a known; but sit down, sir, I beg of you.", "pos": 1176909}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Ah, you philosophize, well, sir, really, if, like you, I had nothing else to do, I should seek a more amusing occupation.", "pos": 1177891}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why, in truth, sir, man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you?—do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?", "pos": 1178144}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sir, you are a stranger, and I believe you say yourself that a portion of your life has been spent in Oriental countries, so you are not aware how human justice, so expeditious in barbarous countries, takes with us a prudent and well-studied course.", "pos": 1178808}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, yes—yes, I do, sir; it is the pede claudo of the ancients. I know all that, for it is with the justice of all countries especially that I have occupied myself—it is with the criminal procedure of all nations that I have compared natural justice, and I must say, sir, that it is the law of primitive nations, that is, the law of retaliation, that I have most frequently found to be according to the law of God.", "pos": 1179076}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "If this law were adopted, sir, it would greatly simplify our legal codes, and in that case the magistrates would not (as you just observed) have much to do.", "pos": 1179492}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It may, perhaps, come to this in time, you know that human inventions march from the complex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.", "pos": 1179673}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "In the meanwhile, our codes are in full force, with all their contradictory enactments derived from Gallic customs, Roman laws, and Frank usages; the knowledge of all which, you will agree, is not to be acquired without extended labor; it needs tedious study to acquire this knowledge, and, when acquired, a strong power of brain to retain it.", "pos": 1179845}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I agree with you entirely, sir; but all that even you know with respect to the French code, I know, not only in reference to that code, but as regards the codes of all nations. The English, Turkish, Japanese, Hindu laws, are as familiar to me as the French laws, and thus I was right, when I said to you, that relatively (you know that everything is relative, sir)—that relatively to what I have done, you have very little to do; but that relatively to all I have learned, you have yet a great deal to learn.", "pos": 1180219}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "But with what motive have you learned all this?", "pos": 1180730}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Really, sir. I see that in spite of the reputation which you have acquired as a superior man, you look at everything from the material and vulgar view of society, beginning with man, and ending with man—that is to say, in the most restricted, most narrow view which it is possible for human understanding to embrace.", "pos": 1180838}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Pray, sir, explain yourself. I really do—not—understand you—perfectly.", "pos": 1181172}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I say, sir, that with the eyes fixed on the social organization of nations, you see only the springs of the machine, and lose sight of the sublime workman who makes them act; I say that you do not recognize before you and around you any but those office-holders whose commissions have been signed by a minister or king; and that the men whom God has put above those office-holders, ministers, and kings, by giving them a mission to follow out, instead of a post to fill—I say that they escape your narrow, limited field of observation. It is thus that human weakness fails, from its debilitated and imperfect organs. Tobias took the angel who restored him to light for an ordinary young man. The nations took Attila, who was doomed to destroy them, for a conqueror similar to other conquerors, and it was necessary for both to reveal their missions, that they might be known and acknowledged; one was compelled to say, ‘I am the angel of the Lord’; and the other, ‘I am the hammer of God,’ in order that the divine essence in both might be revealed.", "pos": 1181289}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Then, you consider yourself as one of those extraordinary beings whom you have mentioned?", "pos": 1182341}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And why not?", "pos": 1182535}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Your pardon, sir, but you will excuse me if, when I presented myself to you, I was unaware that I should meet with a person whose knowledge and understanding so far surpass the usual knowledge and understanding of men. It is not usual with us corrupted wretches of civilization to find gentlemen like yourself, possessors, as you are, of immense fortune—at least, so it is said—and I beg you to observe that I do not inquire, I merely repeat;—it is not usual, I say, for such privileged and wealthy beings to waste their time in speculations on the state of society, in philosophical reveries, intended at best to console those whom fate has disinherited from the goods of this world.", "pos": 1182576}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Really, sir, have you attained the eminent situation in which you are, without having admitted, or even without having met with exceptions? and do you never use your eyes, which must have acquired so much finesse and certainty, to divine, at a glance, the kind of man by whom you are confronted? Should not a magistrate be not merely the best administrator of the law, but the most crafty expounder of the chicanery of his profession, a steel probe to search hearts, a touchstone to try the gold which in each soul is mingled with more or less of alloy?", "pos": 1183301}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sir, upon my word, you overcome me. I really never heard a person speak as you do.", "pos": 1183879}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Because you remain eternally encircled in a round of general conditions, and have never dared to raise your wings into those upper spheres which God has peopled with invisible or exceptional beings.", "pos": 1183982}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "And you allow then, sir, that spheres exist, and that these marked and invisible beings mingle amongst us?", "pos": 1184183}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why should they not? Can you see the air you breathe, and yet without which you could not for a moment exist?", "pos": 1184292}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Then we do not see those beings to whom you allude?", "pos": 1184404}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, we do; you see them whenever God pleases to allow them to assume a material form. You touch them, come in contact with them, speak to them, and they reply to you.", "pos": 1184458}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Ah. I confess I should like to be warned when one of these beings is in contact with me.", "pos": 1184628}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You have been served as you desire, monsieur, for you were warned just now, and I now again warn you.", "pos": 1184746}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Then you yourself are one of these marked beings?", "pos": 1184850}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, monsieur, I believe so; for until now, no man has found himself in a position similar to mine. The dominions of kings are limited either by mountains or rivers, or a change of manners, or an alteration of language. My kingdom is bounded only by the world, for I am not an Italian, or a Frenchman, or a Hindu, or an American, or a Spaniard—I am a cosmopolite. No country can say it saw my birth. God alone knows what country will see me die. I adopt all customs, speak all languages. You believe me to be a Frenchman, for I speak French with the same facility and purity as yourself. Well, Ali, my Nubian, believes me to be an Arab; Bertuccio, my steward, takes me for a Roman; Haydée, my slave, thinks me a Greek. You may, therefore, comprehend, that being of no country, asking no protection from any government, acknowledging no man as my brother, not one of the scruples that arrest the powerful, or the obstacles which paralyze the weak, paralyzes or arrests me. I have only two adversaries—I will not say two conquerors, for with perseverance I subdue even them,—they are time and distance. There is a third, and the most terrible—that is my condition as a mortal being. This alone can stop me in my onward career, before I have attained the goal at which I aim, for all the rest I have reduced to mathematical terms. What men call the chances of fate—namely, ruin, change, circumstances—I have fully anticipated, and if any of these should overtake me, yet it will not overwhelm me. Unless I die, I shall always be what I am, and therefore it is that I utter the things you have never heard, even from the mouths of kings—for kings have need, and other persons have fear of you. For who is there who does not say to himself, in a society as incongruously organized as ours, ‘Perhaps some day I shall have to do with the king’s attorney’?", "pos": 1184902}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "But can you not say that, sir? The moment you become an inhabitant of France, you are naturally subjected to the French law.", "pos": 1186753}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I know it sir, but when I visit a country I begin to study, by all the means which are available, the men from whom I may have anything to hope or to fear, till I know them as well as, perhaps better than, they know themselves. It follows from this, that the king’s attorney, be he who he may, with whom I should have to deal, would assuredly be more embarrassed than I should.", "pos": 1186880}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "That is to say, that human nature being weak, every man, according to your creed, has committed faults.", "pos": 1187284}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Faults or crimes, responded Monte Cristo with a negligent air.", "pos": 1187427}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "And that you alone, amongst the men whom you do not recognize as your brothers—for you have said so, you alone are perfect.", "pos": 1187492}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, not perfect, only impenetrable, that’s all. But let us leave off this strain, sir, if the tone of it is displeasing to you; I am no more disturbed by your justice than are you by my second-sight.", "pos": 1187672}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "No, no,—by no means. No; by your brilliant and almost sublime conversation you have elevated me above the ordinary level; we no longer talk, we rise to dissertation. But you know how the theologians in their collegiate chairs, and philosophers in their controversies, occasionally say cruel truths; let us suppose for the moment that we are theologizing in a social way, or even philosophically, and I will say to you, rude as it may seem, ‘My brother, you sacrifice greatly to pride; you may be above others, but above you there is God.’", "pos": 1187899}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Above us all, sir. I have my pride for men—serpents always ready to threaten everyone who would pass without crushing them under foot. But I lay aside that pride before God, who has taken me from nothing to make me what I am.", "pos": 1188514}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Then, count, I admire you. Yes, and I say to you, if you are really strong, really superior, really pious, or impenetrable, which you were right in saying amounts to the same thing—then be proud, sir, for that is the characteristic of predominance. Yet you have unquestionably some ambition.", "pos": 1188852}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have, sir.", "pos": 1189316}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And what may it be?", "pos": 1189331}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I too, as happens to every man once in his life, have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he showed me all the kingdoms of the world, and as he said before, so said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?’ I reflected long, for a gnawing ambition had long preyed upon me, and then I replied, ‘Listen,—I have always heard of Providence, and yet I have never seen him, or anything that resembles him, or which can make me believe that he exists. I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.’", "pos": 1189353}
{"speaker": "Satan", "text": "You mistake. Providence does exist, only you have never seen him, because the child of God is as invisible as the parent. You have seen nothing that resembles him, because he works by secret springs, and moves by hidden ways. All I can do for you is to make you one of the agents of that Providence.’ The bargain was concluded. I may sacrifice my soul, but what matters it?", "pos": 1190045}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "If the thing were to do again, I would again do it.", "pos": 1190452}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Count, have you any relations?", "pos": 1190563}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, sir, I am alone in the world.", "pos": 1190611}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "So much the worse.", "pos": 1190647}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why?", "pos": 1190668}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Because then you might witness a spectacle calculated to break down your pride. You say you fear nothing but death?", "pos": 1190695}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I did not say that I feared it; I only said that death alone could check the execution of my plans.", "pos": 1190813}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "And old age?", "pos": 1190915}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My end will be achieved before I grow old.", "pos": 1190930}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "And madness?", "pos": 1190975}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have been nearly mad; and you know the axiom,—non bis in idem. It is an axiom of criminal law, and, consequently, you understand its full application.", "pos": 1190990}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sir, there is something to fear besides death, old age, and madness. For instance, there is apoplexy—that lightning-stroke which strikes but does not destroy you, and yet which brings everything to an end. You are still yourself as now, and yet you are yourself no longer; you who, like Ariel, verge on the angelic, are but an inert mass, which, like Caliban, verges on the brutal; and this is called in human tongues, as I tell you, neither more nor less than apoplexy. Come, if so you will, count, and continue this conversation at my house, any day you may be willing to see an adversary capable of understanding and anxious to refute you, and I will show you my father, M. Noirtier de Villefort, one of the most fiery Jacobins of the French Revolution; that is to say, he had the most remarkable audacity, seconded by a most powerful organization—a man who has not, perhaps, like yourself seen all the kingdoms of the earth, but who has helped to overturn one of the greatest; in fact, a man who believed himself, like you, one of the envoys, not of God, but of a supreme being; not of Providence, but of fate. Well, sir, the rupture of a blood-vessel on the lobe of the brain has destroyed all this, not in a day, not in an hour, but in a second. M. Noirtier, who, on the previous night, was the old Jacobin, the old senator, the old Carbonaro, laughing at the guillotine, the cannon, and the dagger—M. Noirtier, playing with revolutions—M. Noirtier, for whom France was a vast chess-board, from which pawns, rooks, knights, and queens were to disappear, so that the king was checkmated—M. Noirtier, the redoubtable, was the next morning poor M. Noirtier, the helpless old man, at the tender mercies of the weakest creature in the household, that is, his grandchild, Valentine; a dumb and frozen carcass, in fact, living painlessly on, that time may be given for his frame to decompose without his consciousness of its decay.", "pos": 1191152}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Alas, sir, this spectacle is neither strange to my eye nor my thought. I am something of a physician, and have, like my fellows, sought more than once for the soul in living and in dead matter; yet, like Providence, it has remained invisible to my eyes, although present to my heart. A hundred writers since Socrates, Seneca, St. Augustine, and Gall, have made, in verse and prose, the comparison you have made, and yet I can well understand that a father’s sufferings may effect great changes in the mind of a son. I will call on you, sir, since you bid me contemplate, for the advantage of my pride, this terrible spectacle, which must have been so great a source of sorrow to your family.", "pos": 1193108}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "It would have been so unquestionably, had not God given me so large a compensation. In contrast with the old man, who is dragging his way to the tomb, are two children just entering into life—Valentine, the daughter by my first wife—Mademoiselle Renée de Saint-Méran—and Edward, the boy whose life you have this day saved.", "pos": 1193822}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And what is your deduction from this compensation, sir?", "pos": 1194147}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "My deduction is, that my father, led away by his passions, has committed some fault unknown to human justice, but marked by the justice of God. That God, desirous in his mercy to punish but one person, has visited this justice on him alone. Adieu, sir. I leave you, bearing a remembrance of you—a remembrance of esteem, which I hope will not be disagreeable to you when you know me better; for I am not a man to bore my friends, as you will learn. Besides, you have made an eternal friend of Madame de Villefort.", "pos": 1194228}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Enough of this poison, let me now seek the antidote. I am going to madame’s chamber—have the carriage ready at one o’clock.", "pos": 1195252}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Why demand permission ere you enter? Are you no longer my master, or have I ceased to be your slave?", "pos": 1201028}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Haydée, you well know.", "pos": 1201164}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Why do you address me so coldly—so distantly? Have I by any means displeased you? Oh, if so, punish me as you will; but do not—do not speak to me in tones and manner so formal and constrained.", "pos": 1201200}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Haydée, you know that you are now in France, and are free.", "pos": 1201420}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Free to do what?", "pos": 1201502}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Free to leave me.", "pos": 1201543}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Leave you? Why should I leave you?", "pos": 1201563}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That is not for me to say; but we are now about to mix in society—to visit and be visited.", "pos": 1201600}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "I don’t wish to see anybody but you.", "pos": 1201693}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And should you see one whom you could prefer, I would not be so unjust——", "pos": 1201732}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "I have never seen anyone I preferred to you, and I have never loved anyone but you and my father.", "pos": 1201807}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My poor child, that is merely because your father and myself are the only men who have ever talked to you.", "pos": 1201907}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "I don’t want anybody else to talk to me. My father said I was his ‘joy’—you style me your ‘love,’—and both of you have called me ‘my child.’", "pos": 1202040}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do you remember your father, Haydée?", "pos": 1202183}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "He is here, and here,", "pos": 1202246}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And where am I?", "pos": 1202313}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "You? you are everywhere!", "pos": 1202365}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You now understand, Haydée, that from this moment you are absolutely free; that here you exercise unlimited sway, and are at liberty to lay aside or continue the costume of your country, as it may suit your inclination. Within this mansion you are absolute mistress of your actions, and may go abroad or remain in your apartments as may seem most agreeable to you. A carriage waits your orders, and Ali and Myrtho will accompany you whithersoever you desire to go. There is but one favor I would entreat of you.", "pos": 1202620}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Speak.", "pos": 1203152}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Guard carefully the secret of your birth. Make no allusion to the past; nor upon any occasion be induced to pronounce the names of your illustrious father or ill-fated mother.", "pos": 1203161}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "I have already told you, my lord, that I shall see no one.", "pos": 1203339}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is possible, Haydée, that so perfect a seclusion, though conformable with the habits and customs of the East, may not be practicable in Paris. Endeavor, then, to accustom yourself to our manner of living in these northern climes as you did to those of Rome, Florence, Milan, and Madrid; it may be useful to you one of these days, whether you remain here or return to the East.", "pos": 1203400}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Whether we return to the East, you mean to say, my lord, do you not?", "pos": 1203881}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My child, you know full well that whenever we part, it will be no fault or wish of mine; the tree forsakes not the flower—the flower falls from the tree.", "pos": 1203952}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "My lord. I never will leave you, for I am sure I could not exist without you.", "pos": 1204132}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My poor girl, in ten years I shall be old, and you will be still young.", "pos": 1204230}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "My father had a long white beard, but I loved him; he was sixty years old, but to me he was handsomer than all the fine youths I saw.", "pos": 1204304}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then tell me, Haydée, do you believe you shall be able to accustom yourself to our present mode of life?", "pos": 1204440}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Shall I see you? you?", "pos": 1204547}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Every day.", "pos": 1204566}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Then what do you fear, my lord?", "pos": 1204579}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You might find it dull.", "pos": 1204613}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "No, my lord. In the morning, I shall rejoice in the prospect of your coming, and in the evening dwell with delight on the happiness I have enjoyed in your presence; then too, when alone, I can call forth mighty pictures of the past, see vast horizons bounded only by the towering mountains of Pindus and Olympus. Oh, believe me, that when three great passions, such as sorrow, love, and gratitude fill the heart, ennui can find no place.", "pos": 1204639}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are a worthy daughter of Epirus, Haydée, and your charming and poetical ideas prove well your descent from that race of goddesses who claim your country as their birthplace. Depend on my care to see that your youth is not blighted, or suffered to pass away in ungenial solitude; and of this be well assured, that if you love me as a father, I love you as a child.", "pos": 1205079}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "You are wrong, my lord. The love I have for you is very different from the love I had for my father. My father died, but I did not die. If you were to die, I should die too.", "pos": 1205449}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "The Count of Monte Cristo? I should think we would see him. Ah, a thousand thanks, count, for not having forgotten your promise. Come, come. I will serve as your guide; such a man as you are ought not to be introduced by a servant. My sister is in the garden plucking the dead roses; my brother is reading his two papers, la Presse and les Débats, within six steps of her; for wherever you see Madame Herbault, you have only to look within a circle of four yards and you will find M. Emmanuel, and ‘reciprocally,’ as they say at the Polytechnic School. Don’t disturb yourself, Julie. The count has only been two or three days in Paris, but he already knows what a fashionable woman of the Marais is, and if he does not, you will show him.", "pos": 1208335}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Ah, monsieur, it is treason in my brother to bring you thus, but he never has any regard for his poor sister. Penelon, Penelon!", "pos": 1209797}
{"speaker": "Penelon", "text": "I think you hailed me, Mademoiselle Julie?", "pos": 1210354}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Penelon, go and inform M. Emmanuel of this gentleman’s visit, and Maximilian will conduct him to the salon. I hope you will permit me to leave you for a few minutes,", "pos": 1210564}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am sorry to see, that I cause no small disturbance in your house.", "pos": 1210918}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Look there, there is her husband changing his jacket for a coat. I assure you, you are well known in the Rue Meslay.", "pos": 1211023}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Your family appears to be a very happy one. Five-and-twenty thousand francs is not a large sum, however, but they will not be content with that. Your brother-in-law is a barrister? a doctor?", "pos": 1211171}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "He was a merchant, monsieur, and had succeeded to the business of my poor father. M. Morrel, at his death, left 500,000 francs, which were divided between my sister and myself, for we were his only children. Her husband, who, when he married her, had no other patrimony than his noble probity, his first-rate ability, and his spotless reputation, wished to possess as much as his wife. He labored and toiled until he had amassed 250,000 francs; six years sufficed to achieve this object. Oh, I assure you, sir, it was a touching spectacle to see these young creatures, destined by their talents for higher stations, toiling together, and through their unwillingness to change any of the customs of their paternal house, taking six years to accomplish what less scrupulous people would have effected in two or three. Marseilles resounded with their well-earned praises. At last, one day, Emmanuel came to his wife, who had just finished making up the accounts.", "pos": 1211767}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Julie. Cocles has just given me the last rouleau of a hundred francs; that completes the 250,000 francs we had fixed as the limits of our gains. Can you content yourself with the small fortune which we shall possess for the future? Listen to me. Our house transacts business to the amount of a million a year, from which we derive an income of 40,000 francs. We can dispose of the business, if we please, in an hour, for I have received a letter from M. Delaunay, in which he offers to purchase the good-will of the house, to unite with his own, for 300,000 francs. Advise me what I had better do. Emmanuel, the house of Morrel can only be carried on by a Morrel. Is it not worth 300,000 francs to save our father’s name from the chances of evil fortune and failure? I thought so, but I wished to have your advice. This is my counsel:—Our accounts are made up and our bills paid; all we have to do is to stop the issue of any more, and close our office.", "pos": 1212729}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "Monsieur, have the goodness to address yourself to M. Delaunay. We have quitted business.", "pos": 1213912}
{"speaker": "Merchant", "text": "How long? A quarter of an hour,", "pos": 1214022}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "And this is the reason, monsieur, of my sister and brother-in-law having only 25,000 francs a year.", "pos": 1214115}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Madame. I pray you to excuse my emotion, which must astonish you who are only accustomed to the happiness I meet here; but contentment is so new a sight to me, that I could never be weary of looking at yourself and your husband.", "pos": 1215456}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "We are very happy, monsieur, but we have also known unhappiness, and few have ever undergone more bitter sufferings than ourselves.", "pos": 1215708}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "This humble picture would have but little interest for you, accustomed as you are to behold the pleasures and the misfortunes of the wealthy and industrious; but such as we are, we have experienced bitter sorrows.", "pos": 1216034}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And God has poured balm into your wounds, as he does into those of all who are in affliction?", "pos": 1216250}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Yes, count, we may indeed say he has, for he has done for us what he grants only to his chosen; he sent us one of his angels.", "pos": 1216377}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.", "pos": 1216644}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Our magnificence makes you smile, count,", "pos": 1217088}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, no. I was wondering what could be the significance of this purse, with the paper at one end and the large diamond at the other.", "pos": 1217184}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Count, those are our most precious family treasures.", "pos": 1217526}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The stone seems very brilliant,", "pos": 1217627}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Oh, my brother does not allude to its value, although it has been estimated at 100,000 francs; he means, that the articles contained in this purse are the relics of the angel I spoke of just now.", "pos": 1217681}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "This I do not comprehend; and yet I may not ask for an explanation, madame. Pardon me, I had no intention of committing an indiscretion.", "pos": 1217879}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Indiscretion,—oh, you make us happy by giving us an excuse for expatiating on this subject. If we wanted to conceal the noble action this purse commemorates, we should not expose it thus to view. Oh, would we could relate it everywhere, and to everyone, so that the emotion of our unknown benefactor might reveal his presence.", "pos": 1218049}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, really,", "pos": 1218378}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Monsieur, this has touched the hand of a man who saved my father from suicide, us from ruin, and our name from shame and disgrace,—a man by whose matchless benevolence we poor children, doomed to want and wretchedness, can at present hear everyone envying our happy lot. This letter this letter was written by him the day that my father had taken a desperate resolution, and this diamond was given by the generous unknown to my sister as her dowry.", "pos": 1218435}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Unknown you say, is the man who rendered you this service—unknown to you?", "pos": 1219235}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes; we have never had the happiness of pressing his hand. We have supplicated Heaven in vain to grant us this favor, but the whole affair has had a mysterious meaning that we cannot comprehend—we have been guided by an invisible hand,—a hand as powerful as that of an enchanter.", "pos": 1219311}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Oh, I have not lost all hope of some day kissing that hand, as I now kiss the purse which he has touched. Four years ago, Penelon was at Trieste—Penelon, count, is the old sailor you saw in the garden, and who, from quartermaster, has become gardener—Penelon, when he was at Trieste, saw on the quay an Englishman, who was on the point of embarking on board a yacht, and he recognized him as the person who called on my father the fifth of June, 1829, and who wrote me this letter on the fifth of September. He felt convinced of his identity, but he did not venture to address him.", "pos": 1219632}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "An Englishman. An Englishman you say?", "pos": 1220216}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "an Englishman, who represented himself as the confidential clerk of the house of Thomson & French, at Rome. It was this that made me start when you said the other day, at M. de Morcerf’s, that Messrs. Thomson & French were your bankers. That happened, as I told you, in 1829. For God’s sake, tell me, did you know this Englishman?", "pos": 1220369}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But you tell me, also, that the house of Thomson & French have constantly denied having rendered you this service? Then is it not probable that this Englishman may be someone who, grateful for a kindness your father had shown him, and which he himself had forgotten, has taken this method of requiting the obligation?", "pos": 1220702}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Everything is possible in this affair, even a miracle.", "pos": 1221031}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What was his name?", "pos": 1221088}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "He gave no other name, than that at the end of his letter—‘Sinbad the Sailor.’", "pos": 1221129}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Which is evidently not his real name, but a fictitious one. Tell me, was he not about my height, perhaps a little taller, with his chin imprisoned, as it were, in a high cravat; his coat closely buttoned up, and constantly taking out his pencil?", "pos": 1221260}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Oh, do you then know him?", "pos": 1221592}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No. I only guessed. I knew a Lord Wilmore, who was constantly doing actions of this kind.", "pos": 1221663}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Without revealing himself?", "pos": 1221779}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He was an eccentric being, and did not believe in the existence of gratitude.", "pos": 1221808}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Oh, Heaven, in what did he believe, then?", "pos": 1221888}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He did not credit it at the period which I knew him, but, perhaps, since then he has had proofs that gratitude does exist.", "pos": 1221978}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "And do you know this gentleman, monsieur?", "pos": 1222178}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Oh, if you do know him, can you tell us where he is—where we can find him? Maximilian—Emmanuel—if we do but discover him, he must believe in the gratitude of the heart!", "pos": 1222241}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "In the name of Heaven, if you know anything of him, tell us what it is.", "pos": 1222522}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Alas, if Lord Wilmore was your unknown benefactor, I fear you will never see him again. I parted from him two years ago at Palermo, and he was then on the point of setting out for the most remote regions; so that I fear he will never return.", "pos": 1222615}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Oh, monsieur, this is cruel of you,", "pos": 1222914}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Madame, had Lord Wilmore seen what I now see, he would become attached to life, for the tears you shed would reconcile him to mankind;", "pos": 1223022}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "But. Lord Wilmore had a family or friends, he must have known someone, can we not——", "pos": 1223376}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, it is useless to inquire, perhaps, after all, he was not the man you seek for. He was my friend: he had no secrets from me, and if this had been so he would have confided in me.", "pos": 1223479}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "And he told you nothing?", "pos": 1223685}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Not a word.", "pos": 1223712}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Nothing that would lead you to suppose?", "pos": 1223726}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Nothing.", "pos": 1223768}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "And yet you spoke of him at once.", "pos": 1223779}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, in such a case one supposes——", "pos": 1223815}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Sister, sister, monsieur is quite right. Recollect what our excellent father so often told us, ‘It was no Englishman that thus saved us.’", "pos": 1223851}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What did your father tell you, M. Morrel?", "pos": 1224059}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "My father thought that this action had been miraculously performed—he believed that a benefactor had arisen from the grave to save us. Oh, it was a touching superstition, monsieur, and although I did not myself believe it, I would not for the world have destroyed my father’s faith. How often did he muse over it and pronounce the name of a dear friend—a friend lost to him forever; and on his death-bed, when the near approach of eternity seemed to have illumined his mind with supernatural light, this thought, which had until then been but a doubt, became a conviction, and his last words were, ‘Maximilian, it was Edmond Dantès!’", "pos": 1224120}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Madame. I trust you will allow me to visit you occasionally; I value your friendship, and feel grateful to you for your welcome, for this is the first time for many years that I have thus yielded to my feelings;", "pos": 1225029}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Don’t be alarmed, Valentine—it is I!", "pos": 1231863}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "And why do you come so late today? It is almost dinner-time, and I had to use no little diplomacy to get rid of my watchful stepmother, my too-devoted maid, and my troublesome brother, who is always teasing me about coming to work at my embroidery, which I am in a fair way never to get done. So pray excuse yourself as well as you can for having made me wait, and, after that, tell me why I see you in a dress so singular that at first I did not recognize you.", "pos": 1231983}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Dearest Valentine, the difference between our respective stations makes me fear to offend you by speaking of my love, but yet I cannot find myself in your presence without longing to pour forth my soul, and tell you how fondly I adore you. If it be but to carry away with me the recollection of such sweet moments, I could even thank you for chiding me, for it leaves me a gleam of hope, that if you did not expect me (and that indeed would be worse than vanity to suppose), at least I was in your thoughts. You asked me the cause of my being late, and why I come disguised. I will candidly explain the reason of both, and I trust to your goodness to pardon me. I have chosen a trade.", "pos": 1232447}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "A trade? Oh, Maximilian, how can you jest at a time when we have such deep cause for uneasiness?", "pos": 1233156}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Heaven keep me from jesting with that which is far dearer to me than life itself! But listen to me, Valentine, and I will tell you all about it. I became weary of ranging fields and scaling walls, and seriously alarmed at the idea suggested by you, that if caught hovering about here your father would very likely have me sent to prison as a thief. That would compromise the honor of the French army, to say nothing of the fact that the continual presence of a captain of Spahis in a place where no warlike projects could be supposed to account for it might well create surprise; so I have become a gardener, and, consequently, adopted the costume of my calling.", "pos": 1233255}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "What excessive nonsense you talk, Maximilian!", "pos": 1233920}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Nonsense? Pray do not call what I consider the wisest action of my life by such a name. Consider, by becoming a gardener I effectually screen our meetings from all suspicion or danger.", "pos": 1233968}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I beseech of you, Maximilian, to cease trifling, and tell me what you really mean.", "pos": 1234162}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Simply, that having ascertained that the piece of ground on which I stand was to let, I made application for it, was readily accepted by the proprietor, and am now master of this fine crop of lucern. Think of that, Valentine! There is nothing now to prevent my building myself a little hut on my plantation, and residing not twenty yards from you. Only imagine what happiness that would afford me. I can scarcely contain myself at the bare idea. Such felicity seems above all price—as a thing impossible and unattainable. But would you believe that I purchase all this delight, joy, and happiness, for which I would cheerfully have surrendered ten years of my life, at the small cost of 500 francs per annum, paid quarterly? Henceforth we have nothing to fear. I am on my own ground, and have an undoubted right to place a ladder against the wall, and to look over when I please, without having any apprehensions of being taken off by the police as a suspicious character. I may also enjoy the precious privilege of assuring you of my fond, faithful, and unalterable affection, whenever you visit your favorite bower, unless, indeed, it offends your pride to listen to professions of love from the lips of a poor workingman, clad in a blouse and cap.", "pos": 1234247}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Alas, no, Maximilian, this must not be, for many reasons. We should presume too much on our own strength, and, like others, perhaps, be led astray by our blind confidence in each other’s prudence.", "pos": 1235701}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "How can you for an instant entertain so unworthy a thought, dear Valentine? Have I not, from the first blessed hour of our acquaintance, schooled all my words and actions to your sentiments and ideas? And you have, I am sure, the fullest confidence in my honor. When you spoke to me of experiencing a vague and indefinite sense of coming danger, I placed myself blindly and devotedly at your service, asking no other reward than the pleasure of being useful to you; and have I ever since, by word or look, given you cause of regret for having selected me from the numbers that would willingly have sacrificed their lives for you? You told me, my dear Valentine, that you were engaged to M. d’Épinay, and that your father was resolved upon completing the match, and that from his will there was no appeal, as M. de Villefort was never known to change a determination once formed. I kept in the background, as you wished, and waited, not for the decision of your heart or my own, but hoping that Providence would graciously interpose in our behalf, and order events in our favor. But what cared I for delays or difficulties, Valentine, as long as you confessed that you loved me, and took pity on me? If you will only repeat that avowal now and then, I can endure anything.", "pos": 1235900}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Ah, Maximilian, that is the very thing that makes you so bold, and which renders me at once so happy and unhappy, that I frequently ask myself whether it is better for me to endure the harshness of my stepmother, and her blind preference for her own child, or to be, as I now am, insensible to any pleasure save such as I find in these meetings, so fraught with danger to both.", "pos": 1237174}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I will not admit that word. It is at once cruel and unjust. Is it possible to find a more submissive slave than myself? You have permitted me to converse with you from time to time, Valentine, but forbidden my ever following you in your walks or elsewhere—have I not obeyed? And since I found means to enter this enclosure to exchange a few words with you through this gate—to be close to you without really seeing you—have I ever asked so much as to touch the hem of your gown or tried to pass this barrier which is but a trifle to one of my youth and strength? Never has a complaint or a murmur escaped me. I have been bound by my promises as rigidly as any knight of olden times. Come, come, dearest Valentine, confess that what I say is true, lest I be tempted to call you unjust.", "pos": 1237554}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "It is true, and you are a true and faithful friend; but still you acted from motives of self-interest, my dear Maximilian, for you well knew that from the moment in which you had manifested an opposite spirit all would have been ended between us. You promised to bestow on me the friendly affection of a brother. For I have no friend but yourself upon earth, who am neglected and forgotten by my father, harassed and persecuted by my stepmother, and left to the sole companionship of a paralyzed and speechless old man, whose withered hand can no longer press mine, and who can speak to me with the eye alone, although there still lingers in his heart the warmest tenderness for his poor grandchild. Oh, how bitter a fate is mine, to serve either as a victim or an enemy to all who are stronger than myself, while my only friend and supporter is a living corpse! Indeed, indeed, Maximilian, I am very miserable, and if you love me it must be out of pity.", "pos": 1238374}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Valentine, I will not say you are all I love in the world, for I dearly prize my sister and brother-in-law; but my affection for them is calm and tranquil, in no manner resembling what I feel for you. When I think of you my heart beats fast, the blood burns in my veins, and I can hardly breathe; but I solemnly promise you to restrain all this ardor, this fervor and intensity of feeling, until you yourself shall require me to render them available in serving or assisting you. M. Franz is not expected to return home for a year to come, I am told; in that time many favorable and unforeseen chances may befriend us. Let us, then, hope for the best; hope is so sweet a comforter. Meanwhile, Valentine, while reproaching me with selfishness, think a little what you have been to me—the beautiful but cold resemblance of a marble Venus. What promise of future reward have you made me for all the submission and obedience I have evinced?—none whatever. What granted me?—scarcely more. You tell me of M. Franz d’Épinay, your betrothed lover, and you shrink from the idea of being his wife; but tell me, Valentine, is there no other sorrow in your heart? You see me devoted to you, body and soul, my life and each warm drop that circles round my heart are consecrated to your service; you know full well that my existence is bound up in yours—that were I to lose you I would not outlive the hour of such crushing misery; yet you speak with calmness of the prospect of your being the wife of another! Oh, Valentine, were I in your place, and did I feel conscious, as you do, of being worshipped, adored, with such a love as mine, a hundred times at least should I have passed my hand between these iron bars, and said, ‘Take this hand, dearest Maximilian, and believe that, living or dead, I am yours—yours only, and forever!’ Dearest, dearest Valentine, forgive me if I have offended you, and forget the words I spoke if they have unwittingly caused you pain.", "pos": 1239527}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "No, Maximilian, I am not offended, but do you not see what a poor, helpless being I am, almost a stranger and an outcast in my father’s house, where even he is seldom seen; whose will has been thwarted, and spirits broken, from the age of ten years, beneath the iron rod so sternly held over me; oppressed, mortified, and persecuted, day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, no person has cared for, even observed my sufferings, nor have I ever breathed one word on the subject save to yourself. Outwardly and in the eyes of the world, I am surrounded by kindness and affection; but the reverse is the case. The general remark is, ‘Oh, it cannot be expected that one of so stern a character as M. Villefort could lavish the tenderness some fathers do on their daughters. What though she has lost her own mother at a tender age, she has had the happiness to find a second mother in Madame de Villefort.’ The world, however, is mistaken; my father abandons me from utter indifference, while my stepmother detests me with a hatred so much the more terrible because it is veiled beneath a continual smile.", "pos": 1241641}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Hate you, sweet Valentine, how is it possible for anyone to do that?", "pos": 1242764}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Alas. I am obliged to own that my stepmother’s aversion to me arises from a very natural source—her overweening love for her own child, my brother Edward.", "pos": 1242862}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "But why should it?", "pos": 1243047}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I do not know; but, though unwilling to introduce money matters into our present conversation, I will just say this much—that her extreme dislike to me has its origin there; and I much fear she envies me the fortune I enjoy in right of my mother, and which will be more than doubled at the death of M. and Mme. de Saint-Méran, whose sole heiress I am. Madame de Villefort has nothing of her own, and hates me for being so richly endowed. Alas, how gladly would I exchange the half of this wealth for the happiness of at least sharing my father’s love. God knows, I would prefer sacrificing the whole, so that it would obtain me a happy and affectionate home.", "pos": 1243068}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Poor Valentine!", "pos": 1243728}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I seem to myself as though living a life of bondage, yet at the same time am so conscious of my own weakness that I fear to break the restraint in which I am held, lest I fall utterly helpless. Then, too, my father is not a person whose orders may be infringed with impunity; protected as he is by his high position and firmly established reputation for talent and unswerving integrity, no one could oppose him; he is all-powerful even with the king; he would crush you at a word. Dear Maximilian, believe me when I assure you that if I do not attempt to resist my father’s commands it is more on your account than my own.", "pos": 1243746}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "But why, Valentine, do you persist in anticipating the worst,—why picture so gloomy a future?", "pos": 1244371}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Because I judge it from the past.", "pos": 1244467}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Still, consider that although I may not be, strictly speaking, what is termed an illustrious match for you, I am, for many reasons, not altogether so much beneath your alliance. The days when such distinctions were so nicely weighed and considered no longer exist in France, and the first families of the monarchy have intermarried with those of the empire. The aristocracy of the lance has allied itself with the nobility of the cannon. Now I belong to this last-named class; and certainly my prospects of military preferment are most encouraging as well as certain. My fortune, though small, is free and unfettered, and the memory of my late father is respected in our country, Valentine, as that of the most upright and honorable merchant of the city; I say our country, because you were born not far from Marseilles.", "pos": 1244503}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Don’t speak of Marseilles, I beg of you, Maximilian; that one word brings back my mother to my recollection—my angel mother, who died too soon for myself and all who knew her; but who, after watching over her child during the brief period allotted to her in this world, now, I fondly hope, watches from her home in heaven. Oh, if my mother were still living, there would be nothing to fear, Maximilian, for I would tell her that I loved you, and she would protect us.", "pos": 1245326}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I fear, Valentine, that were she living I should never have had the happiness of knowing you; you would then have been too happy to have stooped from your grandeur to bestow a thought on me.", "pos": 1245817}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Now it is you who are unjust, Maximilian, but there is one thing I wish to know.", "pos": 1246010}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "And what is that?", "pos": 1246112}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Tell me truly, Maximilian, whether in former days, when our fathers dwelt at Marseilles, there was ever any misunderstanding between them?", "pos": 1246193}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Not that I am aware of, unless, indeed, any ill-feeling might have arisen from their being of opposite parties—your father was, as you know, a zealous partisan of the Bourbons, while mine was wholly devoted to the emperor; there could not possibly be any other difference between them. But why do you ask?", "pos": 1246359}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I will tell you, for it is but right you should know. Well, on the day when your appointment as an officer of the Legion of Honor was announced in the papers, we were all sitting with my grandfather, M. Noirtier; M. Danglars was there also—you recollect M. Danglars, do you not, Maximilian, the banker, whose horses ran away with my stepmother and little brother, and very nearly killed them? While the rest of the company were discussing the approaching marriage of Mademoiselle Danglars, I was reading the paper to my grandfather; but when I came to the paragraph about you, although I had done nothing else but read it over to myself all the morning (you know you had told me all about it the previous evening), I felt so happy, and yet so nervous, at the idea of speaking your name aloud, and before so many people, that I really think I should have passed it over, but for the fear that my doing so might create suspicions as to the cause of my silence; so I summoned up all my courage, and read it as firmly and as steadily as I could. Dear Valentine! Well, would you believe it? directly my father caught the sound of your name he turned round quite hastily, and, like a poor silly thing, I was so persuaded that everyone must be as much affected as myself by the utterance of your name, that I was not surprised to see my father start, and almost tremble; but I even thought (though that surely must have been a mistake) that M. Danglars trembled too. Morrel, Morrel,’ cried my father, ‘stop a bit;’ then knitting his brows into a deep frown, he added, ‘surely this cannot be one of the Morrel family who lived at Marseilles, and gave us so much trouble from their violent Bonapartism—I mean about the year 1815. Yes,’ replied M. Danglars, ‘I believe he is the son of the old shipowner.", "pos": 1246693}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Indeed, and what did your father say then, Valentine?", "pos": 1248531}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, such a dreadful thing, that I don’t dare to tell you.", "pos": 1248587}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Always tell me everything.", "pos": 1248647}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Ah,’ continued my father, still frowning, ‘their idolized emperor treated these madmen as they deserved; he called them ‘food for cannon,’ which was precisely all they were good for; and I am delighted to see that the present government have adopted this salutary principle with all its pristine vigor; if Algiers were good for nothing but to furnish the means of carrying so admirable an idea into practice, it would be an acquisition well worthy of struggling to obtain. Though it certainly does cost France somewhat dear to assert her rights in that uncivilized country.", "pos": 1248707}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Brutal politics, I must confess. Why,’ said he, ‘does not the emperor, who has devised so many clever and efficient modes of improving the art of war, organize a regiment of lawyers, judges and legal practitioners, sending them in the hottest fire the enemy could maintain, and using them to save better men?", "pos": 1249284}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, he laughed, and in that singular manner so peculiar to himself—half-malicious, half-ferocious; he almost immediately got up and took his leave; then, for the first time, I observed the agitation of my grandfather, and I must tell you, Maximilian, that I am the only person capable of discerning emotion in his paralyzed frame. And I suspected that the conversation that had been carried on in his presence (for they always say and do what they like before the dear old man, without the smallest regard for his feelings) had made a strong impression on his mind; for, naturally enough, it must have pained him to hear the emperor he so devotedly loved and served spoken of in that depreciating manner.", "pos": 1249965}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "The name of M. Noirtier is celebrated throughout Europe; he was a statesman of high standing, and you may or may not know, Valentine, that he took a leading part in every Bonapartist conspiracy set on foot during the restoration of the Bourbons.", "pos": 1250698}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, I have often heard whispers of things that seem to me most strange—the father a Bonapartist, the son a Royalist; what can have been the reason of so singular a difference in parties and politics? But to resume my story; I turned towards my grandfather, as though to question him as to the cause of his emotion; he looked expressively at the newspaper I had been reading. ‘What is the matter, dear grandfather?’ said I, ‘are you pleased?’ He gave me a sign in the affirmative. ‘With what my father said just now?’ He returned a sign in the negative. ‘Perhaps you liked what M. Danglars said?’ Another sign in the negative. ‘Oh, then, you were glad to hear that M. Morrel (I didn’t dare to say Maximilian) had been made an officer of the Legion of Honor?’ He signified assent; only think of the poor old man’s being so pleased to think that you, who were a perfect stranger to him, had been made an officer of the Legion of Honor! Perhaps it was a mere whim on his part, for he is falling, they say, into second childhood, but I love him for showing so much interest in you.", "pos": 1250946}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "How singular, your father hates me, while your grandfather, on the contrary—What strange feelings are aroused by politics.", "pos": 1252048}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Hush, someone is coming!", "pos": 1252202}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Mademoiselle, mademoiselle!", "pos": 1252388}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Madame is searching for you everywhere; there is a visitor in the drawing-room.", "pos": 1252459}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "A visitor?", "pos": 1252541}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Some grand personage—a prince I believe they said—the Count of Monte Cristo.", "pos": 1252602}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I will come directly.", "pos": 1252681}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I am coming Now, then, I would give a good deal to know how it comes about that the Count of Monte Cristo is acquainted with M. de Villefort.", "pos": 1252854}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "My husband dines with the chancellor; he has just gone, and I am sure he’ll be exceedingly sorry not to have had the pleasure of seeing you before he went. What is your sister Valentine doing? tell someone to bid her come here, that I may have the honor of introducing her to the count.", "pos": 1254010}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You have a daughter, then, madame? very young, I presume?", "pos": 1254546}
{"speaker": "Master Edward", "text": "But melancholy,", "pos": 1254735}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Be still, Edward! This young madcap is, however, very nearly right, and merely re-echoes what he has heard me say with pain a hundred times; for Mademoiselle de Villefort is, in spite of all we can do to rouse her, of a melancholy disposition and taciturn habit, which frequently injure the effect of her beauty. But what detains her? Go, Edward, and see.", "pos": 1254954}
{"speaker": "Master Edward", "text": "Because they are looking for her where she is not to be found.", "pos": 1255330}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "And where are they looking for her?", "pos": 1255395}
{"speaker": "Master Edward", "text": "With grandpapa Noirtier.", "pos": 1255433}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "And do you think she is not there?", "pos": 1255460}
{"speaker": "Master Edward", "text": "No, no, no, no, no, she is not there. She is under the big chestnut-tree,", "pos": 1255497}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Mademoiselle de Villefort, my step-daughter,", "pos": 1256890}
{"speaker": "Master Edward", "text": "And M. de Monte Cristo, King of China, Emperor of Cochin-China,", "pos": 1257051}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But, madame, have I not already had the honor of meeting yourself and mademoiselle before? I could not help thinking so just now; the idea came over my mind, and as mademoiselle entered the sight of her was an additional ray of light thrown on a confused remembrance; excuse the remark.", "pos": 1257578}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "I do not think it likely, sir; Mademoiselle de Villefort is not very fond of society, and we very seldom go out,", "pos": 1257867}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then it was not in society that I met with mademoiselle or yourself, madame, or this charming little merry boy. Besides, the Parisian world is entirely unknown to me, for, as I believe I told you, I have been in Paris but very few days. No,—but, perhaps, you will permit me to call to mind—stay! No—it was somewhere—away from here—it was—I do not know—but it appears that this recollection is connected with a lovely sky and some religious fête; mademoiselle was holding flowers in her hand, the interesting boy was chasing a beautiful peacock in a garden, and you, madame, were under the trellis of some arbor. Pray come to my aid, madame; do not these circumstances appeal to your memory?", "pos": 1258003}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "No, indeed, and yet it appears to me, sir, that if I had met you anywhere, the recollection of you must have been imprinted on my memory.", "pos": 1258767}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Perhaps the count saw us in Italy,", "pos": 1258938}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, in Italy; it was in Italy most probably, you have travelled then in Italy, mademoiselle?", "pos": 1258999}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Yes; madame and I were there two years ago. The doctors, anxious for my lungs, had prescribed the air of Naples. We went by Bologna, Perugia, and Rome.", "pos": 1259119}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, yes—true, mademoiselle. It was at Perugia on Corpus Christi Day, in the garden of the Hôtel des Postes, when chance brought us together; you, Madame de Villefort, and her son; I now remember having had the honor of meeting you.", "pos": 1259273}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "I perfectly well remember Perugia, sir, and the Hôtel des Postes, and the festival of which you speak, but in vain do I tax my memory, of whose treachery I am ashamed, for I really do not recall to mind that I ever had the pleasure of seeing you before.", "pos": 1259615}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "It is strange, but neither do I recollect meeting with you,", "pos": 1259899}
{"speaker": "Master Edward", "text": "But I remember it perfectly,", "pos": 1260029}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I will assist your memory, madame; the day had been burning hot; you were waiting for horses, which were delayed in consequence of the festival. Mademoiselle was walking in the shade of the garden, and your son disappeared in pursuit of the peacock.", "pos": 1260091}
{"speaker": "Master Edward", "text": "And I caught it, mamma, don’t you remember? and I pulled three such beautiful feathers out of his tail.", "pos": 1260366}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You, madame, remained under the arbor; do you not remember, that while you were seated on a stone bench, and while, as I told you, Mademoiselle de Villefort and your young son were absent, you conversed for a considerable time with somebody?", "pos": 1260493}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Yes, in truth, yes. I do remember conversing with a person wrapped in a long woollen mantle; he was a medical man, I think.", "pos": 1260737}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Precisely so, madame; this man was myself; for a fortnight I had been at that hotel, during which period I had cured my valet de chambre of a fever, and my landlord of the jaundice, so that I really acquired a reputation as a skilful physician. We discoursed a long time, madame, on different subjects; of Perugino, of Raphael, of manners, customs, of the famous aqua Tofana, of which they had told you, I think you said, that certain individuals in Perugia had preserved the secret.", "pos": 1260908}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Yes, true. I remember now.", "pos": 1261394}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do not recollect now all the various subjects of which we discoursed, madame, but I perfectly remember that, falling into the error which others had entertained respecting me, you consulted me as to the health of Mademoiselle de Villefort.", "pos": 1261473}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Yes, really, sir, you were in fact a medical man, since you had cured the sick.", "pos": 1261762}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Molière or Beaumarchais would reply to you, madame, that it was precisely because I was not, that I had cured my patients; for myself, I am content to say to you that I have studied chemistry and the natural sciences somewhat deeply, but still only as an amateur, you understand.", "pos": 1261872}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "It is six o’clock. Valentine, will you not go and see if your grandpapa will have his dinner?", "pos": 1262190}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, madame,", "pos": 1262411}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "was it on my account that you sent Mademoiselle de Villefort away?", "pos": 1262475}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "By no means, but this is the hour when we usually give M. Noirtier the unwelcome meal that sustains his pitiful existence. You are aware, sir, of the deplorable condition of my husband’s father?", "pos": 1262544}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, madame, M. de Villefort spoke of it to me—a paralysis, I think.", "pos": 1262775}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Alas, yes; the poor old gentleman is entirely helpless; the mind alone is still active in this human machine, and that is faint and flickering, like the light of a lamp about to expire. But excuse me, sir, for talking of our domestic misfortunes; I interrupted you at the moment when you were telling me that you were a skilful chemist.", "pos": 1262846}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, madame, I did not say as much as that,", "pos": 1263185}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "quite the contrary. I have studied chemistry because, having determined to live in eastern climates I have been desirous of following the example of King Mithridates.", "pos": 1263262}
{"speaker": "Edward", "text": "Mithridates, rex Ponticus, the individual who took cream in his cup of poison every morning at breakfast.", "pos": 1263431}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Edward, you naughty boy, you are positively past bearing; you really disturb the conversation; go, leave us, and join your sister Valentine in dear grandpapa Noirtier’s room.", "pos": 1263624}
{"speaker": "Edward", "text": "The album,", "pos": 1263888}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "What do you mean?—the album!", "pos": 1263922}
{"speaker": "Edward", "text": "I want the album.", "pos": 1263953}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "How dare you tear out the drawings?", "pos": 1263973}
{"speaker": "Edward", "text": "Oh, it amuses me.", "pos": 1264011}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Go—go at once.", "pos": 1264031}
{"speaker": "Edward", "text": "I won’t go unless you give me the album,", "pos": 1264048}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Take it, then, and pray disturb us no longer,", "pos": 1264190}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let us see if she shuts the door after him,", "pos": 1264381}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Allow me to observe, madame, you are really very severe with that dear clever child. Oh, sometimes severity is quite necessary,", "pos": 1264664}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It was his Cornelius Nepos that Master Edward was repeating when he referred to King Mithridates,", "pos": 1264923}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and you interrupted him in a quotation which proves that his tutor has by no means neglected him, for your son is really advanced for his years.", "pos": 1265044}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "The fact is, count, he has great aptitude, and learns all that is set before him. He has but one fault, he is somewhat wilful; but really, on referring for the moment to what he said, do you truly believe that Mithridates used these precautions, and that these precautions were efficacious?", "pos": 1265191}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think so, madame, because I myself have made use of them, that I might not be poisoned at Naples, at Palermo, and at Smyrna—that is to say, on three several occasions when, but for these precautions, I must have lost my life.", "pos": 1265528}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "And your precautions were successful?", "pos": 1265758}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Completely so.", "pos": 1265798}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Yes, I remember now your mentioning to me at Perugia something of this sort.", "pos": 1265815}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Indeed?", "pos": 1265894}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I really did not remember.", "pos": 1265975}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "I inquired of you if poisons acted equally, and with the same effect, on men of the North as on men of the South; and you answered me that the cold and sluggish habits of the North did not present the same aptitude as the rich and energetic temperaments of the natives of the South.", "pos": 1266004}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And that is the case. I have seen Russians devour, without being visibly inconvenienced, vegetable substances which would infallibly have killed a Neapolitan or an Arab.", "pos": 1266289}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "And you really believe the result would be still more sure with us than in the East, and in the midst of our fogs and rains a man would habituate himself more easily than in a warm latitude to this progressive absorption of poison?", "pos": 1266486}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly; it being at the same time perfectly understood that he should have been duly fortified against the poison to which he had not been accustomed.", "pos": 1266720}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Yes, I understand that; and how would you habituate yourself, for instance, or rather, how did you habituate yourself to it?", "pos": 1266876}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, very easily. Suppose you knew beforehand the poison that would be made use of against you; suppose the poison was, for instance, brucine——", "pos": 1267003}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Brucine is extracted from the false angostura8 is it not?", "pos": 1267148}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Precisely, madame, but I perceive I have not much to teach you. Allow me to compliment you on your knowledge; such learning is very rare among ladies.", "pos": 1267238}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Oh, I am aware of that, but I have a passion for the occult sciences, which speak to the imagination like poetry, and are reducible to figures, like an algebraic equation; but go on, I beg of you; what you say interests me to the greatest degree.", "pos": 1267415}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, suppose, then, that this poison was brucine, and you were to take a milligramme the first day, two milligrammes the second day, and so on. Well, at the end of ten days you would have taken a centigramme, at the end of twenty days, increasing another milligramme, you would have taken three hundred centigrammes; that is to say, a dose which you would support without inconvenience, and which would be very dangerous for any other person who had not taken the same precautions as yourself. Well, then, at the end of a month, when drinking water from the same carafe, you would kill the person who drank with you, without your perceiving, otherwise than from slight inconvenience, that there was any poisonous substance mingled with this water.", "pos": 1267699}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Do you know any other counter-poisons?", "pos": 1268473}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not.", "pos": 1268514}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "I have often read, and read again, the history of Mithridates, and had always considered it a fable.", "pos": 1268526}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, madame, contrary to most history, it is true; but what you tell me, madame, what you inquire of me, is not the result of a chance query, for two years ago you asked me the same questions, and said then, that for a very long time this history of Mithridates had occupied your mind.", "pos": 1268681}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "True, sir. The two favorite studies of my youth were botany and mineralogy, and subsequently, when I learned that the use of simples frequently explained the whole history of a people, and the entire life of individuals in the East, as flowers betoken and symbolize a love affair, I have regretted that I was not a man, that I might have been a Flamel, a Fontana, or a Cabanis.", "pos": 1268968}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And the more, madame, as the Orientals do not confine themselves, as did Mithridates, to make a cuirass of his poisons, but they also made them a dagger. Science becomes, in their hands, not only a defensive weapon, but still more frequently an offensive one; the one serves against all their physical sufferings, the other against all their enemies. With opium, belladonna, brucea, snake-wood, and the cherry-laurel, they put to sleep all who stand in their way. There is not one of those women, Egyptian, Turkish, or Greek, whom here you call ‘good women,’ who do not know how, by means of chemistry, to stupefy a doctor, and in psychology to amaze a confessor.", "pos": 1269348}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Really,", "pos": 1270035}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, yes, indeed, madame, the secret dramas of the East begin with a love philtre and end with a death potion—begin with paradise and end with—hell. There are as many elixirs of every kind as there are caprices and peculiarities in the physical and moral nature of humanity; and I will say further—the art of these chemists is capable with the utmost precision to accommodate and proportion the remedy and the bane to yearnings for love or desires for vengeance.", "pos": 1270131}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "But, sir, these Eastern societies, in the midst of which you have passed a portion of your existence, are as fantastic as the tales that come from their strange land. A man can easily be put out of the way there, then; it is, indeed, the Bagdad and Bassora of the Thousand and One Nights. The sultans and viziers who rule over society there, and who constitute what in France we call the government, are really Haroun-al-Raschids and Giaffars, who not only pardon a poisoner, but even make him a prime minister, if his crime has been an ingenious one, and who, under such circumstances, have the whole story written in letters of gold, to divert their hours of idleness and ennui.", "pos": 1270621}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "By no means, madame; the fanciful exists no longer in the East. There, disguised under other names, and concealed under other costumes, are police agents, magistrates, attorneys-general, and bailiffs. They hang, behead, and impale their criminals in the most agreeable possible manner; but some of these, like clever rogues, have contrived to escape human justice, and succeed in their fraudulent enterprises by cunning stratagems. Amongst us a simpleton, possessed by the demon of hate or cupidity, who has an enemy to destroy, or some near relation to dispose of, goes straight to the grocer’s or druggist’s, gives a false name, which leads more easily to his detection than his real one, and under the pretext that the rats prevent him from sleeping, purchases five or six grammes of arsenic—if he is really a cunning fellow, he goes to five or six different druggists or grocers, and thereby becomes only five or six times more easily traced;—then, when he has acquired his specific, he administers duly to his enemy, or near kinsman, a dose of arsenic which would make a mammoth or mastodon burst, and which, without rhyme or reason, makes his victim utter groans which alarm the entire neighborhood. Then arrive a crowd of policemen and constables. They fetch a doctor, who opens the dead body, and collects from the entrails and stomach a quantity of arsenic in a spoon. Next day a hundred newspapers relate the fact, with the names of the victim and the murderer. The same evening the grocer or grocers, druggist or druggists, come and say, ‘It was I who sold the arsenic to the gentleman;’ and rather than not recognize the guilty purchaser, they will recognize twenty. Then the foolish criminal is taken, imprisoned, interrogated, confronted, confounded, condemned, and cut off by hemp or steel; or if she be a woman of any consideration, they lock her up for life. This is the way in which you Northerns understand chemistry, madame. Desrues was, however, I must confess, more skilful.", "pos": 1271332}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "What would you have, sir? we do what we can. All the world has not the secret of the Medicis or the Borgias.", "pos": 1273331}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now,", "pos": 1273469}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "shall I tell you the cause of all these stupidities? It is because, at your theatres, by what at least I could judge by reading the pieces they play, they see persons swallow the contents of a phial, or suck the button of a ring, and fall dead instantly. Five minutes afterwards the curtain falls, and the spectators depart. They are ignorant of the consequences of the murder; they see neither the police commissary with his badge of office, nor the corporal with his four men; and so the poor fools believe that the whole thing is as easy as lying. But go a little way from France—go either to Aleppo or Cairo, or only to Naples or Rome, and you will see people passing by you in the streets—people erect, smiling, and fresh-colored, of whom Asmodeus, if you were holding on by the skirt of his mantle, would say, ‘That man was poisoned three weeks ago; he will be a dead man in a month.’", "pos": 1273520}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Then, they have again discovered the secret of the famous aqua Tofana that they said was lost at Perugia.", "pos": 1274413}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, but madame, does mankind ever lose anything? The arts change about and make a tour of the world; things take a different name, and the vulgar do not follow them—that is all; but there is always the same result. Poisons act particularly on some organ or another—one on the stomach, another on the brain, another on the intestines. Well, the poison brings on a cough, the cough an inflammation of the lungs, or some other complaint catalogued in the book of science, which, however, by no means precludes it from being decidedly mortal; and if it were not, would be sure to become so, thanks to the remedies applied by foolish doctors, who are generally bad chemists, and which will act in favor of or against the malady, as you please; and then there is a human being killed according to all the rules of art and skill, and of whom justice learns nothing, as was said by a terrible chemist of my acquaintance, the worthy Abbé Adelmonte of Taormina, in Sicily, who has studied these national phenomena very profoundly.", "pos": 1274553}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "It is quite frightful, but deeply interesting. I thought, I must confess, that these tales, were inventions of the Middle Ages.", "pos": 1275576}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, no doubt, but improved upon by ours. What is the use of time, rewards of merit, medals, crosses, Monthyon prizes, if they do not lead society towards more complete perfection? Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.", "pos": 1275756}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "So, the poisons of the Borgias, the Medicis, the Renées, the Ruggieris, and later, probably, that of Baron de Trenck, whose story has been so misused by modern drama and romance——", "pos": 1276066}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Were objects of art, madame, and nothing more,", "pos": 1276313}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you suppose that the real savant addresses himself stupidly to the mere individual? By no means. Science loves eccentricities, leaps and bounds, trials of strength, fancies, if I may be allowed so to term them. Thus, for instance, the excellent Abbé Adelmonte, of whom I spoke just now, made in this way some marvellous experiments.", "pos": 1276381}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Really?", "pos": 1276719}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; I will mention one to you. He had a remarkably fine garden, full of vegetables, flowers, and fruit. From amongst these vegetables he selected the most simple—a cabbage, for instance. For three days he watered this cabbage with a distillation of arsenic; on the third, the cabbage began to droop and turn yellow. At that moment he cut it. In the eyes of everybody it seemed fit for table, and preserved its wholesome appearance. It was only poisoned to the Abbé Adelmonte. He then took the cabbage to the room where he had rabbits—for the Abbé Adelmonte had a collection of rabbits, cats, and guinea-pigs, fully as fine as his collection of vegetables, flowers, and fruit. Well, the Abbé Adelmonte took a rabbit, and made it eat a leaf of the cabbage. The rabbit died. What magistrate would find, or even venture to insinuate, anything against this? What procureur has ever ventured to draw up an accusation against M. Magendie or M. Flourens, in consequence of the rabbits, cats, and guinea-pigs they have killed?—not one. So, then, the rabbit dies, and justice takes no notice. This rabbit dead, the Abbé Adelmonte has its entrails taken out by his cook and thrown on the dunghill; on this dunghill is a hen, who, pecking these intestines, is in her turn taken ill, and dies next day. At the moment when she is struggling in the convulsions of death, a vulture is flying by (there are a good many vultures in Adelmonte’s country); this bird darts on the dead fowl, and carries it away to a rock, where it dines off its prey. Three days afterwards, this poor vulture, which has been very much indisposed since that dinner, suddenly feels very giddy while flying aloft in the clouds, and falls heavily into a fish-pond. The pike, eels, and carp eat greedily always, as everybody knows—well, they feast on the vulture. Now suppose that next day, one of these eels, or pike, or carp, poisoned at the fourth remove, is served up at your table. Well, then, your guest will be poisoned at the fifth remove, and die, at the end of eight or ten days, of pains in the intestines, sickness, or abscess of the pylorus. The doctors open the body and say with an air of profound learning, ‘The subject has died of a tumor on the liver, or of typhoid fever!’", "pos": 1276729}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "But, all these circumstances which you link thus to one another may be broken by the least accident; the vulture may not see the fowl, or may fall a hundred yards from the fish-pond.", "pos": 1278981}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, that is where the art comes in. To be a great chemist in the East, one must direct chance; and this is to be achieved.", "pos": 1279198}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "But, arsenic is indelible, indestructible; in whatsoever way it is absorbed, it will be found again in the body of the victim from the moment when it has been taken in sufficient quantity to cause death.", "pos": 1279390}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Precisely so, precisely so; and this is what I said to my worthy Adelmonte. He reflected, smiled, and replied to me by a Sicilian proverb, which I believe is also a French proverb, ‘My son, the world was not made in a day—but in seven. Return on Sunday.’ On the Sunday following I did return to him. Instead of having watered his cabbage with arsenic, he had watered it this time with a solution of salts, having their basis in strychnine, strychnos colubrina, as the learned term it. Now, the cabbage had not the slightest appearance of disease in the world, and the rabbit had not the smallest distrust; yet, five minutes afterwards, the rabbit was dead. The fowl pecked at the rabbit, and the next day was a dead hen. This time we were the vultures; so we opened the bird, and this time all special symptoms had disappeared, there were only general symptoms. There was no peculiar indication in any organ—an excitement of the nervous system—that was it; a case of cerebral congestion—nothing more. The fowl had not been poisoned—she had died of apoplexy. Apoplexy is a rare disease among fowls, I believe, but very common among men.", "pos": 1279623}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "It is very fortunate, that such substances could only be prepared by chemists; otherwise, all the world would be poisoning each other.", "pos": 1280836}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "By chemists and persons who have a taste for chemistry,", "pos": 1280989}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "And then, however skilfully it is prepared, crime is always crime, and if it avoid human scrutiny, it does not escape the eye of God. The Orientals are stronger than we are in cases of conscience, and, very prudently, have no hell—that is the point.", "pos": 1281077}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Really, madame, this is a scruple which naturally must occur to a pure mind like yours, but which would easily yield before sound reasoning. The bad side of human thought will always be defined by the paradox of Jean Jacques Rousseau,—you remember,—the mandarin who is killed five hundred leagues off by raising the tip of the finger. Man’s whole life passes in doing these things, and his intellect is exhausted by reflecting on them. You will find very few persons who will go and brutally thrust a knife in the heart of a fellow-creature, or will administer to him, in order to remove him from the surface of the globe on which we move with life and animation, that quantity of arsenic of which we just now talked. Such a thing is really out of rule—eccentric or stupid. To attain such a point, the blood must be heated to thirty-six degrees, the pulse be, at least, at ninety, and the feelings excited beyond the ordinary limit. But suppose one pass, as is permissible in philology, from the word itself to its softened synonym, then, instead of committing an ignoble assassination you make an ‘elimination;’ you merely and simply remove from your path the individual who is in your way, and that without shock or violence, without the display of the sufferings which, in the case of becoming a punishment, make a martyr of the victim, and a butcher, in every sense of the word, of him who inflicts them. Then there will be no blood, no groans, no convulsions, and above all, no consciousness of that horrid and compromising moment of accomplishing the act,—then one escapes the clutch of the human law, which says, ‘Do not disturb society!’ This is the mode in which they manage these things, and succeed in Eastern climes, where there are grave and phlegmatic persons who care very little for the questions of time in conjunctures of importance.", "pos": 1281439}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Yet conscience remains,", "pos": 1283293}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, happily, yes, conscience does remain; and if it did not, how wretched we should be! After every action requiring exertion, it is conscience that saves us, for it supplies us with a thousand good excuses, of which we alone are judges; and these reasons, howsoever excellent in producing sleep, would avail us but very little before a tribunal, when we were tried for our lives. Thus Richard III., for instance, was marvellously served by his conscience after the putting away of the two children of Edward IV.; in fact, he could say, ‘These two children of a cruel and persecuting king, who have inherited the vices of their father, which I alone could perceive in their juvenile propensities—these two children are impediments in my way of promoting the happiness of the English people, whose unhappiness they (the children) would infallibly have caused.’ Thus was Lady Macbeth served by her conscience, when she sought to give her son, and not her husband (whatever Shakespeare may say), a throne. Ah, maternal love is a great virtue, a powerful motive—so powerful that it excuses a multitude of things, even if, after Duncan’s death, Lady Macbeth had been at all pricked by her conscience.", "pos": 1283395}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Do you know, my dear count, that you are a very terrible reasoner, and that you look at the world through a somewhat distempered medium? Have you really measured the world by scrutinies, or through alembics and crucibles? For you must indeed be a great chemist, and the elixir you administered to my son, which recalled him to life almost instantaneously——", "pos": 1284835}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, do not place any reliance on that, madame; one drop of that elixir sufficed to recall life to a dying child, but three drops would have impelled the blood into his lungs in such a way as to have produced most violent palpitations; six would have suspended his respiration, and caused syncope more serious than that in which he was; ten would have destroyed him. You know, madame, how suddenly I snatched him from those phials which he so imprudently touched?", "pos": 1285213}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Is it then so terrible a poison?", "pos": 1285678}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, no! In the first place, let us agree that the word poison does not exist, because in medicine use is made of the most violent poisons, which become, according as they are employed, most salutary remedies.", "pos": 1285713}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "What, then, is it?", "pos": 1285924}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A skilful preparation of my friend’s the worthy Abbé Adelmonte, who taught me the use of it.", "pos": 1285945}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Oh, it must be an admirable anti-spasmodic.", "pos": 1286040}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Perfect, madame, as you have seen, and I frequently make use of it—with all possible prudence though, be it observed,", "pos": 1286118}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Most assuredly. As for me, so nervous, and so subject to fainting fits, I should require a Doctor Adelmonte to invent for me some means of breathing freely and tranquillizing my mind, in the fear I have of dying some fine day of suffocation. In the meanwhile, as the thing is difficult to find in France, and your abbé is not probably disposed to make a journey to Paris on my account, I must continue to use Monsieur Planche’s anti-spasmodics; and mint and Hoffman’s drops are among my favorite remedies. Here are some lozenges which I have made up on purpose; they are compounded doubly strong.", "pos": 1286298}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "They are indeed exquisite, but as they are necessarily submitted to the process of deglutition—a function which it is frequently impossible for a fainting person to accomplish—I prefer my own specific.", "pos": 1287134}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Undoubtedly, and so should I prefer it, after the effects I have seen produced; but of course it is a secret, and I am not so indiscreet as to ask it of you.", "pos": 1287349}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But I. I am gallant enough to offer it you.", "pos": 1287509}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "How kind you are.", "pos": 1287602}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Only remember one thing—a small dose is a remedy, a large one is poison. One drop will restore life, as you have seen; five or six will inevitably kill, and in a way the more terrible inasmuch as, poured into a glass of wine, it would not in the slightest degree affect its flavor. But I say no more, madame; it is really as if I were prescribing for you.", "pos": 1287622}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "If I had had the honor of seeing you for the third or fourth time, count, instead of only for the second, if I had had the honor of being your friend, instead of only having the happiness of being under an obligation to you, I should insist on detaining you to dinner, and not allow myself to be daunted by a first refusal.", "pos": 1288098}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A thousand thanks, madame, but I have an engagement which I cannot break. I have promised to escort to the Académie a Greek princess of my acquaintance who has never seen your grand opera, and who relies on me to conduct her thither.", "pos": 1288452}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Adieu, then, sir, and do not forget the prescription.", "pos": 1288711}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, in truth, madame, to do that I must forget the hour’s conversation I have had with you, which is indeed impossible.", "pos": 1288767}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "He is a very strange man, and in my opinion is himself the Adelmonte he talks about.", "pos": 1288979}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Good, this is a fruitful soil, and I feel certain that the seed sown will not be cast on barren ground.", "pos": 1289147}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Surely, that must be the Countess G——.", "pos": 1292081}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "And who is the Countess G——?", "pos": 1292186}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What a question! Now, do you know, baron, I have a great mind to pick a quarrel with you for asking it; as if all the world did not know who the Countess G—— was.", "pos": 1292242}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Ah, to be sure, the lovely Venetian, is it not?", "pos": 1292407}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Herself.", "pos": 1292483}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "You know her, it seems?", "pos": 1292582}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Franz introduced me to her at Rome,", "pos": 1292629}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Well, then, will you do as much for me in Paris as Franz did for you in Rome?", "pos": 1292683}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "With pleasure.", "pos": 1292763}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Shut up!", "pos": 1292799}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "The countess was present at the races in the Champ-de-Mars,", "pos": 1293015}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Today?", "pos": 1293098}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1293107}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Bless me, I quite forgot the races. Did you bet?", "pos": 1293114}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Oh, merely a paltry fifty louis.", "pos": 1293165}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And who was the winner?", "pos": 1293200}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Nautilus. I staked on him.", "pos": 1293226}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But there were three races, were there not?", "pos": 1293255}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Yes; there was the prize given by the Jockey Club—a gold cup, you know—and a very singular circumstance occurred about that race.", "pos": 1293301}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What was it?", "pos": 1293433}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, shut up!", "pos": 1293448}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Why, it was won by a horse and rider utterly unknown on the course.", "pos": 1293502}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Is that possible?", "pos": 1293572}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "True as day. The fact was, nobody had observed a horse entered by the name of Vampa, or that of a jockey styled Job, when, at the last moment, a splendid roan, mounted by a jockey about as big as your fist, presented themselves at the starting-post. They were obliged to stuff at least twenty pounds weight of shot in the small rider’s pockets, to make him weight; but with all that he outstripped Ariel and Barbare, against whom he ran, by at least three whole lengths.", "pos": 1293592}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And was it not found out at last to whom the horse and jockey belonged?", "pos": 1294065}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "No.", "pos": 1294139}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You say that the horse was entered under the name of Vampa?", "pos": 1294145}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Exactly; that was the title.", "pos": 1294207}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Then. I am better informed than you are, and know who the owner of that horse was.", "pos": 1294238}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Shut up, there!", "pos": 1294342}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Ha, ha, here come some friends of yours, viscount! What are you looking at there? don’t you see they are trying to catch your eye? I tell you what, my dear fellow. I cannot imagine what objection you can possibly have to Mademoiselle Danglars—that is, setting aside her want of ancestry and somewhat inferior rank, which by the way I don’t think you care very much about. Now, barring all that, I mean to say she is a deuced fine girl!", "pos": 1295123}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Handsome, certainly, but not to my taste, which I confess, inclines to something softer, gentler, and more feminine.", "pos": 1295835}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Ah, well, you young people are never satisfied; why, what would you have more? your parents have chosen you a bride built on the model of Diana, the huntress, and yet you are not content.", "pos": 1295972}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No, for that very resemblance affrights me; I should have liked something more in the manner of the Venus of Milo or Capua; but this chase-loving Diana, continually surrounded by her nymphs, gives me a sort of alarm lest she should some day bring on me the fate of Actæon.", "pos": 1296332}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "So we meet again, my travelling friend, do we? it was really very good of you to recognize me so quickly, and still more so to bestow your first visit on me.", "pos": 1300327}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Be assured, that if I had been aware of your arrival in Paris, and had known your address, I should have paid my respects to you before this. Allow me to introduce my friend, Baron de Château-Renaud, one of the few true gentlemen now to be found in France, and from whom I have just learned that you were a spectator of the races in the Champ-de-Mars, yesterday.", "pos": 1300594}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "So you were at the races, baron?", "pos": 1301015}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Yes, madame.", "pos": 1301081}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Well, then, you can probably tell me who won the Jockey Club stakes?", "pos": 1301096}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "I am sorry to say I cannot,", "pos": 1301217}
{"speaker": "Baron de Château-Renaud", "text": "and I was just asking the same question of Albert.", "pos": 1301266}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Are you very anxious to know, countess?", "pos": 1301319}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "To know what?", "pos": 1301375}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "The name of the owner of the winning horse?", "pos": 1301391}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Excessively; only imagine—but do tell me, viscount, whether you really are acquainted with it or no?", "pos": 1301437}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I beg your pardon, madame, but you were about to relate some story, were you not? You said, ‘only imagine,’—and then paused. Pray continue.", "pos": 1301540}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Well, then, listen. You must know I felt so interested in the splendid roan horse, with his elegant little rider, so tastefully dressed in a pink satin jacket and cap, that I could not help praying for their success with as much earnestness as though the half of my fortune were at stake; and when I saw them outstrip all the others, and come to the winning-post in such gallant style, I actually clapped my hands with joy. Imagine my surprise, when, upon returning home, the first object I met on the staircase was the identical jockey in the pink jacket! I concluded that, by some singular chance, the owner of the winning horse must live in the same hotel as myself; but, as I entered my apartments, I beheld the very gold cup awarded as a prize to the unknown horse and rider. Inside the cup was a small piece of paper, on which were written these words—‘From Lord Ruthven to Countess G——.’", "pos": 1301682}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Precisely; I was sure of it. Sure of what? That the owner of the horse was Lord Ruthven himself.", "pos": 1302579}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "What Lord Ruthven do you mean?", "pos": 1302696}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Why, our Lord Ruthven—the Vampire of the Salle Argentina!", "pos": 1302729}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Is it possible? is he here in Paris?", "pos": 1302789}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "To be sure,—why not?", "pos": 1302854}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "And you visit him?—meet him at your own house and elsewhere?", "pos": 1302877}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I assure you he is my most intimate friend, and M. de Château-Renaud has also the honor of his acquaintance.", "pos": 1302940}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "But why are you so sure of his being the winner of the Jockey Club prize?", "pos": 1303051}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Was not the winning horse entered by the name of Vampa?", "pos": 1303127}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "What of that?", "pos": 1303185}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Why, do you not recollect the name of the celebrated bandit by whom I was made prisoner?", "pos": 1303201}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Oh, yes.", "pos": 1303292}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And from whose hands the count extricated me in so wonderful a manner?", "pos": 1303303}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "To be sure, I remember it all now.", "pos": 1303376}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "He called himself Vampa. You see, it’s evident where the count got the name.", "pos": 1303413}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "But what could have been his motive for sending the cup to me?", "pos": 1303492}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "In the first place, because I had spoken much of you to him, as you may believe; and in the second, because he delighted to see a countrywoman take so lively an interest in his success.", "pos": 1303557}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "I trust and hope you never repeated to the count all the foolish remarks we used to make about him?", "pos": 1303745}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I should not like to affirm upon oath that I have not. Besides, his presenting you the cup under the name of Lord Ruthven——", "pos": 1303847}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Oh, but that is dreadful! Why, the man must owe me a fearful grudge.", "pos": 1303973}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Does his action appear like that of an enemy?", "pos": 1304044}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "No; certainly not.", "pos": 1304092}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, then——", "pos": 1304113}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "And so he is in Paris?", "pos": 1304128}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1304153}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "And what effect does he produce?", "pos": 1304160}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Why, he was talked about for a week; then the coronation of the queen of England took place, followed by the theft of Mademoiselle Mars’s diamonds; and so people talked of something else.", "pos": 1304210}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "the count is your friend and you treat him accordingly. Do not believe what Albert is telling you, countess; so far from the sensation excited in the Parisian circles by the appearance of the Count of Monte Cristo having abated, I take upon myself to declare that it is as strong as ever. His first astounding act upon coming amongst us was to present a pair of horses, worth 32,000 francs, to Madame Danglars; his second, the almost miraculous preservation of Madame de Villefort’s life; now it seems that he has carried off the prize awarded by the Jockey Club. I therefore maintain, in spite of Morcerf, that not only is the count the object of interest at this present moment, but also that he will continue to be so for a month longer if he pleases to exhibit an eccentricity of conduct which, after all, may be his ordinary mode of existence.", "pos": 1304439}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Perhaps you are right, meanwhile, who is in the Russian ambassador’s box?", "pos": 1305290}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Which box do you mean?", "pos": 1305382}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "The one between the pillars on the first tier—it seems to have been fitted up entirely afresh.", "pos": 1305427}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Did you observe anyone during the first act?", "pos": 1305524}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Where?", "pos": 1305593}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "In that box.", "pos": 1305602}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "No, it was certainly empty during the first act; And so you really believe it was your mysterious Count of Monte Cristo that gained the prize?", "pos": 1305617}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I am sure of it.", "pos": 1305857}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "And who afterwards sent the cup to me?", "pos": 1305876}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Undoubtedly.", "pos": 1305917}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "But I don’t know him. I have a great mind to return it.", "pos": 1305932}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Do no such thing, I beg of you; he would only send you another, formed of a magnificent sapphire, or hollowed out of a gigantic ruby. It is his way, and you must take him as you find him.", "pos": 1306011}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Shall I see you again?", "pos": 1306328}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "At the end of the next act, with your permission, I will come and inquire whether there is anything I can do for you in Paris?", "pos": 1306373}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "Pray take notice, that my present residence is 22 Rue de Rivoli, and that I am at home to my friends every Saturday evening. So now, you are both forewarned.", "pos": 1306502}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Hullo, it is Monte Cristo and his Greek!", "pos": 1307160}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Upon my word. Paris is a strange city, and the Parisians a very singular people. See that cluster of persons collected around poor Ali, who is as much astonished as themselves; really one might suppose he was the only Nubian they had ever beheld. Now I can promise you, that a Frenchman might show himself in public, either in Tunis, Constantinople, Bagdad, or Cairo, without being treated in that way.", "pos": 1314725}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "That shows that the Eastern nations have too much good sense to waste their time and attention on objects undeserving of either. However, as far as Ali is concerned, I can assure you, the interest he excites is merely from the circumstance of his being your attendant—you, who are at this moment the most celebrated and fashionable person in Paris.", "pos": 1315151}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Really? and what has procured me so flattering a distinction?", "pos": 1315502}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What? why, yourself, to be sure! You give away horses worth a thousand louis; you save the lives of ladies of high rank and beauty; under the name of Major Black you run thoroughbreds ridden by tiny urchins not larger than marmots; then, when you have carried off the golden trophy of victory, instead of setting any value on it, you give it to the first handsome woman you think of!", "pos": 1315566}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And who has filled your head with all this nonsense?", "pos": 1315952}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Why, in the first place, I heard it from Madame Danglars, who, by the by, is dying to see you in her box, or to have you seen there by others; secondly, I learned it from Beauchamp’s journal; and thirdly, from my own imagination. Why, if you sought concealment, did you call your horse Vampa?", "pos": 1316007}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That was an oversight, certainly, but tell me, does the Count of Morcerf never visit the Opera? I have been looking for him, but without success.", "pos": 1316302}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "He will be here tonight.", "pos": 1316471}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In what part of the house?", "pos": 1316498}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "In the baroness’s box, I believe.", "pos": 1316527}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That charming young woman with her is her daughter?", "pos": 1316563}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1316617}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I congratulate you.", "pos": 1316624}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "We will discuss that subject at length some future time. But what do you think of the music?", "pos": 1316662}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What music?", "pos": 1316768}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Why, the music you have been listening to.", "pos": 1316782}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, it is well enough as the production of a human composer, sung by featherless bipeds, to quote the late Diogenes.", "pos": 1316827}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "From which it would seem, my dear count, that you can at pleasure enjoy the seraphic strains that proceed from the seven choirs of paradise?", "pos": 1316946}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are right, in some degree; when I wish to listen to sounds more exquisitely attuned to melody than mortal ear ever yet listened to, I go to sleep.", "pos": 1317096}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Then sleep here, my dear count. The conditions are favorable; what else was opera invented for?", "pos": 1317249}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, thank you. Your orchestra is too noisy. To sleep after the manner I speak of, absolute calm and silence are necessary, and then a certain preparation——", "pos": 1317347}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I know—the famous hashish!", "pos": 1317504}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Precisely. So, my dear viscount, whenever you wish to be regaled with music come and sup with me.", "pos": 1317533}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I have already enjoyed that treat when breakfasting with you,", "pos": 1317633}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do you mean at Rome?", "pos": 1317711}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I do.", "pos": 1317734}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, then, I suppose you heard Haydée’s guzla; the poor exile frequently beguiles a weary hour in playing over to me the airs of her native land. You will excuse my leaving you,", "pos": 1317742}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What? Are you going?", "pos": 1318125}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Pray, say everything that is kind to Countess G—— on the part of her friend the vampire.", "pos": 1318148}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And what message shall I convey to the baroness!", "pos": 1318239}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That, with her permission, I shall do myself the honor of paying my respects in the course of the evening.", "pos": 1318290}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "You are welcome, count! I have been most anxious to see you, that I might repeat orally the thanks writing can so ill express.", "pos": 1319654}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Surely so trifling a circumstance cannot deserve a place in your remembrance. Believe me, madame, I had entirely forgotten it.", "pos": 1319815}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "But it is not so easy to forget, monsieur, that the very next day after your princely gift you saved the life of my dear friend, Madame de Villefort, which was endangered by the very animals your generosity restored to me.", "pos": 1319944}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "This time, at least, I do not deserve your thanks. It was Ali, my Nubian slave, who rendered this service to Madame de Villefort.", "pos": 1320176}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "Was it Ali,", "pos": 1320308}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "in this instance I may fairly and freely accept your thanks; but you have already tendered them, and fully discharged your debt—if indeed there existed one—and I feel almost mortified to find you still reverting to the subject. May I beg of you, baroness, to honor me with an introduction to your daughter?", "pos": 1320480}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Oh, you are no stranger—at least not by name, and the last two or three days we have really talked of nothing but you. Eugénie, this is the Count of Monte Cristo.", "pos": 1320789}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "You have a charming young person with you tonight, count. Is she your daughter?", "pos": 1321106}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, mademoiselle. She is a poor unfortunate Greek left under my care.", "pos": 1321204}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "And what is her name?", "pos": 1321353}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Haydée,", "pos": 1321377}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "A Greek?", "pos": 1321409}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "and tell me, did you ever see at the court of Ali Tepelini, whom you so gloriously and valiantly served, a more exquisite beauty or richer costume?", "pos": 1321495}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Did I hear rightly, monsieur, that you served at Yanina?", "pos": 1321645}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "I was inspector-general of the pasha’s troops, and it is no secret that I owe my fortune, such as it is, to the liberality of the illustrious Albanese chief.", "pos": 1321724}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Where?", "pos": 1321942}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "what has happened to your ward? she seems to have been taken suddenly ill.", "pos": 1322532}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Very probably. But do not be alarmed on her account. Haydée’s nervous system is delicately organized, and she is peculiarly susceptible to the odors even of flowers—nay, there are some which cause her to faint if brought into her presence. However. I have an infallible remedy.", "pos": 1322608}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Who was it you were talking with over there?", "pos": 1323264}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "With the Count of Morcerf. He tells me he served your illustrious father, and that he owes his fortune to him.", "pos": 1323322}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Wretch! he sold my father to the Turks, and the fortune he boasts of was the price of his treachery! Did not you know that, my dear lord?", "pos": 1323460}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Something of this I heard in Epirus, but the particulars are still unknown to me. You shall relate them to me, my child. They are, no doubt, both curious and interesting.", "pos": 1323649}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Yes, yes; but let us go. I feel as though it would kill me to remain long near that dreadful man.", "pos": 1323843}
{"speaker": "Countess G——", "text": "that man does nothing like other people; he listens most devoutly to the third act of Robert le Diable, and when the fourth begins, takes his departure.", "pos": 1324230}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are in constant communication with the Baron Danglars?", "pos": 1325772}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, count, you know what I told you?", "pos": 1325874}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "It is more than ever a settled thing,", "pos": 1325961}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah. I did not expect that the affair would be so promptly concluded.", "pos": 1326258}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Oh, things take their course without our assistance. While we are forgetting them, they are falling into their appointed order; and when, again, our attention is directed to them, we are surprised at the progress they have made towards the proposed end. My father and M. Danglars served together in Spain, my father in the army and M. Danglars in the commissariat department. It was there that my father, ruined by the revolution, and M. Danglars, who never had possessed any patrimony, both laid the foundations of their different fortunes.", "pos": 1326349}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes. I think M. Danglars mentioned that in a visit which I paid him; and. Mademoiselle Eugénie is pretty—I think I remember that to be her name.", "pos": 1326893}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Very pretty, or rather, very beautiful, but of that style of beauty which I do not appreciate; I am an ungrateful fellow.", "pos": 1327154}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You speak as if you were already her husband.", "pos": 1327296}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah,", "pos": 1327344}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Really, you do not appear to me to be very enthusiastic on the subject of this marriage.", "pos": 1327424}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Mademoiselle Danglars is too rich for me, and that frightens me.", "pos": 1327556}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Bah, that’s a fine reason to give. Are you not rich yourself?", "pos": 1327642}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My father’s income is about 50,000 francs per annum; and he will give me, perhaps, ten or twelve thousand when I marry.", "pos": 1327732}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That, perhaps, might not be considered a large sum, in Paris especially, but everything does not depend on wealth, and it is a fine thing to have a good name, and to occupy a high station in society. Your name is celebrated, your position magnificent; and then the Comte de Morcerf is a soldier, and it is pleasing to see the integrity of a Bayard united to the poverty of a Duguesclin; disinterestedness is the brightest ray in which a noble sword can shine. As for me, I consider the union with Mademoiselle Danglars a most suitable one; she will enrich you, and you will ennoble her.", "pos": 1327854}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "There is still something else,", "pos": 1328507}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I confess, that I have some difficulty in comprehending your objection to a young lady who is both rich and beautiful.", "pos": 1328549}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, this repugnance, if repugnance it may be called, is not all on my side.", "pos": 1328695}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Whence can it arise, then? for you told me your father desired the marriage.", "pos": 1328789}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "It is my mother who dissents; she has a clear and penetrating judgment, and does not smile on the proposed union. I cannot account for it, but she seems to entertain some prejudice against the Danglars.", "pos": 1328868}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, that may be easily explained; the Comtesse de Morcerf, who is aristocracy and refinement itself, does not relish the idea of being allied by your marriage with one of ignoble birth; that is natural enough.", "pos": 1329080}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I do not know if that is her reason, but one thing I do know, that if this marriage be consummated, it will render her quite miserable. There was to have been a meeting six weeks ago in order to talk over and settle the affair; but I had such a sudden attack of indisposition——", "pos": 1329337}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Real?", "pos": 1329632}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, real enough, from anxiety doubtless,—at any rate they postponed the matter for two months. There is no hurry, you know. I am not yet twenty-one, and Eugénie is only seventeen; but the two months expire next week. It must be done. My dear count, you cannot imagine how my mind is harassed. How happy you are in being exempt from all this!", "pos": 1329672}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, and why should not you be free, too? What prevents you from being so?", "pos": 1330016}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, it will be too great a disappointment to my father if I do not marry Mademoiselle Danglars.", "pos": 1330094}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Marry her then,", "pos": 1330192}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, but that will plunge my mother into positive grief.", "pos": 1330269}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then do not marry her,", "pos": 1330347}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, I shall see. I will try and think over what is the best thing to be done; you will give me your advice, will you not, and if possible extricate me from my unpleasant position? I think, rather than give pain to my dear mother, I would run the risk of offending the count.", "pos": 1330388}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, what are you doing there? Are you making a sketch after Poussin?", "pos": 1330730}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Oh, no. I am too fond of art to attempt anything of that sort. I am doing a little sum in arithmetic.", "pos": 1330977}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In arithmetic?", "pos": 1331110}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Yes; I am calculating—by the way, Morcerf, that indirectly concerns you—I am calculating what the house of Danglars must have gained by the last rise in Haiti bonds; from 206 they have risen to 409 in three days, and the prudent banker had purchased at 206; therefore he must have made 300,000 livres.", "pos": 1331127}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "That is not his biggest scoop, did he not make a million in Spaniards this last year?", "pos": 1331431}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "My dear fellow, here is the Count of Monte Cristo, who will say to you, as the Italians do,— Denaro e santità, Metà della metà. When they tell me such things, I only shrug my shoulders and say nothing.", "pos": 1331535}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But you were speaking of Haitians?", "pos": 1331759}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Ah, Haitians,—that is quite another thing! Haitians are the écarté of French stock-jobbing. We may like bouillotte, delight in whist, be enraptured with boston, and yet grow tired of them all; but we always come back to écarté—it is not only a game, it is a hors-d’œuvre! M. Danglars sold yesterday at 405, and pockets 300,000 francs. Had he but waited till today, the price would have fallen to 205, and instead of gaining 300,000 francs, he would have lost 20 or 25,000.", "pos": 1331815}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And what has caused the sudden fall from 409 to 206? I am profoundly ignorant of all these stock-jobbing intrigues.", "pos": 1332290}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Because, one piece of news follows another, and there is often great dissimilarity between them.", "pos": 1332430}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah. I see that M. Danglars is accustomed to play at gaining or losing 300,000 francs in a day; he must be enormously rich.", "pos": 1332554}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "It is not he who plays! it is Madame Danglars; she is indeed daring.", "pos": 1332697}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But you who are a reasonable being, Lucien, and who knows how little dependence is to be placed on the news, since you are at the fountain-head, surely you ought to prevent it,", "pos": 1332788}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "How can I, if her husband fails in controlling her? you know the character of the baroness—no one has any influence with her, and she does precisely what she pleases.", "pos": 1332995}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, if I were in your place——", "pos": 1333180}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Well?", "pos": 1333225}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I would reform her; it would be rendering a service to her future son-in-law.", "pos": 1333233}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "How would you set about it?", "pos": 1333313}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, that would be easy enough—I would give her a lesson.", "pos": 1333343}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "A lesson?", "pos": 1333402}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes. Your position as secretary to the minister renders your authority great on the subject of political news; you never open your mouth but the stockbrokers immediately stenograph your words. Cause her to lose a hundred thousand francs, and that would teach her prudence.", "pos": 1333414}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "I do not understand,", "pos": 1333689}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "It is very clear, notwithstanding, tell her some fine morning an unheard-of piece of intelligence—some telegraphic despatch, of which you alone are in possession; for instance, that Henri IV. was seen yesterday at Gabrielle’s. That would boom the market; she will buy heavily, and she will certainly lose when Beauchamp announces the following day, in his gazette, ‘The report circulated by some usually well-informed persons that the king was seen yesterday at Gabrielle’s house, is totally without foundation. We can positively assert that his majesty did not quit the Pont-Neuf.’", "pos": 1333730}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do you not think, on reflection, that you have done wrong in thus speaking of your mother-in-law in the presence of M. Debray?", "pos": 1334877}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear count. I beg of you not to apply that title so prematurely.", "pos": 1335024}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Now, speaking without any exaggeration, is your mother really so very much averse to this marriage?", "pos": 1335110}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "So much so that the baroness very rarely comes to the house, and my mother, has not, I think, visited Madame Danglars twice in her whole life.", "pos": 1335212}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then. I am emboldened to speak openly to you. M. Danglars is my banker; M. de Villefort has overwhelmed me with politeness in return for a service which a casual piece of good fortune enabled me to render him. I predict from all this an avalanche of dinners and routs. Now, in order not to presume on this, and also to be beforehand with them, I have, if agreeable to you, thought of inviting M. and Madame Danglars, and M. and Madame de Villefort, to my country-house at Auteuil. If I were to invite you and the Count and Countess of Morcerf to this dinner, I should give it the appearance of being a matrimonial meeting, or at least Madame de Morcerf would look upon the affair in that light, especially if Baron Danglars did me the honor to bring his daughter. In that case your mother would hold me in aversion, and I do not at all wish that; on the contrary, I desire to stand high in her esteem.", "pos": 1335357}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Indeed, count. I thank you sincerely for having used so much candor towards me, and I gratefully accept the exclusion which you propose. You say you desire my mother’s good opinion; I assure you it is already yours to a very unusual extent.", "pos": 1336278}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do you think so?", "pos": 1336544}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, I am sure of it; we talked of you an hour after you left us the other day. But to return to what we were saying. If my mother could know of this attention on your part—and I will venture to tell her—I am sure that she will be most grateful to you; it is true that my father will be equally angry.", "pos": 1336597}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well,", "pos": 1336919}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Indeed, you give me more credit than I deserve; I only wish to do what will be agreeable to you, that is all. This very day.", "pos": 1337802}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Before tomorrow?—that will be a difficult matter to arrange, besides, I shall just be in the way of all the preparations for departure. You are today free as air—come and dine with me; we shall be a small party—only yourself, my mother, and I. You have scarcely seen my mother; you shall have an opportunity of observing her more closely. She is a remarkable woman, and I only regret that there does not exist another like her, about twenty years younger; in that case, I assure you, there would very soon be a Countess and Viscountess of Morcerf. As to my father, you will not see him; he is officially engaged, and dines with the chief referendary. We will talk over our travels; and you, who have seen the whole world, will relate your adventures—you shall tell us the history of the beautiful Greek who was with you the other night at the Opera, and whom you call your slave, and yet treat like a princess. We will talk Italian and Spanish. Come, accept my invitation, and my mother will thank you.", "pos": 1338517}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A thousand thanks,", "pos": 1339688}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Humph,", "pos": 1340242}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, you do not mean that. I had no previous knowledge of your visit, had I?", "pos": 1340396}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Indeed, you are such an extraordinary person, that I would not answer for it.", "pos": 1340595}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "At all events, I could not guess that you would invite me to dinner.", "pos": 1340675}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Probably not.", "pos": 1340746}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, listen, Baptistin, what did I tell you this morning when I called you into my laboratory?", "pos": 1340762}
{"speaker": "Baptistin", "text": "To close the door against visitors as soon as the clock struck five,", "pos": 1340860}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then to admit no one except Major Bartolomeo Cavalcanti and his son.", "pos": 1341197}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Most undoubtedly. This Major Cavalcanti is an old friend of yours, then?", "pos": 1341908}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "By no means. He is a perfect nobleman, very polite, modest, and agreeable, such as may be found constantly in Italy, descendants of very ancient families. I have met him several times at Florence, Bologna and Lucca, and he has now communicated to me the fact of his arrival in Paris. The acquaintances one makes in travelling have a sort of claim on one; they everywhere expect to receive the same attention which you once paid them by chance, as though the civilities of a passing hour were likely to awaken any lasting interest in favor of the man in whose society you may happen to be thrown in the course of your journey. This good Major Cavalcanti is come to take a second view of Paris, which he only saw in passing through in the time of the Empire, when he was on his way to Moscow. I shall give him a good dinner, he will confide his son to my care, I will promise to watch over him, I shall let him follow in whatever path his folly may lead him, and then I shall have done my part.", "pos": 1341983}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Certainly; I see you are a model Mentor. Have you? Is he still amusing himself in Italy? I believe so; however, he regrets your absence extremely. He says you were the sun of Rome, and that without you all appears dark and cloudy; I do not know if he does not even go so far as to say that it rains.", "pos": 1342978}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "His opinion of me is altered for the better, then?", "pos": 1343378}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No, he still persists in looking upon you as the most incomprehensible and mysterious of beings.", "pos": 1343431}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "and I felt a lively interest in him the very first evening of my introduction, when I met him in search of a supper, and prevailed upon him to accept a portion of mine. He is, I think, the son of General d’Épinay?", "pos": 1343578}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "He is.", "pos": 1343794}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The same who was so shamefully assassinated in 1815?", "pos": 1343803}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "By the Bonapartists.", "pos": 1343858}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes. Really I like him extremely; is there not also a matrimonial engagement contemplated for him?", "pos": 1343881}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, he is to marry Mademoiselle de Villefort. And you know I am to marry Mademoiselle Danglars. Yes.", "pos": 1343982}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why do you do so?", "pos": 1344143}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I smile because there appears to me to be about as much inclination for the consummation of the engagement in question as there is for my own. But really, my dear count, we are talking as much of women as they do of us; it is unpardonable. Are you going? Really, that is a good idea!—two hours have I been boring you to death with my company, and then you, with the greatest politeness, ask me if I am going. Indeed, count, you are the most polished man in the world. And your servants, too, how very well behaved they are; there is quite a style about them. Monsieur Baptistin especially; I could never get such a man as that. My servants seem to imitate those you sometimes see in a play, who, because they have only a word or two to say, aquit themselves in the most awkward manner possible. Therefore, if you part with M. Baptistin, give me the refusal of him.", "pos": 1344163}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "By all means.", "pos": 1345047}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "That is not all; give my compliments to your illustrious Luccanese, Cavalcante of the Cavalcanti; and if by any chance he should be wishing to establish his son, find him a wife very rich, very noble on her mother’s side at least, and a baroness in right of her father, I will help you in the search.", "pos": 1345063}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, ha; you will do as much as that, will you?", "pos": 1345366}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1345415}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, really, nothing is certain in this world.", "pos": 1345422}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, count, what a service you might render me! I should like you a hundred times better if, by your intervention, I could manage to remain a bachelor, even were it only for ten years.", "pos": 1345472}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Nothing is impossible. Monsieur Bertuccio, you understand that I intend entertaining company on Saturday at Auteuil.", "pos": 1345658}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "There must be a good deal done before it can deserve that title, your excellency, for the tapestried hangings are very old.", "pos": 1346074}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Let them all be taken away and changed, then, with the exception of the sleeping-chamber which is hung with red damask; you will leave that exactly as it is.", "pos": 1346200}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "I will do everything in my power to carry out your wishes, your excellency. I should be glad, however, to receive your excellency’s commands concerning the dinner.", "pos": 1346528}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Really, my dear M. Bertuccio, since you have been in Paris, you have become quite nervous, and apparently out of your element; you no longer seem to understand me.", "pos": 1346694}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "But surely your excellency will be so good as to inform me whom you are expecting to receive?", "pos": 1346878}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do not yet know myself, neither is it necessary that you should do so. ‘Lucullus dines with Lucullus,’ that is quite sufficient.", "pos": 1346974}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, my dear sir, you are most welcome; I was expecting you.", "pos": 1348943}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "Indeed,", "pos": 1349005}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; I had been told that I should see you today at seven o’clock.", "pos": 1349079}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "Then you have received full information concerning my arrival?", "pos": 1349148}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Of course.", "pos": 1349213}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "Ah, so much the better, I feared this little precaution might have been forgotten. What precaution? Oh, no, never mind that,", "pos": 1349226}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, yes. Let me see,", "pos": 1349658}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "Bartolomeo Cavalcanti,", "pos": 1349806}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Half a million,", "pos": 1350926}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "Half a million, is it?", "pos": 1350968}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, in so many words; and it must be so, for the abbé knows correctly the amount of all the largest fortunes in Europe.", "pos": 1351009}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "Be it half a million, then; but on my word of honor, I had no idea that it was so much.", "pos": 1351132}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Because you are robbed by your steward. You must make some reformation in that quarter.", "pos": 1351222}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "You have opened my eyes,", "pos": 1351312}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And who only needs one thing more to make him happy.", "pos": 1351452}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "Yes, indeed but one!", "pos": 1351508}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Which is to recover a lost and adored son.", "pos": 1351560}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "A lost and adored son!", "pos": 1351606}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Stolen away in his infancy, either by an enemy of his noble family or by the gypsies.", "pos": 1351632}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "At the age of five years!", "pos": 1351721}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Unhappy father. I have given him renewed life and hope, in the assurance that you have the power of restoring the son whom he has vainly sought for fifteen years.", "pos": 1351813}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "I have the power of so doing,", "pos": 1352097}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So, then,", "pos": 1352189}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "No, indeed; certainly not; a good man, a man holding religious office, as does the Abbé Busoni, could not condescend to deceive or play off a joke; but your excellency has not read all.", "pos": 1352293}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, true,", "pos": 1352481}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "Yes, yes,", "pos": 1352536}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In order to save Major Cavalcanti the trouble of drawing on his banker, I send him a draft for 2,000 francs to defray his travelling expenses, and credit on you for the further sum of 48,000 francs, which you still owe me.", "pos": 1352598}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "Very good. He said ‘very good,’", "pos": 1352907}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then what?", "pos": 1353004}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "Then the postscript——", "pos": 1353037}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well; what of the postscript?", "pos": 1353061}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "Then the postscript is as favorably received by you as the rest of the letter?", "pos": 1353093}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly; the Abbé Busoni and myself have a small account open between us. I do not remember if it is exactly 48,000 francs, which I am still owing him, but I dare say we shall not dispute the difference. You attached great importance, then, to this postscript, my dear Monsieur Cavalcanti?", "pos": 1353174}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "I must explain to you, fully confiding in the signature of the Abbé Busoni, I had not provided myself with any other funds; so that if this resource had failed me, I should have found myself very unpleasantly situated in Paris.", "pos": 1353492}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Is it possible that a man of your standing should be embarrassed anywhere?", "pos": 1353722}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "Why, really I know no one,", "pos": 1353818}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But then you yourself are known to others?", "pos": 1353863}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "Yes, I am known, so that——", "pos": 1353908}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Proceed, my dear Monsieur Cavalcanti.", "pos": 1353937}
{"speaker": "Italian", "text": "So that you will remit to me these 48,000 francs?", "pos": 1353977}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly, at your first request. But sit down, really I do not know what I have been thinking of—I have positively kept you standing for the last quarter of an hour.", "pos": 1354028}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Don’t mention it.", "pos": 1354273}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Now, what will you take—a glass of sherry, port, or Alicante?", "pos": 1354364}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Alicante, if you please; it is my favorite wine.", "pos": 1354446}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have some that is very good. You will take a biscuit with it, will you not?", "pos": 1354497}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes, I will take a biscuit, as you are so obliging.", "pos": 1354577}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well?", "pos": 1354702}
{"speaker": "the valet de chambre", "text": "The young man is here,", "pos": 1354734}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Into what room did you take him?", "pos": 1354803}
{"speaker": "Baptistin", "text": "Into the blue drawing-room, according to your excellency’s orders.", "pos": 1354838}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That’s right; now bring the Alicante and some biscuits.", "pos": 1354907}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Really, I am quite ashamed of the trouble I am giving you.", "pos": 1355008}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Pray don’t mention such a thing,", "pos": 1355069}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So, sir, you lived at Lucca, did you? You were rich, noble, held in great esteem—had all that could render a man happy?", "pos": 1355693}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "All, positively all.", "pos": 1355815}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And yet there was one thing wanting in order to complete your happiness?", "pos": 1355888}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Only one thing, that consummation of my happiness was indeed wanting.", "pos": 1355963}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Let me hear, then, who this deeply regretted son was; for I always understood you were a bachelor.", "pos": 1356196}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "That was the general opinion, sir, and I——", "pos": 1356315}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, and you confirmed the report. A youthful indiscretion, I suppose, which you were anxious to conceal from the world at large?", "pos": 1356378}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes. I did wish this fault to be hidden from every eye.", "pos": 1356848}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Not on your own account, surely,", "pos": 1356924}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Oh, no, certainly not on my own account,", "pos": 1357022}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But for the sake of the mother?", "pos": 1357118}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes, for the mother’s sake—his poor mother!", "pos": 1357168}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Take some more wine, my dear Cavalcanti, your emotion has quite overcome you.", "pos": 1357255}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "His poor mother,", "pos": 1357401}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "She belonged to one of the first families in Italy, I think, did she not?", "pos": 1357546}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "She was of a noble family of Fiesole, count.", "pos": 1357622}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And her name was——", "pos": 1357669}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Do you desire to know her name——?", "pos": 1357690}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, it would be quite superfluous for you to tell me, for I already know it.", "pos": 1357726}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "The count knows everything,", "pos": 1357825}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oliva Corsinari, was it not?", "pos": 1357881}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Oliva Corsinari!", "pos": 1357912}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A marchioness?", "pos": 1357931}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "A marchioness!", "pos": 1357948}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And you married her at last, notwithstanding the opposition of her family?", "pos": 1357965}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes, that was the way it ended.", "pos": 1358042}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And you have doubtless brought all your papers with you?", "pos": 1358076}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "What papers?", "pos": 1358154}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The certificate of your marriage with Oliva Corsinari, and the register of your child’s birth.", "pos": 1358169}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "The register of my child’s birth?", "pos": 1358266}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The register of the birth of Andrea Cavalcanti—of your son; is not his name Andrea?", "pos": 1358302}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "I believe so,", "pos": 1358388}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What? You believe so?", "pos": 1358420}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "I dare not positively assert it, as he has been lost for so long a time.", "pos": 1358444}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, then, you have all the documents with you?", "pos": 1358519}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Your excellency, I regret to say that, not knowing it was necessary to come provided with these papers, I neglected to bring them.", "pos": 1358590}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That is unfortunate,", "pos": 1358723}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Were they, then, so necessary?", "pos": 1358769}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "They were indispensable.", "pos": 1358802}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Ah, perbacco, indispensable, were they?", "pos": 1358872}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly they were; supposing there were to be doubts raised as to the validity of your marriage or the legitimacy of your child?", "pos": 1358914}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "True, there might be doubts raised.", "pos": 1359047}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In that case your son would be very unpleasantly situated.", "pos": 1359103}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "It would be fatal to his interests.", "pos": 1359164}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It might cause him to fail in some desirable matrimonial alliance.", "pos": 1359202}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "O peccato!", "pos": 1359271}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You must know that in France they are very particular on these points; it is not sufficient, as in Italy, to go to the priest and say, ‘We love each other, and want you to marry us.’ Marriage is a civil affair in France, and in order to marry in an orthodox manner you must have papers which undeniably establish your identity.", "pos": 1359284}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "That is the misfortune! You see I have not these necessary papers.", "pos": 1359614}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Fortunately, I have them, though,", "pos": 1359683}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "You?", "pos": 1359738}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1359745}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "You have them?", "pos": 1359752}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have them.", "pos": 1359769}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Ah, indeed? ah, indeed, that is a fortunate circumstance; yes, that really is lucky, for it never occurred to me to bring them.", "pos": 1359784}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do not at all wonder at it—one cannot think of everything; but, happily, the Abbé Busoni thought for you.", "pos": 1360110}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "He is an excellent person.", "pos": 1360220}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He is extremely prudent and thoughtful.", "pos": 1360249}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "He is an admirable man, and he sent them to you?", "pos": 1360291}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Here they are.", "pos": 1360360}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "You married Oliva Corsinari in the church of San Paolo del Monte-Cattini; here is the priest’s certificate. Yes indeed, there it is truly,", "pos": 1360429}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And here is Andrea Cavalcanti’s baptismal register, given by the curé of Saravezza.", "pos": 1360620}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "All quite correct.", "pos": 1360706}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Take these documents, then; they do not concern me. You will give them to your son, who will, of course, take great care of them.", "pos": 1360727}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "I should think so, indeed! If he were to lose them——", "pos": 1360859}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, and if he were to lose them?", "pos": 1360914}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "In that case, it would be necessary to write to the curé for duplicates, and it would be some time before they could be obtained.", "pos": 1360991}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It would be a difficult matter to arrange,", "pos": 1361123}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Almost an impossibility,", "pos": 1361187}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am very glad to see that you understand the value of these papers.", "pos": 1361233}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "I regard them as invaluable.", "pos": 1361304}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Now, as to the mother of the young man——", "pos": 1361335}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "As to the mother of the young man——", "pos": 1361398}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "As regards the Marchesa Corsinari——", "pos": 1361472}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Really, difficulties seem to thicken upon us; will she be wanted in any way?", "pos": 1361528}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, sir,", "pos": 1361607}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes, sir, she has——", "pos": 1361665}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Paid the last debt of nature?", "pos": 1361712}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Alas, yes,", "pos": 1361744}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I knew that, she has been dead these ten years.", "pos": 1361779}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "And I am still mourning her loss,", "pos": 1361850}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What would you have? We are all mortal. Now, you understand, my dear Monsieur Cavalcanti, that it is useless for you to tell people in France that you have been separated from your son for fifteen years. Stories of gypsies, who steal children, are not at all in vogue in this part of the world, and would not be believed. You sent him for his education to a college in one of the provinces, and now you wish him to complete his education in the Parisian world. That is the reason which has induced you to leave Via Reggio, where you have lived since the death of your wife. That will be sufficient.", "pos": 1362038}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "You think so?", "pos": 1362639}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 1362655}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Very well, then.", "pos": 1362668}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "If they should hear of the separation——", "pos": 1362687}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Ah, yes; what could I say?", "pos": 1362729}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That an unfaithful tutor, bought over by the enemies of your family——", "pos": 1362758}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "By the Corsinari?", "pos": 1362830}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Precisely. Had stolen away this child, in order that your name might become extinct.", "pos": 1362850}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "That is reasonable, since he is an only son.", "pos": 1362937}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, now that all is arranged, do not let these newly awakened remembrances be forgotten. You have, doubtless, already guessed that I was preparing a surprise for you?", "pos": 1362984}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "An agreeable one?", "pos": 1363155}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, I see the eye of a father is no more to be deceived than his heart.", "pos": 1363194}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Hum!", "pos": 1363268}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Someone has told you the secret; or, perhaps, you guessed that he was here.", "pos": 1363291}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "That who was here?", "pos": 1363369}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Your child—your son—your Andrea!", "pos": 1363390}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "I did guess it. Then he is here?", "pos": 1363425}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He is, when the valet de chambre came in just now, he told me of his arrival.", "pos": 1363517}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Ah, very well, very well,", "pos": 1363618}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My dear sir, I understand your emotion; you must have time to recover yourself. I will, in the meantime, go and prepare the young man for this much-desired interview, for I presume that he is not less impatient for it than yourself.", "pos": 1363738}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "I should quite imagine that to be the case,", "pos": 1363973}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, in a quarter of an hour he shall be with you.", "pos": 1364036}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "You will bring him, then? You carry your goodness so far as even to present him to me yourself?", "pos": 1364090}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No; I do not wish to come between a father and son. Your interview will be private. But do not be uneasy; even if the powerful voice of nature should be silent, you cannot well mistake him; he will enter by this door. He is a fine young man, of fair complexion—a little too fair, perhaps—pleasing in manners; but you will see and judge for yourself.", "pos": 1364188}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "By the way, you know I have only the 2,000 francs which the Abbé Busoni sent me; this sum I have expended upon travelling expenses, and——", "pos": 1364540}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And you want money; that is a matter of course, my dear M. Cavalcanti. Well, here are 8,000 francs on account.", "pos": 1364698}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Does your excellency wish for a receipt?", "pos": 1364912}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "For what?", "pos": 1365042}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "I thought you might want it to show the Abbé Busoni.", "pos": 1365070}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, when you receive the remaining 40,000, you shall give me a receipt in full. Between honest men such excessive precaution is, I think, quite unnecessary.", "pos": 1365125}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes, so it is, between perfectly upright people.", "pos": 1365286}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "One word more,", "pos": 1365337}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Say on.", "pos": 1365373}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You will permit me to make one remark?", "pos": 1365383}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Certainly; pray do so.", "pos": 1365424}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then I should advise you to leave off wearing that style of dress.", "pos": 1365449}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Indeed,", "pos": 1365518}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes. It may be worn at Via Reggio; but that costume, however elegant in itself, has long been out of fashion in Paris.", "pos": 1365600}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "That’s unfortunate.", "pos": 1365721}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, if you really are attached to your old mode of dress; you can easily resume it when you leave Paris.", "pos": 1365743}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "But what shall I wear?", "pos": 1365850}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What you find in your trunks.", "pos": 1365875}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "In my trunks? I have but one portmanteau.", "pos": 1365907}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I dare say you have nothing else with you. What is the use of boring one’s self with so many things? Besides an old soldier always likes to march with as little baggage as possible.", "pos": 1365951}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "That is just the case—precisely so.", "pos": 1366135}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But you are a man of foresight and prudence, therefore you sent your luggage on before you. It has arrived at the Hôtel des Princes, Rue de Richelieu. It is there you are to take up your quarters.", "pos": 1366173}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Then, in these trunks——", "pos": 1366372}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I presume you have given orders to your valet de chambre to put in all you are likely to need,—your plain clothes and your uniform. On grand occasions you must wear your uniform; that will look very well. Do not forget your crosses. They still laugh at them in France, and yet always wear them, for all that.", "pos": 1366398}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Very well, very well,", "pos": 1366709}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Now, that you have fortified yourself against all painful excitement, prepare yourself, my dear M. Cavalcanti, to meet your lost Andrea.", "pos": 1366808}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The Count of Monte Cristo, I believe? Yes, sir, and I think I have the honor of addressing Count Andrea Cavalcanti?", "pos": 1367894}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Count Andrea Cavalcanti,", "pos": 1368023}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are charged with a letter of introduction addressed to me, are you not?", "pos": 1368109}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "I did not mention that, because the signature seemed to me so strange.", "pos": 1368203}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The letter signed ‘Sinbad the Sailor,’ is it not?", "pos": 1368276}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Exactly so. Now, as I have never known any Sinbad, with the exception of the one celebrated in the Thousand and One Nights——", "pos": 1368328}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, it is one of his descendants, and a great friend of mine; he is a very rich Englishman, eccentric almost to insanity, and his real name is Lord Wilmore.", "pos": 1368455}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Ah, indeed? Then that explains everything that is extraordinary. He is, then, the same Englishman whom I met—at—ah—yes, indeed. Well, monsieur, I am at your service.", "pos": 1368616}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "If what you say be true, perhaps you will be kind enough to give me some account of yourself and your family?", "pos": 1368799}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Certainly, I will do so. I am (as you have said) the Count Andrea Cavalcanti, son of Major Bartolomeo Cavalcanti, a descendant of the Cavalcanti whose names are inscribed in the golden book at Florence. Our family, although still rich (for my father’s income amounts to half a million), has experienced many misfortunes, and I myself was, at the age of five years, taken away by the treachery of my tutor, so that for fifteen years I have not seen the author of my existence. Since I have arrived at years of discretion and become my own master, I have been constantly seeking him, but all in vain. At length I received this letter from your friend, which states that my father is in Paris, and authorizes me to address myself to you for information respecting him.", "pos": 1368941}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Really, all you have related to me is exceedingly interesting, and you have done well to conform in everything to the wishes of my friend Sinbad; for your father is indeed here, and is seeking you.", "pos": 1369789}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "My father? Is my father here?", "pos": 1370403}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Most undoubtedly, your father, Major Bartolomeo Cavalcanti.", "pos": 1370435}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Ah, yes, that is the name, certainly. Major Bartolomeo Cavalcanti. And you really mean to say; monsieur, that my dear father is here?", "pos": 1370636}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, sir; and I can even add that I have only just left his company. The history which he related to me of his lost son touched me to the quick; indeed, his griefs, hopes, and fears on that subject might furnish material for a most touching and pathetic poem. At length, he one day received a letter, stating that the abductors of his son now offered to restore him, or at least to give notice where he might be found, on condition of receiving a large sum of money, by way of ransom. Your father did not hesitate an instant, and the sum was sent to the frontier of Piedmont, with a passport signed for Italy. You were in the south of France, I think?", "pos": 1370772}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes. I was in the south of France.", "pos": 1371426}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A carriage was to await you at Nice?", "pos": 1371506}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Precisely so; and it conveyed me from Nice to Genoa, from Genoa to Turin, from Turin to Chambéry, from Chambéry to Pont-de-Beauvoisin, and from Pont-de-Beauvoisin to Paris.", "pos": 1371545}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Indeed? Then your father ought to have met with you on the road, for it is exactly the same route which he himself took, and that is how we have been able to trace your journey to this place.", "pos": 1371727}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "But, if my father had met me, I doubt if he would have recognized me; I must be somewhat altered since he last saw me.", "pos": 1371921}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, the voice of nature,", "pos": 1372057}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "True. I had not looked upon it in that light.", "pos": 1372103}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Now, there is only one source of uneasiness left in your father’s mind, which is this—he is anxious to know how you have been employed during your long absence from him, how you have been treated by your persecutors, and if they have conducted themselves towards you with all the deference due to your rank. Finally, he is anxious to see if you have been fortunate enough to escape the bad moral influence to which you have been exposed, and which is infinitely more to be dreaded than any physical suffering; he wishes to discover if the fine abilities with which nature had endowed you have been weakened by want of culture; and, in short, whether you consider yourself capable of resuming and retaining in the world the high position to which your rank entitles you.", "pos": 1372179}
{"speaker": "the young man", "text": "Sir! I hope no false report——", "pos": 1372974}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "As for myself, I first heard you spoken of by my friend Wilmore, the philanthropist. I believe he found you in some unpleasant position, but do not know of what nature, for I did not ask, not being inquisitive. Your misfortunes engaged his sympathies, so you see you must have been interesting. He told me that he was anxious to restore you to the position which you had lost, and that he would seek your father until he found him. He did seek, and has found him, apparently, since he is here now; and, finally, my friend apprised me of your coming, and gave me a few other instructions relative to your future fortune. I am quite aware that my friend Wilmore is peculiar, but he is sincere, and as rich as a gold mine, consequently, he may indulge his eccentricities without any fear of their ruining him, and I have promised to adhere to his instructions. Now, sir, pray do not be offended at the question I am about to put to you, as it comes in the way of my duty as your patron. I would wish to know if the misfortunes which have happened to you—misfortunes entirely beyond your control, and which in no degree diminish my regard for you—I would wish to know if they have not, in some measure, contributed to render you a stranger to the world in which your fortune and your name entitle you to make a conspicuous figure?", "pos": 1373050}
{"speaker": "young man", "text": "Sir,", "pos": 1374379}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "And when shall we have the honor of seeing you again, your excellency? Ah, when may we hope for that pleasure?", "pos": 1389909}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "On Saturday, if you will—Yes.—Let me see—Saturday—I am to dine at my country house, at Auteuil, on that day, Rue de la Fontaine, No. 28. Several persons are invited, and among others, M. Danglars, your banker. I will introduce you to him, for it will be necessary he should know you, as he is to pay your money.", "pos": 1390057}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Full dress?", "pos": 1390371}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, yes, certainly, uniform, cross, knee-breeches.", "pos": 1390413}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "And how shall I be dressed?", "pos": 1390484}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, very simply; black trousers, patent leather boots, white waistcoat, either a black or blue coat, and a long cravat. Go to Blin or Véronique for your clothes. Baptistin will tell you where, if you do not know their address. The less pretension there is in your attire, the better will be the effect, as you are a rich man. If you mean to buy any horses, get them of Devedeux, and if you purchase a phaeton, go to Baptiste for it.", "pos": 1390538}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "At what hour shall we come?", "pos": 1390973}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "About half-past six.", "pos": 1391024}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "We will be with you at that time,", "pos": 1391047}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "There go two miscreants; it is a pity they are not really related! Come, I will go to see the Morrels. I think that disgust is even more sickening than hatred.", "pos": 1391237}
{"speaker": "voice", "text": "Good-evening, Valentine,", "pos": 1393879}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Good-evening, Maximilian; I know I have kept you waiting, but you saw the cause of my delay.", "pos": 1393931}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes, I recognized Mademoiselle Danglars. I was not aware that you were so intimate with her.", "pos": 1394026}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Who told you we were intimate, Maximilian?", "pos": 1394121}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "No one, but you appeared to be so. From the manner in which you walked and talked together, one would have thought you were two school-girls telling your secrets to each other.", "pos": 1394166}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "We were having a confidential conversation, she was owning to me her repugnance to the marriage with M. de Morcerf; and I, on the other hand, was confessing to her how wretched it made me to think of marrying M. d’Épinay.", "pos": 1394345}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Dear Valentine!", "pos": 1394591}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "That will account to you for the unreserved manner which you observed between me and Eugénie, as in speaking of the man whom I could not love, my thoughts involuntarily reverted to him on whom my affections were fixed.", "pos": 1394609}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Ah, how good you are to say so, Valentine! You possess a quality which can never belong to Mademoiselle Danglars. It is that indefinable charm which is to a woman what perfume is to the flower and flavor to the fruit, for the beauty of either is not the only quality we seek.", "pos": 1394830}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "It is your love which makes you look upon everything in that light.", "pos": 1395108}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "No, Valentine, I assure you such is not the case. I was observing you both when you were walking in the garden, and, on my honor, without at all wishing to depreciate the beauty of Mademoiselle Danglars, I cannot understand how any man can really love her.", "pos": 1395178}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "The fact is, Maximilian, that I was there, and my presence had the effect of rendering you unjust in your comparison.", "pos": 1395437}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Does Mademoiselle Danglars object to this marriage with M. de Morcerf on account of loving another?", "pos": 1396062}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I told you I was not on terms of strict intimacy with Eugénie.", "pos": 1396164}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes, but girls tell each other secrets without being particularly intimate; own, now, that you did question her on the subject. Ah, I see you are smiling.", "pos": 1396229}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "If you are already aware of the conversation that passed, the wooden partition which interposed between us and you has proved but a slight security.", "pos": 1396386}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Come, what did she say?", "pos": 1396537}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "She told me that she loved no one, that she disliked the idea of being married; that she would infinitely prefer leading an independent and unfettered life; and that she almost wished her father might lose his fortune, that she might become an artist, like her friend, Mademoiselle Louise d’Armilly.", "pos": 1396563}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Ah, you see——", "pos": 1396883}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Well, what does that prove?", "pos": 1396899}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Nothing,", "pos": 1396946}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Then why did you smile?", "pos": 1396977}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Why, you know very well that you are reflecting on yourself, Valentine.", "pos": 1397003}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Do you want me to go away?", "pos": 1397077}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Ah, no, no. But do not let us lose time; you are the subject on which I wish to speak.", "pos": 1397106}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "True, we must be quick, for we have scarcely ten minutes more to pass together.", "pos": 1397195}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Ma foi!", "pos": 1397277}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Yes, you are right; I am but a poor friend to you. What a life I cause you to lead, poor Maximilian, you who are formed for happiness! I bitterly reproach myself, I assure you.", "pos": 1397322}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Well, what does it signify, Valentine, so long as I am satisfied, and feel that even this long and painful suspense is amply repaid by five minutes of your society, or two words from your lips? And I have also a deep conviction that heaven would not have created two hearts, harmonizing as ours do, and almost miraculously brought us together, to separate us at last.", "pos": 1397501}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Those are kind and cheering words. You must hope for us both, Maximilian; that will make me at least partly happy.", "pos": 1397871}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "But why must you leave me so soon?", "pos": 1397988}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I do not know particulars. I can only tell you that Madame de Villefort sent to request my presence, as she had a communication to make on which a part of my fortune depended. Let them take my fortune, I am already too rich; and, perhaps, when they have taken it, they will leave me in peace and quietness. You would love me as much if I were poor, would you not, Maximilian?", "pos": 1398025}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, I shall always love you. What should I care for either riches or poverty, if my Valentine was near me, and I felt certain that no one could deprive me of her? But do you not fear that this communication may relate to your marriage?", "pos": 1398403}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I do not think that is the case.", "pos": 1398641}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "However it may be, Valentine, you must not be alarmed. I assure you that, as long as I live, I shall never love anyone else!", "pos": 1398676}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Do you think to reassure me when you say that, Maximilian?", "pos": 1398803}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Pardon me, you are right. I am a brute. But I was going to tell you that I met M. de Morcerf the other day.", "pos": 1398864}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Well?", "pos": 1398974}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Monsieur Franz is his friend, you know.", "pos": 1398982}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "What then?", "pos": 1399024}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Monsieur de Morcerf has received a letter from Franz, announcing his immediate return.", "pos": 1399037}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Ah heavens, if it were that! But no, the communication would not come through Madame de Villefort.", "pos": 1399187}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 1399288}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Because—I scarcely know why—but it has appeared as if Madame de Villefort secretly objected to the marriage, although she did not choose openly to oppose it.", "pos": 1399299}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Is it so? Then I feel as if I could adore Madame de Villefort.", "pos": 1399459}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Do not be in such a hurry to do that. If she objects to your marrying M. d’Épinay, she would be all the more likely to listen to any other proposition. No, Maximilian, it is not suitors to which Madame de Villefort objects, it is marriage itself.", "pos": 1399524}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Marriage? If she dislikes that so much, why did she ever marry herself?", "pos": 1399811}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "You do not understand me, Maximilian. About a year ago, I talked of retiring to a convent. Madame de Villefort, in spite of all the remarks which she considered it her duty to make, secretly approved of the proposition, my father consented to it at her instigation, and it was only on account of my poor grandfather that I finally abandoned the project. You can form no idea of the expression of that old man’s eye when he looks at me, the only person in the world whom he loves, and, I had almost said, by whom he is beloved in return. When he learned my resolution, I shall never forget the reproachful look which he cast on me, and the tears of utter despair which chased each other down his lifeless cheeks. Ah, Maximilian, I experienced, at that moment, such remorse for my intention, that, throwing myself at his feet, I exclaimed,—‘Forgive me, pray forgive me, my dear grandfather; they may do what they will with me, I will never leave you.’ When I had ceased speaking, he thankfully raised his eyes to heaven, but without uttering a word. Ah, Maximilian, I may have much to suffer, but I feel as if my grandfather’s look at that moment would more than compensate for all.", "pos": 1399885}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Dear Valentine, you are a perfect angel, and I am sure I do not know what I—sabring right and left among the Bedouins—can have done to merit your being revealed to me, unless, indeed, Heaven took into consideration the fact that the victims of my sword were infidels. But tell me what interest Madame de Villefort can have in your remaining unmarried?", "pos": 1401068}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Did I not tell you just now that I was rich, Maximilian—too rich? I possess nearly 50,000 livres in right of my mother; my grandfather and my grandmother, the Marquis and Marquise de Saint-Méran, will leave me as much, and M. Noirtier evidently intends making me his heir. My brother Edward, who inherits nothing from his mother, will, therefore, be poor in comparison with me. Now, if I had taken the veil, all this fortune would have descended to my father, and, in reversion, to his son.", "pos": 1401422}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Ah, how strange it seems that such a young and beautiful woman should be so avaricious.", "pos": 1401915}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "It is not for herself that she is so, but for her son, and what you regard as a vice becomes almost a virtue when looked at in the light of maternal love.", "pos": 1402005}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "But could you not compromise matters, and give up a portion of your fortune to her son?", "pos": 1402162}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "How could I make such a proposition, especially to a woman who always professes to be so entirely disinterested?", "pos": 1402252}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Valentine, I have always regarded our love in the light of something sacred; consequently, I have covered it with the veil of respect, and hid it in the innermost recesses of my soul. No human being, not even my sister, is aware of its existence. Valentine, will you permit me to make a confidant of a friend and reveal to him the love I bear you?", "pos": 1402367}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "A friend, Maximilian; and who is this friend? I tremble to give my permission.", "pos": 1402736}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Listen, Valentine. Have you never experienced for anyone that sudden and irresistible sympathy which made you feel as if the object of it had been your old and familiar friend, though, in reality, it was the first time you had ever met? Nay, further, have you never endeavored to recall the time, place, and circumstances of your former intercourse, and failing in this attempt, have almost believed that your spirits must have held converse with each other in some state of being anterior to the present, and that you are only now occupied in a reminiscence of the past?", "pos": 1402817}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1403391}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Well, that is precisely the feeling which I experienced when I first saw that extraordinary man.", "pos": 1403398}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Extraordinary, did you say?", "pos": 1403497}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1403527}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "You have known him for some time, then?", "pos": 1403534}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Scarcely longer than eight or ten days.", "pos": 1403576}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "And do you call a man your friend whom you have only known for eight or ten days? Ah, Maximilian, I had hoped you set a higher value on the title of friend.", "pos": 1403618}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Your logic is most powerful, Valentine, but say what you will, I can never renounce the sentiment which has instinctively taken possession of my mind. I feel as if it were ordained that this man should be associated with all the good which the future may have in store for me, and sometimes it really seems as if his eye was able to see what was to come, and his hand endowed with the power of directing events according to his own will.", "pos": 1403777}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "He must be a prophet, then,", "pos": 1404217}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Indeed, I have often been almost tempted to attribute to him the gift of prophecy; at all events, he has a wonderful power of foretelling any future good.", "pos": 1404291}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Ah, do let me see this man, Maximilian; he may tell me whether I shall ever be loved sufficiently to make amends for all I have suffered.", "pos": 1404485}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "My poor girl, you know him already.", "pos": 1404625}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I know him?", "pos": 1404663}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes; it was he who saved the life of your step-mother and her son.", "pos": 1404677}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "The Count of Monte Cristo?", "pos": 1404746}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "The same.", "pos": 1404775}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Ah, he is too much the friend of Madame de Villefort ever to be mine.", "pos": 1404787}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "The friend of Madame de Villefort! It cannot be; surely, Valentine, you are mistaken?", "pos": 1404878}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "No, indeed, I am not; for I assure you, his power over our household is almost unlimited. Courted by my step-mother, who regards him as the epitome of human wisdom; admired by my father, who says he has never before heard such sublime ideas so eloquently expressed; idolized by Edward, who, notwithstanding his fear of the count’s large black eyes, runs to meet him the moment he arrives, and opens his hand, in which he is sure to find some delightful present,—M. de Monte Cristo appears to exert a mysterious and almost uncontrollable influence over all the members of our family.", "pos": 1404966}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "If such be the case, my dear Valentine, you must yourself have felt, or at all events will soon feel, the effects of his presence. He meets Albert de Morcerf in Italy—it is to rescue him from the hands of the banditti; he introduces himself to Madame Danglars—it is that he may give her a royal present; your step-mother and her son pass before his door—it is that his Nubian may save them from destruction. This man evidently possesses the power of influencing events, both as regards men and things. I never saw more simple tastes united to greater magnificence. His smile is so sweet when he addresses me, that I forget it ever can be bitter to others. Ah, Valentine, tell me, if he ever looked on you with one of those sweet smiles? if so, depend on it, you will be happy.", "pos": 1405551}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Me? he never even glances at me; on the contrary, if I accidentally cross his path, he appears rather to avoid me. Ah, he is not generous, neither does he possess that supernatural penetration which you attribute to him, for if he did, he would have perceived that I was unhappy; and if he had been generous, seeing me sad and solitary, he would have used his influence to my advantage, and since, as you say, he resembles the sun, he would have warmed my heart with one of his life-giving rays. You say he loves you, Maximilian; how do you know that he does? All would pay deference to an officer like you, with a fierce moustache and a long sabre, but they think they may crush a poor weeping girl with impunity.", "pos": 1406330}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Ah, Valentine, I assure you you are mistaken.", "pos": 1407070}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "If it were otherwise—if he treated me diplomatically—that is to say, like a man who wishes, by some means or other, to obtain a footing in the house, so that he may ultimately gain the power of dictating to its occupants—he would, if it had been but once, have honored me with the smile which you extol so loudly; but no, he saw that I was unhappy, he understood that I could be of no use to him, and therefore paid no attention to me whatever. Who knows but that, in order to please Madame de Villefort and my father, he may not persecute me by every means in his power? It is not just that he should despise me so, without any reason. Ah, forgive me. I have done wrong, for I have given utterance to thoughts concerning that man which I did not even know existed in my heart. I do not deny the influence of which you speak, or that I have not myself experienced it, but with me it has been productive of evil rather than good.", "pos": 1407118}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Well, Valentine, we will not discuss the matter further. I will not make a confidant of him.", "pos": 1408134}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Alas! I see that I have given you pain. I can only say how sincerely I ask pardon for having grieved you. But, indeed, I am not prejudiced beyond the power of conviction. Tell me what this Count of Monte Cristo has done for you.", "pos": 1408256}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I own that your question embarrasses me, Valentine, for I cannot say that the count has rendered me any ostensible service. Still, as I have already told you, I have an instinctive affection for him, the source of which I cannot explain to you. Has the sun done anything for me? No; he warms me with his rays, and it is by his light that I see you—nothing more. Has such and such a perfume done anything for me? No; its odor charms one of my senses—that is all I can say when I am asked why I praise it. My friendship for him is as strange and unaccountable as his for me. A secret voice seems to whisper to me that there must be something more than chance in this unexpected reciprocity of friendship. In his most simple actions, as well as in his most secret thoughts, I find a relation to my own. You will perhaps smile at me when I tell you that, ever since I have known this man, I have involuntarily entertained the idea that all the good fortune which has befallen me originated from him. However, I have managed to live thirty years without this protection, you will say; but I will endeavor a little to illustrate my meaning. He invited me to dine with him on Saturday, which was a very natural thing for him to do. Well, what have I learned since? That your mother and M. de Villefort are both coming to this dinner. I shall meet them there, and who knows what future advantages may result from the interview? This may appear to you to be no unusual combination of circumstances; nevertheless, I perceive some hidden plot in the arrangement—something, in fact, more than is apparent on a casual view of the subject. I believe that this singular man, who appears to fathom the motives of everyone, has purposely arranged for me to meet M. and Madame de Villefort, and sometimes, I confess, I have gone so far as to try to read in his eyes whether he was in possession of the secret of our love.", "pos": 1408512}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "My good friend. I should take you for a visionary, and should tremble for your reason, if I were always to hear you talk in a strain similar to this. Is it possible that you can see anything more than the merest chance in this meeting? Pray reflect a little. My father, who never goes out, has several times been on the point of refusing this invitation; Madame de Villefort, on the contrary, is burning with the desire of seeing this extraordinary nabob in his own house, therefore, she has with great difficulty prevailed on my father to accompany her. No, no; it is as I have said, Maximilian,—there is no one in the world of whom I can ask help but yourself and my grandfather, who is little better than a corpse—no support to cling to but my mother in heaven!", "pos": 1410418}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I see that you are right, logically speaking, but the gentle voice which usually has such power over me fails to convince me today.", "pos": 1411203}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I feel the same as regards yourself. and I own that, if you have no stronger proof to give me——", "pos": 1411356}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I have another, but I fear you will deem it even more absurd than the first.", "pos": 1411472}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "So much the worse, said Valentine, smiling.", "pos": 1411573}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "It is, nevertheless, conclusive to my mind. My ten years of service have also confirmed my ideas on the subject of sudden inspirations, for I have several times owed my life to a mysterious impulse which directed me to move at once either to the right or to the left, in order to escape the ball which killed the comrade fighting by my side, while it left me unharmed.", "pos": 1411619}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Dear Maximilian, why not attribute your escape to my constant prayers for your safety? When you are away, I no longer pray for myself, but for you.", "pos": 1411990}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes, since you have known me, but that cannot apply to the time previous to our acquaintance, Valentine.", "pos": 1412147}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "You are very provoking, and will not give me credit for anything; but let me hear this second proof, which you yourself own to be absurd.", "pos": 1412278}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Well, look through this opening, and you will see the beautiful new horse which I rode here.", "pos": 1412418}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Ah! what a beautiful creature! why did you not bring him close to the gate, so that I could talk to him and pat him?", "pos": 1412513}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "He is, as you see, a very valuable animal. You know that my means are limited, and that I am what would be designated a man of moderate pretensions. Well, I went to a horse dealer’s, where I saw this magnificent horse, which I have named Médéah. I asked the price; they told me it was 4,500 francs. I was, therefore, obliged to give it up, as you may imagine, but I own I went away with rather a heavy heart, for the horse had looked at me affectionately, had rubbed his head against me and, when I mounted him, had pranced in the most delightful way imaginable, so that I was altogether fascinated with him. The same evening some friends of mine visited me,—M. de Château-Renaud, M. Debray, and five or six other choice spirits, whom you do not know, even by name. They proposed a game of bouillotte. I never play, for I am not rich enough to afford to lose, or sufficiently poor to desire to gain. But I was at my own house, you understand, so there was nothing to be done but to send for the cards, which I did. Just as they were sitting down to table, M. de Monte Cristo arrived. He took his seat amongst them; they played, and I won. I am almost ashamed to say that my gains amounted to 5,000 francs. We separated at midnight. I could not defer my pleasure, so I took a cabriolet and drove to the horse dealer’s. Feverish and excited, I rang at the door. The person who opened it must have taken me for a madman, for I rushed at once to the stable. Médéah was standing at the rack, eating his hay. I immediately put on the saddle and bridle, to which operation he lent himself with the best grace possible; then, putting the 4,500 francs into the hands of the astonished dealer, I proceeded to fulfil my intention of passing the night in riding in the Champs-Élysées. As I rode by the count’s house I perceived a light in one of the windows, and fancied I saw the shadow of his figure moving behind the curtain. Now, Valentine, I firmly believe that he knew of my wish to possess this horse, and that he lost expressly to give me the means of procuring him.", "pos": 1412651}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "My dear Maximilian, you are really too fanciful; you will not love even me long. A man who accustoms himself to live in such a world of poetry and imagination must find far too little excitement in a common, every-day sort of attachment such as ours. But they are calling me. Do you hear?", "pos": 1414736}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Ah, Valentine, give me but one finger through this opening in the grating, one finger, the littlest finger of all, that I may have the happiness of kissing it.", "pos": 1415027}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Maximilian, we said we would be to each other as two voices, two shadows.", "pos": 1415208}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "As you will, Valentine.", "pos": 1415284}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Shall you be happy if I do what you wish?", "pos": 1415310}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, yes!", "pos": 1415354}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I trust you will not be displeased, sir, that Valentine has not come with us, or that I dismissed Barrois, for our conference will be one which could not with propriety be carried on in the presence of either. Madame de Villefort and I have a communication to make to you. This communication will, we are sure, meet with your approbation. Sir, we are thinking of marrying Valentine. The marriage will take place in less than three months,", "pos": 1420524}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "We thought this news would possess an interest for you, sir, who have always entertained a great affection for Valentine; it therefore only now remains for us to tell you the name of the young man for whom she is destined. It is one of the most desirable connections which could possibly be formed; he possesses fortune, a high rank in society, and every personal qualification likely to render Valentine supremely happy,—his name, moreover, cannot be wholly unknown to you. It is M. Franz de Quesnel, Baron d’Épinay.", "pos": 1421748}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sir, you are aware that Valentine is about to enter her nineteenth year, which renders it important that she should lose no time in forming a suitable alliance. Nevertheless, you have not been forgotten in our plans, and we have fully ascertained beforehand that Valentine’s future husband will consent, not to live in this house, for that might not be pleasant for the young people, but that you should live with them; so that you and Valentine, who are so attached to each other, would not be separated, and you would be able to pursue exactly the same course of life which you have hitherto done, and thus, instead of losing, you will be a gainer by the change, as it will secure to you two children instead of one, to watch over and comfort you.", "pos": 1422940}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "This marriage is quite agreeable to the wishes of M. d’Épinay and his family; besides, he had no relations nearer than an uncle and aunt, his mother having died at his birth, and his father having been assassinated in 1815, that is to say, when he was but two years old; it naturally followed that the child was permitted to choose his own pursuits, and he has, therefore, seldom acknowledged any other authority but that of his own will.", "pos": 1424173}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "That assassination was a mysterious affair, and the perpetrators have hitherto escaped detection, although suspicion has fallen on the head of more than one person. Now, those to whom the guilt really belongs, by whom the crime was committed, on whose heads the justice of man may probably descend here, and the certain judgment of God hereafter, would rejoice in the opportunity thus afforded of bestowing such a peace-offering as Valentine on the son of him whose life they so ruthlessly destroyed.", "pos": 1424614}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Now sir. I must bid you farewell. Would you like me to send Edward to you for a short time? Then shall I send Valentine to you?", "pos": 1425647}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Dear grandpapa, what has happened? They have vexed you, and you are angry? Who has displeased you? Is it my father?", "pos": 1426797}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "No.", "pos": 1426980}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Madame de Villefort?", "pos": 1426986}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "No.", "pos": 1427009}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Me? Are you displeased with me? And what have I done, dear grandpapa, that you should be angry with me? I have not seen you all day. Has anyone been speaking to you against me?", "pos": 1427015}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1427355}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Let me think a moment. I do assure you, grandpapa—Ah—M. and Madame de Villefort have just left this room, have they not?", "pos": 1427403}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1427526}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "And it was they who told you something which made you angry? What was it then? May I go and ask them, that I may have the opportunity of making my peace with you? No. Ah, you frighten me. What can they have said? Ah, I know. They have been speaking of my marriage,—have they not? I understand; you are displeased at the silence I have preserved on the subject. The reason of it was, that they had insisted on my keeping the matter a secret, and begged me not to tell you anything of it. They did not even acquaint me with their intentions, and I only discovered them by chance, that is why I have been so reserved with you, dear grandpapa. Pray forgive me. What is it, then? Perhaps you think I shall abandon you, dear grandpapa, and that I shall forget you when I am married? They told you, then, that M. d’Épinay consented to our all living together? Then why are you still vexed and grieved? Yes, I understand, it is because you love me. And you are afraid I shall be unhappy? You do not like M. Franz? Then you are vexed with the engagement? Well, listen. I am vexed, too, for I do not love M. Franz d’Épinay. When I wished to retire into a convent, you remember how angry you were with me? Well, the reason of my proposing it was that I might escape this hateful marriage, which drives me to despair. Then the idea of this marriage really grieves you too? Ah, if you could but help me—if we could both together defeat their plan! But you are unable to oppose them,—you, whose mind is so quick, and whose will is so firm are nevertheless, as weak and unequal to the contest as I am myself. Alas, you, who would have been such a powerful protector to me in the days of your health and strength, can now only sympathize in my joys and sorrows, without being able to take any active part in them. However, this is much, and calls for gratitude and Heaven has not taken away all my blessings when it leaves me your sympathy and kindness. You are mistaken; I can still do much for you. Do you think you can help me, dear grandpapa? What is it you want, dear grandpapa? Come, since this plan does not answer, I will have recourse to another. Ah, the thing you desire begins with the letter N; it is with N that we have to do, then. Well, let me see, what can you want that begins with N? Na—Ne—Ni—No—— Yes, yes, yes. Ah, it is No, then?", "pos": 1427533}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Notary, do you want a notary, dear grandpapa? You would wish a notary to be sent for then? Shall my father be informed of your wish? Do you wish the notary to be sent for immediately? Then they shall go for him directly, dear grandpapa. Is that all you want? Are you satisfied now? I am sure you are; it is not very difficult to discover that.", "pos": 1432084}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "What do you want me for, sir? Sir,", "pos": 1432903}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "my grandfather wishes for a notary.", "pos": 1432988}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Will", "pos": 1434519}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sir,", "pos": 1435119}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Permit me to state that the case in question is just one of those in which a public officer like myself cannot proceed to act without thereby incurring a dangerous responsibility. The first thing necessary to render an act valid is, that the notary should be thoroughly convinced that he has faithfully interpreted the will and wishes of the person dictating the act. Now I cannot be sure of the approbation or disapprobation of a client who cannot speak, and as the object of his desire or his repugnance cannot be clearly proved to me, on account of his want of speech, my services here would be quite useless, and cannot be legally exercised.", "pos": 1435706}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Sir, the language which I speak with my grandfather may be easily learnt, and I can teach you in a few minutes, to understand it almost as well as I can myself. Will you tell me what you require, in order to set your conscience quite at ease on the subject? In order to render an act valid, I must be certain of the approbation or disapprobation of my client. Illness of body would not affect the validity of the deed, but sanity of mind is absolutely requisite. Well, sir, by the help of two signs, with which I will acquaint you presently, you may ascertain with perfect certainty that my grandfather is still in the full possession of all his mental faculties. M. Noirtier, being deprived of voice and motion, is accustomed to convey his meaning by closing his eyes when he wishes to signify ‘yes,’ and to wink when he means ‘no.’ You now know quite enough to enable you to converse with M. Noirtier;—try. You have heard and understood what your granddaughter has been saying, sir, have you? And you approve of what she said—that is to say, you declare that the signs which she mentioned are really those by means of which you are accustomed to convey your thoughts? It was you who sent for me? To make your will? And you do not wish me to go away without fulfilling your original intentions? do you understand now, and is your conscience perfectly at rest on the subject? Sir,", "pos": 1436660}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "do you suppose for a moment that a man can sustain a physical shock, such as M. Noirtier has received, without any detriment to his mental faculties? It is not exactly that, sir, which makes me uneasy, but the difficulty will be in wording his thoughts and intentions, so as to be able to get his answers. You must see that to be an utter impossibility,", "pos": 1438395}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "that need not make you uneasy, however difficult it may at first sight appear to be. I can discover and explain to you my grandfather’s thoughts, so as to put an end to all your doubts and fears on the subject. I have now been six years with M. Noirtier, and let him tell you if ever once, during that time, he has entertained a thought which he was unable to make me understand. Let us try what we can do, then. You accept this young lady as your interpreter, M. Noirtier? Well, sir, what do you require of me, and what document is it that you wish to be drawn up? It is very evident that it is the letter W which M. Noirtier wants. Wait. Wa—We—Wi—— Will it is very evident that M. Noirtier is desirous of making his will.", "pos": 1438954}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Really, sir, you must allow that this is most extraordinary, and I think the will promises to be yet more extraordinary, for I cannot see how it is to be drawn up without the intervention of Valentine, and she may, perhaps, be considered as too much interested in its contents to allow of her being a suitable interpreter of the obscure and ill-defined wishes of her grandfather. What? do you mean to say that Valentine is not interested in your will?", "pos": 1440294}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "what appeared so impossible to me an hour ago, has now become quite easy and practicable, and this may be a perfectly valid will, provided it be read in the presence of seven witnesses, approved by the testator, and sealed by the notary in the presence of the witnesses. As to the time, it will not require very much more than the generality of wills. There are certain forms necessary to be gone through, and which are always the same. As to the details, the greater part will be furnished afterwards by the state in which we find the affairs of the testator, and by yourself, who, having had the management of them, can doubtless give full information on the subject. But besides all this, in order that the instrument may not be contested, I am anxious to give it the greatest possible authenticity, therefore, one of my colleagues will help me, and, contrary to custom, will assist in the dictation of the testament. Are you satisfied, sir? Yes. What is he going to do?", "pos": 1441077}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "When an individual makes his will, it is generally in favor or in prejudice of some person. Have you an exact idea of the amount of your fortune? I will name to you several sums which will increase by gradation; you will stop me when I reach the one representing the amount of your own possessions? Your fortune exceeds 300,000 francs, does it not? Do you possess 400,000 francs? 500,000? 600,000—700,000—800,000—900,000? You are then in possession of 900,000 francs? In landed property? In stock? The stock is in your own hands?", "pos": 1442993}
{"speaker": "the notary", "text": "Do you permit us to open this casket? It is all as he has said; it is very evident that the mind still retains its full force and vigor. You possess, then, 900,000 francs of capital, which, according to the manner in which you have invested it, ought to bring in an income of about 40,000 livres?", "pos": 1444408}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1444994}
{"speaker": "the notary", "text": "To whom do you desire to leave this fortune?", "pos": 1445001}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Oh! there is not much doubt on that subject. M. Noirtier tenderly loves his granddaughter, Mademoiselle de Villefort; it is she who has nursed and tended him for six years, and has, by her devoted attention, fully secured the affection, I had almost said the gratitude, of her grandfather, and it is but just that she should reap the fruit of her devotion.", "pos": 1445048}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "Is it, then, to Mademoiselle Valentine de Villefort that you leave these 900,000 francs?", "pos": 1445633}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "What, do you not intend making Mademoiselle Valentine de Villefort your residuary legatee?", "pos": 1446274}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "No.", "pos": 1446367}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, grandpapa, I see now that it is only your fortune of which you deprive me; you still leave me the love which I have always enjoyed.", "pos": 1446854}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Ah, yes, most assuredly,", "pos": 1446992}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Then, doubtless, dear M. Noirtier, you intend leaving your fortune to your grandson, Edward de Villefort?", "pos": 1447343}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "No? then, perhaps, it is to your son, M. de Villefort?", "pos": 1447604}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "What have we all done, then, dear grandpapa? you no longer seem to love any of us? Well, if you love me, grandpapa, try and bring that love to bear upon your actions at this present moment. You know me well enough to be quite sure that I have never thought of your fortune; besides, they say I am already rich in right of my mother—too rich, even. Explain yourself, then.", "pos": 1447867}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "My hand? Yes.", "pos": 1448454}
{"speaker": "Everyone", "text": "Her hand!", "pos": 1448482}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Ah, gentlemen, you see it is all useless, and that my father’s mind is really impaired,", "pos": 1448514}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I understand. It is my marriage you mean, is it not, dear grandpapa?", "pos": 1448652}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes, yes, yes,", "pos": 1448723}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "You are angry with us all on account of this marriage, are you not?", "pos": 1448849}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes?", "pos": 1448919}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Really, this is too absurd,", "pos": 1448926}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "Excuse me, sir, on the contrary, the meaning of M. Noirtier is quite evident to me, and I can quite easily connect the train of ideas passing in his mind.", "pos": 1448994}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "You do not wish me to marry M. Franz d’Épinay?", "pos": 1449151}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "I do not wish it,", "pos": 1449220}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "And you disinherit your granddaughter because she has contracted an engagement contrary to your wishes?", "pos": 1449273}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I consider that I am the best judge of the propriety of the marriage in question. I am the only person possessing the right to dispose of my daughter’s hand. It is my wish that she should marry M. Franz d’Épinay—and she shall marry him.", "pos": 1449945}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "Sir, how do you intend disposing of your fortune in case Mademoiselle de Villefort still determines on marrying M. Franz? You will, of course, dispose of it in some way or other? In favor of some member of your family?", "pos": 1450240}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "No.", "pos": 1450500}
{"speaker": "Notary", "text": "Do you intend devoting it to charitable purposes, then? But, you are aware that the law does not allow a son to be entirely deprived of his patrimony? You only intend, then, to dispose of that part of your fortune which the law allows you to subtract from the inheritance of your son? Do you still wish to dispose of all? But they will contest the will after your death?", "pos": 1450506}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "No.", "pos": 1450972}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "My father knows me; he is quite sure that his wishes will be held sacred by me; besides, he understands that in my position I cannot plead against the poor.", "pos": 1450999}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "What do you decide on, sir?", "pos": 1451199}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Nothing, sir; it is a resolution which my father has taken and I know he never alters his mind. I am quite resigned. These 900,000 francs will go out of the family in order to enrich some hospital; but it is ridiculous thus to yield to the caprices of an old man, and I shall, therefore, act according to my conscience.", "pos": 1451260}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ma foi! what is the matter with you, M. de Villefort? Have I arrived at the moment when you were drawing up an indictment for a capital crime?", "pos": 1452715}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "No, count, I am the only victim in this case. It is I who lose my cause, and it is ill-luck, obstinacy, and folly which have caused it to be decided against me.", "pos": 1452900}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To what do you refer? Have you really met with some great misfortune?", "pos": 1453063}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Oh, no, monsieur, it is only a loss of money which I have sustained—nothing worth mentioning, I assure you.", "pos": 1453221}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "True, the loss of a sum of money becomes almost immaterial with a fortune such as you possess, and to one of your philosophic spirit.", "pos": 1453352}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "It is not so much the loss of the money that vexes me, though, after all, 900,000 francs are worth regretting; but I am the more annoyed with this fate, chance, or whatever you please to call the power which has destroyed my hopes and my fortune, and may blast the prospects of my child also, as it is all occasioned by an old man relapsed into second childhood.", "pos": 1453488}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What do you say? 900,000 francs? It is indeed a sum which might be regretted even by a philosopher. And who is the cause of all this annoyance?", "pos": 1453896}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "My father, as I told you.", "pos": 1454042}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "M. Noirtier? But I thought you told me he had become entirely paralyzed, and that all his faculties were completely destroyed?", "pos": 1454070}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes, his bodily faculties, for he can neither move nor speak, nevertheless he thinks, acts, and wills in the manner I have described. I left him about five minutes ago, and he is now occupied in dictating his will to two notaries.", "pos": 1454199}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But to do this he must have spoken?", "pos": 1454432}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "He has done better than that—he has made himself understood. By the help of his eyes, which are still full of life, and, as you perceive, possess the power of inflicting mortal injury.", "pos": 1454470}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "My dear, perhaps you exaggerate the evil.", "pos": 1454751}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Good-morning, madame, and what incomprehensible misfortune——", "pos": 1454795}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Incomprehensible is the word! It is an old man’s caprice!", "pos": 1455049}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Yes; and it is still entirely in the power of my husband to cause the will, which is now in prejudice of Valentine, to be altered in her favor.", "pos": 1455250}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "My dear, you know I have never been accustomed to play the patriarch in my family, nor have I ever considered that the fate of a universe was to be decided by my nod. Nevertheless, it is necessary that my will should be respected in my family, and that the folly of an old man and the caprice of a child should not be allowed to overturn a project which I have entertained for so many years. The Baron d’Épinay was my friend, as you know, and an alliance with his son is the most suitable thing that could possibly be arranged.", "pos": 1455702}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Do you think that Valentine is in league with him? She has always been opposed to this marriage, and I should not be at all surprised if what we have just seen and heard is nothing but the execution of a plan concerted between them.", "pos": 1456261}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Madame, believe me, a fortune of 900,000 francs is not so easily renounced.", "pos": 1456514}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "She could, nevertheless, make up her mind to renounce the world, sir, since it is only about a year ago that she herself proposed entering a convent.", "pos": 1456592}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Never mind, I say that this marriage shall be consummated.", "pos": 1456765}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Notwithstanding your father’s wishes to the contrary? That is a serious thing.", "pos": 1456826}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I can truly say that I have always entertained a high respect for my father, because, to the natural feeling of relationship was added the consciousness of his moral superiority. The name of father is sacred in two senses; he should be reverenced as the author of our being and as a master whom we ought to obey. But, under the present circumstances, I am justified in doubting the wisdom of an old man who, because he hated the father, vents his anger on the son. It would be ridiculous in me to regulate my conduct by such caprices. I shall still continue to preserve the same respect toward M. Noirtier; I will suffer, without complaint, the pecuniary deprivation to which he has subjected me; but I shall remain firm in my determination, and the world shall see which party has reason on his side. Consequently I shall marry my daughter to the Baron Franz d’Épinay, because I consider it would be a proper and eligible match for her to make, and, in short, because I choose to bestow my daughter’s hand on whomever I please.", "pos": 1457093}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What? Do you say that M. Noirtier disinherits Mademoiselle de Villefort because she is going to marry M. le Baron Franz d’Épinay?", "pos": 1458232}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes, sir, that is the reason,", "pos": 1458364}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "The apparent reason, at least,", "pos": 1458437}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "The real reason, madame, I can assure you; I know my father.", "pos": 1458496}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I believe I know M. Franz d’Épinay; is he not the son of General de Quesnel, who was created Baron d’Épinay by Charles X.?", "pos": 1458664}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "The same,", "pos": 1458807}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, but he is a charming young man, according to my ideas.", "pos": 1458835}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "He is, which makes me believe that it is only an excuse of M. Noirtier to prevent his granddaughter marrying; old men are always so selfish in their affection,", "pos": 1458898}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But do you not know any cause for this hatred?", "pos": 1459107}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Ah, ma foi! who is to know?", "pos": 1459156}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Perhaps it is some political difference?", "pos": 1459186}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "My father and the Baron d’Épinay lived in the stormy times of which I only saw the ending.", "pos": 1459229}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Was not your father a Bonapartist? I think I remember that you told me something of that kind.", "pos": 1459338}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "My father has been a Jacobin more than anything else; and the senator’s robe, which Napoleon cast on his shoulders, only served to disguise the old man without in any degree changing him. When my father conspired, it was not for the emperor, it was against the Bourbons; for M. Noirtier possessed this peculiarity, he never projected any Utopian schemes which could never be realized, but strove for possibilities, and he applied to the realization of these possibilities the terrible theories of The Mountain,—theories that never shrank from any means that were deemed necessary to bring about the desired result.", "pos": 1459457}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, it is just as I thought; it was politics which brought Noirtier and M. d’Épinay into personal contact. Although General d’Épinay served under Napoleon, did he not still retain royalist sentiments? And was he not the person who was assassinated one evening on leaving a Bonapartist meeting to which he had been invited on the supposition that he favored the cause of the emperor?", "pos": 1460167}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "and it was to prevent the renewal of old feuds that M. de Villefort formed the idea of uniting in the bonds of affection the two children of these inveterate enemies.", "pos": 1460730}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It was a sublime and charitable thought, and the whole world should applaud it. It would be noble to see Mademoiselle Noirtier de Villefort assuming the title of Madame Franz d’Épinay.", "pos": 1460899}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Although it will be a serious thing for Valentine to lose her grandfather’s fortune, I do not think that M. d’Épinay will be frightened at this pecuniary loss. He will, perhaps, hold me in greater esteem than the money itself, seeing that I sacrifice everything in order to keep my word with him. Besides, he knows that Valentine is rich in right of her mother, and that she will, in all probability, inherit the fortune of M. and Madame de Saint-Méran, her mother’s parents, who both love her tenderly.", "pos": 1461455}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "And who are fully as well worth loving and tending as M. Noirtier; besides, they are to come to Paris in about a month, and Valentine, after the affront she has received, need not consider it necessary to continue to bury herself alive by being shut up with M. Noirtier.", "pos": 1461961}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But it seems to me, and I must begin by asking your pardon for what I am about to say, that if M. Noirtier disinherits Mademoiselle de Villefort because she is going to marry a man whose father he detested, he cannot have the same cause of complaint against this dear Edward.", "pos": 1462377}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "True, is it not unjust—shamefully unjust? Poor Edward is as much M. Noirtier’s grandchild as Valentine, and yet, if she had not been going to marry M. Franz, M. Noirtier would have left her all his money; and supposing Valentine to be disinherited by her grandfather, she will still be three times richer than he.", "pos": 1462654}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Count, we will not entertain you any longer with our family misfortunes. It is true that my patrimony will go to endow charitable institutions, and my father will have deprived me of my lawful inheritance without any reason for doing so, but I shall have the satisfaction of knowing that I have acted like a man of sense and feeling. M. d’Épinay, to whom I had promised the interest of this sum, shall receive it, even if I endure the most cruel privations.", "pos": 1463099}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "However, perhaps it would be better to explain this unlucky affair to M. d’Épinay, in order to give him the opportunity of himself renouncing his claim to the hand of Mademoiselle de Villefort.", "pos": 1463577}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Ah, that would be a great pity,", "pos": 1463864}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A great pity,", "pos": 1463914}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Undoubtedly, a marriage once concerted and then broken off, throws a sort of discredit on a young lady; then again, the old reports, which I was so anxious to put an end to, will instantly gain ground. No, it will all go well; M. d’Épinay, if he is an honorable man, will consider himself more than ever pledged to Mademoiselle de Villefort, unless he were actuated by a decided feeling of avarice, but that is impossible.", "pos": 1463949}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I agree with M. de Villefort, and if I were sufficiently intimate with him to allow of giving my advice, I would persuade him, since I have been told M. d’Épinay is coming back, to settle this affair at once beyond all possibility of revocation. I will answer for the success of a project which will reflect so much honor on M. de Villefort.", "pos": 1464427}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Well, that is all that I wanted, and I will be guided by a counsellor such as you are. Therefore let everyone here look upon what has passed today as if it had not happened, and as though we had never thought of such a thing as a change in our original plans.", "pos": 1464922}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Sir, the world, unjust as it is, will be pleased with your resolution; your friends will be proud of you, and M. d’Épinay, even if he took Mademoiselle de Villefort without any dowry, which he will not do, would be delighted with the idea of entering a family which could make such sacrifices in order to keep a promise and fulfil a duty.", "pos": 1465231}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Are you going to leave us, count?", "pos": 1465650}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am sorry to say I must do so, madame, I only came to remind you of your promise for Saturday.", "pos": 1465712}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Did you fear that we should forget it?", "pos": 1465810}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are very good, madame, but M. de Villefort has so many important and urgent occupations.", "pos": 1465851}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "My husband has given me his word, sir, you have just seen him resolve to keep it when he has everything to lose, and surely there is more reason for his doing so where he has everything to gain.", "pos": 1465946}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "And, is it at your house in the Champs-Élysées that you receive your visitors?", "pos": 1466171}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, which is precisely the reason which renders your kindness more meritorious,—it is in the country.", "pos": 1466270}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "In the country?", "pos": 1466395}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1466413}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Where is it, then? Near Paris, is it not?", "pos": 1466420}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Very near, only half a league from the Barriers,—it is at Auteuil.", "pos": 1466464}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "At Auteuil? true, Madame de Villefort told me you lived at Auteuil, since it was to your house that she was taken. And in what part of Auteuil do you reside?", "pos": 1466533}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Rue de la Fontaine.", "pos": 1466711}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Rue de la Fontaine! at what number?", "pos": 1466733}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No. 28.", "pos": 1466814}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Then, was it you who bought M. de Saint-Méran’s house!", "pos": 1466824}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Did it belong to M. de Saint-Méran?", "pos": 1466900}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Yes, and, would you believe it, count——", "pos": 1466961}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Believe what?", "pos": 1467034}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "You think this house pretty, do you not?", "pos": 1467050}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I think it charming.", "pos": 1467093}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Well, my husband would never live in it.", "pos": 1467116}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Indeed? that is a prejudice on your part, M. de Villefort, for which I am quite at a loss to account.", "pos": 1467159}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I do not like Auteuil, sir,", "pos": 1467288}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But I hope you will not carry your antipathy so far as to deprive me of the pleasure of your company, sir,", "pos": 1467379}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "No, count,—I hope—I assure you I shall do my best,", "pos": 1467507}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh. I allow of no excuse. On Saturday, at six o’clock. I shall be expecting you, and if you fail to come, I shall think—for how do I know to the contrary?—that this house, which has remained uninhabited for twenty years, must have some gloomy tradition or dreadful legend connected with it.", "pos": 1467581}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I will come, count,—I will be sure to come,", "pos": 1467895}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Thank you, now you must permit me to take my leave of you.", "pos": 1467965}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "You said before that you were obliged to leave us, monsieur, and you were about to tell us why when your attention was called to some other subject.", "pos": 1468047}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Indeed madame. I scarcely know if I dare tell you where I am going.", "pos": 1468226}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Nonsense; say on.", "pos": 1468317}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, then, it is to see a thing on which I have sometimes mused for hours together.", "pos": 1468337}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 1468424}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A telegraph. So now I have told my secret.", "pos": 1468438}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "A telegraph?", "pos": 1468483}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, a telegraph. I had often seen one placed at the end of a road on a hillock, and in the light of the sun its black arms, bending in every direction, always reminded me of the claws of an immense beetle, and I assure you it was never without emotion that I gazed on it, for I could not help thinking how wonderful it was that these various signs should be made to cleave the air with such precision as to convey to the distance of three hundred leagues the ideas and wishes of a man sitting at a table at one end of the line to another man similarly placed at the opposite extremity, and all this effected by a simple act of volition on the part of the sender of the message. I began to think of genii, sylphs, gnomes, in short, of all the ministers of the occult sciences, until I laughed aloud at the freaks of my own imagination. Now, it never occurred to me to wish for a nearer inspection of these large insects, with their long black claws, for I always feared to find under their stone wings some little human genius fagged to death with cabals, factions, and government intrigues. But one fine day I learned that the mover of this telegraph was only a poor wretch, hired for twelve hundred francs a year, and employed all day, not in studying the heavens like an astronomer, or in gazing on the water like an angler, or even in enjoying the privilege of observing the country around him, but all his monotonous life was passed in watching his white-bellied, black-clawed fellow insect, four or five leagues distant from him. At length I felt a desire to study this living chrysalis more closely, and to endeavor to understand the secret part played by these insect-actors when they occupy themselves simply with pulling different pieces of string. And are you going there? I am. What telegraph do you intend visiting? that of the home department, or of the observatory? Oh, no; I should find there people who would force me to understand things of which I would prefer to remain ignorant, and who would try to explain to me, in spite of myself, a mystery which even they do not understand. Ma foi! I should wish to keep my illusions concerning insects unimpaired; it is quite enough to have those dissipated which I had formed of my fellow-creatures. I shall, therefore, not visit either of these telegraphs, but one in the open country where I shall find a good-natured simpleton, who knows no more than the machine he is employed to work.", "pos": 1468528}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You are a singular man,", "pos": 1470997}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What line would you advise me to study?", "pos": 1471039}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "The one that is most in use just at this time.", "pos": 1471081}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The Spanish one, you mean, I suppose?", "pos": 1471130}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes; should you like a letter to the minister that they might explain to you——", "pos": 1471170}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, since, as I told you before, I do not wish to comprehend it. The moment I understand it there will no longer exist a telegraph for me; it will be nothing more than a sign from M. Duchâtel, or from M. Montalivet, transmitted to the prefect of Bayonne, mystified by two Greek words, têle, graphein. It is the insect with black claws, and the awful word which I wish to retain in my imagination in all its purity and all its importance.", "pos": 1471251}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Go then; for in the course of two hours it will be dark, and you will not be able to see anything.", "pos": 1471712}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ma foi! you frighten me. Which is the nearest way? Bayonne?", "pos": 1471813}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes; the road to Bayonne.", "pos": 1471875}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And afterwards the road to Châtillon?", "pos": 1471903}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1471943}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "By the tower of Montlhéry, you mean?", "pos": 1471950}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1471989}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Thank you. Good-bye. On Saturday I will tell you my impressions concerning the telegraph.", "pos": 1471996}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are gathering your crop, sir?", "pos": 1475984}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "Excuse me, sir. I am not up there, I know, but I have only just come down.", "pos": 1476055}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do not let me interfere with you in anything, my friend, gather your strawberries, if, indeed, there are any left.", "pos": 1476180}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "I have ten left, for here are eleven, and I had twenty-one, five more than last year. But I am not surprised; the spring has been warm this year, and strawberries require heat, sir. This is the reason that, instead of the sixteen I had last year, I have this year, you see, eleven, already plucked—twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen. Ah, I miss three, they were here last night, sir—I am sure they were here—I counted them. It must be the son of Mère Simon who has stolen them; I saw him strolling about here this morning. Ah, the young rascal—stealing in a garden—he does not know where that may lead him to.", "pos": 1476315}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly, it is wrong, but you should take into consideration the youth and greediness of the delinquent.", "pos": 1476974}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "Of course, but that does not make it the less unpleasant. But, sir, once more I beg pardon; perhaps you are an officer that I am detaining here.", "pos": 1477104}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Calm yourself, my friend. I am not an inspector, but a traveller, brought here by a curiosity he half repents of, since he causes you to lose your time.", "pos": 1477328}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "Ah, my time is not valuable. Still it belongs to government, and I ought not to waste it; but, having received the signal that I might rest for an hour and having ten minutes before me, and my strawberries being ripe, when a day longer—by-the-by, sir, do you think dormice eat them?", "pos": 1477621}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Indeed, I should think not, dormice are bad neighbors for us who do not eat them preserved, as the Romans did.", "pos": 1478059}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "What? Did the Romans eat them? ate dormice?", "pos": 1478196}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have read so in Petronius,", "pos": 1478262}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "Really? They can’t be nice, though they do say ‘as fat as a dormouse.’ It is not a wonder they are fat, sleeping all day, and only waking to eat all night. Listen. Last year I had four apricots—they stole one, I had one nectarine, only one—well, sir, they ate half of it on the wall; a splendid nectarine—I never ate a better.", "pos": 1478309}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You ate it?", "pos": 1478638}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "That is to say, the half that was left—you understand; it was exquisite, sir. Ah, those gentlemen never choose the worst morsels; like Mère Simon’s son, who has not chosen the worst strawberries. But this year. I’ll take care it shall not happen, even if I should be forced to sit by the whole night to watch when the strawberries are ripe.", "pos": 1478652}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Did you come here, sir, to see the telegraph?", "pos": 1479289}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "Oh, no, not in the least, since there is no danger that anyone can possibly understand what we are saying.", "pos": 1479388}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have been told, that you do not always yourselves understand the signals you repeat.", "pos": 1479518}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "That is true, sir, and that is what I like best. Because then I have no responsibility. I am a machine then, and nothing else, and so long as I work, nothing more is required of me.", "pos": 1479625}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Is it possible, that I can have met with a man that has no ambition? That would spoil my plans.", "pos": 1479863}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "Sir, the ten minutes are almost up; I must return to my post. Will you go up with me?", "pos": 1479993}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I follow you.", "pos": 1480128}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Does it require much study to learn the art of telegraphing?", "pos": 1480743}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The study does not take long; it was acting as a supernumerary that was so tedious.", "pos": 1480826}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And what is the pay?", "pos": 1480912}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A thousand francs, sir.", "pos": 1480935}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is nothing.", "pos": 1480961}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No; but then we are lodged, as you perceive.", "pos": 1480978}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is very interesting, but it must be very tedious for a lifetime.", "pos": 1481202}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes. At first my neck was cramped with looking at it, but at the end of a year I became used to it; and then we have our hours of recreation, and our holidays.", "pos": 1481283}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Holidays?", "pos": 1481445}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1481457}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "When?", "pos": 1481464}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When we have a fog.", "pos": 1481472}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, to be sure.", "pos": 1481494}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Those are indeed holidays to me; I go into the garden, I plant, I prune, I trim, I kill the insects all day long.", "pos": 1481512}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How long have you been here?", "pos": 1481628}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ten years, and five as a supernumerary make fifteen.", "pos": 1481659}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are——", "pos": 1481714}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Fifty-five years old.", "pos": 1481726}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How long must you have served to claim the pension?", "pos": 1481750}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, sir, twenty-five years.", "pos": 1481804}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And how much is the pension?", "pos": 1481834}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A hundred crowns.", "pos": 1481865}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Poor humanity!", "pos": 1481885}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What did you say, sir?", "pos": 1481925}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I was saying it was very interesting.", "pos": 1481965}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What was?", "pos": 1482005}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "All you were showing me. And you really understand none of these signals?", "pos": 1482017}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "None at all.", "pos": 1482093}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And have you never tried to understand them?", "pos": 1482108}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Never. Why should I?", "pos": 1482155}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But still there are some signals only addressed to you.", "pos": 1482178}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 1482236}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And do you understand them?", "pos": 1482249}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They are always the same.", "pos": 1482279}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And they mean——", "pos": 1482307}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nothing new; You have an hour;", "pos": 1482326}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tomorrow.", "pos": 1482362}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "This is simple enough, but look, is not your correspondent putting itself in motion?", "pos": 1482375}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, yes; thank you, sir.", "pos": 1482480}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And what is it saying—anything you understand?", "pos": 1482507}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; it asks if I am ready.", "pos": 1482556}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And you reply?", "pos": 1482586}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "By the same sign, which, at the same time, tells my right-hand correspondent that I am ready, while it gives notice to my left-hand correspondent to prepare in his turn.", "pos": 1482603}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is very ingenious,", "pos": 1482775}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "You will see, in five minutes he will speak.", "pos": 1482815}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have, then, five minutes, it is more time than I require. My dear sir, will you allow me to ask you a question?", "pos": 1482886}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is it, sir?", "pos": 1483034}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are fond of gardening?", "pos": 1483053}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Passionately.", "pos": 1483082}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And you would be pleased to have, instead of this terrace of twenty feet, an enclosure of two acres?", "pos": 1483098}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sir, I should make a terrestrial paradise of it.", "pos": 1483201}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You live badly on your thousand francs?", "pos": 1483252}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Badly enough; but yet I do live.", "pos": 1483294}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; but you have a wretchedly small garden.", "pos": 1483329}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "True, the garden is not large.", "pos": 1483376}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And, then, such as it is, it is filled with dormice, who eat everything.", "pos": 1483409}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, they are my scourges.", "pos": 1483484}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Tell me, should you have the misfortune to turn your head while your right-hand correspondent was telegraphing——", "pos": 1483512}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should not see him.", "pos": 1483627}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then what would happen?", "pos": 1483651}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I could not repeat the signals.", "pos": 1483677}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And then?", "pos": 1483711}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not having repeated them, through negligence, I should be fined.", "pos": 1483723}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How much?", "pos": 1483790}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A hundred francs.", "pos": 1483802}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The tenth of your income—that would be fine work.", "pos": 1483822}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "Ah!", "pos": 1483874}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Has it ever happened to you?", "pos": 1483894}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Once, sir, when I was grafting a rose-tree.", "pos": 1483944}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, suppose you were to alter a signal, and substitute another?", "pos": 1483990}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, that is another case; I should be turned off, and lose my pension.", "pos": 1484058}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Three hundred francs?", "pos": 1484131}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A hundred crowns, yes, sir; so you see that I am not likely to do any of these things.", "pos": 1484155}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Not even for fifteen years’ wages? Come, it is worth thinking about?", "pos": 1484244}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "For fifteen thousand francs?", "pos": 1484315}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1484346}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sir, you alarm me.", "pos": 1484353}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Nonsense.", "pos": 1484374}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sir, you are tempting me?", "pos": 1484386}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Just so; fifteen thousand francs, do you understand?", "pos": 1484414}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sir, let me see my right-hand correspondent.", "pos": 1484469}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "On the contrary, do not look at him, but at this.", "pos": 1484516}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 1484568}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What? Do you not know these bits of paper?", "pos": 1484582}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Bank-notes!", "pos": 1484627}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Exactly; there are fifteen of them.", "pos": 1484641}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And whose are they?", "pos": 1484679}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yours, if you like.", "pos": 1484701}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "Mine?", "pos": 1484723}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; yours—your own property.", "pos": 1484767}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sir, my right-hand correspondent is signalling.", "pos": 1484799}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Let him signal.", "pos": 1484849}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sir, you have distracted me; I shall be fined.", "pos": 1484867}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That will cost you a hundred francs; you see it is your interest to take my bank-notes.", "pos": 1484916}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sir, my right-hand correspondent redoubles his signals; he is impatient.", "pos": 1485006}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Never mind—take these; Now this is not all, you cannot live upon your fifteen thousand francs.", "pos": 1485081}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall still have my place.", "pos": 1485243}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, you will lose it, for you are going to alter your correspondent’s message.", "pos": 1485274}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, sir, what are you proposing?", "pos": 1485355}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A jest.", "pos": 1485390}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sir, unless you force me——", "pos": 1485400}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I think I can effectually force you; Here are ten thousand more francs, with the fifteen thousand already in your pocket, they will make twenty-five thousand. With five thousand you can buy a pretty little house with two acres of land; the remaining twenty thousand will bring you in a thousand francs a year.", "pos": 1485429}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A garden with two acres of land!", "pos": 1485808}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And a thousand francs a year.", "pos": 1485843}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, heavens!", "pos": 1485875}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Come, take them,", "pos": 1485890}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What am I to do?", "pos": 1485963}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Nothing very difficult.", "pos": 1485982}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But what is it?", "pos": 1486008}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To repeat these signs. There, you see it will not take long.", "pos": 1486026}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; but——", "pos": 1486237}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do this, and you will have nectarines and all the rest. Now you are rich,", "pos": 1486250}
{"speaker": "Man", "text": "Yes, but at what a price!", "pos": 1486778}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Listen, friend. I do not wish to cause you any remorse; believe me, then, when I swear to you that you have wronged no man, but on the contrary have benefited mankind.", "pos": 1486825}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Has your husband any Spanish bonds?", "pos": 1487370}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "I think so, indeed! He has six millions’ worth.", "pos": 1487434}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "He must sell them at whatever price.", "pos": 1487484}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Why?", "pos": 1487523}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Because Don Carlos has fled from Bourges, and has returned to Spain.", "pos": 1487530}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "How do you know?", "pos": 1487608}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "The idea of asking how I hear the news, he said.", "pos": 1487658}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Good. I have just made a discovery for twenty-five thousand francs, for which I would have paid a hundred thousand.", "pos": 1489089}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "What have you discovered?", "pos": 1489354}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have just discovered how a gardener may get rid of the dormice that eat his peaches.", "pos": 1489396}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That can only be to hold gloves,", "pos": 1493897}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Will your excellency deign to open it? and you will find gloves in it.", "pos": 1493941}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Good,", "pos": 1494142}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I am sure I am the first. I did it on purpose to have you a minute to myself, before everyone came. Julie and Emmanuel have a thousand things to tell you. Ah, really this is magnificent! But tell me, count, will your people take care of my horse?", "pos": 1494437}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do not alarm yourself, my dear Maximilian—they understand.", "pos": 1494702}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I mean, because he wants petting. If you had seen at what a pace he came—like the wind!", "pos": 1494763}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I should think so,—a horse that cost 5,000 francs!", "pos": 1494853}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Do you regret them?", "pos": 1494977}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I? Certainly not. No; I should only regret if the horse had not proved good.", "pos": 1495034}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "It is so good, that I have distanced M. de Château-Renaud, one of the best riders in France, and M. Debray, who both mount the minister’s Arabians; and close on their heels are the horses of Madame Danglars, who always go at six leagues an hour.", "pos": 1495134}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then they follow you?", "pos": 1495382}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "See, they are here.", "pos": 1495426}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "The instant Debray had touched the ground, he was at the carriage-door.", "pos": 1495665}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Sir, if you were a friend of mine, I should ask you if you would sell your horse.", "pos": 1496511}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, madame, why did you not make that request of me?", "pos": 1496772}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "With you, sir, one can wish for nothing, one is so sure to obtain it. If it were so with M. Morrel——", "pos": 1496838}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Unfortunately. I am witness that M. Morrel cannot give up his horse, his honor being engaged in keeping it.", "pos": 1496965}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "How so?", "pos": 1497096}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He laid a wager he would tame Médéah in the space of six months. You understand now that if he were to get rid of the animal before the time named, he would not only lose his bet, but people would say he was afraid; and a brave captain of Spahis cannot risk this, even to gratify a pretty woman, which is, in my opinion, one of the most sacred obligations in the world.", "pos": 1497106}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "You see my position, madame,", "pos": 1497478}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "It seems to me, that you have already got horses enough.", "pos": 1497566}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Why, you could plant one of the chestnut-trees in the Tuileries inside! How can such enormous jars have been manufactured?", "pos": 1498061}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah! madame, you must not ask of us, the manufacturers of fine porcelain, such a question. It is the work of another age, constructed by the genii of earth and water.", "pos": 1498198}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "How so?—at what period can that have been?", "pos": 1498390}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do not know; I have only heard that an emperor of China had an oven built expressly, and that in this oven twelve jars like this were successively baked. Two broke, from the heat of the fire; the other ten were sunk three hundred fathoms deep into the sea. The sea, knowing what was required of her, threw over them her weeds, encircled them with coral, and encrusted them with shells; the whole was cemented by two hundred years beneath these almost impervious depths, for a revolution carried away the emperor who wished to make the trial, and only left the documents proving the manufacture of the jars and their descent into the sea. At the end of two hundred years the documents were found, and they thought of bringing up the jars. Divers descended in machines, made expressly on the discovery, into the bay where they were thrown; but of ten three only remained, the rest having been broken by the waves. I am fond of these jars, upon which, perhaps, misshapen, frightful monsters have fixed their cold, dull eyes, and in which myriads of small fish have slept, seeking a refuge from the pursuit of their enemies. Sir. I do not recommend my pictures to you, who possess such splendid paintings; but, nevertheless, here are two by Hobbema, a Paul Potter, a Mieris, two by Gerard Douw, a Raphael, a Van Dyck, a Zurbaran, and two or three by Murillo, worth looking at.", "pos": 1498435}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Stay. I recognize this Hobbema.", "pos": 1500203}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, indeed!", "pos": 1500252}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Yes; it was proposed for the Museum.", "pos": 1500266}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Which, I believe, does not contain one?", "pos": 1500305}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "No; and yet they refused to buy it.", "pos": 1500366}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Why?", "pos": 1500404}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "You pretend not to know,—because government was not rich enough.", "pos": 1500432}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Ah, pardon me. I have heard of these things every day during the last eight years, and I cannot understand them yet.", "pos": 1500499}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "You will, by and by,", "pos": 1500641}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "I think not,", "pos": 1500677}
{"speaker": "Baptistin", "text": "Major Bartolomeo Cavalcanti and Count Andrea Cavalcanti,", "pos": 1500716}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Cavalcanti!", "pos": 1501427}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "A fine name,", "pos": 1501454}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "these Italians are well named and badly dressed.", "pos": 1501510}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "those clothes are well cut and quite new.", "pos": 1501615}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "That is just what I find fault with. That gentleman appears to be well dressed for the first time in his life.", "pos": 1501659}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Who are those gentlemen?", "pos": 1501772}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You heard—Cavalcanti.", "pos": 1501831}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "That tells me their name, and nothing else.", "pos": 1501855}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah! true. You do not know the Italian nobility; the Cavalcanti are all descended from princes.", "pos": 1501901}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Have they any fortune?", "pos": 1501998}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "An enormous one.", "pos": 1502023}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "What do they do?", "pos": 1502042}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Try to spend it all. They have some business with you, I think, from what they told me the day before yesterday. I, indeed, invited them here today on your account. I will introduce you to them.", "pos": 1502061}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "But they appear to speak French with a very pure accent,", "pos": 1502258}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The son has been educated in a college in the south; I believe near Marseilles. You will find him quite enthusiastic.", "pos": 1502332}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Upon what subject?", "pos": 1502452}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The French ladies, madame. He has made up his mind to take a wife from Paris.", "pos": 1502496}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "A fine idea that of his,", "pos": 1502576}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Not yet, I think. More likely he has been speculating on the Bourse, and has lost money.", "pos": 1502913}
{"speaker": "Baptistin", "text": "M. and Madame de Villefort,", "pos": 1503004}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What do you want, M. Bertuccio?", "pos": 1503523}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Your excellency has not stated the number of guests.", "pos": 1503566}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, true.", "pos": 1503621}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "How many covers?", "pos": 1503633}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Count for yourself.", "pos": 1503652}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Is everyone here, your excellency?", "pos": 1503674}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1503711}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Good heavens!", "pos": 1503793}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What is the matter?", "pos": 1503823}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "That woman—that woman!", "pos": 1503861}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Which?", "pos": 1503886}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "The one with a white dress and so many diamonds—the fair one.", "pos": 1503895}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Madame Danglars?", "pos": 1503959}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "I do not know her name; but it is she, sir, it is she!", "pos": 1503978}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Whom do you mean?", "pos": 1504035}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "The woman of the garden!—she that was enceinte—she who was walking while she waited for—— Waiting for whom? Oh, oh! do you see?", "pos": 1504055}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What? Who?", "pos": 1504407}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Him!", "pos": 1504420}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Him!—M. de Villefort, the king’s attorney? Certainly I see him.", "pos": 1504427}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Then I did not kill him?", "pos": 1504493}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Really, I think you are going mad, good Bertuccio,", "pos": 1504520}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Then he is not dead?", "pos": 1504589}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No; you see plainly he is not dead. Instead of striking between the sixth and seventh left ribs, as your countrymen do, you must have struck higher or lower, and life is very tenacious in these lawyers, or rather there is no truth in anything you have told me—it was a fright of the imagination, a dream of your fancy. You went to sleep full of thoughts of vengeance; they weighed heavily upon your stomach; you had the nightmare—that’s all. Come, calm yourself, and reckon them up—M. and Madame de Villefort, two; M. and Madame Danglars, four; M. de Château-Renaud, M. Debray, M. Morrel, seven; Major Bartolomeo Cavalcanti, eight.", "pos": 1504619}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Eight!", "pos": 1505253}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Stop! You are in a shocking hurry to be off—you forget one of my guests. Lean a little to the left. Stay! look at M. Andrea Cavalcanti, the young man in a black coat, looking at Murillo’s ‘Madonna’; now he is turning.", "pos": 1505282}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Benedetto? fatality!", "pos": 1505604}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Half-past six o’clock has just struck, M. Bertuccio. I ordered dinner at that hour, and I do not like to wait;", "pos": 1505642}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "The dinner waits.", "pos": 1506020}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "M. de Villefort, will you conduct the Baroness Danglars?", "pos": 1506106}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Gentlemen, you will admit that, when arrived at a certain degree of fortune, the superfluities of life are all that can be desired; and the ladies will allow that, after having risen to a certain eminence of position, the ideal alone can be more exalted. Now, to follow out this reasoning, what is the marvellous?—that which we do not understand. What is it that we really desire?—that which we cannot obtain. Now, to see things which I cannot understand, to procure impossibilities, these are the study of my life. I gratify my wishes by two means—my will and my money. I take as much interest in the pursuit of some whim as you do, M. Danglars, in promoting a new railway line; you, M. de Villefort, in condemning a culprit to death; you, M. Debray, in pacifying a kingdom; you, M. de Château-Renaud, in pleasing a woman; and you, Morrel, in breaking a horse that no one can ride. For example, you see these two fish; one brought from fifty leagues beyond St. Petersburg, the other five leagues from Naples. Is it not amusing to see them both on the same table?", "pos": 1508882}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "What are the two fish?", "pos": 1509959}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "M. Château-Renaud, who has lived in Russia, will tell you the name of one, and Major Cavalcanti, who is an Italian, will tell you the name of the other.", "pos": 1510000}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "This one is, I think, a sterlet,", "pos": 1510155}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "And that one, if I mistake not, a lamprey.", "pos": 1510211}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Just so. Now, M. Danglars, ask these gentlemen where they are caught.", "pos": 1510256}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Sterlets, are only found in the Volga.", "pos": 1510328}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "I know that Lake Fusaro alone supplies lampreys of that size.", "pos": 1510416}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Exactly; one comes from the Volga, and the other from Lake Fusaro.", "pos": 1510480}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Impossible!", "pos": 1510549}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, this is just what amuses me. I am like Nero—cupitor impossibilium; and that is what is amusing you at this moment. This fish, which seems so exquisite to you, is very likely no better than perch or salmon; but it seemed impossible to procure it, and here it is.", "pos": 1510600}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "But how could you have these fish brought to France?", "pos": 1510891}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, nothing more easy. Each fish was brought over in a cask—one filled with river herbs and weeds, the other with rushes and lake plants; they were placed in a wagon built on purpose, and thus the sterlet lived twelve days, the lamprey eight, and both were alive when my cook seized them, killing one with milk and the other with wine. You do not believe me, M. Danglars!", "pos": 1510946}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I cannot help doubting,", "pos": 1511320}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Baptistin, have the other fish brought in—the sterlet and the lamprey which came in the other casks, and which are yet alive.", "pos": 1511387}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "You are certainly an extraordinary man, and philosophers may well say it is a fine thing to be rich.", "pos": 1511861}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "And to have ideas,", "pos": 1511981}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, do not give me credit for this, madame; it was done by the Romans, who much esteemed them, and Pliny relates that they sent slaves from Ostia to Rome, who carried on their heads fish which he calls the mulus, and which, from the description, must probably be the goldfish. It was also considered a luxury to have them alive, it being an amusing sight to see them die, for, when dying, they change color three or four times, and like the rainbow when it disappears, pass through all the prismatic shades, after which they were sent to the kitchen. Their agony formed part of their merit—if they were not seen alive, they were despised when dead.", "pos": 1512025}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Yes, but then Ostia is only a few leagues from Rome.", "pos": 1512676}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "True, but what would be the use of living eighteen hundred years after Lucullus, if we can do no better than he could?", "pos": 1512746}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "All this is very extraordinary, still, what I admire the most, I confess, is the marvellous promptitude with which your orders are executed. Is it not true that you only bought this house five or six days ago?", "pos": 1512979}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly not longer.", "pos": 1513214}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Well, I am sure it is quite transformed since last week. If I remember rightly, it had another entrance, and the courtyard was paved and empty; while today we have a splendid lawn, bordered by trees which appear to be a hundred years old.", "pos": 1513238}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why not? I am fond of grass and shade,", "pos": 1513479}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Yes, the door was towards the road before, and on the day of my miraculous escape you brought me into the house from the road, I remember.", "pos": 1513539}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, madame; but I preferred having an entrance which would allow me to see the Bois de Boulogne over my gate.", "pos": 1513729}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "In four days, it is extraordinary!", "pos": 1513842}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Indeed, it seems quite miraculous to make a new house out of an old one; for it was very old, and dull too. I recollect coming for my mother to look at it when M. de Saint-Méran advertised it for sale two or three years ago.", "pos": 1513894}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "M. de Saint-Méran? then this house belonged to M. de Saint-Méran before you bought it?", "pos": 1514144}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It appears so. Is it possible that you do not know of whom you purchased it? Quite so; my steward transacts all this business for me.", "pos": 1514261}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "It is certainly ten years since the house had been occupied, and it was quite melancholy to look at it, with the blinds closed, the doors locked, and the weeds in the court. Really, if the house had not belonged to the father-in-law of the procureur, one might have thought it some accursed place where a horrible crime had been committed.", "pos": 1514423}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is singular, baron, but the same idea came across me the first time I came here; it looked so gloomy I should never have bought it if my steward had not taken the matter into his own hands. Perhaps the fellow had been bribed by the notary.", "pos": 1514989}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "It is probable, but I can assure you that I had nothing to do with any such proceeding. This house is part of Valentine’s marriage-portion, and M. de Saint-Méran wished to sell it; for if it had remained another year or two uninhabited it would have fallen to ruin.", "pos": 1515234}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "There was, above all, one room, very plain in appearance, hung with red damask, which, I know not why, appeared to me quite dramatic.", "pos": 1515583}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Why so? why dramatic?", "pos": 1515745}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Can we account for instinct? Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness?—why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections—an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places—which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place. And there is something in this room which reminds me forcibly of the chamber of the Marquise de Ganges10 or Desdemona. Stay, since we have finished dinner, I will show it to you, and then we will take coffee in the garden. After dinner, the play.", "pos": 1515786}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Oh. it is really frightful.", "pos": 1517926}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Is it not so? Look at that large clumsy bed, hung with such gloomy, blood-colored drapery! And those two crayon portraits, that have faded from the dampness; do they not seem to say, with their pale lips and staring eyes, ‘We have seen’?", "pos": 1518177}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Oh, are you courageous enough to sit down upon the very seat perhaps upon which the crime was committed?", "pos": 1518526}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And then, this is not all.", "pos": 1518701}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "What is there more?", "pos": 1518751}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Ah, what else is there? for, at present, I cannot say that I have seen anything extraordinary. What do you say, M. Cavalcanti?", "pos": 1518849}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Ah, we have at Pisa, Ugolino’s tower; at Ferrara, Tasso’s prison; at Rimini, the room of Francesca and Paolo.", "pos": 1518995}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, but you have not this little staircase. Look at it, and tell me what you think of it.", "pos": 1519118}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "What a wicked-looking, crooked staircase,", "pos": 1519273}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "I do not know whether the wine of Chios produces melancholy, but certainly everything appears to me black in this house,", "pos": 1519351}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Can you imagine, some Othello or Abbé de Ganges, one stormy, dark night, descending these stairs step by step, carrying a load, which he wishes to hide from the sight of man, if not from God?", "pos": 1519568}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Ah, madame, what is the matter with you? how pale you look!", "pos": 1519890}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "It is very evident what is the matter with her. M. de Monte Cristo is relating horrible stories to us, doubtless intending to frighten us to death.", "pos": 1519968}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes, really, count, you frighten the ladies.", "pos": 1520146}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "What is the matter?", "pos": 1520211}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Nothing. I want air, that is all.", "pos": 1520281}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Will you come into the garden?", "pos": 1520354}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "No, no. I would rather remain here.", "pos": 1520438}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Are you really frightened, madame?", "pos": 1520492}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Oh, no, sir, but you suppose scenes in a manner which gives them the appearance of reality.", "pos": 1520548}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, yes, it is all a matter of imagination. Why should we not imagine this the apartment of an honest mother? And this bed with red hangings, a bed visited by the goddess Lucina? And that mysterious staircase, the passage through which, not to disturb their sleep, the doctor and nurse pass, or even the father carrying the sleeping child?", "pos": 1520673}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Madame Danglars is ill, it would be better to take her to her carriage.", "pos": 1521140}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, mon Dieu! and I have forgotten my smelling-bottle!", "pos": 1521232}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "I have mine,", "pos": 1521310}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah,", "pos": 1521486}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Yes, at your advice I have made the trial.", "pos": 1521536}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And have you succeeded?", "pos": 1521593}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "I think so.", "pos": 1521619}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Ah, what a frightful dream!", "pos": 1521792}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Really, madame, did I alarm you much?", "pos": 1522272}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Oh, no, sir, but you know, things impress us differently, according to the mood of our minds.", "pos": 1522323}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "And then, you know, an idea, a supposition, is sufficient.", "pos": 1522461}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, you may believe me if you like, but it is my opinion that a crime has been committed in this house.", "pos": 1522533}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Take care, the king’s attorney is here.", "pos": 1522662}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, since that is the case, I will take advantage of his presence to make my declaration.", "pos": 1522732}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Your declaration?", "pos": 1522848}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, before witnesses.", "pos": 1522884}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Oh, this is very interesting, if there really has been a crime, we will investigate it.", "pos": 1522909}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "There has been a crime. Come this way, gentlemen; come, M. Villefort, for a declaration to be available, should be made before the competent authorities. Stay, here, in this very spot I had the earth dug up and fresh mould put in, to refresh these old trees; well, my man, digging, found a box, or rather, the iron-work of a box, in the midst of which was the skeleton of a newly born infant.", "pos": 1523014}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "A newly born infant, this affair becomes serious!", "pos": 1523792}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Well. I was not wrong just now then, when I said that houses had souls and faces like men, and that their exteriors carried the impress of their characters. This house was gloomy because it was remorseful: it was remorseful because it concealed a crime.", "pos": 1523863}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Who said it was a crime?", "pos": 1524142}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How? is it not a crime to bury a living child in a garden? And pray what do you call such an action?", "pos": 1524206}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But who said it was buried alive?", "pos": 1524331}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why bury it there if it were dead? This garden has never been a cemetery.", "pos": 1524367}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "What is done to infanticides in this country?", "pos": 1524443}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, their heads are soon cut off,", "pos": 1524526}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Ah, indeed?", "pos": 1524577}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I think so; am I not right, M. de Villefort?", "pos": 1524608}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes, count,", "pos": 1524675}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Come, gentlemen,—some coffee, we seem to have forgotten it,", "pos": 1524886}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Indeed, count. I am ashamed to own it, but all your frightful stories have so upset me, that I must beg you to let me sit down;", "pos": 1525007}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I must speak to you.", "pos": 1525419}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "When?", "pos": 1525442}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Tomorrow.", "pos": 1525450}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Where?", "pos": 1525462}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "In my office, or in the court, if you like,—that is the surest place.", "pos": 1525471}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "I will be there. Thanks, my dear friend, it is over now, and I am much better.", "pos": 1525543}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Tomorrow, sir, I shall have the honor of waiting upon you on business.", "pos": 1528844}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "And I, sir, shall be most happy to receive you.", "pos": 1528917}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "What do you want of me?", "pos": 1531108}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Pardon me, my friend, if I disturb you,", "pos": 1531144}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but I want to speak to you.", "pos": 1531226}
{"speaker": "groom", "text": "You have no right to beg at night,", "pos": 1531256}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am not begging, my fine fellow,", "pos": 1531368}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I only wish to say two or three words to your master, who gave me a commission to execute about a fortnight ago.", "pos": 1531524}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Come. Come, what do you want? Come, what do you want? Speak quickly, friend.", "pos": 1531639}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I wish—I wish you to spare me the walk back to Paris. I am very tired, and as I have not eaten so good a dinner as you, I can scarcely stand.", "pos": 1531802}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Tell me, tell me what you want?", "pos": 1531999}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, then, I want you to take me up in your fine carriage, and carry me back.", "pos": 1532043}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1532162}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have taken the whim into my head; do you understand, Master Benedetto?", "pos": 1532258}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "This man is right; I did indeed charge him with a commission, the result of which he must tell me; walk to the barrier, there take a cab, that you may not be too late. Let me at least reach a shady spot,", "pos": 1532430}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, as for that, I’ll take you to a splendid place,", "pos": 1532680}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Don’t think I want the glory of riding in your fine carriage,", "pos": 1532914}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "oh, no, it’s only because I am tired, and also because I have a little business to talk over with you.", "pos": 1532987}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Come, step in,", "pos": 1533092}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Now, tell me why you come to disturb my tranquillity?", "pos": 1533699}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let me ask you why you deceived me?", "pos": 1533755}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "How have I deceived you?", "pos": 1533793}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "‘How,’ do you ask? When we parted at the Pont du Var, you told me you were going to travel through Piedmont and Tuscany; but instead of that, you come to Paris.", "pos": 1533821}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "How does that annoy you?", "pos": 1533983}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It does not; on the contrary, I think it will answer my purpose.", "pos": 1534010}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "So, you are speculating upon me?", "pos": 1534077}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What fine words he uses!", "pos": 1534127}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "I warn you, Master Caderousse, that you are mistaken.", "pos": 1534154}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Well, well, don’t be angry, my boy; you know well enough what it is to be unfortunate; and misfortunes make us jealous. I thought you were earning a living in Tuscany or Piedmont by acting as facchino or cicerone, and I pitied you sincerely, as I would a child of my own. You know I always did call you my child.", "pos": 1534210}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Come, come, what then?", "pos": 1534525}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Patience—patience!", "pos": 1534550}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "I am patient, but go on.", "pos": 1534571}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "All at once I see you pass through the barrier with a groom, a tilbury, and fine new clothes. You must have discovered a mine, or else become a stockbroker.", "pos": 1534598}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "So that, as you confess, you are jealous?", "pos": 1534757}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "No, I am pleased—so pleased that I wished to congratulate you; but as I am not quite properly dressed, I chose my opportunity, that I might not compromise you.", "pos": 1534801}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes, and a fine opportunity you have chosen! you speak to me before my servant.", "pos": 1534963}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "How can I help that, my boy? I speak to you when I can catch you. You have a quick horse, a light tilbury, you are naturally as slippery as an eel; if I had missed you tonight, I might not have had another chance.", "pos": 1535065}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "You see, I do not conceal myself.", "pos": 1535281}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "You are lucky; I wish I could say as much, for I do conceal myself; and then I was afraid you would not recognize me, but you did. It was very polite of you.", "pos": 1535317}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Come, what do you want?", "pos": 1535523}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "You do not speak affectionately to me, Benedetto, my old friend, that is not right—take care, or I may become troublesome.", "pos": 1535564}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "You should not speak so to an old friend like me, Caderousse, as you said just now; you are a native of Marseilles, I am——", "pos": 1535774}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Do you know then now what you are?", "pos": 1535899}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "No, but I was brought up in Corsica; you are old and obstinate, I am young and wilful. Between people like us threats are out of place, everything should be amicably arranged. Is it my fault if fortune, which has frowned on you, has been kind to me?", "pos": 1535936}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Fortune has been kind to you, then? Your tilbury, your groom, your clothes, are not then hired? Good, so much the better,", "pos": 1536187}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Oh, you knew that well enough before speaking to me. If I had been wearing a handkerchief like yours on my head, rags on my back, and worn-out shoes on my feet, you would not have known me.", "pos": 1536361}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "You wrong me, my boy; now I have found you, nothing prevents my being as well-dressed as anyone, knowing, as I do, the goodness of your heart. If you have two coats you will give me one of them. I used to divide my soup and beans with you when you were hungry.", "pos": 1536600}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "True,", "pos": 1536863}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "What an appetite you used to have! Is it as good now?", "pos": 1536884}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Oh, yes,", "pos": 1536940}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "How did you come to be dining with that prince whose house you have just left?", "pos": 1536977}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "He is not a prince; simply a count.", "pos": 1537058}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "A count, and a rich one too, eh?", "pos": 1537096}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes; but you had better not have anything to say to him, for he is not a very good-tempered gentleman.", "pos": 1537131}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Oh, be easy! I have no design upon your count, and you shall have him all to yourself. But, you must pay for it—you understand?", "pos": 1537236}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well, what do you want?", "pos": 1537455}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I think that with a hundred francs a month——", "pos": 1537481}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well?", "pos": 1537528}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I could live——", "pos": 1537536}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Upon a hundred francs!", "pos": 1537553}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Come—you understand me; but that with——", "pos": 1537578}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "With?", "pos": 1537620}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "With a hundred and fifty francs I should be quite happy.", "pos": 1537628}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Here are two hundred,", "pos": 1537687}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Good!", "pos": 1537787}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Apply to the steward on the first day of every month, and you will receive the same sum.", "pos": 1537812}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "There now, again you degrade me.", "pos": 1537903}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "How so?", "pos": 1537938}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "By making me apply to the servants, when I want to transact business with you alone.", "pos": 1537948}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well, be it so, then. Take it from me then, and so long at least as I receive my income, you shall be paid yours.", "pos": 1538035}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Come, come; I always said you were a fine fellow, and it is a blessing when good fortune happens to such as you. But tell me all about it?", "pos": 1538151}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Why do you wish to know?", "pos": 1538292}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "What? do you again defy me?", "pos": 1538337}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "No; the fact is, I have found my father.", "pos": 1538367}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "What? a real father?", "pos": 1538410}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes, so long as he pays me——", "pos": 1538433}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "You’ll honor and believe him—that’s right. What is his name?", "pos": 1538464}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Major Cavalcanti.", "pos": 1538527}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Is he pleased with you?", "pos": 1538547}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "So far I have appeared to answer his purpose.", "pos": 1538573}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "And who found this father for you?", "pos": 1538621}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "The Count of Monte Cristo.", "pos": 1538658}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "The man whose house you have just left?", "pos": 1538687}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1538729}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I wish you would try and find me a situation with him as grandfather, since he holds the money-chest!", "pos": 1538736}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well, I will mention you to him. Meanwhile, what are you going to do?", "pos": 1538840}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I?", "pos": 1538912}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes, you.", "pos": 1538917}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "It is very kind of you to trouble yourself about me.", "pos": 1538929}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Since you interest yourself in my affairs, I think it is now my turn to ask you some questions.", "pos": 1538984}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah, true. Well; I shall rent a room in some respectable house, wear a decent coat, shave every day, and go and read the papers in a café. Then, in the evening, I shall go to the theatre; I shall look like some retired baker. That is what I want.", "pos": 1539082}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Come, if you will only put this scheme into execution, and be steady, nothing could be better.", "pos": 1539330}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Do you think so, M. Bossuet? And you—what will you become? A peer of France?", "pos": 1539427}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Ah,", "pos": 1539506}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Major Cavalcanti is already one, perhaps; but then, hereditary rank is abolished.", "pos": 1539538}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "No politics, Caderousse. And now that you have all you want, and that we understand each other, jump down from the tilbury and disappear.", "pos": 1539622}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Not at all, my good friend.", "pos": 1539762}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "How? Not at all?", "pos": 1539792}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Why, just think for a moment; with this red handkerchief on my head, with scarcely any shoes, no papers, and ten gold napoleons in my pocket, without reckoning what was there before—making in all about two hundred francs,—why, I should certainly be arrested at the barriers. Then, to justify myself, I should say that you gave me the money; this would cause inquiries, it would be found that I left Toulon without giving due notice, and I should then be escorted back to the shores of the Mediterranean. Then I should become simply No. 106, and good-bye to my dream of resembling the retired baker! No, no, my boy; I prefer remaining honorably in the capital.", "pos": 1539811}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Good Caderousse, how happy you will be.", "pos": 1541126}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I will do my best,", "pos": 1541179}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well, then, we will go into Paris. But how will you pass through the barrier without exciting suspicion? It seems to me that you are in more danger riding than on foot.", "pos": 1541263}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Wait, we shall see.", "pos": 1541434}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "But, tell me, am I to remain bareheaded?", "pos": 1541754}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Pooh, it is so windy that your hat can easily appear to have blown off.", "pos": 1541812}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Come, come; enough of this,", "pos": 1541905}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "What are you waiting for? I hope I am not the cause.", "pos": 1541952}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Hush. Well!", "pos": 1542026}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah, you would not like me to risk taking cold? You? Oh, you are young while I am beginning to get old. Au revoir, Benedetto;", "pos": 1542221}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Alas, one cannot be completely happy in this world!", "pos": 1542434}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "What was the matter with you, Hermine? and why were you so affected at that story, or rather fable, which the count related?", "pos": 1543657}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Because I have been in such shocking spirits all the evening, my friend,", "pos": 1543784}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "No, Hermine, you cannot make me believe that; on the contrary, you were in excellent spirits when you arrived at the count’s. M. Danglars was disagreeable, certainly, but I know how much you care for his ill-humor. Someone has vexed you; I will allow no one to annoy you.", "pos": 1543878}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "You are deceived, Lucien, I assure you, and what I have told you is really the case, added to the ill-humor you remarked, but which I did not think it worth while to allude to.", "pos": 1544170}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "What is my daughter doing?", "pos": 1544986}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Cornélie", "text": "She practiced all the evening, and then went to bed,", "pos": 1545038}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Yet I think I hear her piano.", "pos": 1545124}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Cornélie", "text": "It is Mademoiselle Louise d’Armilly, who is playing while Mademoiselle Danglars is in bed.", "pos": 1545156}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Well, come and undress me. My dear M. Lucien, you are always complaining that Eugénie will not address a word to you.", "pos": 1545249}
{"speaker": "Lucien", "text": "Madame. I am not the only one who makes similar complaints, I think I heard Morcerf say that he could not extract a word from his betrothed.", "pos": 1545585}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "True, yet I think this will all pass off, and that you will one day see her enter your study.", "pos": 1545842}
{"speaker": "Lucien", "text": "My study?", "pos": 1545962}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "At least that of the minister.", "pos": 1545974}
{"speaker": "Lucien", "text": "Why so!", "pos": 1546007}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "To ask for an engagement at the Opera. Really, I never saw such an infatuation for music; it is quite ridiculous for a young lady of fashion.", "pos": 1546017}
{"speaker": "Lucien", "text": "Well, let her come, with your consent and that of the baron, and we will try and give her an engagement, though we are very poor to pay such talent as hers.", "pos": 1546176}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Go, Cornélie. I do not require you any longer. Come, Hermine, answer candidly,—something vexes you—is it not so? Nothing. I am frightful tonight,", "pos": 1546346}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Good-evening, madame; good-evening, M. Debray.", "pos": 1547216}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Read me something, M. Debray,", "pos": 1547502}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Excuse me, but you will tire yourself, baroness, by such late hours, and M. Debray lives some distance from here.", "pos": 1547725}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "M. Lucien. I assure you I have no desire to sleep, and that I have a thousand things to tell you this evening, which you must listen to, even though you slept while hearing me.", "pos": 1548401}
{"speaker": "Lucien", "text": "I am at your service, madame,", "pos": 1548601}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "My dear M. Debray, do not kill yourself tonight listening to the follies of Madame Danglars, for you can hear them as well tomorrow; but I claim tonight and will devote it, if you will allow me, to talk over some serious matters with my wife. Do not think I wish to turn you out, my dear Debray, oh, no, not at all. An unexpected occurrence forces me to ask my wife to have a little conversation with me; it is so rarely I make such a request, I am sure you cannot grudge it to me.", "pos": 1548656}
{"speaker": "Lucien", "text": "It is extraordinary, how easily these husbands, whom we ridicule, gain an advantage over us.", "pos": 1549595}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Do you know, sir, that you are improving? Generally you are only rude, but tonight you are brutal.", "pos": 1550276}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "It is because I am in a worse humor than usual,", "pos": 1550399}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "And what have I to do with your ill-humor? do these things concern me? Keep your ill-humor at home in your money boxes, or, since you have clerks whom you pay, vent it upon them.", "pos": 1550622}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Not so, your advice is wrong, so I shall not follow it. My money boxes are my Pactolus, as, I think, M. Demoustier says, and I will not retard its course, or disturb its calm. My clerks are honest men, who earn my fortune, whom I pay much below their deserts, if I may value them according to what they bring in; therefore I shall not get into a passion with them; those with whom I will be in a passion are those who eat my dinners, mount my horses, and exhaust my fortune.", "pos": 1550871}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "And pray who are the persons who exhaust your fortune? Explain yourself more clearly, I beg, sir.", "pos": 1551368}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, make yourself easy!—I am not speaking riddles, and you will soon know what I mean. The people who exhaust my fortune are those who draw out 700,000 francs in the course of an hour.", "pos": 1551468}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "I do not understand you, sir,", "pos": 1551655}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "You understand me perfectly, on the contrary, but, if you will persist, I will tell you that I have just lost 700,000 francs upon the Spanish loan.", "pos": 1551779}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "And pray, am I responsible for this loss?", "pos": 1551946}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 1552012}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Is it my fault you have lost 700,000 francs?", "pos": 1552023}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Certainly it is not mine.", "pos": 1552070}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Once for all, sir. I tell you I will not hear cash named; it is a style of language I never heard in the house of my parents or in that of my first husband.", "pos": 1552098}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, I can well believe that, for neither of them was worth a penny.", "pos": 1552289}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "The better reason for my not being conversant with the slang of the bank, which is here dinning in my ears from morning to night; that noise of jingling crowns, which are constantly being counted and re-counted, is odious to me. I only know one thing I dislike more, which is the sound of your voice.", "pos": 1552359}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Really? Well, this surprises me, for I thought you took the liveliest interest in all my affairs!", "pos": 1552662}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "I? What could put such an idea into your head?", "pos": 1552786}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yourself.", "pos": 1552835}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Ah?—what next?", "pos": 1552847}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Most assuredly.", "pos": 1552864}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "I should like to know upon what occasion?", "pos": 1552882}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, mon Dieu! that is very easily done. Last February you were the first who told me of the Haitian funds. You had dreamed that a ship had entered the harbor at Le Havre, that this ship brought news that a payment we had looked upon as lost was going to be made. I know how clear-sighted your dreams are; I therefore purchased immediately as many shares as I could of the Haitian debt, and I gained 400,000 francs by it, of which 100,000 have been honestly paid to you. You spent it as you pleased; that was your business. In March there was a question about a grant to a railway. Three companies presented themselves, each offering equal securities. You told me that your instinct,—and although you pretend to know nothing about speculations, I think on the contrary, that your comprehension is very clear upon certain affairs,—well, you told me that your instinct led you to believe the grant would be given to the company called the Southern. I bought two thirds of the shares of that company; as you had foreseen, the shares trebled in value, and I picked up a million, from which 250,000 francs were paid to you for pin-money. How have you spent this 250,000 francs?—it is no business of mine.", "pos": 1552926}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "When are you coming to the point?", "pos": 1554127}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Patience, madame, I am coming to it.", "pos": 1554219}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "That’s fortunate.", "pos": 1554258}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "In April you went to dine at the minister’s. You heard a private conversation respecting Spanish affairs—on the expulsion of Don Carlos. I bought some Spanish shares. The expulsion took place and I pocketed 600,000 francs the day Charles V. repassed the Bidassoa. Of these 600,000 francs you took 50,000 crowns. They were yours, you disposed of them according to your fancy, and I asked no questions; but it is not the less true that you have this year received 500,000 livres.", "pos": 1554278}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Well, sir, and what then?", "pos": 1554758}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Ah, yes, it was just after this that you spoiled everything.", "pos": 1554786}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Really, your manner of speaking——", "pos": 1554849}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It expresses my meaning, and that is all I want. Well, three days after that you talked politics with M. Debray, and you fancied from his words that Don Carlos had returned to Spain. Well, I sold my shares, the news got out, and I no longer sold—I gave them away, next day I find the news was false, and by this false report I have lost 700,000 francs.", "pos": 1554885}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well?", "pos": 1555240}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, since I gave you a fourth of my gains, I think you owe me a fourth of my losses; the fourth of 700,000 francs is 175,000 francs.", "pos": 1555248}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What you say is absurd, and I cannot see why M. Debray’s name is mixed up in this affair.", "pos": 1555385}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because if you do not possess the 175,000 francs I reclaim, you must have lent them to your friends, and M. Debray is one of your friends.", "pos": 1555477}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "For shame!", "pos": 1555625}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, let us have no gestures, no screams, no modern drama, or you will oblige me to tell you that I see Debray leave here, pocketing the whole of the 500,000 livres you have handed over to him this year, while he smiles to himself, saying that he has found what the most skilful players have never discovered—that is, a roulette where he wins without playing, and is no loser when he loses.", "pos": 1555662}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Wretch!", "pos": 1556083}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "will you dare to tell me you did not know what you now reproach me with?", "pos": 1556104}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not say that I did know it, and I do not say that I did not know it. I merely tell you to look into my conduct during the last four years that we have ceased to be husband and wife, and see whether it has not always been consistent. Some time after our rupture, you wished to study music, under the celebrated baritone who made such a successful appearance at the Théâtre Italien; at the same time I felt inclined to learn dancing of the danseuse who acquired such a reputation in London. This cost me, on your account and mine, 100,000 francs. I said nothing, for we must have peace in the house; and 100,000 francs for a lady and gentleman to be properly instructed in music and dancing are not too much. Well, you soon become tired of singing, and you take a fancy to study diplomacy with the minister’s secretary. You understand, it signifies nothing to me so long as you pay for your lessons out of your own cash box. But today I find you are drawing on mine, and that your apprenticeship may cost me 700,000 francs per month. Stop there, madame, for this cannot last. Either the diplomatist must give his lessons gratis, and I will tolerate him, or he must never set his foot again in my house;—do you understand, madame?", "pos": 1556179}
{"speaker": "Hermine", "text": "Oh, this is too much", "pos": 1557414}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you are worse than despicable.", "pos": 1557462}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But", "pos": 1557495}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I find you did not even pause there——", "pos": 1557522}
{"speaker": "Hermine", "text": "Insults!", "pos": 1557562}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right; let us leave these facts alone, and reason coolly. I have never interfered in your affairs excepting for your good; treat me in the same way. You say you have nothing to do with my cash box. Be it so. Do as you like with your own, but do not fill or empty mine. Besides, how do I know that this was not a political trick, that the minister enraged at seeing me in the opposition, and jealous of the popular sympathy I excite, has not concerted with M. Debray to ruin me?", "pos": 1557573}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A probable thing!", "pos": 1558061}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why not? Who ever heard of such an occurrence as this?—a false telegraphic despatch—it is almost impossible for wrong signals to be made as they were in the last two telegrams. It was done on purpose for me—I am sure of it.", "pos": 1558081}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Sir, are you not aware that the man employed there was dismissed, that they talked of going to law with him, that orders were issued to arrest him and that this order would have been put into execution if he had not escaped by flight, which proves that he was either mad or guilty? It was a mistake.", "pos": 1558307}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, which made fools laugh, which caused the minister to have a sleepless night, which has caused the minister’s secretaries to blacken several sheets of paper, but which has cost me 700,000 francs.", "pos": 1558637}
{"speaker": "Hermine", "text": "But, sir, if all this is, as you say, caused by M. Debray, why, instead of going direct to him, do you come and tell me of it? Why, to accuse the man, do you address the woman?", "pos": 1558839}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do I know M. Debray?—do I wish to know him?—do I wish to know that he gives advice?—do I wish to follow it?—do I speculate? No; you do all this, not I.", "pos": 1559043}
{"speaker": "Hermine", "text": "Still it seems to me, that as you profit by it——", "pos": 1559197}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Foolish creature,", "pos": 1559281}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Women fancy they have talent because they have managed two or three intrigues without being the talk of Paris! But know that if you had even hidden your irregularities from your husband, who has but the commencement of the art—for generally husbands will not see—you would then have been but a faint imitation of most of your friends among the women of the world. But it has not been so with me,—I see, and always have seen, during the last sixteen years. You may, perhaps, have hidden a thought; but not a step, not an action, not a fault, has escaped me, while you flattered yourself upon your address, and firmly believed you had deceived me. What has been the result?—that, thanks to my pretended ignorance, there is none of your friends, from M. de Villefort to M. Debray, who has not trembled before me. There is not one who has not treated me as the master of the house,—the only title I desire with respect to you; there is not one, in fact, who would have dared to speak of me as I have spoken of them this day. I will allow you to make me hateful, but I will prevent your rendering me ridiculous, and, above all, I forbid you to ruin me.", "pos": 1559315}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The baroness had been tolerably composed until the name of Villefort had been pronounced; but then she became pale, and, rising, as if touched by a spring, she stretched out her hands as though conjuring an apparition; she then took two or three steps towards her husband, as though to tear the secret from him, of which he was ignorant, or which he withheld from some odious calculation,—odious, as all his calculations were.", "pos": 1560464}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "M. de Villefort!—What do you mean?", "pos": 1560892}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I mean that M. de Nargonne, your first husband, being neither a philosopher nor a banker, or perhaps being both, and seeing there was nothing to be got out of a king’s attorney, died of grief or anger at finding, after an absence of nine months, that you had been enceinte six. I am brutal,—I not only allow it, but boast of it; it is one of the reasons of my success in commercial business. Why did he kill himself instead of you? Because he had no cash to save. My life belongs to my cash. M. Debray has made me lose 700,000 francs; let him bear his share of the loss, and we will go on as before; if not, let him become bankrupt for the 250,000 livres, and do as all bankrupts do—disappear. He is a charming fellow, I allow, when his news is correct; but when it is not, there are fifty others in the world who would do better than he.", "pos": 1560929}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The day following this scene, at the hour Debray usually chose to pay a visit to Madame Danglars on his way to his office, his coupé did not appear. At this time, that is, about half-past twelve, Madame Danglars ordered her carriage, and went out. Danglars, hidden behind a curtain, watched the departure he had been waiting for. He gave orders that he should be informed as soon as Madame Danglars appeared; but at two o’clock she had not returned. He then called for his horses, drove to the Chamber, and inscribed his name to speak against the budget. From twelve to two o’clock Danglars had remained in his study, unsealing his dispatches, and becoming more and more sad every minute, heaping figure upon figure, and receiving, among other visits, one from Major Cavalcanti, who, as stiff and exact as ever, presented himself precisely at the hour named the night before, to terminate his business with the banker.", "pos": 1562446}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On leaving the Chamber, Danglars, who had shown violent marks of agitation during the sitting, and been more bitter than ever against the ministry, re-entered his carriage, and told the coachman to drive to the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, No. 30.", "pos": 1563365}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Monte Cristo was at home; only he was engaged with someone and begged Danglars to wait for a moment in the drawing-room. While the banker was waiting in the anteroom, the door opened, and a man dressed as an abbé and doubtless more familiar with the house than he was, came in and instead of waiting, merely bowed, passed on to the farther apartments, and disappeared.", "pos": 1563611}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A minute after the door by which the priest had entered reopened, and Monte Cristo appeared.", "pos": 1563980}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Pardon me, my dear baron, but one of my friends, the Abbé Busoni, whom you perhaps saw pass by, has just arrived in Paris; not having seen him for a long time, I could not make up my mind to leave him sooner, so I hope this will be sufficient reason for my having made you wait.", "pos": 1564074}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Nay, it is my fault; I have chosen my visit at a wrong time, and will retire.", "pos": 1564366}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Not at all; on the contrary, be seated; but what is the matter with you? You look careworn; really, you alarm me. Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.", "pos": 1564463}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I have been in ill-luck for several days, and I have heard nothing but bad news.", "pos": 1564678}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, indeed? Have you had another fall at the Bourse?", "pos": 1564778}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "No; I am safe for a few days at least. I am only annoyed about a bankrupt of Trieste.", "pos": 1564854}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Really? Does it happen to be Jacopo Manfredi?", "pos": 1564942}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Exactly so. Imagine a man who has transacted business with me for I don’t know how long, to the amount of 800,000 or 900,000 francs during the year. Never a mistake or delay—a fellow who paid like a prince. Well, I was a million in advance with him, and now my fine Jacopo Manfredi suspends payment!", "pos": 1564990}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Really?", "pos": 1565292}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "It is an unheard-of fatality. I draw upon him for 600,000 francs, my bills are returned unpaid, and, more than that, I hold bills of exchange signed by him to the value of 400,000 francs, payable at his correspondent’s in Paris at the end of this month. Today is the 30th. I present them; but my correspondent has disappeared. This, with my Spanish affairs, made a pretty end to the month.", "pos": 1565302}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then you really lost by that affair in Spain?", "pos": 1565694}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes; only 700,000 francs out of my cash box—nothing more!", "pos": 1565742}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why, how could you make such a mistake—such an old stager?", "pos": 1565802}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, it is all my wife’s fault. She dreamed Don Carlos had returned to Spain; she believes in dreams. It is magnetism, she says, and when she dreams a thing it is sure to happen, she assures me. On this conviction I allow her to speculate, she having her bank and her stockbroker; she speculated and lost. It is true she speculates with her own money, not mine; nevertheless, you can understand that when 700,000 francs leave the wife’s pocket, the husband always finds it out. But do you mean to say you have not heard of this? Why, the thing has made a tremendous noise.", "pos": 1565863}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, I heard it spoken of, but I did not know the details, and then no one can be more ignorant than I am of the affairs in the Bourse.", "pos": 1566437}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Then you do not speculate?", "pos": 1566582}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I?—How could I speculate when I already have so much trouble in regulating my income? I should be obliged, besides my steward, to keep a clerk and a boy. But touching these Spanish affairs, I think that the baroness did not dream the whole of the Don Carlos matter. The papers said something about it, did they not?", "pos": 1566611}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Then you believe the papers?", "pos": 1566929}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I?—not the least in the world; only I fancied that the honest Messager was an exception to the rule, and that it only announced telegraphic despatches.", "pos": 1566960}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Well, that’s what puzzles me, the news of the return of Don Carlos was brought by telegraph.", "pos": 1567114}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So that, you have lost nearly 1,700,000 francs this month.", "pos": 1567229}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Not nearly, indeed; that is exactly my loss.", "pos": 1567311}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Diable! it is a hard blow for a third-rate fortune.", "pos": 1567358}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Third-rate, what do you mean by that?", "pos": 1567449}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly. I make three assortments in fortune—first-rate, second-rate, and third-rate fortunes. I call those first-rate which are composed of treasures one possesses under one’s hand, such as mines, lands, and funded property, in such states as France, Austria, and England, provided these treasures and property form a total of about a hundred millions; I call those second-rate fortunes, that are gained by manufacturing enterprises, joint-stock companies, viceroyalties, and principalities, not drawing more than 1,500,000 francs, the whole forming a capital of about fifty millions; finally, I call those third-rate fortunes, which are composed of a fluctuating capital, dependent upon the will of others, or upon chances which a bankruptcy involves or a false telegram shakes, such as banks, speculations of the day—in fact, all operations under the influence of greater or less mischances, the whole bringing in a real or fictitious capital of about fifteen millions. I think this is about your position, is it not?", "pos": 1567521}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Confound it, yes!", "pos": 1568572}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The result, then, of six more such months as this would be to reduce the third-rate house to despair.", "pos": 1568610}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, how you are running on!", "pos": 1568714}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Let us imagine seven such months,", "pos": 1568780}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "What a bad calculator you are! I have made money at the same time by speculations which have succeeded. I have made up the loss of blood by nutrition. I lost a battle in Spain, I have been defeated in Trieste, but my naval army in India will have taken some galleons, and my Mexican pioneers will have discovered some mine.", "pos": 1569988}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Very good, very good! But the wound remains and will reopen at the first loss.", "pos": 1570400}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "No, for I am only embarked in certainties, replied Danglars, with the air of a mountebank sounding his own praises; “to involve me, three governments must crumble to dust.”", "pos": 1570481}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, such things have been.", "pos": 1570656}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "That there should be a famine!", "pos": 1570687}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Recollect the seven fat and the seven lean kine.", "pos": 1570720}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Or, that the sea should become dry, as in the days of Pharaoh, and even then my vessels would become caravans.", "pos": 1570771}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So much the better. I congratulate you, my dear M. Danglars, said Monte Cristo; “I see I was deceived, and that you belong to the class of second-rate fortunes.”", "pos": 1570884}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I think I may aspire to that honor, said Danglars with a smile, which reminded Monte Cristo of the sickly moons which bad artists are so fond of daubing into their pictures of ruins. “But, while we are speaking of business,” Danglars added, pleased to find an opportunity of changing the subject, “tell me what I am to do for M. Cavalcanti.”", "pos": 1571048}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Give him money, if he is recommended to you, and the recommendation seems good.", "pos": 1571392}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Excellent; he presented himself this morning with a bond of 40,000 francs, payable at sight, on you, signed by Busoni, and returned by you to me, with your endorsement—of course, I immediately counted him over the forty bank-notes.", "pos": 1571474}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Monte Cristo nodded his head in token of assent.", "pos": 1571707}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "But that is not all, continued Danglars; “he has opened an account with my house for his son.”", "pos": 1571757}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "May I ask how much he allows the young man?", "pos": 1571854}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Five thousand francs per month.", "pos": 1571900}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Sixty thousand francs per year. I thought I was right in believing that Cavalcanti to be a stingy fellow. How can a young man live upon 5,000 francs a month? But you understand that if the young man should want a few thousands more—— Do not advance it; the father will never repay it. You do not know these ultramontane millionaires; they are regular misers. And by whom were they recommended to you?", "pos": 1571934}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, by the house of Fenzi, one of the best in Florence.", "pos": 1572340}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do not mean to say you will lose, but, nevertheless, mind you hold to the terms of the agreement.", "pos": 1572398}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Would you not trust the Cavalcanti?", "pos": 1572500}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I? oh, I would advance ten millions on his signature. I was only speaking in reference to the second-rate fortunes we were mentioning just now.", "pos": 1572538}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "And with all this, how unassuming he is! I should never have taken him for anything more than a mere major.", "pos": 1572684}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And you would have flattered him, for certainly, as you say, he has no manner. The first time I saw him he appeared to me like an old lieutenant who had grown mouldy under his epaulets. But all the Italians are the same; they are like old Jews when they are not glittering in Oriental splendor.", "pos": 1572794}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "The young man is better,", "pos": 1573091}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; a little nervous, perhaps, but, upon the whole, he appeared tolerable. I was uneasy about him.", "pos": 1573133}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Why?", "pos": 1573235}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because you met him at my house, just after his introduction into the world, as they told me. He has been travelling with a very severe tutor, and had never been to Paris before.", "pos": 1573242}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Ah, I believe noblemen marry amongst themselves, do they not? they like to unite their fortunes.", "pos": 1573423}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is usual, certainly; but Cavalcanti is an original who does nothing like other people. I cannot help thinking that he has brought his son to France to choose a wife.", "pos": 1573551}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Do you think so?", "pos": 1573722}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am sure of it.", "pos": 1573741}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "And you have heard his fortune mentioned?", "pos": 1573760}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nothing else was talked of; only some said he was worth millions, and others that he did not possess a farthing.", "pos": 1573804}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "And what is your opinion?", "pos": 1573919}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I ought not to influence you, because it is only my own personal impression.", "pos": 1573947}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Well, and it is that——", "pos": 1574026}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My opinion is, that all these old podestàs, these ancient condottieri,—for the Cavalcanti have commanded armies and governed provinces,—my opinion, I say, is, that they have buried their millions in corners, the secret of which they have transmitted only to their eldest sons, who have done the same from generation to generation; and the proof of this is seen in their yellow and dry appearance, like the florins of the republic, which, from being constantly gazed upon, have become reflected in them.", "pos": 1574051}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Certainly,", "pos": 1574556}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and this is further supported by the fact of their not possessing an inch of land.", "pos": 1574584}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very little, at least; I know of none which Cavalcanti possesses, excepting his palace in Lucca.", "pos": 1574669}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Ah, he has a palace? come, that is something.", "pos": 1574768}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; and more than that, he lets it to the Minister of Finance while he lives in a simple house. Oh, as I told you before, I think the old fellow is very close.", "pos": 1574843}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Come, you do not flatter him.", "pos": 1575006}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I scarcely know him; I think I have seen him three times in my life; all I know relating to him is through Busoni and himself. He was telling me this morning that, tired of letting his property lie dormant in Italy, which is a dead nation, he wished to find a method, either in France or England, of multiplying his millions, but remember, that though I place great confidence in Busoni, I am not responsible for this.", "pos": 1575038}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Never mind; accept my thanks for the client you have sent me. It is a fine name to inscribe on my ledgers, and my cashier was quite proud of it when I explained to him who the Cavalcanti were. By the way, this is merely a simple question, when this sort of people marry their sons, do they give them any fortune?", "pos": 1575459}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, that depends upon circumstances. I know an Italian prince, rich as a gold mine, one of the noblest families in Tuscany, who, when his sons married according to his wish, gave them millions; and when they married against his consent, merely allowed them thirty crowns a month. Should Andrea marry according to his father’s views, he will, perhaps, give him one, two, or three millions. For example, supposing it were the daughter of a banker, he might take an interest in the house of the father-in-law of his son; then again, if he disliked his choice, the major takes the key, double-locks his coffer, and Master Andrea would be obliged to live like the sons of a Parisian family, by shuffling cards or rattling the dice.", "pos": 1575774}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Ah, that boy will find out some Bavarian or Peruvian princess; he will want a crown, an El Dorado, and Potosí.", "pos": 1576503}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No; these grand lords on the other side of the Alps frequently marry into plain families; like Jupiter, they like to cross the race. But do you wish to marry Andrea, my dear M. Danglars, that you are asking so many questions?", "pos": 1576616}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Ma foi, it would not be a bad speculation, I fancy, and you know I am a speculator.", "pos": 1576844}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are not thinking of Mademoiselle Danglars, I hope; you would not like poor Andrea to have his throat cut by Albert?", "pos": 1576947}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Albert, ah, well; he would care very little about it, I think.", "pos": 1577069}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But he is betrothed to your daughter, I believe?", "pos": 1577180}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Well, M. de Morcerf and I have talked about this marriage, but Madame de Morcerf and Albert——", "pos": 1577231}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You do not mean to say that it would not be a good match?", "pos": 1577327}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Indeed, I imagine that Mademoiselle Danglars is as good as M. de Morcerf.", "pos": 1577387}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Mademoiselle Danglars’ fortune will be great, no doubt, especially if the telegraph should not make any more mistakes.", "pos": 1577463}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, I do not mean her fortune only; but tell me——", "pos": 1577584}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What?", "pos": 1577636}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Why did you not invite M. and Madame de Morcerf to your dinner? I did so, but he excused himself on account of Madame de Morcerf being obliged to go to Dieppe for the benefit of sea air.", "pos": 1577644}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, yes,", "pos": 1577835}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "it would do her a great deal of good.", "pos": 1577872}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why so?", "pos": 1577912}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Because it is the air she always breathed in her youth.", "pos": 1577922}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But still, if Albert be not so rich as Mademoiselle Danglars,", "pos": 1578036}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you must allow that he has a fine name?", "pos": 1578116}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "So he has; but I like mine as well.", "pos": 1578158}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly; your name is popular, and does honor to the title they have adorned it with; but you are too intelligent not to know that according to a prejudice, too firmly rooted to be exterminated, a nobility which dates back five centuries is worth more than one that can only reckon twenty years.", "pos": 1578196}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "And for this very reason. I prefer M. Andrea Cavalcanti to M. Albert de Morcerf.", "pos": 1578496}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Still, I should not think the Morcerfs would yield to the Cavalcanti?", "pos": 1578642}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "The Morcerfs!—Stay, my dear count, you are a man of the world, are you not?", "pos": 1578714}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think so.", "pos": 1578809}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "And you understand heraldry?", "pos": 1578823}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A little.", "pos": 1578854}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Well, look at my coat-of-arms, it is worth more than Morcerf’s.", "pos": 1578866}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why so?", "pos": 1578932}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Because, though I am not a baron by birth, my real name is, at least, Danglars.", "pos": 1578942}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, what then?", "pos": 1579024}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "While his name is not Morcerf.", "pos": 1579043}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How?—not Morcerf?", "pos": 1579076}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Not the least in the world.", "pos": 1579096}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Go on.", "pos": 1579126}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I have been made a baron, so that I actually am one; he made himself a count, so that he is not one at all.", "pos": 1579135}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Impossible!", "pos": 1579245}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Listen my dear count; M. de Morcerf has been my friend, or rather my acquaintance, during the last thirty years. You know I have made the most of my arms, though I never forgot my origin.", "pos": 1579259}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A proof of great humility or great pride,", "pos": 1579449}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, when I was a clerk, Morcerf was a mere fisherman.", "pos": 1579512}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And then he was called——", "pos": 1579570}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Fernand.", "pos": 1579597}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Only Fernand?", "pos": 1579608}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Fernand Mondego.", "pos": 1579624}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are sure?", "pos": 1579643}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Pardieu! I have bought enough fish of him to know his name.", "pos": 1579659}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then, why did you think of giving your daughter to him?", "pos": 1579721}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Because Fernand and Danglars, being both parvenus, both having become noble, both rich, are about equal in worth, excepting that there have been certain things mentioned of him that were never said of me.", "pos": 1579779}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What?", "pos": 1579986}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, nothing!", "pos": 1579994}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, yes; what you tell me recalls to mind something about the name of Fernand Mondego. I have heard that name in Greece.", "pos": 1580009}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "In conjunction with the affairs of Ali Pasha?", "pos": 1580132}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Exactly so.", "pos": 1580180}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "This is the mystery. I acknowledge I would have given anything to find it out.", "pos": 1580194}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It would be very easy if you much wished it?", "pos": 1580292}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "How so?", "pos": 1580339}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Probably you have some correspondent in Greece?", "pos": 1580349}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I should think so.", "pos": 1580399}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At Yanina?", "pos": 1580420}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Everywhere.", "pos": 1580433}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, write to your correspondent in Yanina, and ask him what part was played by a Frenchman named Fernand Mondego in the catastrophe of Ali Tepelini.", "pos": 1580447}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "You are right. I will write today.", "pos": 1580600}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do so.", "pos": 1580675}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I will.", "pos": 1580684}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And if you should hear of anything very scandalous——", "pos": 1580701}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I will communicate it to you.", "pos": 1580756}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You will oblige me.", "pos": 1580788}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Thanks, madame,—thanks for your punctuality;", "pos": 1583152}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is a long time, madame,", "pos": 1583334}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "it is a long time since I had the pleasure of speaking alone with you, and I regret that we have only now met to enter upon a painful conversation.", "pos": 1583484}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Nevertheless, sir, you see I have answered your first appeal, although certainly the conversation must be much more painful for me than for you.", "pos": 1583634}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is true, then,", "pos": 1583808}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "it is true, then, that all our actions leave their traces—some sad, others bright—on our paths; it is true that every step in our lives is like the course of an insect on the sands;—it leaves its track! Alas, to many the path is traced by tears.", "pos": 1583903}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Sir, you can feel for my emotion, can you not? Spare me, then, I beseech you. When I look at this room,—whence so many guilty creatures have departed, trembling and ashamed, when I look at that chair before which I now sit trembling and ashamed,—oh, it requires all my reason to convince me that I am not a very guilty woman and you a menacing judge.", "pos": 1584151}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And I,", "pos": 1584567}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I feel that my place is not in the judge’s seat, but on the prisoner’s bench.", "pos": 1584585}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "You?", "pos": 1584672}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, I.", "pos": 1584701}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "I think, sir, you exaggerate your situation. The paths of which you were just speaking have been traced by all young men of ardent imaginations. Besides the pleasure, there is always remorse from the indulgence of our passions, and, after all, what have you men to fear from all this? the world excuses, and notoriety ennobles you.", "pos": 1584711}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Madame, you know that I am no hypocrite, or, at least, that I never deceive without a reason. If my brow be severe, it is because many misfortunes have clouded it; if my heart be petrified, it is that it might sustain the blows it has received. I was not so in my youth, I was not so on the night of the betrothal, when we were all seated around a table in the Rue du Cours at Marseilles. But since then everything has changed in and about me; I am accustomed to brave difficulties, and, in the conflict to crush those who, by their own free will, or by chance, voluntarily or involuntarily, interfere with me in my career. It is generally the case that what we most ardently desire is as ardently withheld from us by those who wish to obtain it, or from whom we attempt to snatch it. Thus, the greater number of a man’s errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it. The means we might have used, which we in our blindness could not see, then seem simple and easy, and we say, ‘Why did I not do this, instead of that?’ Women, on the contrary, are rarely tormented with remorse; for the decision does not come from you,—your misfortunes are generally imposed upon you, and your faults the results of others’ crimes.", "pos": 1585134}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "In any case, sir, you will allow, even if the fault were alone mine, I last night received a severe punishment for it.", "pos": 1586515}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Poor thing,", "pos": 1586669}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "it was too severe for your strength, for you were twice overwhelmed, and yet——", "pos": 1586718}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Well?", "pos": 1586799}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, I must tell you. Collect all your courage, for you have not yet heard all.", "pos": 1586807}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Ah, what is there more to hear?", "pos": 1586890}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You only look back to the past, and it is, indeed, bad enough. Well, picture to yourself a future more gloomy still—certainly frightful, perhaps sanguinary!", "pos": 1586962}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Alas,", "pos": 1587557}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "doubtless it is chance.", "pos": 1587579}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Chance?", "pos": 1587605}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, no, madame, there is no such thing as chance.", "pos": 1587634}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, yes; has not a fatal chance revealed all this? Was it not by chance the Count of Monte Cristo bought that house? Was it not by chance he caused the earth to be dug up? Is it not by chance that the unfortunate child was disinterred under the trees?—that poor innocent offspring of mine, which I never even kissed, but for whom I wept many, many tears. Ah, my heart clung to the count when he mentioned the dear spoil found beneath the flowers.", "pos": 1587686}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, no, madame,—this is the terrible news I have to tell you,", "pos": 1588135}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "no, nothing was found beneath the flowers; there was no child disinterred—no. You must not weep, no, you must not groan, you must tremble!", "pos": 1588234}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "What can you mean?", "pos": 1588375}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I mean that M. de Monte Cristo, digging underneath these trees, found neither skeleton nor chest, because neither of them was there!", "pos": 1588431}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Neither of them there? Neither of them there!", "pos": 1588566}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No,", "pos": 1588795}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "no, a hundred times no!", "pos": 1588848}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Then you did not bury the poor child there, sir? Why did you deceive me? Where did you place it? tell me—where?", "pos": 1588874}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There! But listen to me—listen—and you will pity me who has for twenty years alone borne the heavy burden of grief I am about to reveal, without casting the least portion upon you.", "pos": 1588988}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Oh, you frighten me! But speak; I will listen.", "pos": 1589171}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You recollect that sad night, when you were half-expiring on that bed in the red damask room, while I, scarcely less agitated than you, awaited your delivery. The child was born, was given to me—motionless, breathless, voiceless; we thought it dead.", "pos": 1589220}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "We thought it dead,", "pos": 1589622}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I placed it in the chest, which was to take the place of a coffin; I descended to the garden, I dug a hole, and then flung it down in haste. Scarcely had I covered it with earth, when the arm of the Corsican was stretched towards me; I saw a shadow rise, and, at the same time, a flash of light. I felt pain; I wished to cry out, but an icy shiver ran through my veins and stifled my voice; I fell lifeless, and fancied myself killed. Never shall I forget your sublime courage, when, having returned to consciousness, I dragged myself to the foot of the stairs, and you, almost dying yourself, came to meet me. We were obliged to keep silent upon the dreadful catastrophe. You had the fortitude to regain the house, assisted by your nurse. A duel was the pretext for my wound. Though we scarcely expected it, our secret remained in our own keeping alone. I was taken to Versailles; for three months I struggled with death; at last, as I seemed to cling to life, I was ordered to the South. Four men carried me from Paris to Châlons, walking six leagues a day; Madame de Villefort followed the litter in her carriage. At Châlons I was put upon the Saône, thence I passed on to the Rhône, whence I descended, merely with the current, to Arles; at Arles I was again placed on my litter, and continued my journey to Marseilles. My recovery lasted six months. I never heard you mentioned, and I did not dare inquire for you. When I returned to Paris, I learned that you, the widow of M. de Nargonne, had married M. Danglars.", "pos": 1589657}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What was the subject of my thoughts from the time consciousness returned to me? Always the same—always the child’s corpse, coming every night in my dreams, rising from the earth, and hovering over the grave with menacing look and gesture. I inquired immediately on my return to Paris; the house had not been inhabited since we left it, but it had just been let for nine years. I found the tenant. I pretended that I disliked the idea that a house belonging to my wife’s father and mother should pass into the hands of strangers. I offered to pay them for cancelling the lease; they demanded 6,000 francs. I would have given 10,000—I would have given 20,000. I had the money with me; I made the tenant sign the deed of resilition, and when I had obtained what I so much wanted, I galloped to Auteuil. No one had entered the house since I had left it.", "pos": 1591178}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It was five o’clock in the afternoon; I ascended into the red room, and waited for night. There all the thoughts which had disturbed me during my year of constant agony came back with double force. The Corsican, who had declared the vendetta against me, who had followed me from Nîmes to Paris, who had hid himself in the garden, who had struck me, had seen me dig the grave, had seen me inter the child,—he might become acquainted with your person,—nay, he might even then have known it. Would he not one day make you pay for keeping this terrible secret? Would it not be a sweet revenge for him when he found that I had not died from the blow of his dagger? It was therefore necessary, before everything else, and at all risks, that I should cause all traces of the past to disappear—that I should destroy every material vestige; too much reality would always remain in my recollection. It was for this I had annulled the lease—it was for this I had come—it was for this I was waiting.", "pos": 1592029}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Night arrived; I allowed it to become quite dark. I was without a light in that room; when the wind shook all the doors, behind which I continually expected to see some spy concealed, I trembled. I seemed everywhere to hear your moans behind me in the bed, and I dared not turn around. My heart beat so violently that I feared my wound would open. At length, one by one, all the noises in the neighborhood ceased. I understood that I had nothing to fear, that I should neither be seen nor heard, so I decided upon descending to the garden.", "pos": 1593018}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Listen, Hermine; I consider myself as brave as most men, but when I drew from my breast the little key of the staircase, which I had found in my coat—that little key we both used to cherish so much, which you wished to have fastened to a golden ring—when I opened the door, and saw the pale moon shedding a long stream of white light on the spiral staircase like a spectre, I leaned against the wall, and nearly shrieked. I seemed to be going mad. At last I mastered my agitation. I descended the staircase step by step; the only thing I could not conquer was a strange trembling in my knees. I grasped the railings; if I had relaxed my hold for a moment, I should have fallen. I reached the lower door. Outside this door a spade was placed against the wall; I took it, and advanced towards the thicket. I had provided myself with a dark lantern. In the middle of the lawn I stopped to light it, then I continued my path.", "pos": 1593559}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It was the end of November, all the verdure of the garden had disappeared, the trees were nothing more than skeletons with their long bony arms, and the dead leaves sounded on the gravel under my feet. My terror overcame me to such a degree as I approached the thicket, that I took a pistol from my pocket and armed myself. I fancied continually that I saw the figure of the Corsican between the branches. I examined the thicket with my dark lantern; it was empty. I looked carefully around; I was indeed alone,—no noise disturbed the silence but the owl, whose piercing cry seemed to be calling up the phantoms of the night. I tied my lantern to a forked branch I had noticed a year before at the precise spot where I stopped to dig the hole.", "pos": 1594482}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The grass had grown very thickly there during the summer, and when autumn arrived no one had been there to mow it. Still one place where the grass was thin attracted my attention; it evidently was there I had turned up the ground. I went to work. The hour, then, for which I had been waiting during the last year had at length arrived. How I worked, how I hoped, how I struck every piece of turf, thinking to find some resistance to my spade! But no, I found nothing, though I had made a hole twice as large as the first. I thought I had been deceived—had mistaken the spot. I turned around, I looked at the trees, I tried to recall the details which had struck me at the time. A cold, sharp wind whistled through the leafless branches, and yet the drops fell from my forehead. I recollected that I was stabbed just as I was trampling the ground to fill up the hole; while doing so I had leaned against a laburnum; behind me was an artificial rockery, intended to serve as a resting-place for persons walking in the garden; in falling, my hand, relaxing its hold of the laburnum, felt the coldness of the stone. On my right I saw the tree, behind me the rock. I stood in the same attitude, and threw myself down. I rose, and again began digging and enlarging the hole; still I found nothing, nothing—the chest was no longer there!", "pos": 1595227}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "The chest no longer there?", "pos": 1596567}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Think not I contented myself with this one effort. No; I searched the whole thicket. I thought the assassin, having discovered the chest, and supposing it to be a treasure, had intended carrying it off, but, perceiving his error, had dug another hole, and deposited it there; but I could find nothing. Then the idea struck me that he had not taken these precautions, and had simply thrown it in a corner. In the last case I must wait for daylight to renew my search. I remained in the room and waited.", "pos": 1596641}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, Heaven!", "pos": 1597168}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When daylight dawned I went down again. My first visit was to the thicket. I hoped to find some traces which had escaped me in the darkness. I had turned up the earth over a surface of more than twenty feet square, and a depth of two feet. A laborer would not have done in a day what occupied me an hour. But I could find nothing—absolutely nothing. Then I renewed the search. Supposing it had been thrown aside, it would probably be on the path which led to the little gate; but this examination was as useless as the first, and with a bursting heart I returned to the thicket, which now contained no hope for me.", "pos": 1597188}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Oh, it was enough to drive you mad!", "pos": 1597805}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I hoped for a moment that it might, but that happiness was denied me. However, recovering my strength and my ideas, ‘Why,’ said I, ‘should that man have carried away the corpse?’", "pos": 1597868}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "But you said, he would require it as a proof.", "pos": 1598067}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Ah, no, madame, that could not be. Dead bodies are not kept a year; they are shown to a magistrate, and the evidence is taken. Now, nothing of the kind has happened.", "pos": 1598142}
{"speaker": "Hermine", "text": "What then?", "pos": 1598310}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Something more terrible, more fatal, more alarming for us—the child was, perhaps, alive, and the assassin may have saved it!", "pos": 1598359}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "My child was alive? you buried my child alive? You were not certain my child was dead, and you buried it? Ah——", "pos": 1598569}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I know not; I merely suppose so, as I might suppose anything else,", "pos": 1598796}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Ah, my child, my poor child!", "pos": 1598982}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You understand, then, that if it were so, we are lost. This child lives, and someone knows it lives—someone is in possession of our secret; and since Monte Cristo speaks before us of a child disinterred, when that child could not be found, it is he who is in possession of our secret.", "pos": 1599263}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Just God, avenging God!", "pos": 1599644}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "But the child—the child, sir? How I have searched for him, how I have called him in my long sleepless nights; how I have longed for royal wealth to purchase a million of secrets from a million of men, and to find mine among them! At last, one day, when for the hundredth time I took up my spade, I asked myself again and again what the Corsican could have done with the child. A child encumbers a fugitive; perhaps, on perceiving it was still alive, he had thrown it into the river.", "pos": 1599741}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Impossible! a man may murder another out of revenge, but he would not deliberately drown a child.", "pos": 1600299}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Perhaps, he had put it in the foundling hospital.", "pos": 1600424}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Oh, yes, yes, my child is there!", "pos": 1600499}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I ran to the hospital, and learned that the same night—the night of the 20th of September—a child had been brought there, wrapped in part of a fine linen napkin, purposely torn in half. This portion of the napkin was marked with half a baron’s crown, and the letter H.", "pos": 1600556}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Truly, truly, all my linen is marked thus; Monsieur de Nargonne was a baron, and my name is Hermine. Thank God, my child was not then dead!", "pos": 1600827}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "No, it was not dead.", "pos": 1600993}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "And you can tell me so without fearing to make me die of joy? Where is the child?", "pos": 1601016}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Do I know? and do you believe that if I knew I would relate to you all its trials and all its adventures as would a dramatist or a novel writer? Alas, no, I know not. A woman, about six months after, came to claim it with the other half of the napkin. This woman gave all the requisite particulars, and it was intrusted to her.", "pos": 1601134}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "But you should have inquired for the woman; you should have traced her.", "pos": 1601475}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "And what do you think I did? I feigned a criminal process, and employed all the most acute bloodhounds and skilful agents in search of her. They traced her to Châlons, and there they lost her.", "pos": 1601549}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "They lost her?", "pos": 1601744}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes, forever.", "pos": 1601761}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "And this is all? and you stopped there?", "pos": 1601873}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Oh, no. I never ceased to search and to inquire. However, the last two or three years I had allowed myself some respite. But now I will begin with more perseverance and fury than ever, since fear urges me, not my conscience.", "pos": 1601927}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "But, the Count of Monte Cristo can know nothing, or he would not seek our society as he does.", "pos": 1602172}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Oh, the wickedness of man is very great, since it surpasses the goodness of God. Did you observe that man’s eyes while he was speaking to us?", "pos": 1602295}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "No.", "pos": 1602457}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "But have you ever watched him carefully?", "pos": 1602463}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Doubtless he is capricious, but that is all; one thing alone struck me,—of all the exquisite things he placed before us, he touched nothing. I might have suspected he was poisoning us.", "pos": 1602506}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "And you see you would have been deceived.", "pos": 1602693}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Yes, doubtless.", "pos": 1602737}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "But believe me, that man has other projects. For that reason I wished to see you, to speak to you, to warn you against everyone, but especially against him. Tell me, did you ever reveal to anyone our connection?", "pos": 1602755}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Never, to anyone.", "pos": 1603058}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You understand me, when I say anyone,—pardon my urgency,—to anyone living I mean?", "pos": 1603078}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Yes, yes, I understand very well, never, I swear to you.", "pos": 1603199}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Were you ever in the habit of writing in the evening what had transpired in the morning? Do you keep a journal?", "pos": 1603285}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "No, my life has been passed in frivolity; I wish to forget it myself.", "pos": 1603399}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Do you talk in your sleep?", "pos": 1603471}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "I sleep soundly, like a child; do you not remember?", "pos": 1603507}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "It is true. Well, I understand what I now have to do. In less than one week from this time I will ascertain who this M. de Monte Cristo is, whence he comes, where he goes, and why he speaks in our presence of children that have been disinterred in a garden.", "pos": 1603638}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Here I am, dear count. Welcome home again.", "pos": 1605259}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I arrived an hour since.", "pos": 1605306}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "From Dieppe?", "pos": 1605333}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No, from Tréport.", "pos": 1605348}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Indeed?", "pos": 1605368}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And I have come at once to see you.", "pos": 1605378}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That is extremely kind of you,", "pos": 1605416}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I know it, but in asking for news, I mean, have you done anything for me?", "pos": 1605584}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Had you commissioned me?", "pos": 1605660}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Come, come, do not assume so much indifference. It is said, sympathy travels rapidly, and when at Tréport, I felt the electric shock; you have either been working for me or thinking of me.", "pos": 1605727}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Possibly. I have indeed thought of you, but the magnetic wire I was guiding acted, indeed, without my knowledge.", "pos": 1605933}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Indeed! Pray tell me how it happened.", "pos": 1606076}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Willingly. M. Danglars dined with me.", "pos": 1606116}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I know it; to avoid meeting him, my mother and I left town.", "pos": 1606156}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But he met here M. Andrea Cavalcanti.", "pos": 1606218}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Your Italian prince?", "pos": 1606258}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Not so fast; M. Andrea only calls himself count.", "pos": 1606281}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Calls himself, do you say?", "pos": 1606332}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, calls himself.", "pos": 1606361}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Is he not a count?", "pos": 1606383}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What can I know of him? He calls himself so. I, of course, give him the same title, and everyone else does likewise.", "pos": 1606404}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What a strange man you are! What next? You say M. Danglars dined here?", "pos": 1606523}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, with Count Cavalcanti, the marquis his father, Madame Danglars, M. and Madame de Villefort,—charming people,—M. Debray, Maximilian Morrel, and M. de Château-Renaud.", "pos": 1606596}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Did they speak of me?", "pos": 1606768}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Not a word.", "pos": 1606792}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "So much the worse.", "pos": 1606806}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why so? I thought you wished them to forget you?", "pos": 1606827}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "If they did not speak of me, I am sure they thought about me, and I am in despair.", "pos": 1606878}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How will that affect you, since Mademoiselle Danglars was not among the number here who thought of you? Truly, she might have thought of you at home.", "pos": 1606963}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I have no fear of that; or, if she did, it was only in the same way in which I think of her.", "pos": 1607115}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Touching sympathy! So you hate each other?", "pos": 1607209}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Listen, if Mademoiselle Danglars were disposed to take pity on my supposed martyrdom on her account, and would dispense with all matrimonial formalities between our two families, I am ready to agree to the arrangement. In a word, Mademoiselle Danglars would make a charming mistress—but a wife—diable!", "pos": 1607270}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And this, is your opinion of your intended spouse?", "pos": 1607589}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes; it is rather unkind, I acknowledge, but it is true. But as this dream cannot be realized, since Mademoiselle Danglars must become my lawful wife, live perpetually with me, sing to me, compose verses and music within ten paces of me, and that for my whole life, it frightens me. One may forsake a mistress, but a wife,—good heavens! There she must always be; and to marry Mademoiselle Danglars would be awful.", "pos": 1607663}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are difficult to please, viscount.", "pos": 1608079}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, for I often wish for what is impossible.", "pos": 1608120}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 1608168}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "To find such a wife as my father found.", "pos": 1608184}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Your father was fortunate, then?", "pos": 1608319}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You know my opinion of my mother, count; look at her,—still beautiful, witty, more charming than ever. For any other son to have stayed with his mother for four days at Tréport, it would have been a condescension or a martyrdom, while I return, more contented, more peaceful—shall I say more poetic!—than if I had taken Queen Mab or Titania as my companion.", "pos": 1608363}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That is an overwhelming demonstration, and you would make everyone vow to live a single life.", "pos": 1608730}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Such are my reasons for not liking to marry Mademoiselle Danglars. Have you ever noticed how much a thing is heightened in value when we obtain possession of it? The diamond which glittered in the window at Marlé’s or Fossin’s shines with more splendor when it is our own; but if we are compelled to acknowledge the superiority of another, and still must retain the one that is inferior, do you not know what we have to endure?", "pos": 1608826}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Worldling,", "pos": 1609256}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Thus I shall rejoice when Mademoiselle Eugénie perceives I am but a pitiful atom, with scarcely as many hundred thousand francs as she has millions. One plan occurred to me. Franz likes all that is eccentric; I tried to make him fall in love with Mademoiselle Danglars; but in spite of four letters, written in the most alluring style, he invariably answered: ‘My eccentricity may be great, but it will not make me break my promise.’ My eccentricity may be great, but it will not make me break my promise.", "pos": 1609289}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That is what I call devoted friendship, to recommend to another one whom you would not marry yourself.", "pos": 1609768}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Apropos. Franz is coming soon, but it will not interest you; you dislike him, I think?", "pos": 1609888}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I? my dear viscount, how have you discovered that I did not like M. Franz! I like everyone.", "pos": 1609993}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And you include me in the expression everyone—many thanks!", "pos": 1610108}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Let us not mistake. I love everyone as God commands us to love our neighbor, as Christians; but I thoroughly hate but a few. Let us return to M. Franz d’Épinay. Did you say he was coming?", "pos": 1610169}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes; summoned by M. de Villefort, who is apparently as anxious to get Mademoiselle Valentine married as M. Danglars is to see Mademoiselle Eugénie settled. It must be a very irksome office to be the father of a grown-up daughter; it seems to make one feverish, and to raise one’s pulse to ninety beats a minute until the deed is done.", "pos": 1610380}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But M. d’Épinay, unlike you, bears his misfortune patiently.", "pos": 1610717}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Still more, he talks seriously about the matter, puts on a white tie, and speaks of his family. He entertains a very high opinion of M. and Madame de Villefort.", "pos": 1610780}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Which they deserve, do they not?", "pos": 1610943}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I believe they do. M. de Villefort has always passed for a severe but a just man.", "pos": 1610978}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "There is, then, one, whom you do not condemn like poor Danglars?", "pos": 1611062}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Because I am not compelled to marry his daughter perhaps,", "pos": 1611150}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Indeed, my dear sir, you are revoltingly foppish.", "pos": 1611236}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I foppish? how do you mean?", "pos": 1611309}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; pray take a cigar, and cease to defend yourself, and to struggle to escape marrying Mademoiselle Danglars. Let things take their course; perhaps you may not have to retract.", "pos": 1611339}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Bah!", "pos": 1611520}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Doubtless, my dear viscount, you will not be taken by force; and seriously, do you wish to break off your engagement?", "pos": 1611549}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I would give a hundred thousand francs to be able to do so.", "pos": 1611669}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then make yourself quite easy. M. Danglars would give double that sum to attain the same end.", "pos": 1611731}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Am I, indeed, so happy? But, my dear count, has M. Danglars any reason?", "pos": 1611827}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah! there is your proud and selfish nature. You would expose the self-love of another with a hatchet, but you shrink if your own is attacked with a needle.", "pos": 1611999}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But yet, M. Danglars appeared——", "pos": 1612157}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Delighted with you, was he not? Well, he is a man of bad taste, and is still more enchanted with another. I know not whom; look and judge for yourself.", "pos": 1612191}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Thank you, I understand. But my mother—no, not my mother; I mistake—my father intends giving a ball.", "pos": 1612345}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A ball at this season?", "pos": 1612448}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Summer balls are fashionable.", "pos": 1612473}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "If they were not, the countess has only to wish it, and they would become so.", "pos": 1612505}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You are right; You know they are select affairs; those who remain in Paris in July must be true Parisians. Will you take charge of our invitation to Messieurs Cavalcanti?", "pos": 1612585}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "When will it take place?", "pos": 1612758}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "On Saturday.", "pos": 1612785}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "M. Cavalcanti’s father will be gone.", "pos": 1612800}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But the son will be here; will you invite young M. Cavalcanti?", "pos": 1612839}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do not know him, viscount.", "pos": 1612904}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You do not know him?", "pos": 1612935}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, I never saw him until a few days since, and am not responsible for him.", "pos": 1612958}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But you receive him at your house?", "pos": 1613036}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That is another thing: he was recommended to me by a good abbé, who may be deceived. Give him a direct invitation, but do not ask me to present him. If he were afterwards to marry Mademoiselle Danglars, you would accuse me of intrigue, and would be challenging me,—besides, I may not be there myself.", "pos": 1613073}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Where?", "pos": 1613376}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "At your ball.", "pos": 1613385}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Why should you not be there?", "pos": 1613401}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Because you have not yet invited me.", "pos": 1613432}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But I come expressly for that purpose.", "pos": 1613471}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are very kind, but I may be prevented.", "pos": 1613512}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "If I tell you one thing, you will be so amiable as to set aside all impediments.", "pos": 1613557}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Tell me what it is.", "pos": 1613640}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My mother begs you to come.", "pos": 1613662}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The Comtesse de Morcerf?", "pos": 1613692}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, count. I assure you Madame de Morcerf speaks freely to me, and if you have not felt those sympathetic fibres of which I spoke just now thrill within you, you must be entirely devoid of them, for during the last four days we have spoken of no one else.", "pos": 1613748}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You have talked of me?", "pos": 1614021}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, that is the penalty of being a living puzzle!", "pos": 1614046}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then I am also a puzzle to your mother? I should have thought her too reasonable to be led by imagination.", "pos": 1614099}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "A problem, my dear count, for everyone—for my mother as well as others; much studied, but not solved, you still remain an enigma, do not fear. My mother is only astonished that you remain so long unsolved. I believe, while the Countess G—— takes you for Lord Ruthven, my mother imagines you to be Cagliostro or the Count Saint-Germain. The first opportunity you have, confirm her in her opinion; it will be easy for you, as you have the philosophy of the one and the wit of the other.", "pos": 1614208}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I thank you for the warning. I shall endeavor to be prepared for all suppositions.", "pos": 1614695}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You will, then, come on Saturday?", "pos": 1614798}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, since Madame de Morcerf invites me.", "pos": 1614834}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You are very kind.", "pos": 1614877}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Will M. Danglars be there?", "pos": 1614898}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "He has already been invited by my father. We shall try to persuade the great d’Aguesseau,11 M. de Villefort, to come, but have not much hope of seeing him.", "pos": 1614927}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "‘Never despair of anything,’ says the proverb.", "pos": 1615086}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Do you dance, count?", "pos": 1615134}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I dance?", "pos": 1615157}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, you; it would not be astonishing.", "pos": 1615168}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That is very well before one is over forty. No, I do not dance, but I like to see others do so. Does Madame de Morcerf dance?", "pos": 1615209}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Never; you can talk to her, she so delights in your conversation.", "pos": 1615337}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Indeed?", "pos": 1615405}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, truly; and I assure you. You are the only man of whom I have heard her speak with interest. I have one thing to reproach myself with. What is it?", "pos": 1615422}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have spoken to you indiscreetly about Danglars.", "pos": 1615685}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "On the contrary, speak to me always in the same strain about him.", "pos": 1615737}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am glad to be reassured on that point. Apropos, when do you aspect M. d’Épinay?", "pos": 1615805}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Five or six days hence at the latest.", "pos": 1615889}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And when is he to be married?", "pos": 1615929}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Immediately on the arrival of M. and Madame de Saint-Méran.", "pos": 1615961}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Bring him to see me. Although you say I do not like him, I assure you I shall be happy to see him.", "pos": 1616023}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I will obey your orders, my lord.", "pos": 1616124}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Good-bye.", "pos": 1616160}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Until Saturday, when I may expect you, may I not?", "pos": 1616172}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, I promised you. What news?", "pos": 1616224}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "She went to the Palais,", "pos": 1616395}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Did she stay long there?", "pos": 1616442}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "An hour and a half.", "pos": 1616469}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Did she return home?", "pos": 1616491}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Directly.", "pos": 1616514}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, my dear Bertuccio. I now advise you to go in quest of the little estate I spoke to you of in Normandy.", "pos": 1616526}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "The person called the Count of Monte Cristo is an intimate acquaintance of Lord Wilmore, a rich foreigner, who is sometimes seen in Paris and who is there at this moment; he is also known to the Abbé Busoni, a Sicilian priest, of high repute in the East, where he has done much good.", "pos": 1617321}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The abbé, who was in Paris only for a month, inhabited a small two-storied house behind Saint-Sulpice; there were two rooms on each floor and he was the only tenant. The two lower rooms consisted of a dining-room, with a table, chairs, and side-board of walnut, and a wainscoted parlor, without ornaments, carpet, or timepiece. It was evident that the abbé limited himself to objects of strict necessity. He preferred to use the sitting-room upstairs, which was more library than parlor, and was furnished with theological books and parchments, in which he delighted to bury himself for months at a time, according to his valet de chambre. His valet looked at the visitors through a sort of wicket; and if their faces were unknown to him or displeased him, he replied that the abbé was not in Paris, an answer which satisfied most persons, because the abbé was known to be a great traveller. Besides, whether at home or not, whether in Paris or Cairo, the abbé always left something to give away, which the valet distributed through this wicket in his master’s name. The other room near the library was a bedroom. A bed without curtains, four armchairs, and a couch, covered with yellow Utrecht velvet, composed, with a prie-Dieu, all its furniture.", "pos": 1617787}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Lord Wilmore resided in Rue Fontaine-Saint-Georges. He was one of those English tourists who consume a large fortune in travelling. He hired the apartment in which he lived furnished, passed only a few hours in the day there, and rarely slept there. One of his peculiarities was never to speak a word of French, which he however wrote with great facility.", "pos": 1619038}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "No, he went out early this morning,", "pos": 1619613}
{"speaker": "visitor", "text": "I might not always be content with that answer, for I come from one to whom everyone must be at home. But have the kindness to give the Abbé Busoni——", "pos": 1619670}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "I told you he was not at home,", "pos": 1619845}
{"speaker": "visitor", "text": "Then on his return give him that card and this sealed paper. Will he be at home at eight o’clock this evening?", "pos": 1619898}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "Doubtless, unless he is at work, which is the same as if he were out.", "pos": 1620011}
{"speaker": "visitor", "text": "I will come again at that time. Is the abbé at home?", "pos": 1620083}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "Yes; he is at work in his library, but he expects you, sir,", "pos": 1620496}
{"speaker": "visitor", "text": "Have I the honor of addressing the Abbé Busoni?", "pos": 1620878}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, sir, and you are the person whom M. de Boville, formerly an inspector of prisons, sends to me from the prefect of police?", "pos": 1620947}
{"speaker": "visitor", "text": "Exactly, sir.", "pos": 1621096}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "One of the agents appointed to secure the safety of Paris?", "pos": 1621112}
{"speaker": "visitor", "text": "Yes, sir", "pos": 1621173}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am at your service, sir,", "pos": 1621391}
{"speaker": "visitor", "text": "The mission with which I am charged, sir, is a confidential one on the part of him who fulfils it, and him by whom he is employed. Your probity, is so well known to the prefect that he wishes as a magistrate to ascertain from you some particulars connected with the public safety, to ascertain which I am deputed to see you. It is hoped that no ties of friendship or humane consideration will induce you to conceal the truth.", "pos": 1621465}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Provided, sir, the particulars you wish for do not interfere with my scruples or my conscience. I am a priest, sir, and the secrets of confession, for instance, must remain between me and God, and not between me and human justice.", "pos": 1621984}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do not alarm yourself, monsieur, we will duly respect your conscience.", "pos": 1622217}
{"speaker": "envoy of the prefect of the police", "text": "Excuse me, abbé, but the light tries my eyes very much.", "pos": 1622461}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Now, sir, I am listening—go on.", "pos": 1622594}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will come at once to the point. Do you know the Count of Monte Cristo?", "pos": 1622628}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You mean Monsieur Zaccone, I presume?", "pos": 1622703}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Zaccone?—is not his name Monte Cristo?", "pos": 1622743}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Monte Cristo is the name of an estate, or, rather, of a rock, and not a family name.", "pos": 1622784}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, be it so—let us not dispute about words; and since M. de Monte Cristo and M. Zaccone are the same——", "pos": 1622871}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Absolutely the same.", "pos": 1622979}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let us speak of M. Zaccone.", "pos": 1623002}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Agreed.", "pos": 1623032}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I asked you if you knew him?", "pos": 1623042}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Extremely well.", "pos": 1623073}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who is he?", "pos": 1623091}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The son of a rich shipbuilder in Malta.", "pos": 1623104}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I know that is the report; but, as you are aware, the police does not content itself with vague reports.", "pos": 1623146}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "However, when that report is in accordance with the truth, everybody must believe it, the police as well as all the rest.", "pos": 1623253}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are you sure of what you assert?", "pos": 1623420}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What do you mean by that question?", "pos": 1623455}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Understand, sir, I do not in the least suspect your veracity; I ask if you are certain of it?", "pos": 1623492}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I knew his father, M. Zaccone.", "pos": 1623588}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, indeed?", "pos": 1623621}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And when a child I often played with the son in the timber-yards.", "pos": 1623635}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But whence does he derive the title of count?", "pos": 1623703}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are aware that may be bought.", "pos": 1623751}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In Italy?", "pos": 1623787}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Everywhere.", "pos": 1623799}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And his immense riches, whence does he procure them?", "pos": 1623813}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "They may not be so very great.", "pos": 1623868}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How much do you suppose he possesses?", "pos": 1623901}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "From one hundred and fifty to two hundred thousand livres per annum.", "pos": 1623941}
{"speaker": "visitor", "text": "That is reasonable. I have heard he had three or four millions.", "pos": 1624012}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Two hundred thousand per annum would make four millions of capital.", "pos": 1624098}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But I was told he had four millions per annum.", "pos": 1624168}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That is not probable.", "pos": 1624217}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you know this Island of Monte Cristo?", "pos": 1624241}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly, everyone who has come from Palermo, Naples, or Rome to France by sea must know it, since he has passed close to it and must have seen it.", "pos": 1624284}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am told it is a delightful place?", "pos": 1624435}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is a rock.", "pos": 1624473}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And why has the count bought a rock?", "pos": 1624489}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "For the sake of being a count. In Italy one must have territorial possessions to be a count.", "pos": 1624528}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have, doubtless, heard the adventures of M. Zaccone’s youth?", "pos": 1624623}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The father’s?", "pos": 1624690}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, the son’s.", "pos": 1624706}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I know nothing certain; at that period of his life, I lost sight of my young comrade.", "pos": 1624723}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Was he in the wars?", "pos": 1624811}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I think he entered the service.", "pos": 1624833}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In what branch?", "pos": 1624867}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In the navy.", "pos": 1624885}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are you not his confessor?", "pos": 1624900}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, sir; I believe he is a Lutheran.", "pos": 1624929}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A Lutheran?", "pos": 1624968}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I say, I believe such is the case, I do not affirm it; besides, liberty of conscience is established in France.", "pos": 1624982}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Doubtless, and we are not now inquiring into his creed, but his actions; in the name of the prefect of police, I ask you what you know of him.", "pos": 1625095}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He passes for a very charitable man. Our holy father, the pope, has made him a knight of Jesus Christ for the services he rendered to the Christians in the East; he has five or six rings as testimonials from Eastern monarchs of his services.", "pos": 1625239}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Does he wear them?", "pos": 1625483}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, but he is proud of them; he is better pleased with rewards given to the benefactors of man than to his destroyers.", "pos": 1625504}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He is a Quaker then?", "pos": 1625625}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Exactly, he is a Quaker, with the exception of the peculiar dress.", "pos": 1625648}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Has he any friends?", "pos": 1625717}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, everyone who knows him is his friend.", "pos": 1625739}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But has he any enemies?", "pos": 1625784}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "One only.", "pos": 1625810}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is his name?", "pos": 1625822}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Lord Wilmore.", "pos": 1625842}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where is he?", "pos": 1625858}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He is in Paris just now.", "pos": 1625873}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Can he give me any particulars?", "pos": 1625900}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Important ones; he was in India with Zaccone.", "pos": 1625934}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you know his abode?", "pos": 1625982}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s somewhere in the Chaussée d’Antin; but I know neither the street nor the number.", "pos": 1626007}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are you at variance with the Englishman?", "pos": 1626102}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I love Zaccone, and he hates him; we are consequently not friends.", "pos": 1626145}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you think the Count of Monte Cristo had ever been in France before he made this visit to Paris?", "pos": 1626214}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To that question I can answer positively; no, sir, he had not, because he applied to me six months ago for the particulars he required, and as I did not know when I might again come to Paris, I recommended M. Cavalcanti to him.", "pos": 1626315}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Andrea?", "pos": 1626545}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, Bartolomeo, his father.", "pos": 1626555}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now, sir, I have but one question more to ask, and I charge you, in the name of honor, of humanity, and of religion, to answer me candidly.", "pos": 1626585}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is it, sir?", "pos": 1626727}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you know with what design M. de Monte Cristo purchased a house at Auteuil?", "pos": 1626746}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly, for he told me.", "pos": 1626826}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is it, sir?", "pos": 1626855}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To make a lunatic asylum of it, similar to that founded by the Count of Pisani at Palermo. Do you know about that institution?", "pos": 1626874}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have heard of it.", "pos": 1627003}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is a magnificent charity.", "pos": 1627025}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are a great almsgiver,", "pos": 1627266}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and although you are said to be rich, I will venture to offer you something for your poor people; will you accept my offering?", "pos": 1627313}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I thank you, sir; I am only jealous in one thing, and that is that the relief I give should be entirely from my own resources.", "pos": 1627442}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "However——", "pos": 1627571}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My resolution, sir, is unchangeable, but you have only to search for yourself and you will find, alas, but too many objects upon whom to exercise your benevolence.", "pos": 1627583}
{"speaker": "Lord Wilmore", "text": "You know, sir, I do not speak French?", "pos": 1629492}
{"speaker": "the envoy", "text": "I know you do not like to converse in our language,", "pos": 1629532}
{"speaker": "Lord Wilmore", "text": "But you may use it. I understand it.", "pos": 1629605}
{"speaker": "the visitor", "text": "And I, know enough of English to keep up the conversation. Do not put yourself to the slightest inconvenience.", "pos": 1629668}
{"speaker": "Lord Wilmore", "text": "Aw? I understand, perfectly.", "pos": 1629824}
{"speaker": "the visitor", "text": "But, do you know why he came to France?", "pos": 1631263}
{"speaker": "Lord Wilmore", "text": "He is speculating in railways, and as he is an expert chemist and physicist, he has invented a new system of telegraphy, which he is seeking to bring to perfection.", "pos": 1631326}
{"speaker": "the prefect", "text": "How much does he spend yearly?", "pos": 1631514}
{"speaker": "Lord Wilmore", "text": "Not more than five or six hundred thousand francs, he is a miser.", "pos": 1631566}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you know his house at Auteuil?", "pos": 1631775}
{"speaker": "Lord Wilmore", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 1631811}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What do you know respecting it?", "pos": 1631824}
{"speaker": "Lord Wilmore", "text": "Do you wish to know why he bought it?", "pos": 1631858}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1631898}
{"speaker": "Lord Wilmore", "text": "The count is a speculator, who will certainly ruin himself in experiments. He supposes there is in the neighborhood of the house he has bought a mineral spring equal to those at Bagnères, Luchon, and Cauterets. He is going to turn his house into a Badhaus, as the Germans term it. He has already dug up all the garden two or three times to find the famous spring, and, being unsuccessful, he will soon purchase all the contiguous houses. Now, as I dislike him, and hope his railway, his electric telegraph, or his search for baths, will ruin him, I am watching for his discomfiture, which must soon take place.", "pos": 1631905}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What was the cause of your quarrel?", "pos": 1632518}
{"speaker": "Lord Wilmore", "text": "When he was in England he seduced the wife of one of my friends.", "pos": 1632556}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why do you not seek revenge?", "pos": 1632623}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have already fought three duels with him, the first with the pistol, the second with the sword, and the third with the sabre.", "pos": 1632654}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And what was the result of those duels?", "pos": 1632807}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The first time, he broke my arm; the second, he wounded me in the breast; and the third time, made this large wound. So that, you see, there is a deadly feud between us.", "pos": 1632849}
{"speaker": "the envoy", "text": "But, you do not go about it in the right way to kill him, if I understand you correctly.", "pos": 1633131}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Aw? I practice shooting every day, and every other day Grisier comes to my house.", "pos": 1633240}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You are going to Madame de Morcerf’s, are you not?", "pos": 1636065}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "No. I am too ill.", "pos": 1636118}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You are wrong, it is important that you should be seen there.", "pos": 1636165}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Do you think so?", "pos": 1636265}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I do. In that case I will go.", "pos": 1636304}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "You are looking for my daughter?", "pos": 1636760}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I confess it. Could you have been so cruel as not to bring her?", "pos": 1636823}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Calm yourself. She has met Mademoiselle de Villefort, and has taken her arm; see, they are following us, both in white dresses, one with a bouquet of camellias, the other with one of myosotis. But tell me——", "pos": 1636907}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, what do you wish to know?", "pos": 1637116}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Will not the Count of Monte Cristo be here tonight?", "pos": 1637150}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Seventeen!", "pos": 1637204}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "What do you mean?", "pos": 1637233}
{"speaker": "the viscount", "text": "I only mean that the count seems the rage, and that you are the seventeenth person that has asked me the same question. The count is in fashion; I congratulate him upon it.", "pos": 1637253}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "And have you replied to everyone as you have to me?", "pos": 1637461}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, to be sure, I have not answered you; be satisfied, we shall have this ‘lion’; we are among the privileged ones.", "pos": 1637515}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Were you at the Opera yesterday?", "pos": 1637633}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No.", "pos": 1637668}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "He was there.", "pos": 1637674}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, indeed? And did the eccentric person commit any new originality?", "pos": 1637690}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Can he be seen without doing so? Elssler was dancing in Le Diable boiteux; the Greek princess was in ecstasies. After the cachucha he placed a magnificent ring on the stem of a bouquet, and threw it to the charming danseuse, who, in the third act, to do honor to the gift, reappeared with it on her finger. And the Greek princess,—will she be here?", "pos": 1637761}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No, you will be deprived of that pleasure; her position in the count’s establishment is not sufficiently understood.", "pos": 1638112}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Wait; leave me here, and go and speak to Madame de Villefort, who is trying to attract your attention.", "pos": 1638231}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I wager anything, that I know what you were about to say.", "pos": 1638447}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Well, what is it?", "pos": 1638540}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "If I guess rightly, will you confess it?", "pos": 1638560}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1638603}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "On your honor?", "pos": 1638610}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "On my honor.", "pos": 1638627}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You were going to ask me if the Count of Monte Cristo had arrived, or was expected.", "pos": 1638642}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Not at all. It is not of him that I am now thinking. I was going to ask you if you had received any news of Monsieur Franz.", "pos": 1638728}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes,—yesterday.", "pos": 1638854}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "What did he tell you?", "pos": 1638872}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "That he was leaving at the same time as his letter.", "pos": 1638896}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Well, now then, the count?", "pos": 1638950}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "The count will come, of that you may be satisfied.", "pos": 1638979}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "You know that he has another name besides Monte Cristo?", "pos": 1639032}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No, I did not know it.", "pos": 1639090}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Monte Cristo is the name of an island, and he has a family name.", "pos": 1639115}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I never heard it.", "pos": 1639182}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Well, then, I am better informed than you; his name is Zaccone.", "pos": 1639202}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "It is possible.", "pos": 1639268}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "He is a Maltese.", "pos": 1639286}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "That is also possible.", "pos": 1639305}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "The son of a shipowner.", "pos": 1639329}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Really, you should relate all this aloud, you would have the greatest success.", "pos": 1639355}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "He served in India, discovered a mine in Thessaly, and comes to Paris to establish a mineral water-cure at Auteuil.", "pos": 1639436}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, I’m sure, this is indeed news! Am I allowed to repeat it?", "pos": 1639554}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Yes, but cautiously, tell one thing at a time, and do not say I told you.", "pos": 1639636}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Why so?", "pos": 1639712}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Because it is a secret just discovered.", "pos": 1639722}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "By whom?", "pos": 1639764}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "The police.", "pos": 1639775}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Then the news originated——", "pos": 1639789}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "At the prefect’s last night. Paris, you can understand, is astonished at the sight of such unusual splendor, and the police have made inquiries.", "pos": 1639818}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, well! Nothing more is wanting than to arrest the count as a vagabond, on the pretext of his being too rich.", "pos": 1639965}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Indeed, that doubtless would have happened if his credentials had not been so favorable.", "pos": 1640081}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Poor count! And is he aware of the danger he has been in?", "pos": 1640172}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "I think not.", "pos": 1640232}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Then it will be but charitable to inform him. When he arrives, I will not fail to do so. Madame, allow me to present to you M. Maximilian Morrel, captain of Spahis, one of our best, and, above all, of our bravest officers.", "pos": 1640247}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "I have already had the pleasure of meeting this gentleman at Auteuil, at the house of the Count of Monte Cristo,", "pos": 1640643}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Have you seen my mother?", "pos": 1643447}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have just had the pleasure, but I have not seen your father.", "pos": 1643488}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "See, he is down there, talking politics with that little group of great geniuses.", "pos": 1643574}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Indeed? and so those gentlemen down there are men of great talent. I should not have guessed it. And for what kind of talent are they celebrated? You know there are different sorts.", "pos": 1643658}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "That tall, harsh-looking man is very learned, he discovered, in the neighborhood of Rome, a kind of lizard with a vertebra more than lizards usually have, and he immediately laid his discovery before the Institute. The thing was discussed for a long time, but finally decided in his favor. I can assure you the vertebra made a great noise in the learned world, and the gentleman, who was only a knight of the Legion of Honor, was made an officer.", "pos": 1643863}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Come, this cross seems to me to be wisely awarded. I suppose, had he found another additional vertebra, they would have made him a commander.", "pos": 1644312}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Very likely,", "pos": 1644477}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And who can that person be who has taken it into his head to wrap himself up in a blue coat embroidered with green?", "pos": 1644505}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, that coat is not his own idea; it is the Republic’s, which deputed David12 to devise a uniform for the Academicians.", "pos": 1644623}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Indeed? so this gentleman is an Academician?", "pos": 1644746}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Within the last week he has been made one of the learned assembly.", "pos": 1644814}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And what is his especial talent?", "pos": 1644883}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "His talent? I believe he thrusts pins through the heads of rabbits, he makes fowls eat madder, and punches the spinal marrow out of dogs with whalebone.", "pos": 1644918}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And he is made a member of the Academy of Sciences for this?", "pos": 1645073}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No; of the French Academy.", "pos": 1645136}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But what has the French Academy to do with all this?", "pos": 1645165}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I was going to tell you. It seems——", "pos": 1645220}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That his experiments have very considerably advanced the cause of science, doubtless?", "pos": 1645258}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No; that his style of writing is very good.", "pos": 1645346}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "This must be very flattering to the feelings of the rabbits into whose heads he has thrust pins, to the fowls whose bones he has dyed red, and to the dogs whose spinal marrow he has punched out?", "pos": 1645392}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And the other one?", "pos": 1645605}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That one?", "pos": 1645646}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Yes. Yes, the third.", "pos": 1645658}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The one in the dark blue coat?", "pos": 1645676}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes. He is a colleague of the count, and one of the most active opponents to the idea of providing the Chamber of Peers with a uniform. He was very successful upon that question. He stood badly with the Liberal papers, but his noble opposition to the wishes of the court is now getting him into favor with the journalists. They talk of making him an ambassador.", "pos": 1645709}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And what are his claims to the peerage?", "pos": 1646082}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "He has composed two or three comic operas, written four or five articles in the Siècle, and voted five or six years on the ministerial side.", "pos": 1646124}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Bravo, viscount, you are a delightful cicerone. And now you will do me a favor, will you not?", "pos": 1646267}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 1646393}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do not introduce me to any of these gentlemen; and should they wish it, you will warn me.", "pos": 1646407}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Ah! is it you, baron? Why do you call me baron? you know that I care nothing for my title. I am not like you, viscount; you like your title, do you not?", "pos": 1646575}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Certainly, seeing that without my title I should be nothing; while you, sacrificing the baron, would still remain the millionaire.", "pos": 1646758}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Which seems to me the finest title under the royalty of July,", "pos": 1646909}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Unfortunately, one’s title to a millionaire does not last for life, like that of baron, peer of France, or academician; for example, the millionaires Franck & Poulmann, of Frankfurt, who have just become bankrupts.", "pos": 1646991}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Indeed? they have drawn on me for 200,000 francs!", "pos": 1647229}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, you can throw out the draft; their signature is worth five per cent.", "pos": 1647489}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes, but it is too late. I have honored their bills.", "pos": 1647566}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then, here are 200,000 francs gone after——", "pos": 1647638}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Hush, do not mention these things, especially before young M. Cavalcanti;", "pos": 1647704}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Albert, did you notice that?", "pos": 1648410}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What, mother?", "pos": 1648454}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "That the count has never been willing to partake of food under the roof of M. de Morcerf.", "pos": 1648470}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes; but then he breakfasted with me—indeed, he made his first appearance in the world on that occasion.", "pos": 1648562}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "But your house is not M. de Morcerf’s, and since he has been here I have watched him.", "pos": 1648669}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well?", "pos": 1648778}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Well, he has taken nothing yet.", "pos": 1648786}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "The count is very temperate.", "pos": 1648820}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Approach him, and when the next waiter passes, insist upon his taking something.", "pos": 1648874}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But why, mother?", "pos": 1648969}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Just to please me, Albert,", "pos": 1648988}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "It was too warm in the room, was it not, count?", "pos": 1651672}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, madame; and it was an excellent idea of yours to open the doors and the blinds. But you, with that light dress, and without anything to cover you but that gauze scarf, perhaps you feel cold?", "pos": 1651733}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Do you know where I am leading you?", "pos": 1652012}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, madame, but you see I make no resistance.", "pos": 1652103}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "We are going to the greenhouse that you see at the other end of the grove. See, count, see, our French grapes are not to be compared, I know, with yours of Sicily and Cyprus, but you will make allowance for our northern sun. Do you refuse?", "pos": 1652175}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Pray excuse me, madame, but I never eat Muscatel grapes.", "pos": 1653010}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Take this peach, then. What, again? really, you pain me. Count, there is a beautiful Arabian custom, which makes eternal friends of those who have together eaten bread and salt under the same roof.", "pos": 1653268}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I know it, madame, but we are in France, and not in Arabia, and in France eternal friendships are as rare as the custom of dividing bread and salt with one another.", "pos": 1653700}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "we are friends, are we not?", "pos": 1654017}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly, we are friends, why should we not be?", "pos": 1654215}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Thank you. Sir, is it true that you have seen so much, travelled so far, and suffered so deeply?", "pos": 1654414}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have suffered deeply, madame,", "pos": 1654707}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "But now you are happy?", "pos": 1654764}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Doubtless, since no one hears me complain.", "pos": 1654789}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "And your present happiness, has it softened your heart?", "pos": 1654855}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My present happiness equals my past misery,", "pos": 1654913}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Are you not married?", "pos": 1654975}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I, married? who could have told you so?", "pos": 1655018}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "No one told me you were, but you have frequently been seen at the Opera with a young and lovely woman.", "pos": 1655098}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "She is a slave whom I bought at Constantinople, madame, the daughter of a prince. I have adopted her as my daughter, having no one else to love in the world.", "pos": 1655203}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "You live alone, then?", "pos": 1655363}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do.", "pos": 1655387}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "You have no sister—no son—no father?", "pos": 1655395}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have no one.", "pos": 1655434}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "How can you exist thus without anyone to attach you to life?", "pos": 1655451}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is not my fault, madame. At Malta, I loved a young girl, was on the point of marrying her, when war came and carried me away. I thought she loved me well enough to wait for me, and even to remain faithful to my memory. When I returned she was married. This is the history of most men who have passed twenty years of age. Perhaps my heart was weaker than the hearts of most men, and I suffered more than they would have done in my place; that is all.", "pos": 1655514}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Yes, and you have still preserved this love in your heart—one can only love once—and did you ever see her again?", "pos": 1656030}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Never.", "pos": 1656164}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Never?", "pos": 1656173}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I never returned to the country where she lived.", "pos": 1656182}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "To Malta?", "pos": 1656233}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; Malta.", "pos": 1656245}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "She is, then, now at Malta?", "pos": 1656259}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I think so.", "pos": 1656289}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "And have you forgiven her for all she has made you suffer?", "pos": 1656303}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Her,—yes.", "pos": 1656364}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "But only her; do you then still hate those who separated you?", "pos": 1656376}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I hate them? Not at all; why should I?", "pos": 1656440}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Take some,", "pos": 1656590}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Madame, I never eat Muscatel grapes,", "pos": 1656613}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, mother, such a misfortune has happened!", "pos": 1656952}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "What? What has happened? did you say a misfortune? Indeed, I should expect misfortunes.", "pos": 1657014}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "M. de Villefort is here.", "pos": 1657185}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Well?", "pos": 1657212}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "He comes to fetch his wife and daughter.", "pos": 1657220}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Why so?", "pos": 1657263}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Because Madame de Saint-Méran is just arrived in Paris, bringing the news of M. de Saint-Méran’s death, which took place on the first stage after he left Marseilles. Madame de Villefort, who was in very good spirits, would neither believe nor think of the misfortune, but Mademoiselle Valentine, at the first words, guessed the whole truth, notwithstanding all the precautions of her father; the blow struck her like a thunderbolt, and she fell senseless.", "pos": 1657273}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "And how was M. de Saint-Méran related to Mademoiselle de Villefort?", "pos": 1657731}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He was her grandfather on the mother’s side. He was coming here to hasten her marriage with Franz. Ah, indeed!", "pos": 1657817}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "So Franz must wait. Why was not M. de Saint-Méran also grandfather to Mademoiselle Danglars? Albert, Albert,", "pos": 1657932}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "what are you saying? Ah, count, he esteems you so highly, tell him that he has spoken amiss. We are friends; are we not?", "pos": 1658096}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, madame, I do not presume to call myself your friend, but at all times I am your most respectful servant.", "pos": 1658479}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, sir,", "pos": 1663117}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "oh, sir, what a misfortune! I shall die of it; oh, yes, I shall certainly die of it!", "pos": 1663138}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Why, what can have happened? what has thus disturbed you? Is M. de Saint-Méran with you?", "pos": 1663585}
{"speaker": "old marchioness", "text": "M. de Saint-Méran is dead,", "pos": 1663692}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Dead!—so suddenly?", "pos": 1663886}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "A week ago, we went out together in the carriage after dinner. M. de Saint-Méran had been unwell for some days; still, the idea of seeing our dear Valentine again inspired him with courage, and notwithstanding his illness he would leave. At six leagues from Marseilles, after having eaten some of the lozenges he is accustomed to take, he fell into such a deep sleep, that it appeared to me unnatural; still I hesitated to wake him, although I fancied that his face was flushed, and that the veins of his temples throbbed more violently than usual. However, as it became dark, and I could no longer see, I fell asleep; I was soon aroused by a piercing shriek, as from a person suffering in his dreams, and he suddenly threw his head back violently. I called the valet, I stopped the postilion, I spoke to M. de Saint-Méran, I applied my smelling-salts; but all was over, and I arrived at Aix by the side of a corpse.", "pos": 1663907}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Of course you sent for a doctor?", "pos": 1664920}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "Immediately; but, as I have told you, it was too late.", "pos": 1664955}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes; but then he could tell of what complaint the poor marquis had died.", "pos": 1665012}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "Oh, yes, sir, he told me; it appears to have been an apoplectic stroke.", "pos": 1665087}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "And what did you do then?", "pos": 1665161}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "M. de Saint-Méran had always expressed a desire, in case his death happened during his absence from Paris, that his body might be brought to the family vault. I had him put into a leaden coffin, and I am preceding him by a few days.", "pos": 1665189}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Oh! my poor mother! to have such duties to perform at your age after such a blow!", "pos": 1665424}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "God has supported me through all; and then, my dear marquis, he would certainly have done everything for me that I performed for him. It is true that since I left him, I seem to have lost my senses. I cannot cry; at my age they say that we have no more tears,—still I think that when one is in trouble one should have the power of weeping. Where is Valentine, sir? It is on her account I am here; I wish to see Valentine.", "pos": 1665526}
{"speaker": "old lady", "text": "This instant, sir—this instant, I beseech you!", "pos": 1666127}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Rest yourself, mother,", "pos": 1666297}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, father, some misfortune has happened!", "pos": 1667152}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Your grandmamma has just arrived, Valentine,", "pos": 1667196}
{"speaker": "young girl", "text": "And grandpapa?", "pos": 1667265}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "What a singular event! Who could have thought it? Ah, yes, it is indeed strange!", "pos": 1667590}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "M. Noirtier wishes to see you tonight,", "pos": 1667837}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Tell him I will come when I leave my dear grandmamma,", "pos": 1667903}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "I think it would be better for me to retire, with your permission, for the sight of me appears still to afflict your mother-in-law.", "pos": 1668408}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "Yes, yes, let her leave; but do you stay.", "pos": 1668575}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Alas, sir, a great misfortune has happened. Madame de Saint-Méran has arrived, and her husband is dead! Mademoiselle Valentine? She is at the ball, as you know, since she came to say good-bye to you in full dress. Do you wish to see her? Well, they have gone to fetch her, no doubt, from Madame de Morcerf’s; I will await her return, and beg her to come up here. Is that what you wish for?", "pos": 1669059}
{"speaker": "invalid", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1669871}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Yes, yes, you mean that I have yet a kind grandfather left, do you not. Ah, yes, happily I have. Without that, what would become of me? Oh, dear grandmamma, are you worse?", "pos": 1670600}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "No, my child, no, but I was impatiently waiting for your arrival, that I might send for your father.", "pos": 1671407}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "My father?", "pos": 1671540}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "Yes, I wish to speak to him. Sir, you wrote to me concerning the marriage of this child?", "pos": 1671583}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes, madame, it is not only projected but arranged.", "pos": 1671916}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "Your intended son-in-law is named M. Franz d’Épinay?", "pos": 1671991}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes, madame.", "pos": 1672046}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "Is he not the son of General d’Épinay who was on our side, and who was assassinated some days before the usurper returned from the Island of Elba?", "pos": 1672061}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "The same.", "pos": 1672210}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "Does he not dislike the idea of marrying the granddaughter of a Jacobin?", "pos": 1672222}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Our civil dissensions are now happily extinguished, mother. M. d’Épinay was quite a child when his father died, he knows very little of M. Noirtier, and will meet him, if not with pleasure, at least with indifference.", "pos": 1672297}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "Is it a suitable match?", "pos": 1672535}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "In every respect.", "pos": 1672561}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "And the young man?", "pos": 1672581}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Is regarded with universal esteem.", "pos": 1672602}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "You approve of him?", "pos": 1672639}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "He is one of the most well-bred young men I know.", "pos": 1672661}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "Well, sir. I must hasten the marriage, for I have but a short time to live.", "pos": 1672782}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You, madame?", "pos": 1672923}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "You, dear mamma?", "pos": 1672938}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "I know what I am saying. I must hurry you, so that, as she has no mother, she may at least have a grandmother to bless her marriage. I am all that is left to her belonging to my poor Renée, whom you have so soon forgotten, sir.", "pos": 1673015}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Ah, madame, you forget that I was obliged to give a mother to my child.", "pos": 1673274}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "A stepmother is never a mother, sir. But this is not to the purpose,—our business concerns Valentine, let us leave the dead in peace.", "pos": 1673366}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "It shall be as you wish, madame, more especially since your wishes coincide with mine, and as soon as M. d’Épinay arrives in Paris——", "pos": 1673639}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "My dear grandmother, consider decorum—the recent death. You would not have me marry under such sad auspices?", "pos": 1673799}
{"speaker": "old lady", "text": "My child, let us hear none of the conventional objections that deter weak minds from preparing for the future. I also was married at the death-bed of my mother, and certainly I have not been less happy on that account.", "pos": 1673935}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Still that idea of death, madame,", "pos": 1674190}
{"speaker": "old lady", "text": "Still?—Always! I tell you I am going to die—do you understand? Well, before dying, I wish to see my son-in-law. I wish to tell him to make my child happy; I wish to read in his eyes whether he intends to obey me;—in fact, I will know him—I will! that I may rise from the depths of my grave to find him, if he should not fulfil his duty!", "pos": 1674242}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Madame, you must lay aside these exalted ideas, which almost assume the appearance of madness. The dead, once buried in their graves, rise no more.", "pos": 1674634}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "And I tell you, sir, that you are mistaken. This night I have had a fearful sleep. It seemed as though my soul were already hovering over my body, my eyes, which I tried to open, closed against my will, and what will appear impossible above all to you, sir, I saw, with my eyes shut, in the spot where you are now standing, issuing from that corner where there is a door leading into Madame Villefort’s dressing-room—I saw, I tell you, silently enter, a white figure.", "pos": 1674802}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "It was the fever that disturbed you, madame,", "pos": 1675292}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "Doubt, if you please, but I am sure of what I say. I saw a white figure, and as if to prevent my discrediting the testimony of only one of my senses, I heard my glass removed—the same which is there now on the table.", "pos": 1675362}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Oh, dear mother, it was a dream.", "pos": 1675581}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "So little was it a dream, that I stretched my hand towards the bell; but when I did so, the shade disappeared; my maid then entered with a light.", "pos": 1675616}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "But she saw no one?", "pos": 1675764}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "Phantoms are visible to those only who ought to see them. It was the soul of my husband!—Well, if my husband’s soul can come to me, why should not my soul reappear to guard my granddaughter? the tie is even more direct, it seems to me.", "pos": 1675786}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Oh, madame, do not yield to those gloomy thoughts; you will long live with us, happy, loved, and honored, and we will make you forget——", "pos": 1676024}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "Never, never, never. When does M. d’Épinay return?", "pos": 1676218}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "We expect him every moment.", "pos": 1676295}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "It is well. As soon as he arrives inform me. We must be expeditious. And then I also wish to see a notary, that I may be assured that all our property returns to Valentine.", "pos": 1676325}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Ah, grandmamma, do you wish to kill me? Oh, how feverish you are; we must not send for a notary, but for a doctor!", "pos": 1676500}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "A doctor? I am not ill; I am thirsty—that is all.", "pos": 1676678}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "What are you drinking, dear grandmamma?", "pos": 1676774}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "The same as usual, my dear, my glass is there on the table—give it to me, Valentine.", "pos": 1676816}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "The notary, the notary!", "pos": 1677183}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "The notary! let him come in. Go, Valentine, and leave me with this gentleman.", "pos": 1678410}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "But, grandmamma——", "pos": 1678593}
{"speaker": "Madame de Saint-Méran", "text": "Leave me—go!", "pos": 1678613}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, we have been waiting for you with such impatience, dear M. d’Avrigny. But, first of all, how are Madeleine and Antoinette?", "pos": 1679150}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Antoinette is very well, and Madeleine tolerably so. But you sent for me, my dear child. It is not your father or Madame de Villefort who is ill. As for you, although we doctors cannot divest our patients of nerves, I fancy you have no further need of me than to recommend you not to allow your imagination to take too wide a field.", "pos": 1679394}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "No, it is for my poor grandmother. You know the calamity that has happened to us, do you not?", "pos": 1679925}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "I know nothing.", "pos": 1680036}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Alas, my grandfather is dead.", "pos": 1680073}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "M. de Saint-Méran?", "pos": 1680146}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1680167}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Suddenly?", "pos": 1680174}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "From an apoplectic stroke.", "pos": 1680186}
{"speaker": "the doctor", "text": "An apoplectic stroke?", "pos": 1680214}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Yes, and my poor grandmother fancies that her husband, whom she never left, has called her, and that she must go and join him. Oh, M. d’Avrigny, I beseech you, do something for her!", "pos": 1680259}
{"speaker": "the doctor", "text": "Where is she?", "pos": 1680443}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "In her room with the notary.", "pos": 1680459}
{"speaker": "the doctor", "text": "And M. Noirtier?", "pos": 1680490}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Just as he was, his mind perfectly clear, but the same incapability of moving or speaking.", "pos": 1680509}
{"speaker": "the doctor", "text": "And the same love for you—eh, my dear child?", "pos": 1680602}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Yes, he was very fond of me.", "pos": 1680649}
{"speaker": "the doctor", "text": "Who does not love you? What are your grandmother’s symptoms?", "pos": 1680698}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "An extreme nervous excitement and a strangely agitated sleep; she fancied this morning in her sleep that her soul was hovering above her body, which she at the same time watched. It must have been delirium; she fancies, too, that she saw a phantom enter her chamber and even heard the noise it made on touching her glass.", "pos": 1680787}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is singular,", "pos": 1681111}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was not aware that Madame de Saint-Méran was subject to such hallucinations.", "pos": 1681146}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "It is the first time I ever saw her in this condition, and this morning she frightened me so that I thought her mad; and my father, who you know is a strong-minded man, himself appeared deeply impressed.", "pos": 1681227}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We will go and see,", "pos": 1681451}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "what you tell me seems very strange.", "pos": 1681490}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Go upstairs. Oh, I dare not—she forbade my sending for you; and, as you say, I am myself agitated, feverish and out of sorts. I will go and take a turn in the garden to recover myself.", "pos": 1681615}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "You here at this hour?", "pos": 1683418}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes, my poor girl. I come to bring and to hear bad tidings.", "pos": 1683453}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "This is, indeed, a house of mourning, speak, Maximilian, although the cup of sorrow seems already full.", "pos": 1683533}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Dear Valentine, listen, I entreat you; what I am about to say is very serious. When are you to be married?", "pos": 1683657}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I will tell you all, from you I have nothing to conceal. This morning the subject was introduced, and my dear grandmother, on whom I depended as my only support, not only declared herself favorable to it, but is so anxious for it, that they only await the arrival of M. d’Épinay, and the following day the contract will be signed.", "pos": 1683821}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Alas, it is dreadful thus to hear my condemnation from your own lips. The sentence is passed, and, in a few hours, will be executed; it must be so, and I will not endeavor to prevent it. But, since you say nothing remains but for M. d’Épinay to arrive that the contract may be signed, and the following day you will be his, tomorrow you will be engaged to M. d’Épinay, for he came this morning to Paris. I was at the house of Monte Cristo an hour since, we were speaking, he of the sorrow your family had experienced, and I of your grief, when a carriage rolled into the courtyard. Never, till then, had I placed any confidence in presentiments, but now I cannot help believing them, Valentine. At the sound of that carriage I shuddered; soon I heard steps on the staircase, which terrified me as much as the footsteps of the commander did Don Juan. The door at last opened; Albert de Morcerf entered first, and I began to hope my fears were vain, when, after him, another young man advanced, and the count exclaimed: ‘Ah, here is the Baron Franz d’Épinay!’ I summoned all my strength and courage to my support. Perhaps I turned pale and trembled, but certainly I smiled; and five minutes after I left, without having heard one word that had passed.", "pos": 1684254}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Poor Maximilian!", "pos": 1685562}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Valentine, the time has arrived when you must answer me. And remember my life depends on your answer. What do you intend doing? Listen, it is not the first time you have contemplated our present position, which is a serious and urgent one; I do not think it is a moment to give way to useless sorrow; leave that for those who like to suffer at their leisure and indulge their grief in secret. There are such in the world, and God will doubtless reward them in heaven for their resignation on earth, but those who mean to contend must not lose one precious moment, but must return immediately the blow which fortune strikes. Do you intend to struggle against our ill-fortune? Tell me, Valentine for it is that I came to know.", "pos": 1685601}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "What do you say, Maximilian? What do you mean by a struggle? Oh, it would be a sacrilege. What? I resist my father’s order, and my dying grandmother’s wish? Impossible!", "pos": 1686548}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "You are too noble not to understand me, and you understand me so well that you already yield, dear Maximilian. No, no; I shall need all my strength to struggle with myself and support my grief in secret, as you say. But to grieve my father—to disturb my grandmother’s last moments—never! You are right,", "pos": 1686754}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "In what a tone you speak!", "pos": 1687082}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I speak as one who admires you, mademoiselle. Mademoiselle,", "pos": 1687127}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "mademoiselle! Oh, selfish man! he sees me in despair, and pretends he cannot understand me!", "pos": 1687208}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "You mistake—I understand you perfectly. You will not oppose M. Villefort, you will not displease the marchioness, and tomorrow you will sign the contract which will bind you to your husband.", "pos": 1687302}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "But, mon Dieu! tell me, how can I do otherwise?", "pos": 1687495}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Do not appeal to me, mademoiselle; I shall be a bad judge in such a case; my selfishness will blind me. What would you have proposed, Maximilian, had you found me willing to accede? It is not for me to say.", "pos": 1687545}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "You are wrong; you must advise me what to do.", "pos": 1687844}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Do you seriously ask my advice, Valentine?", "pos": 1687892}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Certainly, dear Maximilian, for if it is good, I will follow it; you know my devotion to you.", "pos": 1687937}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "give me your hand in token of forgiveness of my anger; my senses are confused, and during the last hour the most extravagant thoughts have passed through my brain. Oh, if you refuse my advice——", "pos": 1688087}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "What do you advise?", "pos": 1688283}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I am free, and rich enough to support you. I swear to make you my lawful wife before my lips even shall have approached your forehead.", "pos": 1688361}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "You make me tremble!", "pos": 1688520}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Follow me. I will take you to my sister, who is worthy also to be yours. We will embark for Algiers, for England, for America, or, if you prefer it, retire to the country and only return to Paris when our friends have reconciled your family.", "pos": 1688564}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I feared it, Maximilian, it is the counsel of a madman, and I should be more mad than you, did I not stop you at once with the word ‘Impossible, Morrel, impossible!’", "pos": 1688849}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "You will then submit to what fate decrees for you without even attempting to contend with it?", "pos": 1689029}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Yes,—if I die!", "pos": 1689150}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Well, Valentine. I can only say again that you are right. Truly, it is I who am mad, and you prove to me that passion blinds the most well-meaning. I appreciate your calm reasoning. It is then understood that tomorrow you will be irrevocably promised to M. Franz d’Épinay, not only by that theatrical formality invented to heighten the effect of a comedy called the signature of the contract, but your own will?", "pos": 1689167}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Again you drive me to despair, Maximilian, again you plunge the dagger into the wound! What would you do, tell me, if your sister listened to such a proposition?", "pos": 1689603}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I am selfish—you have already said so—and as a selfish man I think not of what others would do in my situation, but of what I intend doing myself. I think only that I have known you not a whole year. From the day I first saw you, all my hopes of happiness have been in securing your affection. One day you acknowledged that you loved me, and since that day my hope of future happiness has rested on obtaining you, for to gain you would be life to me. Now, I think no more; I say only that fortune has turned against me—I had thought to gain heaven, and now I have lost it. It is an every-day occurrence for a gambler to lose not only what he possesses but also what he has not.", "pos": 1689837}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "But, in a word, what are you going to do?", "pos": 1690717}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I am going to have the honor of taking my leave of you, mademoiselle, solemnly assuring you that I wish your life may be so calm, so happy, and so fully occupied, that there may be no place for me even in your memory. mademoiselle,", "pos": 1690772}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh!", "pos": 1690992}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Adieu, Valentine, adieu! Valentine,", "pos": 1691018}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Where are you going? where are you going?", "pos": 1691066}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I am going, that I may not bring fresh trouble into your family: and to set an example which every honest and devoted man, situated as I am, may follow.", "pos": 1691305}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Before you leave me, tell me what you are going to do, Maximilian. Speak, speak!", "pos": 1691460}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Has your resolution changed, Valentine?", "pos": 1691612}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "It cannot change, unhappy man; you know it must not!", "pos": 1691654}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Then adieu, Valentine!", "pos": 1691731}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I must know what you mean to do! Where are you going?", "pos": 1691958}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, fear not. I do not intend to render another man responsible for the rigorous fate reserved for me. Another might threaten to seek M. Franz, to provoke him, and to fight with him; all that would be folly. What has M. Franz to do with it? He saw me this morning for the first time, and has already forgotten he has seen me. He did not even know I existed when it was arranged by your two families that you should be united. I have no enmity against M. Franz, and promise you the punishment shall not fall on him.", "pos": 1692026}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "On whom, then!—on me?", "pos": 1692592}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "On you? Valentine! Oh, Heaven forbid! Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.", "pos": 1692616}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "On yourself, then, unhappy man; on yourself?", "pos": 1692702}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I am the only guilty person, am I not?", "pos": 1692749}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Maximilian! Maximilian, come back, I entreat you!", "pos": 1692807}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Listen, my dear, my adored Valentine, those who, like us, have never had a thought for which we need blush before the world, such may read each other’s hearts. I never was romantic, and am no melancholy hero. I imitate neither Manfred nor Anthony; but without words, protestations, or vows, my life has entwined itself with yours; you leave me, and you are right in doing so,—I repeat it, you are right; but in losing you, I lose my life. The moment you leave me, Valentine, I am alone in the world. My sister is happily married; her husband is only my brother-in-law, that is, a man whom the ties of social life alone attach to me; no one then longer needs my useless life. This is what I shall do; I will wait until the very moment you are married, for I will not lose the shadow of one of those unexpected chances which are sometimes reserved for us, since M. Franz may, after all, die before that time, a thunderbolt may fall even on the altar as you approach it,—nothing appears impossible to one condemned to die, and miracles appear quite reasonable when his escape from death is concerned. I will, then, wait until the last moment, and when my misery is certain, irremediable, hopeless, I will write a confidential letter to my brother-in-law, another to the prefect of police, to acquaint them with my intention, and at the corner of some wood, on the brink of some abyss, on the bank of some river, I will put an end to my existence, as certainly as I am the son of the most honest man who ever lived in France.", "pos": 1692989}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, for pity’s sake, you will live, will you not?", "pos": 1694758}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "No, on my honor, but that will not affect you. You have done your duty, and your conscience will be at rest.", "pos": 1694822}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Maximilian. Maximilian, my friend, my brother on earth, my true husband in heaven, I entreat you, do as I do, live in suffering; perhaps we may one day be united.", "pos": 1695020}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Adieu, Valentine,", "pos": 1695197}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "My God. I have done my utmost to remain a submissive daughter; I have begged, entreated, implored; he has regarded neither my prayers, my entreaties, nor my tears. It is done. I am resolved not to die of remorse, but rather of shame. Live, Maximilian, and I will be yours. Say when shall it be? Speak, command, I will obey.", "pos": 1695234}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Valentine, dear Valentine, you must not speak thus—rather let me die. Why should I obtain you by violence, if our love is mutual? Is it from mere humanity you bid me live? I would then rather die.", "pos": 1695844}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Truly, who on this earth cares for me, if he does not? Who has consoled me in my sorrow but he? On whom do my hopes rest? On whom does my bleeding heart repose? On him, on him, always on him! Yes, you are right, Maximilian, I will follow you. I will leave the paternal home, I will give up all. Oh, ungrateful girl that I am. I will give up all, even my dear old grandfather, whom I had nearly forgotten.", "pos": 1696054}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "No, you shall not leave him. M. Noirtier has evinced, you say, a kind feeling towards me. Well, before you leave, tell him all; his consent would be your justification in God’s sight. As soon as we are married, he shall come and live with us, instead of one child, he shall have two. You have told me how you talk to him and how he answers you; I shall very soon learn that language by signs, Valentine, and I promise you solemnly, that instead of despair, it is happiness that awaits us.", "pos": 1696511}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, see, Maximilian, see the power you have over me, you almost make me believe you; and yet, what you tell me is madness, for my father will curse me—he is inflexible—he will never pardon me. Now listen to me, Maximilian; if by artifice, by entreaty, by accident—in short, if by any means I can delay this marriage, will you wait?", "pos": 1697021}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes, I promise you, as faithfully as you have promised me that this horrible marriage shall not take place, and that if you are dragged before a magistrate or a priest, you will refuse.", "pos": 1697355}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I promise you by all that is most sacred to me in the world, namely, by my mother.", "pos": 1697543}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "We will wait, then,", "pos": 1697628}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Yes, we will wait, there are so many things which may save unhappy beings such as we are.", "pos": 1697663}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I rely on you, Valentine, all you do will be well done; only if they disregard your prayers, if your father and Madame de Saint-Méran insist that M. d’Épinay should be called tomorrow to sign the contract——", "pos": 1697804}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Then you have my promise, Maximilian.", "pos": 1698028}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Instead of signing——", "pos": 1698068}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I will go to you, and we will fly; but from this moment until then, let us not tempt Providence, let us not see each other. It is a miracle, it is a providence that we have not been discovered. If we were surprised, if it were known that we met thus, we should have no further resource.", "pos": 1698090}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "You are right, Valentine; but how shall I ascertain?", "pos": 1698379}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "From the notary, M. Deschamps.", "pos": 1698434}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I know him.", "pos": 1698467}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "And for myself—I will write to you, depend on me. I dread this marriage, Maximilian, as much as you.", "pos": 1698481}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Thank you, my adored Valentine, thank you; that is enough. When once I know the hour, I will hasten to this spot, you can easily get over this fence with my assistance, a carriage will await us at the gate, in which you will accompany me to my sister’s; there living, retired or mingling in society, as you wish, we shall be enabled to use our power to resist oppression, and not suffer ourselves to be put to death like sheep, which only defend themselves by sighs.", "pos": 1698584}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Yes. I will now acknowledge you are right, Maximilian; and now are you satisfied with your betrothal?", "pos": 1699053}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "My adored Valentine, words cannot express one half of my satisfaction.", "pos": 1699208}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Adieu, then, till we meet again. I shall hear from you?", "pos": 1699477}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1699575}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Thanks, thanks, dear love, adieu!", "pos": 1699582}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Tears, entreaties, prayers, have availed me nothing. Yesterday, for two hours, I was at the church of Saint-Philippe-du-Roule, and for two hours I prayed most fervently. Heaven is as inflexible as man, and the signature of the contract is fixed for this evening at nine o’clock. I have but one promise and but one heart to give; that promise is pledged to you, that heart is also yours. This evening, then, at a quarter to nine at the gate. P.S.—My poor grandmother gets worse and worse; yesterday her fever amounted to delirium; today her delirium is almost madness. You will be very kind to me, will you not, Morrel, to make me forget my sorrow in leaving her thus? I think it is kept a secret from grandpapa Noirtier, that the contract is to be signed this evening.", "pos": 1700321}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "It is impossible, that the signing of a contract should occupy so long a time without unexpected interruptions. I have weighed all the chances, calculated the time required for all the forms; something must have happened.", "pos": 1705544}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Ah, my dear doctor. Heaven declares itself against my house! What a dreadful death—what a blow! Seek not to console me; alas, nothing can alleviate so great a sorrow—the wound is too deep and too fresh! Dead, dead! Dead, dead!", "pos": 1709152}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "I have not led you here to console you; on the contrary——", "pos": 1709645}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "What can you mean?", "pos": 1709705}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "I mean that behind the misfortune which has just happened to you, there is another, perhaps, still greater.", "pos": 1709756}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Can it be possible? What are you going to tell me?", "pos": 1709866}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Are we quite alone, my friend?", "pos": 1709961}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes, quite; but why all these precautions?", "pos": 1709994}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Because I have a terrible secret to communicate to you. Let us sit down.", "pos": 1710039}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Speak, doctor—I am listening, strike—I am prepared for everything! Grief has consumed her, yes, grief, doctor! After living forty years with the marquis——", "pos": 1710450}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "It is not grief, my dear Villefort, grief may kill, although it rarely does, and never in a day, never in an hour, never in ten minutes. Were you present during the last struggle?", "pos": 1710827}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I was, you begged me not to leave.", "pos": 1711179}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Did you notice the symptoms of the disease to which Madame de Saint-Méran has fallen a victim?", "pos": 1711241}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I did. Madame de Saint-Méran had three successive attacks, at intervals of some minutes, each one more serious than the former. When you arrived, Madame de Saint-Méran had already been panting for breath some minutes; she then had a fit, which I took to be simply a nervous attack, and it was only when I saw her raise herself in the bed, and her limbs and neck appear stiffened, that I became really alarmed. Then I understood from your countenance there was more to fear than I had thought. This crisis past, I endeavored to catch your eye, but could not. You held her hand—you were feeling her pulse—and the second fit came on before you had turned towards me. This was more terrible than the first; the same nervous movements were repeated, and the mouth contracted and turned purple. And at the third she expired.", "pos": 1711338}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "At the end of the first attack I discovered symptoms of tetanus; you confirmed my opinion.", "pos": 1712161}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes, before others, but now we are alone—— What are you going to say? Oh, spare me!", "pos": 1712254}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "That the symptoms of tetanus and poisoning by vegetable substances are the same. Listen. I know the full importance of the statement I have just made, and the disposition of the man to whom I have made it.", "pos": 1712364}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Do you speak to me as a magistrate or as a friend?", "pos": 1712735}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "As a friend, and only as a friend, at this moment. The similarity in the symptoms of tetanus and poisoning by vegetable substances is so great, that were I obliged to affirm by oath what I have now stated, I should hesitate; I therefore repeat to you, I speak not to a magistrate, but to a friend. And to that friend I say, ‘During the three-quarters of an hour that the struggle continued, I watched the convulsions and the death of Madame de Saint-Méran, and am thoroughly convinced that not only did her death proceed from poison, but I could also specify the poison.’", "pos": 1712805}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Can it be possible?", "pos": 1713379}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "The symptoms are marked, do you see?—sleep broken by nervous spasms, excitation of the brain, torpor of the nerve centres. Madame de Saint-Méran succumbed to a powerful dose of brucine or of strychnine, which by some mistake, perhaps, has been given to her.", "pos": 1713401}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Oh, it is impossible. I must be dreaming! It is frightful to hear such things from such a man as you! Tell me, I entreat you, my dear doctor, that you may be deceived.", "pos": 1713697}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Doubtless I may, but——", "pos": 1713878}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "But?", "pos": 1713903}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "But I do not think so.", "pos": 1713917}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Have pity on me doctor! So many dreadful things have happened to me lately that I am on the verge of madness.", "pos": 1713942}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Has anyone besides me seen Madame de Saint-Méran?", "pos": 1714054}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "No.", "pos": 1714106}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Has anything been sent for from a chemist’s that I have not examined?", "pos": 1714112}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Nothing.", "pos": 1714184}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Had Madame de Saint-Méran any enemies?", "pos": 1714195}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Not to my knowledge.", "pos": 1714236}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Would her death affect anyone’s interest?", "pos": 1714259}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "It could not indeed, my daughter is her only heiress—Valentine alone. Oh, if such a thought could present itself, I would stab myself to punish my heart for having for one instant harbored it.", "pos": 1714303}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Indeed, my dear friend. I would not accuse anyone; I speak only of an accident, you understand,—of a mistake,—but whether accident or mistake, the fact is there; it is on my conscience and compels me to speak aloud to you. Make inquiry.", "pos": 1714498}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Of whom?—how?—of what?", "pos": 1714758}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "May not Barrois, the old servant, have made a mistake, and have given Madame de Saint-Méran a dose prepared for his master?", "pos": 1714783}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "For my father?", "pos": 1714909}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1714926}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "But how could a dose prepared for M. Noirtier poison Madame de Saint-Méran?", "pos": 1714933}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Nothing is more simple. You know poisons become remedies in certain diseases, of which paralysis is one. For instance, having tried every other remedy to restore movement and speech to M. Noirtier, I resolved to try one last means, and for three months I have been giving him brucine; so that in the last dose I ordered for him there were six grains. This quantity, which is perfectly safe to administer to the paralyzed frame of M. Noirtier, which has become gradually accustomed to it, would be sufficient to kill another person.", "pos": 1715011}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "My dear doctor, there is no communication between M. Noirtier’s apartment and that of Madame de Saint-Méran, and Barrois never entered my mother-in-law’s room. In short, doctor although I know you to be the most conscientious man in the world, and although I place the utmost reliance in you, I want, notwithstanding my conviction, to believe this axiom, errare humanum est.", "pos": 1715545}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Is there one of my brethren in whom you have equal confidence with myself?", "pos": 1715922}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Why do you ask me that?—what do you wish?", "pos": 1715999}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Send for him; I will tell him what I have seen, and we will consult together, and examine the body.", "pos": 1716043}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "And you will find traces of poison?", "pos": 1716145}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "No, I did not say of poison, but we can prove what was the state of the body; we shall discover the cause of her sudden death, and we shall say, ‘Dear Villefort, if this thing has been caused by negligence, watch over your servants; if from hatred, watch your enemies.’", "pos": 1716182}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "What do you propose to me, d’Avrigny? so soon as another is admitted into our secret, an inquest will become necessary; and an inquest in my house—impossible! Still, if you wish it—if you demand it, why then it shall be done. But, doctor, you see me already so grieved—how can I introduce into my house so much scandal, after so much sorrow? My wife and my daughter would die of it! And I, doctor—you know a man does not arrive at the post I occupy—one has not been king’s attorney twenty-five years without having amassed a tolerable number of enemies; mine are numerous. Let this affair be talked of, it will be a triumph for them, which will make them rejoice, and cover me with shame. Pardon me, doctor, these worldly ideas; were you a priest I should not dare tell you that, but you are a man, and you know mankind. Doctor, pray recall your words; you have said nothing, have you?", "pos": 1716454}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "My dear M. de Villefort, my first duty is to humanity. I would have saved Madame de Saint-Méran, if science could have done it; but she is dead and my duty regards the living. Let us bury this terrible secret in the deepest recesses of our hearts; I am willing, if anyone should suspect this, that my silence on the subject should be imputed to my ignorance. Meanwhile, sir, watch always—watch carefully, for perhaps the evil may not stop here. And when you have found the culprit, if you find him, I will say to you, ‘You are a magistrate, do as you will!’", "pos": 1717437}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I thank you, doctor. I never had a better friend than you.", "pos": 1718019}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I am manifestly protected in a most wonderful, but most terrible manner, but Valentine, poor girl, how will she bear so much sorrow?", "pos": 1718380}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "My friend, how came you here? Alas, I would say you are welcome, had not death opened the way for you into this house.", "pos": 1722658}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Valentine. I had waited since half-past eight, and did not see you come; I became uneasy, leaped the wall, found my way through the garden, when voices conversing about the fatal event——", "pos": 1722791}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "What voices?", "pos": 1723018}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Your servants, who were repeating the whole of the sorrowful story; from them I learned it all.", "pos": 1723239}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "But it was risking the failure of our plan to come up here, love.", "pos": 1723348}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Forgive me. I will go away.", "pos": 1723416}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "No, you might meet someone; stay.", "pos": 1723464}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "But if anyone should come here——", "pos": 1723518}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "No one will come, do not fear, there is our safeguard,", "pos": 1723584}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "But what has become of M. d’Épinay?", "pos": 1723674}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "M. Franz arrived to sign the contract just as my dear grandmother was dying.", "pos": 1723735}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Alas, said Morrel with a feeling of selfish joy; for he thought this death would cause the wedding to be postponed indefinitely.", "pos": 1723814}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "But what redoubles my sorrow, is that the poor old lady, on her death-bed, requested that the marriage might take place as soon as possible; she also, thinking to protect me, was acting against me.", "pos": 1723945}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Hark!", "pos": 1724233}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "It is my father, who has just left his study.", "pos": 1724337}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "To accompany the doctor to the door,", "pos": 1724385}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "How do you know it is the doctor?", "pos": 1724438}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I imagined it must be,", "pos": 1724503}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Now, you can neither go out by the front door nor by the garden. There is but one way left you that is safe, it is through my grandfather’s room. Come,", "pos": 1724958}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Where?", "pos": 1725207}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "To my grandfather’s room.", "pos": 1725234}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I in M. Noirtier’s apartment?", "pos": 1725262}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Can you mean it, Valentine? I have long wished it; he is my only remaining friend and we both need his help,—come.", "pos": 1725301}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Be careful, Valentine. I now see my error—I acted like a madman in coming in here. Are you sure you are more reasonable?", "pos": 1725420}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Yes, and I have but one scruple,—that of leaving my dear grandmother’s remains, which I had undertaken to watch.", "pos": 1725609}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Valentine, death is in itself sacred.", "pos": 1725742}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Yes, besides, it will not be for long. Barrois, shut the door, and let no one come in. Dear grandfather. you know poor grandmamma died an hour since, and now I have no friend in the world but you. To you alone, then, may I confide my sorrows and my hopes? Look attentively, then, at this gentleman. It is M. Maximilian Morrel, the son of that good merchant of Marseilles, whom you doubtless recollect. He brings an irreproachable name, which Maximilian is likely to render glorious, since at thirty years of age he is a captain, an officer of the Legion of Honor. Well, grandpapa. I love him, and will be only his; were I compelled to marry another, I would destroy myself. You like M. Maximilian Morrel, do you not, grandpapa? And you will protect us, who are your children, against the will of my father?", "pos": 1725797}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Mademoiselle, you have a sacred duty to fulfil in your deceased grandmother’s room, will you allow me the honor of a few minutes’ conversation with M. Noirtier?", "pos": 1727686}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "He knows everything I know,", "pos": 1728140}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "But first, allow me, sir, to tell you who I am, how much I love Mademoiselle Valentine, and what are my designs respecting her.", "pos": 1728557}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "And now, now I have told you of my love and my hopes, may I inform you of my intentions? This was our resolution; a cabriolet was in waiting at the gate, in which I intended to carry off Valentine to my sister’s house, to marry her, and to wait respectfully M. de Villefort’s pardon. We must not do so? You do not sanction our project? I will go. I will seek M. Franz d’Épinay—I am happy to be able to mention this in Mademoiselle de Villefort’s absence—and will conduct myself toward him so as to compel him to challenge me. You wish to know what I will do? I will find him, as I told you. I will tell him the ties which bind me to Mademoiselle Valentine; if he be a sensible man, he will prove it by renouncing of his own accord the hand of his betrothed, and will secure my friendship, and love until death; if he refuse, either through interest or ridiculous pride, after I have proved to him that he would be forcing my wife from me, that Valentine loves me, and will have no other, I will fight with him, give him every advantage, and I shall kill him, or he will kill me; if I am victorious, he will not marry Valentine, and if I die, I am very sure Valentine will not marry him. No? you disapprove of this second project, as you did of the first? I do. But what then must be done? Madame de Saint-Méran’s last request was, that the marriage might not be delayed; must I let things take their course? I understand. I am to wait. But delay may ruin our plan, sir. Alone, Valentine has no power; she will be compelled to submit. I am here almost miraculously, and can scarcely hope for so good an opportunity to occur again. Believe me, there are only the two plans I have proposed to you; forgive my vanity, and tell me which you prefer. Do you authorize Mademoiselle Valentine to intrust herself to my honor? Do you prefer I should seek M. d’Épinay? Whence then will come the help we need—from chance? From you? You thoroughly understand me, sir? Pardon my eagerness, for my life depends on your answer. Will our help come from you? You are sure of it? Then I must wait? But the contract? Will you assure me it shall not be signed? The contract shall not be signed! Oh, pardon me, sir; I can scarcely realize so great a happiness. Will they not sign it?", "pos": 1729386}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "What do you wish, sir? that I should renew my promise of remaining tranquil? Shall I swear to you, sir? I swear to you, on my honor, to await your decision respecting the course I am to pursue with M. d’Épinay. Now, do you wish me to retire? Without seeing Mademoiselle Valentine? But, first allow me to embrace you as your daughter did just now.", "pos": 1733662}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "I saw Madame de Saint-Méran only last year at Marseilles, when I was coming back from Algiers, she looked like a woman destined to live to be a hundred years old, from her apparent sound health and great activity of mind and body. How old was she?", "pos": 1737185}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Franz assured me, that she was sixty-six years old. But she has not died of old age, but of grief; it appears that since the death of the marquis, which affected her very deeply, she has not completely recovered her reason.", "pos": 1737458}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "But of what disease, then, did she die?", "pos": 1737702}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "It is said to have been a congestion of the brain, or apoplexy, which is the same thing, is it not?", "pos": 1737758}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Nearly.", "pos": 1737860}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "It is difficult to believe that it was apoplexy. Madame de Saint-Méran, whom I once saw, was short, of slender form, and of a much more nervous than sanguine temperament; grief could hardly produce apoplexy in such a constitution as that of Madame de Saint-Méran.", "pos": 1737870}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "At any rate, whatever disease or doctor may have killed her, M. de Villefort, or rather, Mademoiselle Valentine,—or, still rather, our friend Franz, inherits a magnificent fortune, amounting, I believe, to 80,000 livres per annum.", "pos": 1738154}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Tenacem propositi virum. I think he must have made an agreement with death to outlive all his heirs, and he appears likely to succeed. He resembles the old Conventionalist of ’93, who said to Napoleon, in 1814, ‘You bend because your empire is a young stem, weakened by rapid growth. Take the Republic for a tutor; let us return with renewed strength to the battle-field, and I promise you 500,000 soldiers, another Marengo, and a second Austerlitz. Ideas do not become extinct, sire; they slumber sometimes, but only revive the stronger before they sleep entirely.’", "pos": 1738535}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ideas and men appeared the same to him. One thing only puzzles me, namely, how Franz d’Épinay will like a grandfather who cannot be separated from his wife. But where is Franz?", "pos": 1739104}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "In the first carriage, with M. de Villefort, who considers him already as one of the family.", "pos": 1739298}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "are you a friend of Villefort’s? How is it that I have never met you at his house?", "pos": 1740040}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I am no acquaintance of M. de Villefort’s, but I was of Madame de Saint-Méran.", "pos": 1740125}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "The time and place are but ill-suited for an introduction. but we are not superstitious. M. Morrel, allow me to present to you M. Franz d’Épinay, a delightful travelling companion, with whom I made the tour of Italy. My dear Franz, M. Maximilian Morrel, an excellent friend I have acquired in your absence, and whose name you will hear me mention every time I make any allusion to affection, wit, or amiability.", "pos": 1740275}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Extremely, she looked so pale this morning, I scarcely knew her.", "pos": 1741050}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "This is a magnificent habitation, a summer and winter palace. You will, in turn, enter it, my dear d’Épinay, for you will soon be numbered as one of the family. I, as a philosopher, should like a little country-house, a cottage down there under the trees, without so many free-stones over my poor body. In dying, I will say to those around me what Voltaire wrote to Piron: ‘Eo rus,’ and all will be over. But come, Franz, take courage, your wife is an heiress.", "pos": 1741459}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Indeed, Beauchamp, you are unbearable. Politics has made you laugh at everything, and political men have made you disbelieve everything. But when you have the honor of associating with ordinary men, and the pleasure of leaving politics for a moment, try to find your affectionate heart, which you leave with your stick when you go to the Chamber.", "pos": 1741971}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "But tell me, what is life? Is it not a halt in Death’s anteroom?", "pos": 1742320}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I am prejudiced against Beauchamp, and leaving the former to finish his philosophical dissertation with Debray.", "pos": 1742412}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "When shall I see you again?", "pos": 1744104}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "At what time you please, sir,", "pos": 1744151}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "As soon as possible.", "pos": 1744198}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I am at your command, sir; shall we return together?", "pos": 1744221}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "If not unpleasant to you.", "pos": 1744276}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "On the contrary, I shall feel much pleasure.", "pos": 1744304}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "M. d’Épinay, allow me to remind you at this moment,—which is perhaps not so ill-chosen as at first sight may appear, for obedience to the wishes of the departed is the first offering which should be made at their tomb,—allow me then to remind you of the wish expressed by Madame de Saint-Méran on her death-bed, that Valentine’s wedding might not be deferred. You know the affairs of the deceased are in perfect order, and her will bequeaths to Valentine the entire property of the Saint-Méran family; the notary showed me the documents yesterday, which will enable us to draw up the contract immediately. You may call on the notary, M. Deschamps, Place Beauveau, Faubourg Saint-Honoré, and you have my authority to inspect those deeds.", "pos": 1744659}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Sir, it is not, perhaps, the moment for Mademoiselle Valentine, who is in deep distress, to think of a husband; indeed, I fear——", "pos": 1745409}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Valentine will have no greater pleasure than that of fulfilling her grandmother’s last injunctions; there will be no obstacle from that quarter, I assure you.", "pos": 1745570}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "In that case, as I shall raise none, you may make arrangements when you please; I have pledged my word, and shall feel pleasure and happiness in adhering to it.", "pos": 1745731}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Then, nothing further is required. The contract was to have been signed three days since; we shall find it all ready, and can sign it today.", "pos": 1745911}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "But the mourning?", "pos": 1746072}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Don’t be uneasy on that score, no ceremony will be neglected in my house. Mademoiselle de Villefort may retire during the prescribed three months to her estate of Saint-Méran; I say hers, for she inherits it today. There, after a few days, if you like, the civil marriage shall be celebrated without pomp or ceremony. Madame de Saint-Méran wished her daughter should be married there. When that is over, you, sir, can return to Paris, while your wife passes the time of her mourning with her mother-in-law.", "pos": 1746116}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "As you please, sir,", "pos": 1746646}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Then, have the kindness to wait half an hour; Valentine shall come down into the drawing-room. I will send for M. Deschamps; we will read and sign the contract before we separate, and this evening Madame de Villefort shall accompany Valentine to her estate, where we will rejoin them in a week.", "pos": 1746680}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Sir. I have one request to make.", "pos": 1747004}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 1747053}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I wish Albert de Morcerf and Raoul de Château-Renaud to be present at this signature; you know they are my witnesses.", "pos": 1747067}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Half an hour will suffice to apprise them; will you go for them yourself, or shall you send?", "pos": 1747187}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I prefer going, sir.", "pos": 1747282}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I shall expect you, then, in half an hour, baron, and Valentine will be ready.", "pos": 1747305}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "allow me to inform you at the request of M. de Villefort, that your projected marriage with Mademoiselle de Villefort has changed the feeling of M. Noirtier towards his grandchild, and that he disinherits her entirely of the fortune he would have left her. Let me hasten to add, that the testator, having only the right to alienate a part of his fortune, and having alienated it all, the will will not bear scrutiny, and is declared null and void. but I warn M. d’Épinay, that during my life-time my father’s will shall never be questioned, my position forbidding any doubt to be entertained. M. d’Épinay,", "pos": 1749333}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Sir. I regret much that such a question has been raised in the presence of Mademoiselle Valentine; I have never inquired the amount of her fortune, which, however limited it may be, exceeds mine. My family has sought consideration in this alliance with M. de Villefort; all I seek is happiness.", "pos": 1749976}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Besides, sir, excepting the loss of a portion of your hopes, this unexpected will need not personally wound you; M. Noirtier’s weakness of mind sufficiently explains it. It is not because Mademoiselle Valentine is going to marry you that he is angry, but because she will marry, a union with any other would have caused him the same sorrow. Old age is selfish, sir, and Mademoiselle de Villefort has been a faithful companion to M. Noirtier, which she cannot be when she becomes the Baroness d’Épinay. My father’s melancholy state prevents our speaking to him on any subjects, which the weakness of his mind would incapacitate him from understanding, and I am perfectly convinced that at the present time, although, he knows that his granddaughter is going to be married, M. Noirtier has even forgotten the name of his intended grandson.", "pos": 1750371}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Gentlemen. M. Noirtier de Villefort wishes to speak immediately to M. Franz de Quesnel, baron d’Épinay.", "pos": 1751358}
{"speaker": "Edward", "text": "Grandpapa Noirtier can speak now, then,", "pos": 1752188}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Tell M. Nortier, that what he demands is impossible.", "pos": 1752402}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Then, M. Nortier gives notice to these gentlemen, that he will give orders to be carried to the drawing-room.", "pos": 1752478}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Pray go, Valentine, and see what this new fancy of your grandfather’s is. I will go with you.", "pos": 1752782}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Excuse me, sir, since M. Noirtier sent for me, I am ready to attend to his wish; besides, I shall be happy to pay my respects to him, not having yet had the honor of doing so.", "pos": 1753035}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Forgive me, sir,", "pos": 1753313}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I would not lose this opportunity of proving to M. Noirtier how wrong it would be of him to encourage feelings of dislike to me, which I am determined to conquer, whatever they may be, by my devotion.", "pos": 1753363}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Listen, if M. Noirtier wishes to communicate anything which would delay your marriage, I forbid you to understand him. Here is M. Franz d’Épinay, you requested to see him. We have all wished for this interview, and I trust it will convince you how ill-formed are your objections to Valentine’s marriage.", "pos": 1754064}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Shall I open the secretaire?", "pos": 1755060}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1755108}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "And the drawers?", "pos": 1755133}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1755152}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Those at the side?", "pos": 1755159}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "No.", "pos": 1755180}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "The middle one?", "pos": 1755186}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1755204}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Is that what you wish for?", "pos": 1755264}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "No.", "pos": 1755304}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "But there are no more. Yes. Yes, I understand, grandfather. Ah! is there a secret spring?", "pos": 1755384}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1755699}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "And who knows it? Barrois? Shall I call him? Barrois, my grandfather has told me to open that drawer in the secretaire, but there is a secret spring in it, which you know—will you open it?", "pos": 1755721}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Obey. Shall I give these papers to M. de Villefort? To Mademoiselle Valentine? To M. Franz d’Épinay?", "pos": 1756233}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "To me, sir? Well. Well, sir, what do you wish me to do with this paper?", "pos": 1756591}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "To preserve it, sealed up as it is, doubtless,", "pos": 1756926}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "No,", "pos": 1756995}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Do you wish him to read it?", "pos": 1757027}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1757073}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "You understand, baron, my grandfather wishes you to read this paper,", "pos": 1757101}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Then let us sit down,", "pos": 1757188}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Sit down. Read,", "pos": 1757270}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "February 5th, 1815! it is the day my father was murdered. But it was on leaving this club, my father disappeared.", "pos": 1757673}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "My father was a royalist; they need not have asked his sentiments, which were well known.", "pos": 1761290}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "And hence, arose my affection for your father, my dear M. Franz. Opinions held in common are a ready bond of union.", "pos": 1761382}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Read again,", "pos": 1761518}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "The president then sought to make him speak more explicitly, but M. de Quesnel replied that he wished first to know what they wanted with him. He was then informed of the contents of the letter from the Island of Elba, in which he was recommended to the club as a man who would be likely to advance the interests of their party. One paragraph spoke of the return of Bonaparte and promised another letter and further details, on the arrival of the Pharaon belonging to the shipbuilder Morrel, of Marseilles, whose captain was entirely devoted to the emperor. During all this time, the general, on whom they thought to have relied as on a brother, manifested evidently signs of discontent and repugnance. When the reading was finished, he remained silent, with knitted brows. I say that it is too soon after declaring myself for Louis XVIII. to break my vow in behalf of the ex-emperor. General,", "pos": 1761568}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Excuse me, gentlemen, you may not acknowledge Louis XVIII., but I do, as he has made me a baron and a field-marshal, and I shall never forget that for these two titles I am indebted to his happy return to France.", "pos": 1762800}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Sir,", "pos": 1763037}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "be careful what you say; your words clearly show us that they are deceived concerning you in the Island of Elba, and have deceived us! The communication has been made to you in consequence of the confidence placed in you, and which does you honor. Now we discover our error; a title and promotion attach you to the government we wish to overturn. We will not constrain you to help us; we enroll no one against his conscience, but we will compel you to act generously, even if you are not disposed to do so.", "pos": 1763085}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "you have been invited to join this assembly—you were not forced here; it was proposed to you to come blindfolded—you accepted. When you complied with this twofold request you well knew we did not wish to secure the throne of Louis XVIII., or we should not take so much care to avoid the vigilance of the police. It would be conceding too much to allow you to put on a mask to aid you in the discovery of our secret, and then to remove it that you may ruin those who have confided in you. No, no, you must first say if you declare yourself for the king of a day who now reigns, or for his majesty the emperor. No. I am a royalist. I have taken the oath of allegiance to Louis XVIII., and I will adhere to it.", "pos": 1764207}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sir. And you, sir. I advise you not to touch your sword.", "pos": 1765173}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I will not swear. Then you must die,", "pos": 1765789}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "General,", "pos": 1766020}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "I have a son, and I ought to think of him, finding myself among assassins.", "pos": 1766574}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "one man may insult fifty—it is the privilege of weakness. But he does wrong to use his privilege. Follow my advice, swear, and do not insult.", "pos": 1766707}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "It is this:—‘I swear by my honor not to reveal to anyone what I have seen and heard on the 5th of February, 1815, between nine and ten o’clock in the evening; and I plead guilty of death should I ever violate this oath.’ Now am I at liberty to retire? Anywhere out of your presence. Beware, sir, you are no longer in the assembly, and have only to do with individuals; do not insult them unless you wish to be held responsible. You are still as brave in your carriage as in your assembly because you are still four against one. Because, sir, you have insulted a man, and that man will not go one step farther without demanding honorable reparation. Another method of assassination? Make no noise, sir, unless you wish me to consider you as one of the men of whom you spoke just now as cowards, who take their weakness for a shield. You are alone, one alone shall answer you; you have a sword by your side, I have one in my cane; you have no witness, one of these gentlemen will serve you. Now, if you please, remove your bandage. At last. I shall know with whom I have to do.", "pos": 1767001}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "The president went up the steps, after pushing his sword into his cane; a track of blood on the snow marked his course. He had scarcely arrived at the top when he heard a heavy splash in the water—it was the general’s body, which the witnesses had just thrown into the river after ascertaining that he was dead. The general fell, then, in a loyal duel, and not in ambush as it might have been reported. In proof of this we have signed this paper to establish the truth of the facts, lest the moment should arrive when either of the actors in this terrible scene should be accused of premeditated murder or of infringement of the laws of honor. Signed, Beaurepaire, Duchampy, and Lecharpal.", "pos": 1772179}
{"speaker": "d’Épinay", "text": "Sir, since you are well acquainted with all these details, which are attested by honorable signatures,—since you appear to take some interest in me, although you have only manifested it hitherto by causing me sorrow, refuse me not one final satisfaction—tell me the name of the club, that I may at least know who killed my father.", "pos": 1773141}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes! Yes!", "pos": 1774989}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I?—where the devil did you find out that?", "pos": 1790452}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At their ball; it was apparent enough. Why, did not the countess, the proud Mercédès, the disdainful Catalane, who will scarcely open her lips to her oldest acquaintances, take your arm, lead you into the garden, into the private walks, and remain there for half an hour?", "pos": 1790496}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, baron, baron, you are not listening—what barbarism in a megalomaniac like you!", "pos": 1790770}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, don’t worry about me, Sir Mocker. But will you undertake to speak to the father?", "pos": 1790870}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Willingly, if you wish it.", "pos": 1791012}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "But let it be done explicitly and positively. If he demands my daughter let him fix the day—declare his conditions; in short, let us either understand each other, or quarrel. You understand—no more delay.", "pos": 1791041}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, sir, I will give my attention to the subject.", "pos": 1791248}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I do not say that I await with pleasure his decision, but I do await it. A banker must, you know, be a slave to his promise.", "pos": 1791301}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Bravi! bravo! brava!", "pos": 1791495}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I shall soon return, wait for me. I shall, perhaps, have something to say to you.", "pos": 1791688}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Come, leave music and compliments, and let us go and take tea.", "pos": 1792518}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Come, Louise,", "pos": 1792607}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I have just received my courier from Greece,", "pos": 1792969}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, yes, that was the reason of your running away from us.", "pos": 1793031}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1793110}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "How is King Otho getting on? We shall go together, shall we not?", "pos": 1793117}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "If you like,", "pos": 1793449}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Did you see, how he looked at me?", "pos": 1793589}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, but did you think there was anything particular in his look?", "pos": 1793636}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Indeed, I did; and what does he mean by his news from Greece?", "pos": 1793722}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How can I tell you?", "pos": 1793786}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Because I imagine you have correspondents in that country. Stop, here he comes. I shall compliment Mademoiselle Danglars on her cameo, while the father talks to you.", "pos": 1793808}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "If you compliment her at all, let it be on her voice, at least,", "pos": 1794028}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No, everyone would do that.", "pos": 1794113}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My dear viscount, you are dreadfully impertinent.", "pos": 1794143}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Your advice was excellent, there is a whole history connected with the names Fernand and Yanina.", "pos": 1794290}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Indeed?", "pos": 1794400}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes, I will tell you all; but take away the young man; I cannot endure his presence.", "pos": 1794429}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He is going with me. Shall I send the father to you?", "pos": 1794516}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Immediately.", "pos": 1794571}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Very well.", "pos": 1794586}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well. I will ask you the same question which Charles IX. put to Catherine de’ Medici, after the massacre of Saint Bartholomew: ‘How have I played my little part?’", "pos": 1795170}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To what do you allude?", "pos": 1795346}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "To the installation of my rival at M. Danglars’.", "pos": 1795391}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What rival?", "pos": 1795442}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ma foi! what rival? Why, your protégé, M. Andrea Cavalcanti!", "pos": 1795456}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, no joking, viscount, if you please; I do not patronize M. Andrea—at least, not as concerns M. Danglars.", "pos": 1795519}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And you would be to blame for not assisting him, if the young man really needed your help in that quarter, but, happily for me, he can dispense with it.", "pos": 1795629}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What, do you think he is paying his addresses?", "pos": 1795784}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I am certain of it; his languishing looks and modulated tones when addressing Mademoiselle Danglars fully proclaim his intentions. He aspires to the hand of the proud Eugénie.", "pos": 1795833}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What does that signify, so long as they favor your suit?", "pos": 1796011}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But it is not the case, my dear count: on the contrary. I am repulsed on all sides.", "pos": 1796070}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What!", "pos": 1796156}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "It is so indeed; Mademoiselle Eugénie scarcely answers me, and Mademoiselle d’Armilly, her confidant, does not speak to me at all.", "pos": 1796164}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But the father has the greatest regard possible for you,", "pos": 1796297}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "He? Oh, no, he has plunged a thousand daggers into my heart, tragedy-weapons, I own, which instead of wounding sheathe their points in their own handles, but daggers which he nevertheless believed to be real and deadly.", "pos": 1796375}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Jealousy indicates affection.", "pos": 1796597}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "True; but I am not jealous.", "pos": 1796629}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He is.", "pos": 1796659}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Of whom?—of Debray?", "pos": 1796668}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, of you.", "pos": 1796690}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Of me? I will engage to say that before a week is past the door will be closed against me.", "pos": 1796704}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are mistaken, my dear viscount.", "pos": 1796797}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Prove it to me.", "pos": 1796835}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do you wish me to do so?", "pos": 1796853}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1796880}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, I am charged with the commission of endeavoring to induce the Comte de Morcerf to make some definite arrangement with the baron.", "pos": 1796887}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "By whom are you charged?", "pos": 1797024}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "By the baron himself.", "pos": 1797051}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh. You surely will not do that, my dear count?", "pos": 1797075}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly I shall, Albert, as I have promised to do it.", "pos": 1797186}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, it seems you are determined to marry me.", "pos": 1797244}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am determined to try and be on good terms with everybody, at all events. But apropos of Debray, how is it that I have not seen him lately at the baron’s house?", "pos": 1797321}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "There has been a misunderstanding.", "pos": 1797506}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What, with the baroness?", "pos": 1797543}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No, with the baron.", "pos": 1797570}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Has he perceived anything?", "pos": 1797592}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, that is a good joke!", "pos": 1797621}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do you think he suspects?", "pos": 1797648}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Where have you come from, my dear count?", "pos": 1797721}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "From Congo, if you will.", "pos": 1797777}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "It must be farther off than even that.", "pos": 1797804}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But what do I know of your Parisian husbands?", "pos": 1797845}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, my dear count, husbands are pretty much the same everywhere; an individual husband of any country is a pretty fair specimen of the whole race.", "pos": 1797893}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But then, what can have led to the quarrel between Danglars and Debray? They seemed to understand each other so well,", "pos": 1798042}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, now you are trying to penetrate into the mysteries of Isis, in which I am not initiated. When M. Andrea Cavalcanti has become one of the family, you can ask him that question.", "pos": 1798201}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Here we are, it is only half-past ten o’clock, come in.", "pos": 1798405}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Certainly, I will.", "pos": 1798484}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My carriage shall take you back.", "pos": 1798505}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No, thank you; I gave orders for my coupé to follow me.", "pos": 1798540}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "There it is, then. You will make tea for us, Baptistin,", "pos": 1798598}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Really, my dear count, what I admire in you is, not so much your riches, for perhaps there are people even wealthier than yourself, nor is it only your wit, for Beaumarchais might have possessed as much,—but it is your manner of being served, without any questions, in a moment, in a second; it is as if they guessed what you wanted by your manner of ringing, and made a point of keeping everything you can possibly desire in constant readiness.", "pos": 1799058}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What you say is perhaps true; they know my habits. For instance, you shall see; how do you wish to occupy yourself during tea-time?", "pos": 1799522}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ma foi, I should like to smoke. It is quite wonderful,", "pos": 1799656}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh no, it is as simple as possible. Ali knows I generally smoke while I am taking my tea or coffee; he has heard that I ordered tea, and he also knows that I brought you home with me; when I summoned him he naturally guessed the reason of my doing so, and as he comes from a country where hospitality is especially manifested through the medium of smoking, he naturally concludes that we shall smoke in company, and therefore brings two chibouques instead of one—and now the mystery is solved.", "pos": 1799902}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Certainly you give a most commonplace air to your explanation, but it is not the less true that you——Ah, but what do I hear?", "pos": 1800422}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ma foi, my dear viscount, you are fated to hear music this evening; you have only escaped from Mademoiselle Danglars’ piano, to be attacked by Haydée’s guzla.", "pos": 1800664}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Haydée—what an adorable name! Are there, then, really women who bear the name of Haydée anywhere but in Byron’s poems?", "pos": 1800825}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly there are. Haydée is a very uncommon name in France, but is common enough in Albania and Epirus; it is as if you said, for example, Chastity, Modesty, Innocence,—it is a kind of baptismal name, as you Parisians call it.", "pos": 1800946}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, that is charming, how I should like to hear my countrywomen called Mademoiselle Goodness, Mademoiselle Silence, Mademoiselle Christian Charity! Only think, then, if Mademoiselle Danglars, instead of being called Claire-Marie-Eugénie, had been named Mademoiselle Chastity-Modesty-Innocence Danglars; what a fine effect that would have produced on the announcement of her marriage!", "pos": 1801178}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Hush, do not joke in so loud a tone; Haydée may hear you, perhaps.", "pos": 1801579}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And you think she would be angry?", "pos": 1801666}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, certainly not,", "pos": 1801702}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "She is very amiable, then, is she not?", "pos": 1801765}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is not to be called amiability, it is her duty; a slave does not dictate to a master.", "pos": 1801819}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Come; you are joking yourself now. Are there any more slaves to be had who bear this beautiful name?", "pos": 1801910}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Undoubtedly.", "pos": 1802013}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Really, count, you do nothing, and have nothing like other people. The slave of the Count of Monte Cristo! Why, it is a rank of itself in France, and from the way in which you lavish money, it is a place that must be worth a hundred thousand francs a year.", "pos": 1802028}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A hundred thousand francs! The poor girl originally possessed much more than that; she was born to treasures in comparison with which those recorded in the Thousand and One Nights would seem but poverty.", "pos": 1802287}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "She must be a princess then.", "pos": 1802493}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are right; and she is one of the greatest in her country too.", "pos": 1802524}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I thought so. But how did it happen that such a great princess became a slave?", "pos": 1802592}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How was it that Dionysius the Tyrant became a schoolmaster? The fortune of war, my dear viscount,—the caprice of fortune; that is the way in which these things are to be accounted for.", "pos": 1802673}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And is her name a secret?", "pos": 1802860}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "As regards the generality of mankind it is; but not for you, my dear viscount, who are one of my most intimate friends, and on whose silence I feel I may rely, if I consider it necessary to enjoin it—may I not do so?", "pos": 1802888}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Certainly; on my word of honor.", "pos": 1803107}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You know the history of the Pasha of Yanina, do you not?", "pos": 1803141}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Of Ali Tepelini?13 Oh, yes; it was in his service that my father made his fortune.", "pos": 1803200}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "True, I had forgotten that.", "pos": 1803285}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, what is Haydée to Ali Tepelini?", "pos": 1803322}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Merely his daughter.", "pos": 1803362}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What? the daughter of Ali Pasha?", "pos": 1803385}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Of Ali Pasha and the beautiful Vasiliki.", "pos": 1803420}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And your slave?", "pos": 1803463}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ma foi, yes.", "pos": 1803481}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But how did she become so?", "pos": 1803496}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why, simply from the circumstance of my having bought her one day, as I was passing through the market at Constantinople.", "pos": 1803525}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Wonderful! Really, my dear count, you seem to throw a sort of magic influence over all in which you are concerned; when I listen to you, existence no longer seems reality, but a waking dream. Now, I am perhaps going to make an imprudent and thoughtless request, but——", "pos": 1803649}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Say on.", "pos": 1803919}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But, since you go out with Haydée, and sometimes even take her to the Opera——", "pos": 1803929}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well?", "pos": 1804009}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I think I may venture to ask you this favor.", "pos": 1804017}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You may venture to ask me anything.", "pos": 1804064}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well then, my dear count, present me to your princess.", "pos": 1804102}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I will do so; but on two conditions.", "pos": 1804159}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I accept them at once.", "pos": 1804198}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The first is, that you will never tell anyone that I have granted the interview.", "pos": 1804223}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Very well. I swear I will not.", "pos": 1804306}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The second is, that you will not tell her that your father ever served hers.", "pos": 1804374}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I give you my oath that I will not.", "pos": 1804453}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Enough, viscount; you will remember those two vows, will you not? But I know you to be a man of honor. Tell Haydée, that I will take coffee with her, and give her to understand that I desire permission to present one of my friends to her. Now, understand me, no direct questions, my dear Morcerf; if you wish to know anything, tell me, and I will ask her.", "pos": 1804491}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Agreed.", "pos": 1804960}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Let us go in,", "pos": 1805142}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Whom do you bring? is it a friend, a brother, a simple acquaintance, or an enemy.", "pos": 1806672}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A friend,", "pos": 1806807}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "What is his name?", "pos": 1806859}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Count Albert; it is the same man whom I rescued from the hands of the banditti at Rome.", "pos": 1806879}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "In what language would you like me to converse with him?", "pos": 1806969}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do you know modern Greek,", "pos": 1807059}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Alas! no, nor even ancient Greek, my dear count; never had Homer or Plato a more unworthy scholar than myself.", "pos": 1807097}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Then, then I will speak either in French or Italian, if my lord so wills it.", "pos": 1807225}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You will speak in Italian. It is a pity you do not understand either ancient or modern Greek, both of which Haydée speaks so fluently; the poor child will be obliged to talk to you in Italian, which will give you but a very false idea of her powers of conversation.", "pos": 1807452}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Sir, you are most welcome as the friend of my lord and master.", "pos": 1807817}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, take it—take it. Haydée is almost as civilized as a Parisian; the smell of a Havana is disagreeable to her, but the tobacco of the East is a most delicious perfume, you know.", "pos": 1808526}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear host, and you, signora, excuse my apparent stupidity. I am quite bewildered, and it is natural that it should be so. Here I am in the heart of Paris; but a moment ago I heard the rumbling of the omnibuses and the tinkling of the bells of the lemonade-sellers, and now I feel as if I were suddenly transported to the East; not such as I have seen it, but such as my dreams have painted it. Oh, signora, if I could but speak Greek, your conversation, added to the fairy-scene which surrounds me, would furnish an evening of such delight as it would be impossible for me ever to forget.", "pos": 1809282}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "I speak sufficient Italian to enable me to converse with you, sir, and if you like what is Eastern, I will do my best to secure the gratification of your tastes while you are here.", "pos": 1809903}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "On what subject shall I converse with her?", "pos": 1810109}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Well, I was but four years old when one night I was suddenly awakened by my mother. We were in the palace of Yanina; she snatched me from the cushions on which I was sleeping, and on opening my eyes I saw hers filled with tears. She took me away without speaking. When I saw her weeping I began to cry too. ‘Hush, child!’ said she. At other times in spite of maternal endearments or threats, I had with a child’s caprice been accustomed to indulge my feelings of sorrow or anger by crying as much as I felt inclined; but on this occasion there was an intonation of such extreme terror in my mother’s voice when she enjoined me to silence, that I ceased crying as soon as her command was given. She bore me rapidly away. I saw then that we were descending a large staircase; around us were all my mother’s servants carrying trunks, bags, ornaments, jewels, purses of gold, with which they were hurrying away in the greatest distraction. in this long file of slaves and women only half-aroused from sleep, or at least so they appeared to me, who was myself scarcely awake. Here and there on the walls of the staircase, were reflected gigantic shadows, which trembled in the flickering light of the pine-torches till they seemed to reach to the vaulted roof above. Quick!", "pos": 1814947}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "we halted on our march, and found ourselves on the borders of a lake. My mother pressed me to her throbbing heart, and at the distance of a few paces I saw my father, who was glancing anxiously around. Four marble steps led down to the water’s edge, and below them was a boat floating on the tide. From where we stood I could see in the middle of the lake a large blank mass; it was the kiosk to which we were going. This kiosk appeared to me to be at a considerable distance, perhaps on account of the darkness of the night, which prevented any object from being more than partially discerned. We stepped into the boat. I remember well that the oars made no noise whatever in striking the water, and when I leaned over to ascertain the cause I saw that they were muffled with the sashes of our Palikares.14 Besides the rowers, the boat contained only the women, my father, mother, Selim, and myself. The Palikares had remained on the shore of the lake, ready to cover our retreat; they were kneeling on the lowest of the marble steps, and in that manner intended making a rampart of the three others, in case of pursuit. Our bark flew before the wind. ‘Why does the boat go so fast?’ asked I of my mother. ‘Silence, child! Hush, we are flying!’ I did not understand. Why should my father fly?—he, the all-powerful—he, before whom others were accustomed to fly—he, who had taken for his device. They hate me; then they fear me!’", "pos": 1817706}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "It was towards this kiosk that we were rowing. A ground floor, ornamented with arabesques, bathing its terraces in the water, and another floor, looking on the lake, was all which was visible to the eye. But beneath the ground floor, stretching out into the island, was a large subterranean cavern, to which my mother, myself, and the women were conducted. In this place were together 60,000 pouches and 200 barrels; the pouches contained 25,000,000 of money in gold, and the barrels were filled with 30,000 pounds of gunpowder. Near the barrels stood Selim, my father’s favorite, whom I mentioned to you just now. He stood watch day and night with a lance provided with a lighted slowmatch in his hand, and he had orders to blow up everything—kiosk, guards, women, gold, and Ali Tepelini himself—at the first signal given by my father. I remember well that the slaves, convinced of the precarious tenure on which they held their lives, passed whole days and nights in praying, crying, and groaning. As for me, I can never forget the pale complexion and black eyes of the young soldier, and whenever the angel of death summons me to another world, I am quite sure I shall recognize Selim. I cannot tell you how long we remained in this state; at that period I did not even know what time meant. Sometimes, but very rarely, my father summoned me and my mother to the terrace of the palace; these were hours of recreation for me, as I never saw anything in the dismal cavern but the gloomy countenances of the slaves and Selim’s fiery lance. My father was endeavoring to pierce with his eager looks the remotest verge of the horizon, examining attentively every black speck which appeared on the lake, while my mother, reclining by his side, rested her head on his shoulder, and I played at his feet, admiring everything I saw with that unsophisticated innocence of childhood which throws a charm round objects insignificant in themselves, but which in its eyes are invested with the greatest importance. The heights of Pindus towered above us; the castle of Yanina rose white and angular from the blue waters of the lake, and the immense masses of black vegetation which, viewed in the distance, gave the idea of lichens clinging to the rocks, were in reality gigantic fir-trees and myrtles. One morning my father sent for us; my mother had been crying all the night, and was very wretched; we found the pasha calm, but paler than usual. ‘Take courage, Vasiliki,’ said he; ‘today arrives the firman of the master, and my fate will be decided. If my pardon be complete, we shall return triumphant to Yanina; if the news be inauspicious, we must fly this night.’—‘But supposing our enemy should not allow us to do so?’ said my mother. ‘Oh, make yourself easy on that head,’ said Ali, smiling; ‘Selim and his flaming lance will settle that matter. They would be glad to see me dead, but they would not like themselves to die with me.’ My mother only answered by sighs to consolations which she knew did not come from my father’s heart. She prepared the iced water which he was in the habit of constantly drinking,—for since his sojourn at the kiosk he had been parched by the most violent fever,—after which she anointed his white beard with perfumed oil, and lighted his chibouque, which he sometimes smoked for hours together, quietly watching the wreaths of vapor that ascended in spiral clouds and gradually melted away in the surrounding atmosphere. Presently he made such a sudden movement that I was paralyzed with fear. Then, without taking his eyes from the object which had first attracted his attention, he asked for his telescope. My mother gave it him, and as she did so, looked whiter than the marble against which she leaned. I saw my father’s hand tremble. ‘A boat!—two!—three!’ murmured my, father;—‘four!’ He then arose, seizing his arms and priming his pistols. ‘Vasiliki,’ said he to my mother, trembling perceptibly, ‘the instant approaches which will decide everything. In the space of half an hour we shall know the emperor’s answer. Go into the cavern with Haydée.’—‘I will not quit you,’ said Vasiliki; ‘if you die, my lord, I will die with you.’—‘Go to Selim!’ cried my father. ‘Adieu, my lord,’ murmured my mother, determining quietly to await the approach of death. ‘Take away Vasiliki!’ said my father to his Palikares. As for me, I had been forgotten in the general confusion; I ran toward Ali Tepelini; he saw me hold out my arms to him, and he stooped down and pressed my forehead with his lips. Oh, how distinctly I remember that kiss!—it was the last he ever gave me, and I feel as if it were still warm on my forehead. On descending, we saw through the lattice-work several boats which were gradually becoming more distinct to our view. At first they appeared like black specks, and now they looked like birds skimming the surface of the waves. During this time, in the kiosk at my father’s feet, were seated twenty Palikares, concealed from view by an angle of the wall and watching with eager eyes the arrival of the boats. They were armed with their long guns inlaid with mother-of-pearl and silver, and cartridges in great numbers were lying scattered on the floor. My father looked at his watch, and paced up and down with a countenance expressive of the greatest anguish. This was the scene which presented itself to my view as I quitted my father after that last kiss.", "pos": 1820593}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Go on, my child,", "pos": 1827307}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "It was about four o’clock in the afternoon, and although the day was brilliant out-of-doors, we were enveloped in the gloomy darkness of the cavern. One single, solitary light was burning there, and it appeared like a star set in a heaven of blackness; it was Selim’s flaming lance. My mother was a Christian, and she prayed. Selim repeated from time to time the sacred words: ‘God is great!’ However, my mother had still some hope. As she was coming down, she thought she recognized the French officer who had been sent to Constantinople, and in whom my father placed so much confidence; for he knew that all the soldiers of the French emperor were naturally noble and generous. She advanced some steps towards the staircase, and listened. ‘They are approaching,’ said she; ‘perhaps they bring us peace and liberty!’ God is great! They are approaching, perhaps they bring us peace and liberty!", "pos": 1827510}
{"speaker": "Selim", "text": "What do you fear, Vasiliki? What do you fear, Vasiliki?’ said Selim, in a voice at once so gentle and yet so proud. ‘If they do not bring us peace, we will give them war; if they do not bring life, we will give them death.", "pos": 1828330}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "If they do not bring us peace, we will give them war; if they do not bring life, we will give them death. My mother experienced the same sensations, for I felt her tremble. ‘Mamma, mamma,’ said I, ‘are we really to be killed?’ And at the sound of my voice the slaves redoubled their cries and prayers and lamentations. ‘My child,’ said Vasiliki, ‘may God preserve you from ever wishing for that death which today you so much dread!’ Then, whispering to Selim, she asked what were her master’s orders. ‘If he send me his poniard, it will signify that the emperor’s intentions are not favorable, and I am to set fire to the powder; if, on the contrary, he send me his ring, it will be a sign that the emperor pardons him, and I am to extinguish the match and leave the magazine untouched.’—‘My friend,’ said my mother, ‘when your master’s orders arrive, if it is the poniard which he sends, instead of despatching us by that horrible death which we both so much dread, you will mercifully kill us with this same poniard, will you not?’—‘Yes, Vasiliki,’ replied Selim tranquilly. Mamma, mamma, are we really to be killed? My child, may God preserve you from ever wishing for that death which today you so much dread! If he send me his poniard, it will signify that the emperor’s intentions are not favorable, and I am to set fire to the powder; if, on the contrary, he send me his ring, it will be a sign that the emperor pardons him, and I am to extinguish the match and leave the magazine untouched. My friend, when your master’s orders arrive, if it is the poniard which he sends, instead of despatching us by that horrible death which we both so much dread, you will mercifully kill us with this same poniard, will you not? Yes, Vasiliki. Suddenly we heard loud cries; and, listening, discerned that they were cries of joy. The name of the French officer who had been sent to Constantinople resounded on all sides amongst our Palikares; it was evident that he brought the answer of the emperor, and that it was favorable.", "pos": 1828419}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And do you not remember the Frenchman’s name?", "pos": 1830126}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "I do not recollect it. Who are you?", "pos": 1830281}
{"speaker": "Selim", "text": "But whoever you may be, I charge you not to advance another step.", "pos": 1830677}
{"speaker": "Messenger", "text": "Long live the emperor! He grants a full pardon to the Vizier Ali, and not only gives him his life, but restores to him his fortune and his possessions.", "pos": 1830745}
{"speaker": "Selim", "text": "Stop, you see I have not yet received the ring,", "pos": 1830979}
{"speaker": "Vasiliki", "text": "True,", "pos": 1831080}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Courage.", "pos": 1831644}
{"speaker": "Selim", "text": "In whose name do you come?", "pos": 1831907}
{"speaker": "Messenger", "text": "I come in the name of our master, Ali Tepelini.", "pos": 1831952}
{"speaker": "Selim", "text": "If you come from Ali himself, you know what you were charged to remit to me?", "pos": 1832002}
{"speaker": "Messenger", "text": "Yes, and I bring you his ring.", "pos": 1832095}
{"speaker": "Selim", "text": "I do not see what you have in your hand,", "pos": 1832377}
{"speaker": "Messenger", "text": "Approach then, or I will come nearer to you, if you prefer it.", "pos": 1832432}
{"speaker": "Selim", "text": "I will agree to neither one nor the other, place the object which I desire to see in the ray of light which shines there, and retire while I examine it.", "pos": 1832519}
{"speaker": "Messenger", "text": "Be it so,", "pos": 1832703}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Oh, how our hearts palpitated; for it did, indeed, seem to be a ring which was placed there. But was it my father’s ring? that was the question. Selim, still holding in his hand the lighted match, walked towards the opening in the cavern, and, aided by the faint light which streamed in through the mouth of the cave, picked up the token.", "pos": 1832838}
{"speaker": "Selim", "text": "It is well, it is my master’s ring!", "pos": 1833179}
{"speaker": "Ali Tepelini", "text": "What do you want?", "pos": 1834361}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "What we want, is to communicate to you the will of his highness. Do you see this firman?", "pos": 1834471}
{"speaker": "Ali Tepelini", "text": "I do,", "pos": 1834577}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Well, read it; he demands your head. My father answered with a loud laugh, which was more frightful than even threats would have been, and he had not ceased when two reports of a pistol were heard; he had fired them himself, and had killed two men. The Palikares, who were prostrated at my father’s feet, now sprang up and fired, and the room was filled with fire and smoke. At the same instant the firing began on the other side, and the balls penetrated the boards all round us. Oh, how noble did the grand vizier my father look at that moment, in the midst of the flying bullets, his scimitar in his hand, and his face blackened with the powder of his enemies! and how he terrified them, even then, and made them fly before him! ‘Selim, Selim!’ cried he, ‘guardian of the fire, do your duty!’—‘Selim is dead,’ replied a voice which seemed to come from the depths of the earth, ‘and you are lost, Ali!’ At the same moment an explosion was heard, and the flooring of the room in which my father was sitting was suddenly torn up and shivered to atoms—the troops were firing from underneath. Three or four Palikares fell with their bodies literally ploughed with wounds. My father howled aloud, plunged his fingers into the holes which the balls had made, and tore up one of the planks entire. But immediately through this opening twenty more shots were fired, and the flame, rushing up like fire from the crater of a volcano, soon reached the tapestry, which it quickly devoured. In the midst of all this frightful tumult and these terrific cries, two reports, fearfully distinct, followed by two shrieks more heartrending than all, froze me with terror. These two shots had mortally wounded my father, and it was he who had given utterance to these frightful cries. However, he remained standing, clinging to a window. My mother tried to force the door, that she might go and die with him, but it was fastened on the inside. All around him were lying the Palikares, writhing in convulsive agonies, while two or three who were only slightly wounded were trying to escape by springing from the windows. At this crisis the whole flooring suddenly gave way, my father fell on one knee, and at the same moment twenty hands were thrust forth, armed with sabres, pistols, and poniards—twenty blows were instantaneously directed against one man, and my father disappeared in a whirlwind of fire and smoke kindled by these demons, and which seemed like hell itself opening beneath his feet. I felt myself fall to the ground, my mother had fainted.", "pos": 1834601}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Calm yourself, my dear child, and take courage in remembering that there is a God who will punish traitors.", "pos": 1837409}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "It is a frightful story, count, and I reproach myself now for having been so cruel and thoughtless in my request.", "pos": 1837519}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, it is nothing. Haydée is very courageous, and she sometimes even finds consolation in the recital of her misfortunes.", "pos": 1837701}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Because, my lord, my miseries recall to me the remembrance of your goodness. When my mother recovered her senses we were before the seraskier. ‘Kill,’ said she, ‘but spare the honor of the widow of Ali.’—‘It is not to me to whom you must address yourself,’ said Kourchid. To whom, then?’—‘To your new master. Who and where is he?’—‘He is here. And Kourchid pointed out one who had more than any contributed to the death of my father,", "pos": 1837902}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Then, you became the property of this man?", "pos": 1838672}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "No, he did not dare to keep us, so we were sold to some slave-merchants who were going to Constantinople. We traversed Greece, and arrived half dead at the imperial gates. They were surrounded by a crowd of people, who opened a way for us to pass, when suddenly my mother, having looked closely at an object which was attracting their attention, uttered a piercing cry and fell to the ground, pointing as she did so to a head which was placed over the gates, and beneath which were inscribed these words: This is the head of Ali Tepelini, Pasha of Yanina. I cried bitterly, and tried to raise my mother from the earth, but she was dead! I was taken to the slave-market, and was purchased by a rich Armenian. He caused me to be instructed, gave me masters, and when I was thirteen years of age he sold me to the Sultan Mahmoud.", "pos": 1838724}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Of whom I bought her, as I told you, Albert, with the emerald which formed a match to the one I had made into a box for the purpose of holding my hashish pills.", "pos": 1839595}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Oh, you are good, you are great, my lord! and I am very fortunate in belonging to such a master!", "pos": 1839758}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Come, finish your cup of coffee, the history is ended.", "pos": 1839968}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "We are saved!", "pos": 1844761}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Saved? by whom?", "pos": 1844793}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "By my grandfather. Oh, Morrel, pray love him for all his goodness to us! But tell me, Valentine, how has it all been effected? What strange means has he used to compass this blessed end? At some future time I will tell you all about it.", "pos": 1844880}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "But when will that be?", "pos": 1845544}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "When I am your wife.", "pos": 1845569}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Sir, it is superfluous for me to tell you that Valentine’s marriage is broken off, since it was here that the affair was concluded. But one thing I can tell you, of which I do not think you are aware; that is, that I have always been opposed to this marriage, and that the contract was entered into entirely without my consent or approbation. Now that this marriage, which I know you so much disliked, is done away with, I come to you on an errand which neither M. de Villefort nor Valentine could consistently undertake. I come to entreat you, sir, as the only one who has the right of doing so, inasmuch as I am the only one who will receive no personal benefit from the transaction,—I come to entreat you to restore, not your love, for that she has always possessed, but to restore your fortune to your granddaughter. May I hope, sir, that your intentions accord with my request? In that case, sir. I will leave you overwhelmed with gratitude and happiness at your prompt acquiescence to my wishes.", "pos": 1846410}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, baron, here I am at last; some time has elapsed since our plans were formed, and they are not yet executed.", "pos": 1849451}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "To what do you allude, monsieur?", "pos": 1849818}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah. I see you are a stickler for forms, my dear sir, and you would remind me that the ceremonial rites should not be omitted. Ma foi, I beg your pardon, but as I have but one son, and it is the first time I have ever thought of marrying him, I am still serving my apprenticeship, you know; come, I will reform. Baron, I have the honor of asking of you the hand of Mademoiselle Eugénie Danglars for my son, the Vicomte Albert de Morcerf.", "pos": 1849954}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Monsieur, it will be necessary to reflect before I give you an answer.", "pos": 1850690}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "To reflect? have you not had enough time for reflection during the eight years which have elapsed since this marriage was first discussed between us?", "pos": 1850763}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Count, things are constantly occurring in the world to induce us to lay aside our most established opinions, or at all events to cause us to remodel them according to the change of circumstances, which may have placed affairs in a totally different light to that in which we at first viewed them.", "pos": 1850957}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I do not understand you, baron,", "pos": 1851275}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "What I mean to say is this, sir,—that during the last fortnight unforeseen circumstances have occurred——", "pos": 1851323}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Excuse me, but is it a play we are acting?", "pos": 1851430}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "A play?", "pos": 1851491}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, for it is like one; pray let us come more to the point, and endeavor thoroughly to understand each other.", "pos": 1851501}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "That is quite my desire.", "pos": 1851614}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You have seen M. de Monte Cristo have you not?", "pos": 1851641}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I see him very often, he is a particular friend of mine.", "pos": 1851690}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, in one of your late conversations with him, you said that I appeared to be forgetful and irresolute concerning this marriage, did you not?", "pos": 1851786}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I did say so.", "pos": 1851933}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, here I am, proving at once that I am really neither the one nor the other, by entreating you to keep your promise on that score. Have you so soon changed your mind, or have you only provoked my request that you may have the pleasure of seeing me humbled?", "pos": 1851949}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Count, you must doubtless be surprised at my reserve, and I assure you it costs me much to act in such a manner towards you; but, believe me when I say that imperative necessity has imposed the painful task upon me.", "pos": 1852439}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "These are all so many empty words, my dear sir, they might satisfy a new acquaintance, but the Comte de Morcerf does not rank in that list; and when a man like him comes to another, recalls to him his plighted word, and this man fails to redeem the pledge, he has at least a right to exact from him a good reason for so doing.", "pos": 1852657}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I am not without a good reason for my conduct,", "pos": 1853114}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What do you mean to say?", "pos": 1853183}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I mean to say that I have a good reason, but that it is difficult to explain.", "pos": 1853210}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You must be aware, at all events, that it is impossible for me to understand motives before they are explained to me; but one thing at least is clear, which is, that you decline allying yourself with my family.", "pos": 1853290}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "No, sir. I merely suspend my decision, that is all.", "pos": 1853503}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And do you really flatter yourself that I shall yield to all your caprices, and quietly and humbly await the time of again being received into your good graces?", "pos": 1853574}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Then, count, if you will not wait, we must look upon these projects as if they had never been entertained.", "pos": 1853737}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear Danglars, we have been acquainted for many years, and consequently we ought to make some allowance for each other’s failings. You owe me an explanation, and really it is but fair that I should know what circumstance has occurred to deprive my son of your favor.", "pos": 1854359}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "It is from no personal ill-feeling towards the viscount, that is all I can say, sir,", "pos": 1854647}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And towards whom do you bear this personal ill-feeling, then?", "pos": 1854860}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "You may, perhaps, be better satisfied that I should not go farther into particulars.", "pos": 1855109}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I have a right to insist on your giving me an explanation. Is it Madame de Morcerf who has displeased you? Is it my fortune which you find insufficient? Is it because my opinions differ from yours?", "pos": 1855311}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Nothing of the kind, sir, if such had been the case, I only should have been to blame, inasmuch as I was aware of all these things when I made the engagement. No, do not seek any longer to discover the reason. I really am quite ashamed to have been the cause of your undergoing such severe self-examination; let us drop the subject, and adopt the middle course of delay, which implies neither a rupture nor an engagement. Ma foi, there is no hurry. My daughter is only seventeen years old, and your son twenty-one. While we wait, time will be progressing, events will succeed each other; things which in the evening look dark and obscure, appear but too clearly in the light of morning, and sometimes the utterance of one word, or the lapse of a single day, will reveal the most cruel calumnies.", "pos": 1855511}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Calumnies, did you say, sir? Does anyone dare to slander me?", "pos": 1856329}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Monsieur, I told you that I considered it best to avoid all explanation.", "pos": 1856434}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Then, sir, I am patiently to submit to your refusal?", "pos": 1856509}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes, sir, although I assure you the refusal is as painful for me to give as it is for you to receive, for I had reckoned on the honor of your alliance, and the breaking off of a marriage contract always injures the lady more than the gentleman.", "pos": 1856564}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Enough, sir, we will speak no more on the subject.", "pos": 1856811}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Very good, here is a little article on Colonel Fernand, which, if I am not mistaken, would render the explanation which the Comte de Morcerf required of me perfectly unnecessary.", "pos": 1857726}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Did he take Baptistin with him?", "pos": 1858335}
{"speaker": "Porter", "text": "No, my lord.", "pos": 1858369}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Call him, then; I wish to speak to him. My good friend. I beg pardon for my intrusion, but I was anxious to know from your own mouth if your master was really out or not.", "pos": 1858384}
{"speaker": "Baptistin", "text": "He is really out, sir,", "pos": 1858660}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Out, even to me?", "pos": 1858704}
{"speaker": "Baptistin", "text": "I know how happy my master always is to receive the vicomte, and I should therefore never think of including him in any general order.", "pos": 1858723}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You are right; and now I wish to see him on an affair of great importance. Do you think it will be long before he comes in?", "pos": 1858878}
{"speaker": "Baptistin", "text": "No, I think not, for he ordered his breakfast at ten o’clock.", "pos": 1859004}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, I will go and take a turn in the Champs-Élysées, and at ten o’clock I will return here; meanwhile, if the count should come in, will you beg him not to go out again without seeing me?", "pos": 1859068}
{"speaker": "Baptistin", "text": "You may depend on my doing so, sir,", "pos": 1859260}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Is the count shooting in the gallery?", "pos": 1859575}
{"speaker": "Coachman", "text": "Yes, sir,", "pos": 1859629}
{"speaker": "Lad", "text": "Excuse me, my lord, but will you have the kindness to wait a moment?", "pos": 1859787}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What for, Philip? who, being a constant visitor there, did not understand this opposition to his entrance.", "pos": 1859874}
{"speaker": "Philip", "text": "Because the person who is now in the gallery prefers being alone, and never practices in the presence of anyone.", "pos": 1859997}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Not even before you, Philip? Then who loads his pistol?", "pos": 1860112}
{"speaker": "Philip", "text": "His servant.", "pos": 1860170}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "A Nubian?", "pos": 1860185}
{"speaker": "Philip", "text": "A negro.", "pos": 1860197}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "It is he, then.", "pos": 1860208}
{"speaker": "Philip", "text": "Do you know this gentleman?", "pos": 1860226}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, and I am come to look for him; he is a friend of mine.", "pos": 1860256}
{"speaker": "Philip", "text": "Oh, that is quite another thing, then. I will go immediately and inform him of your arrival.", "pos": 1860318}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I ask your pardon, my dear count, for following you here, and I must first tell you that it was not the fault of your servants that I did so; I alone am to blame for the indiscretion. I went to your house, and they told me you were out, but that they expected you home at ten o’clock to breakfast. I was walking about in order to pass away the time till ten o’clock, when I caught sight of your carriage and horses.", "pos": 1860535}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What you have just said induces me to hope that you intend breakfasting with me.", "pos": 1860968}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No, thank you, I am thinking of other things besides breakfast just now; perhaps we may take that meal at a later hour and in worse company.", "pos": 1861058}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What on earth are you talking of?", "pos": 1861201}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I am to fight today.", "pos": 1861237}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "For what?", "pos": 1861260}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "For the sake of fighting!", "pos": 1861272}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, I understand that, but what is the quarrel? People fight for all sorts of reasons, you know.", "pos": 1861300}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I fight in the cause of honor.", "pos": 1861400}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, that is something serious.", "pos": 1861433}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "So serious, that I come to beg you to render me a service.", "pos": 1861466}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 1861527}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "To be my second.", "pos": 1861541}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That is a serious matter, and we will not discuss it here; let us speak of nothing till we get home. Ali, bring me some water.", "pos": 1861560}
{"speaker": "Philip", "text": "Come in, my lord, and I will show you something droll.", "pos": 1861831}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, ha. I see you were preparing for a game of cards.", "pos": 1862111}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No. I was making a suit.", "pos": 1862182}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "How?", "pos": 1862227}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Those are really aces and twos which you see, but my shots have turned them into threes, fives, sevens, eights, nines, and tens.", "pos": 1862247}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Diable!", "pos": 1862750}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What would you have, my dear viscount? I must occupy my leisure moments in some way or other. But come, I am waiting for you. Now let us talk the matter over quietly,", "pos": 1862774}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You see I am perfectly composed,", "pos": 1863244}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "With whom are you going to fight?", "pos": 1863292}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "With Beauchamp.", "pos": 1863328}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "One of your friends!", "pos": 1863346}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Of course; it is always with friends that one fights.", "pos": 1863369}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I suppose you have some cause of quarrel?", "pos": 1863425}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I have.", "pos": 1863469}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What has he done to you?", "pos": 1863486}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "There appeared in his journal last night—but wait, and read for yourself.", "pos": 1863513}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A correspondent at Yanina informs us of a fact of which until now we had remained in ignorance. The castle which formed the protection of the town was given up to the Turks by a French officer named Fernand, in whom the grand vizier, Ali Tepelini, had reposed the greatest confidence. Well, what do you see in that to annoy you?", "pos": 1863657}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What do I see in it?", "pos": 1864011}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; what does it signify to you if the castle of Yanina was given up by a French officer?", "pos": 1864034}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "It signifies to my father, the Count of Morcerf, whose Christian name is Fernand!", "pos": 1864127}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Did your father serve under Ali Pasha?", "pos": 1864211}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes; that is to say, he fought for the independence of the Greeks, and hence arises the calumny.", "pos": 1864252}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, my dear viscount, do talk reason!", "pos": 1864351}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I do not desire to do otherwise.", "pos": 1864391}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Now, just tell me who the devil should know in France that the officer Fernand and the Count of Morcerf are one and the same person? and who cares now about Yanina, which was taken as long ago as the year 1822 or 1823?", "pos": 1864426}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "That just shows the meanness of this slander. They have allowed all this time to elapse, and then all of a sudden rake up events which have been forgotten to furnish materials for scandal, in order to tarnish the lustre of our high position. I inherit my father’s name, and I do not choose that the shadow of disgrace should darken it. I am going to Beauchamp, in whose journal this paragraph appears, and I shall insist on his retracting the assertion before two witnesses.", "pos": 1864647}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Beauchamp will never retract.", "pos": 1865124}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Then we must fight.", "pos": 1865156}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No you will not, for he will tell you, what is very true, that perhaps there were fifty officers in the Greek army bearing the same name.", "pos": 1865178}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "We will fight, nevertheless. I will efface that blot on my father’s character. My father, who was such a brave soldier, whose career was so brilliant——", "pos": 1865318}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, well, he will add, ‘We are warranted in believing that this Fernand is not the illustrious Count of Morcerf, who also bears the same Christian name.’", "pos": 1865472}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I am determined not to be content with anything short of an entire retractation.", "pos": 1865628}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And you intend to make him do it in the presence of two witnesses, do you?", "pos": 1865711}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1865788}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You do wrong.", "pos": 1865795}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Which means, I suppose, that you refuse the service which I asked of you?", "pos": 1865811}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You know my theory regarding duels; I told you my opinion on that subject, if you remember, when we were at Rome.", "pos": 1865887}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Nevertheless, my dear count, I found you this morning engaged in an occupation but little consistent with the notions you profess to entertain.", "pos": 1866003}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Because, my dear fellow, you understand one must never be eccentric. If one’s lot is cast among fools, it is necessary to study folly. I shall perhaps find myself one day called out by some harebrained scamp, who has no more real cause of quarrel with me than you have with Beauchamp; he may take me to task for some foolish trifle or other, he will bring his witnesses, or will insult me in some public place, and I am expected to kill him for all that.", "pos": 1866149}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You admit that you would fight, then? Well, if so, why do you object to my doing so?", "pos": 1866606}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do not say that you ought not to fight, I only say that a duel is a serious thing, and ought not to be undertaken without due reflection.", "pos": 1866693}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Did he reflect before he insulted my father?", "pos": 1866835}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "If he spoke hastily, and owns that he did so, you ought to be satisfied.", "pos": 1866882}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, my dear count, you are far too indulgent.", "pos": 1866957}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And you are far too exacting. Supposing, for instance, and do not be angry at what I am going to say—— Supposing the assertion to be really true?", "pos": 1867005}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "A son ought not to submit to such a stain on his father’s honor.", "pos": 1867163}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ma foi! we live in times when there is much to which we must submit.", "pos": 1867230}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "That is precisely the fault of the age.", "pos": 1867301}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And do you undertake to reform it?", "pos": 1867343}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, as far as I am personally concerned.", "pos": 1867380}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, you are indeed exacting, my dear fellow!", "pos": 1867424}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, I own it.", "pos": 1867473}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Are you quite impervious to good advice?", "pos": 1867490}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Not when it comes from a friend.", "pos": 1867533}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And do you account me that title?", "pos": 1867568}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Certainly I do.", "pos": 1867604}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, then, before going to Beauchamp with your witnesses, seek further information on the subject.", "pos": 1867622}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "From whom?", "pos": 1867724}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "From Haydée.", "pos": 1867737}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Why, what can be the use of mixing a woman up in the affair?—what can she do in it?", "pos": 1867752}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "She can declare to you, for example, that your father had no hand whatever in the defeat and death of the vizier; or if by chance he had, indeed, the misfortune to——", "pos": 1867838}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I have told you, my dear count, that I would not for one moment admit of such a proposition.", "pos": 1868006}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You reject this means of information, then?", "pos": 1868101}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I do—most decidedly.", "pos": 1868147}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then let me offer one more word of advice.", "pos": 1868170}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Do so, then, but let it be the last.", "pos": 1868215}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You do not wish to hear it, perhaps?", "pos": 1868254}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "On the contrary, I request it.", "pos": 1868293}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do not take any witnesses with you when you go to Beauchamp—visit him alone.", "pos": 1868326}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "That would be contrary to all custom.", "pos": 1868405}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Your case is not an ordinary one.", "pos": 1868445}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And what is your reason for advising me to go alone?", "pos": 1868481}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Because then the affair will rest between you and Beauchamp.", "pos": 1868536}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Explain yourself.", "pos": 1868599}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I will do so. If Beauchamp be disposed to retract, you ought at least to give him the opportunity of doing it of his own free will,—the satisfaction to you will be the same. If, on the contrary, he refuses to do so, it will then be quite time enough to admit two strangers into your secret.", "pos": 1868619}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "They will not be strangers, they will be friends.", "pos": 1868912}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, but the friends of today are the enemies of tomorrow; Beauchamp, for instance.", "pos": 1868964}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "So you recommend——", "pos": 1869049}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I recommend you to be prudent.", "pos": 1869070}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Then you advise me to go alone to Beauchamp?", "pos": 1869103}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do, and I will tell you why. When you wish to obtain some concession from a man’s self-love, you must avoid even the appearance of wishing to wound it.", "pos": 1869150}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I believe you are right.", "pos": 1869306}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am glad of it.", "pos": 1869333}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Then I will go alone.", "pos": 1869352}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Go; but you would do better still by not going at all.", "pos": 1869376}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "That is impossible.", "pos": 1869433}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do so, then; it will be a wiser plan than the first which you proposed. My dear viscount, you must have seen before today that at all times and in all places I have been at your disposal, but the service which you have just demanded of me is one which it is out of my power to render you.", "pos": 1869455}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Why?", "pos": 1869877}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Perhaps you may know at some future period, and in the mean time I request you to excuse my declining to put you in possession of my reasons.", "pos": 1869884}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, I will have Franz and Château-Renaud; they will be the very men for it.", "pos": 1870028}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do so, then.", "pos": 1870108}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But if I do fight, you will surely not object to giving me a lesson or two in shooting and fencing?", "pos": 1870123}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That, too, is impossible.", "pos": 1870225}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What a singular being you are!—you will not interfere in anything.", "pos": 1870253}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are right—that is the principle on which I wish to act.", "pos": 1870322}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "We will say no more about it, then. Good-bye, count.", "pos": 1870384}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "This way, this way, my dear Albert! Are you out of your senses, or do you come peaceably to take breakfast with me? Try and find a seat—there is one by that geranium, which is the only thing in the room to remind me that there are other leaves in the world besides leaves of paper.", "pos": 1871086}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Beauchamp, it is of your journal that I come to speak.", "pos": 1871420}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Indeed? What do you wish to say about it?", "pos": 1871492}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I desire that a statement contained in it should be rectified.", "pos": 1871536}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "To what do you refer? But pray sit down.", "pos": 1871601}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Thank you. Will you now have the kindness to explain the nature of the statement which has displeased you? An announcement has been made which implicates the honor of a member of my family.", "pos": 1871644}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "What is it? surely you must be mistaken.", "pos": 1871881}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "The story sent you from Yanina.", "pos": 1871958}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Yanina?", "pos": 1871992}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes; really you appear to be totally ignorant of the cause which brings me here.", "pos": 1872002}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Such is really the case, I assure you, upon my honor! Baptiste, give me yesterday’s paper,", "pos": 1872085}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Here, I have brought mine with me,", "pos": 1872195}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "You see it is a serious annoyance. Is the officer referred to a relation of yours, then?", "pos": 1872336}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1872526}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Well, what do you wish me to do for you?", "pos": 1872556}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear Beauchamp, I wish you to contradict this statement.", "pos": 1872622}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Come, this matter will want a good deal of talking over; a retractation is always a serious thing, you know. Sit down, and I will read it again.", "pos": 1872741}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, you see that your paper has insulted a member of my family, and I insist on a retractation being made.", "pos": 1873014}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "You insist?", "pos": 1873161}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, I insist.", "pos": 1873175}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Permit me to remind you that you are not in the Chamber, my dear viscount.", "pos": 1873192}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Nor do I wish to be there. I repeat that I am determined to have the announcement of yesterday contradicted. You have known me long enough, you have been my friend, and therefore sufficiently intimate with me to be aware that I am likely to maintain my resolution on this point.", "pos": 1873269}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "If I have been your friend, Morcerf, your present manner of speaking would almost lead me to forget that I ever bore that title. But wait a moment, do not let us get angry, or at least not yet. You are irritated and vexed—tell me how this Fernand is related to you?", "pos": 1873690}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "He is merely my father. M. Fernand Mondego, Count of Morcerf, an old soldier who has fought in twenty battles and whose honorable scars they would denounce as badges of disgrace.", "pos": 1873958}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Is it your father? that is quite another thing. Then I can well understand your indignation, my dear Albert. I will look at it again; But the paper nowhere identifies this Fernand with your father.", "pos": 1874153}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No; but the connection will be seen by others, and therefore I will have the article contradicted.", "pos": 1874472}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Yes. When I am convinced that the statement is false.", "pos": 1874842}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What?", "pos": 1874947}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "The thing is worth looking into, and I will take pains to investigate the matter thoroughly.", "pos": 1874955}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But what is there to investigate, sir? If you do not believe that it is my father, say so immediately; and if, on the contrary, you believe it to be him, state your reasons for doing so.", "pos": 1875050}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Sir, if you came to me with the idea of demanding satisfaction, you should have gone at once to the point, and not have entertained me with the idle conversation to which I have been patiently listening for the last half hour. Am I to put this construction on your visit?", "pos": 1875469}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, if you will not consent to retract that infamous calumny.", "pos": 1875757}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Wait a moment—no threats, if you please, M. Fernand Mondego, Vicomte de Morcerf; I never allow them from my enemies, and therefore shall not put up with them from my friends. You insist on my contradicting the article relating to General Fernand, an article with which, I assure you on my word of honor, I had nothing whatever to do?", "pos": 1875822}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, I insist on it,", "pos": 1876158}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "And if I refuse to retract, you wish to fight, do you?", "pos": 1876274}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1876362}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Well, here is my answer, my dear sir. The article was not inserted by me—I was not even aware of it; but you have, by the step you have taken, called my attention to the paragraph in question, and it will remain until it shall be either contradicted or confirmed by someone who has a right to do so.", "pos": 1876404}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Sir. I will do myself the honor of sending my seconds to you, and you will be kind enough to arrange with them the place of meeting and the weapons.", "pos": 1876724}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Certainly, my dear sir.", "pos": 1876898}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And this evening, if you please, or tomorrow at the latest, we will meet.", "pos": 1876924}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "No, no, I will be on the ground at the proper time; but in my opinion (and I have a right to dictate the preliminaries, as it is I who have received the provocation)—in my opinion the time ought not to be yet. I know you to be well skilled in the management of the sword, while I am only moderately so; I know, too, that you are a good marksman—there we are about equal. I know that a duel between us two would be a serious affair, because you are brave, and I am brave also. I do not therefore wish either to kill you, or to be killed myself without a cause. Now, I am going to put a question to you, and one very much to the purpose too. Do you insist on this retractation so far as to kill me if I do not make it, although I have repeated more than once, and affirmed on my honor, that I was ignorant of the thing with which you charge me, and although I still declare that it is impossible for anyone but you to recognize the Count of Morcerf under the name of Fernand?", "pos": 1877000}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I maintain my original resolution.", "pos": 1877976}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Very well, my dear sir; then I consent to cut throats with you. But I require three weeks’ preparation; at the end of that time I shall come and say to you, ‘The assertion is false, and I retract it,’ or ‘The assertion is true,’ when I shall immediately draw the sword from its sheath, or the pistols from the case, whichever you please.", "pos": 1878013}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Three weeks! they will pass as slowly as three centuries when I am all the time suffering dishonor.", "pos": 1878353}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Had you continued to remain on amicable terms with me, I should have said, ‘Patience, my friend;’ but you have constituted yourself my enemy, therefore I say, ‘What does that signify to me, sir?’", "pos": 1878471}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, let it be three weeks then, but remember, at the expiration of that time no delay or subterfuge will justify you in——", "pos": 1878669}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "M. Albert de Morcerf. I cannot throw you out of window for three weeks—that is to say, for twenty-four days to come—nor have you any right to split my skull open till that time has elapsed. Today is the 29th of August; the 21st of September will, therefore, be the conclusion of the term agreed on, and till that time arrives—and it is the advice of a gentleman which I am about to give you—till then we will refrain from growling and barking like two dogs chained within sight of each other.", "pos": 1878811}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, there goes a happy man!", "pos": 1880150}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Am I to say what you told me? Monsieur Morrel, my grandfather, M. Noirtier, had a thousand things to say, which he told me three days ago; and now, he has sent for you, that I may repeat them to you. I will repeat them, then; and since he has chosen me as his interpreter, I will be faithful to the trust, and will not alter a word of his intentions.", "pos": 1882509}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, I am listening with the greatest impatience, speak, I beg of you.", "pos": 1883014}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "My grandfather intends leaving this house, and Barrois is looking out for suitable apartments for him in another.", "pos": 1883264}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "But you, Mademoiselle de Villefort,—you, who are necessary to M. Noirtier’s happiness——", "pos": 1883392}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I? I shall not leave my grandfather,—that is an understood thing between us. My apartment will be close to his. Now, M. de Villefort must either give his consent to this plan or his refusal; in the first case, I shall leave directly, and in the second, I shall wait till I am of age, which will be in about ten months. Then I shall be free, I shall have an independent fortune, and”—", "pos": 1883482}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "And what?", "pos": 1883892}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "And with my grandfather’s consent I shall fulfil the promise which I have made you. Have I not explained your wishes, grandpapa?", "pos": 1883921}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1884256}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Once under my grandfather’s roof, M. Morrel can visit me in the presence of my good and worthy protector, if we still feel that the union we contemplated will be likely to insure our future comfort and happiness; in that case I shall expect M. Morrel to come and claim me at my own hands. But, alas, I have heard it said that hearts inflamed by obstacles to their desire grew cold in time of security; I trust we shall never find it so in our experience!", "pos": 1884283}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, what have I ever done in my life to merit such unbounded happiness?", "pos": 1884740}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Until that time, we will conform to circumstances, and be guided by the wishes of our friends, so long as those wishes do not tend finally to separate us; in a word, and I repeat it, because it expresses all I wish to convey,—we will wait.", "pos": 1884948}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "And I swear to make all the sacrifices which this word imposes, sir, not only with resignation, but with cheerfulness.", "pos": 1885261}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Therefore, no more inconsiderate actions—no more rash projects; for you surely would not wish to compromise one who from this day regards herself as destined, honorably and happily, to bear your name? How hot you look, my good Barrois,", "pos": 1885397}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Ah, I have been running very fast, mademoiselle, but I must do M. Morrel the justice to say that he ran still faster.", "pos": 1886012}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Come, Barrois, take some of this lemonade; I see you are coveting a good draught of it.", "pos": 1886350}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "The fact is, mademoiselle. I am dying with thirst, and since you are so kind as to offer it me, I cannot say I should at all object to drinking your health in a glass of it.", "pos": 1886463}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Take some, then, and come back immediately. It is past noon, and today is Saturday; I dare say it is the doctor, grandpapa. He will come in here, and M. Morrel had better go,—do you not think so, grandpapa?", "pos": 1886655}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1887337}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Barrois. Barrois!", "pos": 1887364}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "I am coming, mademoiselle,", "pos": 1887403}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Barrois will open the door for you. And now remember one thing, Monsieur Officer, that my grandfather commands you not to take any rash or ill-advised step which would be likely to compromise our happiness.", "pos": 1887444}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I promised him to wait. I promised him to wait, and I will wait.", "pos": 1887697}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Who rang?", "pos": 1887790}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Doctor d’Avrigny,", "pos": 1887819}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "What is the matter, Barrois?", "pos": 1887885}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "He is going to fall!", "pos": 1888101}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Ah, sir, tell me what is the matter with me. I am suffering—I cannot see. A thousand fiery darts are piercing my brain. Ah, don’t touch me, pray don’t.", "pos": 1888558}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "M. d’Avrigny, M. d’Avrigny. Help, help!", "pos": 1889002}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "My master, my good master!", "pos": 1889239}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Doctor, doctor! come instantly, pray come!", "pos": 1890630}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Madame, madame! come quick, quick!—and bring your bottle of smelling-salts with you.", "pos": 1890675}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "What is the matter?", "pos": 1890840}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh! come! come!", "pos": 1890920}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "But where is the doctor? where is he?", "pos": 1890938}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "In the name of heaven, madame, where is the doctor? He was with you just now. You see this is a fit of apoplexy, and he might be saved if he could but be bled!", "pos": 1891525}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Has he eaten anything lately?", "pos": 1891705}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Madame, he has not even breakfasted. He has been running very fast on an errand with which my grandfather charged him, and when he returned, took nothing but a glass of lemonade.", "pos": 1891796}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Ah, why did he not take wine? Lemonade was a very bad thing for him.", "pos": 1891998}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Grandpapa’s bottle of lemonade was standing just by his side; poor Barrois was very thirsty, and was thankful to drink anything he could find.", "pos": 1892097}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "He has such a short neck,", "pos": 1892339}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Madame. I ask where is M. d’Avrigny? In God’s name answer me!", "pos": 1892377}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "He is with Edward, who is not quite well. Take this. They will, no doubt, bleed him; therefore I will retire, for I cannot endure the sight of blood;", "pos": 1892459}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Go away as quick as you can, Maximilian, and stay till I send for you. Go.", "pos": 1892955}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "What do you prescribe, doctor?", "pos": 1893574}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Give me some water and ether. You have some in the house, have you not?", "pos": 1893627}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1893701}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Send for some oil of turpentine and tartar emetic. And now let everyone retire.", "pos": 1893708}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Must I go too?", "pos": 1893838}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Yes, mademoiselle, you especially,", "pos": 1893880}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Look, look, doctor, he is quite coming round again; I really do not think, after all, it is anything of consequence.", "pos": 1894113}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "How do you feel, Barrois?", "pos": 1894295}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "A little better, sir.", "pos": 1894333}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Will you drink some of this ether and water?", "pos": 1894357}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "I will try; but don’t touch me.", "pos": 1894404}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 1894438}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Because I feel that if you were only to touch me with the tip of your finger the fit would return.", "pos": 1894449}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Drink. Where do you suffer?", "pos": 1894550}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Everywhere. I feel cramps over my whole body.", "pos": 1894703}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Do you find any dazzling sensation before the eyes?", "pos": 1894751}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1894805}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Any noise in the ears?", "pos": 1894812}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Frightful.", "pos": 1894837}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "When did you first feel that?", "pos": 1894857}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Just now.", "pos": 1894889}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Suddenly?", "pos": 1894901}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Yes, like a clap of thunder.", "pos": 1894913}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Did you feel nothing of it yesterday or the day before?", "pos": 1894944}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Nothing.", "pos": 1895002}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "No drowsiness?", "pos": 1895013}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "None.", "pos": 1895030}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "What have you eaten today?", "pos": 1895038}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "I have eaten nothing; I only drank a glass of my master’s lemonade—that’s all.", "pos": 1895067}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Where is this lemonade?", "pos": 1895314}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Downstairs in the decanter.", "pos": 1895366}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Whereabouts downstairs?", "pos": 1895396}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "In the kitchen.", "pos": 1895422}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Shall I go and fetch it, doctor?", "pos": 1895440}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "No, stay here and try to make Barrois drink the rest of this glass of ether and water. I will go myself and fetch the lemonade.", "pos": 1895495}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Is this the decanter you spoke of?", "pos": 1896257}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Yes, doctor.", "pos": 1896311}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Is this the same lemonade of which you partook?", "pos": 1896326}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "I believe so.", "pos": 1896376}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "What did it taste like?", "pos": 1896392}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "It had a bitter taste.", "pos": 1896418}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "It is no doubt the same. Did you drink some too, M. Noirtier?", "pos": 1896647}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1896722}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "And did you also discover a bitter taste?", "pos": 1896729}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1896773}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Oh, doctor, the fit is coming on again. Oh, do something for me.", "pos": 1896780}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "That emetic, Villefort—see if it is coming.", "pos": 1896896}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "The emetic! the emetic!—is it come yet?", "pos": 1896989}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "If I had anything by means of which I could inflate the lungs, perhaps I might prevent suffocation. But there is nothing which would do!—nothing!", "pos": 1897103}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Oh, sir, are you going to let me die without help? Oh, I am dying! Oh, save me!", "pos": 1897296}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "A pen, a pen!", "pos": 1897395}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "How do you find yourself?—well?", "pos": 1897928}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1897962}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Have you any weight on the chest; or does your stomach feel light and comfortable—eh?", "pos": 1897969}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1898057}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Then you feel pretty much as you generally do after you have had the dose which I am accustomed to give you every Sunday?", "pos": 1898064}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1898188}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Did Barrois make your lemonade?", "pos": 1898195}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1898229}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Was it you who asked him to drink some of it?", "pos": 1898236}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "No.", "pos": 1898284}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Was it M. de Villefort?", "pos": 1898290}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "No.", "pos": 1898316}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Madame?", "pos": 1898322}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "No.", "pos": 1898332}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "It was your granddaughter, then, was it not?", "pos": 1898338}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1898385}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Barrois, can you speak? Try and make an effort to do so, my good man.", "pos": 1898568}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "Who made the lemonade?", "pos": 1898759}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "I did.", "pos": 1898784}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "Did you bring it to your master directly it was made?", "pos": 1898793}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "No.", "pos": 1898849}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "You left it somewhere, then, in the meantime?", "pos": 1898855}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Yes; I left it in the pantry, because I was called away.", "pos": 1898903}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "Who brought it into this room, then?", "pos": 1898962}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Mademoiselle Valentine.", "pos": 1899001}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Gracious heaven,", "pos": 1899072}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Doctor, doctor!", "pos": 1899105}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Will they never bring that emetic?", "pos": 1899167}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Here is a glass with one already prepared,", "pos": 1899222}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Who prepared it?", "pos": 1899302}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "The chemist who came here with me.", "pos": 1899321}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Drink it,", "pos": 1899365}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Impossible, doctor; it is too late; my throat is closing up. I am choking! Oh, my heart! Ah, my head!—Oh, what agony!—Shall I suffer like this long?", "pos": 1899405}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "No, no, friend, you will soon cease to suffer.", "pos": 1899556}
{"speaker": "Barrois", "text": "Ah, I understand you. My God, have mercy upon me!", "pos": 1899627}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Well?", "pos": 1899862}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Go to the kitchen and get me some syrup of violets. Do not be alarmed, M. Noirtier. I am going to take my patient into the next room to bleed him; this sort of attack is very frightful to witness.", "pos": 1899886}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "You want Valentine, do you not? I will tell them to send her to you.", "pos": 1900296}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Well, how is he now?", "pos": 1900425}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Come in here,", "pos": 1900458}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Is he still in a fit?", "pos": 1900547}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "He is dead.", "pos": 1900591}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Dead?—and so soon too!", "pos": 1900708}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Yes, it is very soon, but that ought not to astonish you; Monsieur and Madame de Saint-Méran died as soon. People die very suddenly in your house, M. de Villefort.", "pos": 1900733}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "What? are you still harping on that terrible idea?", "pos": 1900952}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Still, sir; and I shall always do so, for it has never for one instant ceased to retain possession of my mind; and that you may be quite sure I am not mistaken this time, listen well to what I am going to say, M. de Villefort. There is a poison which destroys life almost without leaving any perceptible traces. I know it well; I have studied it in all its forms and in the effects which it produces. I recognized the presence of this poison in the case of poor Barrois as well as in that of Madame de Saint-Méran. There is a way of detecting its presence. It restores the blue color of litmus-paper reddened by an acid, and it turns syrup of violets green. We have no litmus-paper, but, see, here they come with the syrup of violets. Look, here is in this cup some syrup of violets, and this decanter contains the remainder of the lemonade of which M. Noirtier and Barrois partook. If the lemonade be pure and inoffensive, the syrup will retain its color; if, on the contrary, the lemonade be drugged with poison, the syrup will become green. Look closely! The unfortunate Barrois has been poisoned, and I will maintain this assertion before God and man.", "pos": 1901073}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Oh, death is in my house!", "pos": 1903303}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Say, rather, crime!", "pos": 1903348}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "M. d’Avrigny. I cannot tell you all I feel at this moment,—terror, grief, madness.", "pos": 1903390}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Yes, but I think it is now time to act. I think it is time to stop this torrent of mortality. I can no longer bear to be in possession of these secrets without the hope of seeing the victims and society generally revenged.", "pos": 1903494}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "In my house, in my house!", "pos": 1903808}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Come, magistrate, show yourself a man; as an interpreter of the law, do honor to your profession by sacrificing your selfish interests to it.", "pos": 1903851}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You make me shudder, doctor. Do you talk of a sacrifice?", "pos": 1904016}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "I do.", "pos": 1904075}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Do you then suspect anyone?", "pos": 1904083}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "I suspect no one; death raps at your door—it enters—it goes, not blindfolded, but circumspectly, from room to room. Well, I follow its course, I track its passage; I adopt the wisdom of the ancients, and feel my way, for my friendship for your family and my respect for you are as a twofold bandage over my eyes; well——", "pos": 1904113}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Oh, speak, speak, doctor; I shall have courage.", "pos": 1904435}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Well, sir, you have in your establishment, or in your family, perhaps, one of the frightful monstrosities of which each century produces only one. Locusta and Agrippina, living at the same time, were an exception, and proved the determination of Providence to effect the entire ruin of the Roman empire, sullied by so many crimes. Brunhilda and Fredegund were the results of the painful struggle of civilization in its infancy, when man was learning to control mind, were it even by an emissary from the realms of darkness. All these women had been, or were, beautiful. The same flower of innocence had flourished, or was still flourishing, on their brow, that is seen on the brow of the culprit in your house. ‘Seek whom the crime will profit,’ says an axiom of jurisprudence.", "pos": 1904485}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Doctor, alas, doctor, how often has man’s justice been deceived by those fatal words. I know not why, but I feel that this crime——", "pos": 1905400}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "You acknowledge, then, the existence of the crime?", "pos": 1905552}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes, I see too plainly that it does exist. But it seems that it is intended to affect me personally. I fear an attack myself, after all these disasters.", "pos": 1905605}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Oh, man! the most selfish of all animals, the most personal of all creatures, who believes the earth turns, the sun shines, and death strikes for him alone,—an ant cursing God from the top of a blade of grass! And have those who have lost their lives lost nothing?—M. de Saint-Méran, Madame de Saint-Méran, M. Noirtier——", "pos": 1905760}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "How? M. Noirtier?", "pos": 1906105}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Yes; think you it was the poor servant’s life was coveted? No, no; like Shakespeare’s Polonius, he died for another. It was Noirtier the lemonade was intended for—it is Noirtier, logically speaking, who drank it. The other drank it only by accident, and, although Barrois is dead, it was Noirtier whose death was wished for.", "pos": 1906125}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "But why did it not kill my father?", "pos": 1906452}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "I told you one evening in the garden after Madame de Saint-Méran’s death—because his system is accustomed to that very poison, and the dose was trifling to him, which would be fatal to another; because no one knows, not even the assassin, that, for the last twelve months, I have given M. Noirtier brucine for his paralytic affection, while the assassin is not ignorant, for he has proved that brucine is a violent poison.", "pos": 1906489}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Oh, have pity—have pity!", "pos": 1906914}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Follow the culprit’s steps; he first kills M. de Saint-Méran——", "pos": 1906981}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Oh, doctor!", "pos": 1907046}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "I would swear to it; what I heard of his symptoms agrees too well with what I have seen in the other cases. He first kills M. de Saint-Méran, then Madame de Saint-Méran,—a double fortune to inherit.", "pos": 1907060}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Alas. I do not lose a single word.", "pos": 1907406}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "M. Noirtier. M. Noirtier had once made a will against you—against your family—in favor of the poor, in fact; M. Noirtier is spared, because nothing is expected from him. But he has no sooner destroyed his first will and made a second, than, for fear he should make a third, he is struck down. The will was made the day before yesterday, I believe; you see there has been no time lost.", "pos": 1907466}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Oh, mercy, M. d’Avrigny!", "pos": 1907903}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "No mercy, sir! The physician has a sacred mission on earth; and to fulfil it he begins at the source of life, and goes down to the mysterious darkness of the tomb. When crime has been committed, and God, doubtless in anger, turns away his face, it is for the physician to bring the culprit to justice.", "pos": 1907930}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Have mercy on my child, sir,", "pos": 1908241}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "You see it is yourself who have first named her—you, her father.", "pos": 1908292}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Have pity on Valentine! Listen, it is impossible. I would as willingly accuse myself! Valentine, whose heart is pure as a diamond or a lily!", "pos": 1908359}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "No pity, procureur; the crime is fragrant. Mademoiselle herself packed all the medicines which were sent to M. de Saint-Méran; and M. de Saint-Méran is dead. Mademoiselle de Villefort prepared all the cooling draughts which Madame de Saint-Méran took, and Madame de Saint-Méran is dead. Mademoiselle de Villefort took from the hands of Barrois, who was sent out, the lemonade which M. Noirtier had every morning, and he has escaped by a miracle. Mademoiselle de Villefort is the culprit—she is the poisoner! To you, as the king’s attorney, I denounce Mademoiselle de Villefort, do your duty.", "pos": 1908502}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Doctor, I resist no longer—I can no longer defend myself—I believe you; but, for pity’s sake, spare my life, my honor!", "pos": 1909096}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "M. de Villefort, there are occasions when I dispense with all foolish human circumspection. If your daughter had committed only one crime, and I saw her meditating another, I would say ‘Warn her, punish her, let her pass the remainder of her life in a convent, weeping and praying.’ If she had committed two crimes, I would say, ‘Here, M. de Villefort, is a poison that the prisoner is not acquainted with,—one that has no known antidote, quick as thought, rapid as lightning, mortal as the thunderbolt; give her that poison, recommending her soul to God, and save your honor and your life, for it is yours she aims at; and I can picture her approaching your pillow with her hypocritical smiles and her sweet exhortations. Woe to you, M. de Villefort, if you do not strike first!’ This is what I would say had she only killed two persons but she has seen three deaths,—has contemplated three murdered persons,—has knelt by three corpses! To the scaffold with the poisoner—to the scaffold! Do you talk of your honor? Do what I tell you, and immortality awaits you!", "pos": 1909217}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Listen. I have not the strength of mind you have, or rather that which you would not have, if instead of my daughter Valentine your daughter Madeleine were concerned. Doctor, every son of woman is born to suffer and to die; I am content to suffer and to await death.", "pos": 1910360}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Beware, it may come slowly; you will see it approach after having struck your father, your wife, perhaps your son.", "pos": 1910666}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Listen, pity me—help me! No, my daughter is not guilty. If you drag us both before a tribunal I will still say, ‘No, my daughter is not guilty;—there is no crime in my house. I will not acknowledge a crime in my house; for when crime enters a dwelling, it is like death—it does not come alone.’ Listen. What does it signify to you if I am murdered? Are you my friend? Are you a man? Have you a heart? No, you are a physician! Well, I tell you I will not drag my daughter before a tribunal, and give her up to the executioner! The bare idea would kill me—would drive me like a madman to dig my heart out with my finger-nails! And if you were mistaken, doctor—if it were not my daughter—if I should come one day, pale as a spectre, and say to you, ‘Assassin, you have killed my child!’—hold—if that should happen, although I am a Christian, M. d’Avrigny, I should kill myself.", "pos": 1910861}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Well. I will wait. Only, if anyone falls ill in your house, if you feel yourself attacked, do not send for me, for I will come no more. I will consent to share this dreadful secret with you, but I will not allow shame and remorse to grow and increase in my conscience, as crime and misery will in your house.", "pos": 1911750}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Then you abandon me, doctor?", "pos": 1912219}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Yes, for I can follow you no farther, and I only stop at the foot of the scaffold. Some further discovery will be made, which will bring this dreadful tragedy to a close. Adieu.", "pos": 1912250}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I entreat you, doctor!", "pos": 1912430}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "All the horrors that disturb my thoughts make your house odious and fatal. Adieu, sir.", "pos": 1912455}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "One word—one single word more, doctor! You go, leaving me in all the horror of my situation, after increasing it by what you have revealed to me. But what will be reported of the sudden death of the poor old servant?", "pos": 1912544}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "True, we will return. Sir, poor Barrois has led too sedentary a life of late; accustomed formerly to ride on horseback, or in the carriage, to the four corners of Europe, the monotonous walk around that armchair has killed him—his blood has thickened. He was stout, had a short, thick neck; he was attacked with apoplexy, and I was called in too late. By the way, take care to throw away that cup of syrup of violets in the ashes.", "pos": 1912763}
{"speaker": "servants", "text": "We must go, for death is in this house.", "pos": 1913885}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Are you not rather young, M. Andrea, to think of marrying?", "pos": 1915646}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "I think not, sir, in Italy the nobility generally marry young. Life is so uncertain, that we ought to secure happiness while it is within our reach.", "pos": 1915707}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Well, sir, in case your proposals, which do me honor, are accepted by my wife and daughter, by whom shall the preliminary arrangements be settled? So important a negotiation should, I think, be conducted by the respective fathers of the young people.", "pos": 1915883}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "Sir, my father is a man of great foresight and prudence. Thinking that I might wish to settle in France, he left me at his departure, together with the papers establishing my identity, a letter promising, if he approved of my choice, 150,000 livres per annum from the day I was married. So far as I can judge, I suppose this to be a quarter of my father’s revenue.", "pos": 1916153}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I, have always intended giving my daughter 500,000 francs as her dowry; she is, besides, my sole heiress.", "pos": 1916520}
{"speaker": "Major Cavalcanti", "text": "All would then be easily arranged if the baroness and her daughter are willing. We should command an annuity of 175,000 livres. Supposing, also, I should persuade the marquis to give me my capital, which is not likely, but still is possible, we would place these two or three millions in your hands, whose talent might make it realize ten per cent.", "pos": 1916645}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I never give more than four per cent, and generally only three and a half; but to my son-in-law I would give five, and we would share the profits.", "pos": 1916995}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Very good, father-in-law. Excuse me, sir; hope alone makes me almost mad,—what will not reality do?", "pos": 1917144}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "But, there is, doubtless, a part of your fortune your father could not refuse you?", "pos": 1917435}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Which?", "pos": 1917672}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "That you inherit from your mother.", "pos": 1917702}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Truly, from my mother, Leonora Corsinari.", "pos": 1917739}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "How much may it amount to?", "pos": 1917783}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Indeed, sir. I assure you I have never given the subject a thought, but I suppose it must have been at least two millions. Well, sir, may I hope?", "pos": 1917812}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "You may not only hope, but consider it a settled thing, if no obstacle arises on your part.", "pos": 1918235}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "I am, indeed, rejoiced. But", "pos": 1918346}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "how is it that your patron, M. de Monte Cristo, did not make his proposal for you?", "pos": 1918420}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "I have just left the count, sir, he is, doubtless, a delightful man but inconceivably peculiar in his ideas. He esteems me highly. He even told me he had not the slightest doubt that my father would give me the capital instead of the interest of my property. He has promised to use his influence to obtain it for me; but he also declared that he never had taken on himself the responsibility of making proposals for another, and he never would. I must, however, do him the justice to add that he assured me if ever he had regretted the repugnance he felt to such a step it was on this occasion, because he thought the projected union would be a happy and suitable one. Besides, if he will do nothing officially, he will answer any questions you propose to him. And now, having finished talking to the father-in-law, I must address myself to the banker. That the day after tomorrow I shall have to draw upon you for about four thousand francs; but the count, expecting my bachelor’s revenue could not suffice for the coming month’s outlay, has offered me a draft for twenty thousand francs. It bears his signature, as you see, which is all-sufficient.", "pos": 1918535}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Bring me a million such as that. I shall be well pleased. Fix your own hour for tomorrow, and my cashier shall call on you with a check for eighty thousand francs.", "pos": 1919831}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "At ten o’clock then, if you please; I should like it early, as I am going into the country tomorrow.", "pos": 1920049}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Very well, at ten o’clock; you are still at the Hôtel des Princes?", "pos": 1920152}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes. Sir, that man has been here. What man? Him to whom your excellency pays that little annuity. Oh, my father’s old servant. Well, you gave him the two hundred francs I had left for him? Yes, your excellency. But, he would not take them. What? he would not take them? Give it me. You know where I live; I expect you tomorrow morning at nine o’clock. Very well. Poor man, he is a worthy creature. Take out the horses quickly, and come up to me. You are about my height, Pierre,", "pos": 1920221}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I have that honor, your excellency.", "pos": 1922167}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "You had a new livery yesterday?", "pos": 1922205}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, sir.", "pos": 1922239}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "I have an engagement with a pretty little girl for this evening, and do not wish to be known; lend me your livery till tomorrow. I may sleep, perhaps, at an inn. For whom are you looking, my fine fellow? Monsieur Pailletin, if you please, my good woman,", "pos": 1922251}
{"speaker": "fruteress", "text": "A retired baker?", "pos": 1923035}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Exactly.", "pos": 1923076}
{"speaker": "fruteress", "text": "He lives at the end of the yard, on the left, on the third story.", "pos": 1923087}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Ah! you are punctual. Confound you and your punctuality!", "pos": 1923407}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Come, come, my little fellow, don’t be angry. See, I have thought about you—look at the good breakfast we are going to have; nothing but what you are fond of.", "pos": 1923632}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "What do you think of it, my little fellow? Ay, that smells good! You know I used to be a good cook; do you recollect how you used to lick your fingers? You were among the first who tasted any of my dishes, and I think you relished them tolerably.", "pos": 1924472}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "But, by my faith, if it was only to breakfast with you, that you disturbed me, I wish the devil had taken you!", "pos": 1924809}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "My boy, one can talk while eating. And then, you ungrateful being, you are not pleased to see an old friend? I am weeping with joy.", "pos": 1924953}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Hold your tongue, hypocrite, you love me!", "pos": 1925302}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yes, I do, or may the devil take me. I know it is a weakness, but it overpowers me.", "pos": 1925361}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "And yet it has not prevented your sending for me to play me some trick.", "pos": 1925466}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Come, if I did not like you, do you think I should endure the wretched life you lead me? Think for a moment. You have your servant’s clothes on—you therefore keep a servant; I have none, and am obliged to prepare my own meals. You abuse my cookery because you dine at the table d’hôte of the Hôtel des Princes, or the Café de Paris. Well, I too could keep a servant; I too could have a tilbury; I too could dine where I like; but why do I not? Because I would not annoy my little Benedetto. Come, just acknowledge that I could, eh?", "pos": 1925540}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well, admitting your love, why do you want me to breakfast with you?", "pos": 1926216}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "That I may have the pleasure of seeing you, my little fellow.", "pos": 1926302}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "What is the use of seeing me after we have made all our arrangements?", "pos": 1926366}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Eh, dear friend, are wills ever made without codicils? But you first came to breakfast, did you not? Well, sit down, and let us begin with these pilchards, and this fresh butter; which I have put on some vine-leaves to please you, wicked one. Ah, yes; you look at my room, my four straw chairs, my images, three francs each. But what do you expect? This is not the Hôtel des Princes.", "pos": 1926438}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Come, you are growing discontented, you are no longer happy; you, who only wish to live like a retired baker.", "pos": 1926843}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Well, what have you to say? you have seen your dream realized. I can still say it is a dream; a retired baker, my poor Benedetto, is rich—he has an annuity.", "pos": 1926974}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well, you have an annuity.", "pos": 1927135}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I have? Yes, since I bring you your two hundred francs. It is humiliating, thus to receive money given grudgingly,—an uncertain supply which may soon fail. You see I am obliged to economize, in case your prosperity should cease. Well, my friend, fortune is inconstant, as the chaplain of the regiment said. I know your prosperity is great, you rascal; you are to marry the daughter of Danglars.", "pos": 1927164}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "What? of Danglars?", "pos": 1927618}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yes, to be sure; must I say Baron Danglars? I might as well say Count Benedetto. He was an old friend of mine and if he had not so bad a memory he ought to invite me to your wedding, seeing he came to mine. Yes, yes, to mine; gad, he was not so proud then,—he was an under-clerk to the good M. Morrel. I have dined many times with him and the Count of Morcerf, so you see I have some high connections and were I to cultivate them a little, we might meet in the same drawing-rooms.", "pos": 1927639}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Come, your jealousy represents everything to you in the wrong light.", "pos": 1928122}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "That is all very fine, Benedetto mio, but I know what I am saying. Perhaps I may one day put on my best coat, and presenting myself at the great gate, introduce myself. Meanwhile let us sit down and eat. Ah, mate, you are getting on better terms with your old landlord!", "pos": 1928193}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Faith, yes,", "pos": 1928726}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "So you like it, you rogue?", "pos": 1928805}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "So much that I wonder how a man who can cook thus can complain of hard living.", "pos": 1928834}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Do you see, all my happiness is marred by one thought?", "pos": 1928915}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 1928991}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "That I am dependent on another, I who have always gained my own livelihood honestly.", "pos": 1929007}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Do not let that disturb you, I have enough for two.", "pos": 1929094}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "No, truly; you may believe me if you will; at the end of every month I am tormented by remorse.", "pos": 1929148}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Good Caderousse!", "pos": 1929246}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "So much so, that yesterday I would not take the two hundred francs.", "pos": 1929265}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes, you wished to speak to me; but was it indeed remorse, tell me?", "pos": 1929335}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "True remorse; and, besides, an idea had struck me. It is miserable—do you see?—always to wait till the end of the month.", "pos": 1929405}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Oh, does not life pass in waiting? Do I, for instance, fare better? Well, I wait patiently, do I not?", "pos": 1929588}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yes; because instead of expecting two hundred wretched francs, you expect five or six thousand, perhaps ten, perhaps even twelve, for you take care not to let anyone know the utmost. Down there, you always had little presents and Christmas-boxes, which you tried to hide from your poor friend Caderousse. Fortunately he is a cunning fellow, that friend Caderousse.", "pos": 1929767}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "There you are beginning again to ramble, to talk again and again of the past! But what is the use of teasing me with going all over that again?", "pos": 1930134}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah, you are only one-and-twenty, and can forget the past; I am fifty, and am obliged to recollect it. But let us return to business.", "pos": 1930280}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1930415}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I was going to say, if I were in your place——", "pos": 1930422}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well.", "pos": 1930470}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I would realize——", "pos": 1930478}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "How would you realize?", "pos": 1930498}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I would ask for six months’ in advance, under pretence of being able to purchase a farm, then with my six months I would decamp.", "pos": 1930523}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well, well, that isn’t a bad idea.", "pos": 1930654}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "My dear friend, eat of my bread, and take my advice; you will be none the worse off, physically or morally.", "pos": 1930706}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "But, why do you not act on the advice you gave me? Why do you not realize a six months’, a year’s advance even, and retire to Brussels? Instead of living the retired baker, you might live as a bankrupt, using his privileges; that would be very good.", "pos": 1930835}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "But how the devil would you have me retire on twelve hundred francs?", "pos": 1931102}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Ah, Caderousse, how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.", "pos": 1931173}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "The appetite grows by what it feeds on. And. I have formed a plan.", "pos": 1931271}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Caderousse’s plans alarmed Andrea still more than his ideas; ideas were but the germ, the plan was reality. Let me see your plan; I dare say it is a pretty one.", "pos": 1931515}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Why not? Who formed the plan by which we left the establishment of M——! eh? was it not I? and it was no bad one I believe, since here we are!", "pos": 1931679}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "I do not say, that you never make a good one; but let us see your plan.", "pos": 1931823}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Well, can you without expending one sou, put me in the way of getting fifteen thousand francs? No, fifteen thousand are not enough,—I cannot again become an honest man with less than thirty thousand francs.", "pos": 1931915}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "No, no, I cannot.", "pos": 1932146}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I do not think you understand me. I said without your laying out a sou.", "pos": 1932191}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Do you want me to commit a robbery, to spoil all my good fortune—and yours with mine—and both of us to be dragged down there again?", "pos": 1932295}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "It would make very little difference to me, if I were retaken, I am a poor creature to live alone, and sometimes pine for my old comrades; not like you, heartless creature, who would be glad never to see them again.", "pos": 1932429}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Come, Caderousse, no nonsense!", "pos": 1932722}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Don’t alarm yourself, my little Benedetto, but just point out to me some means of gaining those thirty thousand francs without your assistance, and I will contrive it.", "pos": 1932764}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well, I’ll see—I’ll try to contrive some way,", "pos": 1932934}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Meanwhile you will raise my monthly allowance to five hundred francs, my little fellow? I have a fancy, and mean to get a housekeeper.", "pos": 1932995}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well, you shall have your five hundred francs, but it is very hard for me, my poor Caderousse—you take advantage——", "pos": 1933132}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Bah, when you have access to countless stores.", "pos": 1933264}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "True, and my protector is very kind.", "pos": 1933460}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "That dear protector, and how much does he give you monthly?", "pos": 1933513}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Five thousand francs.", "pos": 1933594}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "As many thousands as you give me hundreds! Truly, it is only bastards who are thus fortunate. Five thousand francs per month! What the devil can you do with all that?", "pos": 1933618}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Oh, it is no trouble to spend that; and I am like you, I want capital.", "pos": 1933787}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Capital?—yes—I understand—everyone would like capital.", "pos": 1933860}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well, and I shall get it.", "pos": 1933917}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Who will give it to you—your prince?", "pos": 1933945}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes, my prince. But unfortunately I must wait.", "pos": 1933984}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "You must wait for what?", "pos": 1934040}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "For his death.", "pos": 1934084}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "The death of your prince?", "pos": 1934101}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1934129}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "How so?", "pos": 1934136}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Because he has made his will in my favor.", "pos": 1934146}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Indeed?", "pos": 1934190}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "On my honor.", "pos": 1934200}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "For how much?", "pos": 1934215}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "For five hundred thousand.", "pos": 1934231}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Only that? It’s little enough.", "pos": 1934260}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "But so it is.", "pos": 1934293}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "No, it cannot be!", "pos": 1934309}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Are you my friend, Caderousse?", "pos": 1934329}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yes, in life or death.", "pos": 1934362}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well, I will tell you a secret.", "pos": 1934387}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 1934421}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "But remember——", "pos": 1934435}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah! pardieu! mute as a carp.", "pos": 1934452}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well, I think—— I think I have discovered my father.", "pos": 1934483}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Your true father?", "pos": 1934623}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1934643}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Not old Cavalcanti?", "pos": 1934650}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "No, for he has gone again; the true one, as you say.", "pos": 1934672}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "And that father is——", "pos": 1934727}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well, Caderousse, it is Monte Cristo.", "pos": 1934750}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Bah!", "pos": 1934790}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes, you understand, that explains all. He cannot acknowledge me openly, it appears, but he does it through M. Cavalcanti, and gives him fifty thousand francs for it.", "pos": 1934797}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Fifty thousand francs for being your father? I would have done it for half that, for twenty thousand, for fifteen thousand; why did you not think of me, ungrateful man?", "pos": 1934965}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Did I know anything about it, when it was all done when I was down there?", "pos": 1935136}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah, truly? And you say that by his will——", "pos": 1935212}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "He leaves me five hundred thousand livres.", "pos": 1935256}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Are you sure of it?", "pos": 1935301}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "He showed it me; but that is not all—there is a codicil, as I said just now.", "pos": 1935323}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Probably.", "pos": 1935402}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "And in that codicil he acknowledges me.", "pos": 1935414}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Oh, the good father, the brave father, the very honest father!", "pos": 1935456}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Now, say if I conceal anything from you?", "pos": 1935589}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "No, and your confidence makes you honorable in my opinion; and your princely father, is he rich, very rich?", "pos": 1935632}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, he is that; he does not himself know the amount of his fortune.", "pos": 1935742}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is it possible?", "pos": 1935813}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is evident enough to me, who am always at his house. The other day a banker’s clerk brought him fifty thousand francs in a portfolio about the size of your plate; yesterday his banker brought him a hundred thousand francs in gold.", "pos": 1935831}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And you go into that house?", "pos": 1936214}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When I like.", "pos": 1936262}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How I should like to see all that,", "pos": 1936409}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "how beautiful it must be!", "pos": 1936456}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "It is, in fact, magnificent,", "pos": 1936484}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And does he not live in the Champs-Élysées?", "pos": 1936528}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, No. 30.", "pos": 1936574}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah. No. 30.", "pos": 1936589}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, a fine house standing alone, between a courtyard and a garden,—you must know it.", "pos": 1936622}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Possibly; but it is not the exterior I care for, it is the interior. What beautiful furniture there must be in it!", "pos": 1936710}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Have you ever seen the Tuileries?", "pos": 1936827}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "No.", "pos": 1936863}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, it surpasses that.", "pos": 1936869}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "It must be worth one’s while to stoop, Andrea, when that good M. Monte Cristo lets fall his purse.", "pos": 1936896}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "It is not worthwhile to wait for that,", "pos": 1936997}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "money is as plentiful in that house as fruit in an orchard.", "pos": 1937051}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "But you should take me there one day with you.", "pos": 1937113}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How can I? On what plea?", "pos": 1937162}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "You are right; but you have made my mouth water. I must absolutely see it; I shall find a way.", "pos": 1937189}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No nonsense, Caderousse!", "pos": 1937286}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I will offer myself as floor-polisher.", "pos": 1937313}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The rooms are all carpeted.", "pos": 1937354}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Well, then, I must be contented to imagine it.", "pos": 1937384}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is the best plan, believe me.", "pos": 1937433}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Try, at least, to give me an idea of what it is.", "pos": 1937470}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How can I?", "pos": 1937521}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Nothing is easier. Is it large?", "pos": 1937534}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Middling.", "pos": 1937568}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "How is it arranged?", "pos": 1937580}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Faith, I should require pen, ink, and paper to make a plan.", "pos": 1937602}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "They are all here. Here, draw me all that on the paper, my boy.", "pos": 1937664}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The house, as I said, is between the court and the garden; in this way, do you see?", "pos": 1937910}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "High walls?", "pos": 1938052}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not more than eight or ten feet.", "pos": 1938066}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "That is not prudent,", "pos": 1938101}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In the court are orange-trees in pots, turf, and clumps of flowers.", "pos": 1938141}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "And no steel-traps?", "pos": 1938211}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No.", "pos": 1938233}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "The stables?", "pos": 1938239}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are on either side of the gate, which you see there.", "pos": 1938254}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Let us see the ground floor,", "pos": 1938340}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On the ground floor, dining-room, two drawing-rooms, billiard-room, staircase in the hall, and a little back staircase.", "pos": 1938388}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Windows?", "pos": 1938510}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Magnificent windows, so beautiful, so large, that I believe a man of your size should pass through each frame.", "pos": 1938521}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Why the devil have they any stairs with such windows?", "pos": 1938634}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Luxury has everything.", "pos": 1938690}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "But shutters?", "pos": 1938715}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, but they are never used. That Count of Monte Cristo is an original, who loves to look at the sky even at night.", "pos": 1938731}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "And where do the servants sleep?", "pos": 1938850}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, they have a house to themselves. Picture to yourself a pretty coach-house at the right-hand side where the ladders are kept. Well, over that coach-house are the servants’ rooms, with bells corresponding with the different apartments.", "pos": 1938885}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah, diable! bells did you say?", "pos": 1939125}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What do you mean?", "pos": 1939158}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Oh, nothing! I only say they cost a load of money to hang, and what is the use of them, I should like to know?", "pos": 1939178}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There used to be a dog let loose in the yard at night, but it has been taken to the house at Auteuil, to that you went to, you know.", "pos": 1939291}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1939426}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was saying to him only yesterday, ‘You are imprudent, Monsieur Count; for when you go to Auteuil and take your servants the house is left unprotected.’ ‘Well,’ said he, ‘what next?’ ‘Well, next, some day you will be robbed.’", "pos": 1939433}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "What did he answer?", "pos": 1939662}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He quietly said, ‘What do I care if I am?’", "pos": 1939684}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Andrea, he has some secretaire with a spring.", "pos": 1939729}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "How do you know?", "pos": 1939777}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, which catches the thief in a trap and plays a tune. I was told there were such at the last exhibition.", "pos": 1939796}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He has simply a mahogany secretaire, in which the key is always kept.", "pos": 1939906}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "And he is not robbed?", "pos": 1939978}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No; his servants are all devoted to him.", "pos": 1940002}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "There ought to be some money in that secretaire?", "pos": 1940045}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There may be. No one knows what there is.", "pos": 1940096}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "And where is it?", "pos": 1940140}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On the first floor.", "pos": 1940159}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Sketch me the plan of that floor, as you have done of the ground floor, my boy.", "pos": 1940181}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is very simple.", "pos": 1940263}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On the first story, do you see, there is the anteroom and the drawing-room; to the right of the drawing-room, a library and a study; to the left, a bedroom and a dressing-room. The famous secretaire is in the dressing-room.", "pos": 1940307}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Is there a window in the dressing-room?", "pos": 1940533}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Two,—one here and one there.", "pos": 1940575}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Does he often go to Auteuil?", "pos": 1940782}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Two or three times a week. Tomorrow, for instance, he is going to spend the day and night there.", "pos": 1940823}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Are you sure of it?", "pos": 1940922}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He has invited me to dine there.", "pos": 1940944}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "There’s a life for you, a town house and a country house.", "pos": 1940979}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is what it is to be rich.", "pos": 1941058}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "And shall you dine there?", "pos": 1941091}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Probably.", "pos": 1941119}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "When you dine there, do you sleep there?", "pos": 1941131}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If I like; I am at home there.", "pos": 1941174}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "When do you want your twelve hundred francs?", "pos": 1941395}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now, if you have them.", "pos": 1941465}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yellow boys? no, I thank you.", "pos": 1941541}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, you despise them.", "pos": 1941592}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "On the contrary, I esteem them, but will not have them.", "pos": 1941616}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You can change them, idiot; gold is worth five sous.", "pos": 1941674}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Exactly; and he who changes them will follow friend Caderousse, lay hands on him, and demand what farmers pay him their rent in gold. No nonsense, my good fellow; silver simply, round coins with the head of some monarch or other on them. Anybody may possess a five-franc piece.", "pos": 1941729}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But do you suppose I carry five hundred francs about with me? I should want a porter.", "pos": 1942009}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Well, leave them with your porter; he is to be trusted. I will call for them.", "pos": 1942097}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Today?", "pos": 1942177}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "No, tomorrow; I shall not have time today.", "pos": 1942186}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, tomorrow I will leave them when I go to Auteuil.", "pos": 1942231}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "May I depend on it?", "pos": 1942288}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 1942310}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Because I shall secure my housekeeper on the strength of it.", "pos": 1942323}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now see here, will that be all? Eh? And will you not torment me any more?", "pos": 1942386}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Never. How sprightly you are. One would say you were already in possession of your property.", "pos": 1942462}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, unfortunately; but when I do obtain it——", "pos": 1942714}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Well?", "pos": 1942761}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall remember old friends, I can tell you that.", "pos": 1942769}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yes, since you have such a good memory.", "pos": 1942822}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What do you want? It looks as if you were trying to fleece me?", "pos": 1942864}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I? What an idea! I, who am going to give you another piece of good advice.", "pos": 1942929}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 1943006}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To leave behind you the diamond you have on your finger. We shall both get into trouble. You will ruin both yourself and me by your folly.", "pos": 1943020}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How so?", "pos": 1943161}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "How? You put on a livery, you disguise yourself as a servant, and yet keep a diamond on your finger worth four or five thousand francs.", "pos": 1943184}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You guess well.", "pos": 1943322}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I know something of diamonds; I have had some.", "pos": 1943340}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You do well to boast of it,", "pos": 1943389}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do not be angry, we can try it.", "pos": 1943730}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Confiteor! I was mistaken; but those thieves of jewellers imitate so well that it is no longer worthwhile to rob a jeweller’s shop—it is another branch of industry paralyzed.", "pos": 1943846}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Have you finished?", "pos": 1944084}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "do you want anything more?—will you have my waistcoat or my hat? Make free, now you have begun.", "pos": 1944118}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "No; you are, after all, a good companion; I will not detain you, and will try to cure myself of my ambition.", "pos": 1944216}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But take care the same thing does not happen to you in selling the diamond you feared with the gold.", "pos": 1944327}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I shall not sell it—do not fear.", "pos": 1944430}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at least till the day after tomorrow,", "pos": 1944465}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Happy rogue,", "pos": 1944532}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "you are going to find your servants, your horses, your carriage, and your betrothed!", "pos": 1944564}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1944651}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Well, I hope you will make a handsome wedding-present the day you marry Mademoiselle Danglars.", "pos": 1944671}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have already told you it is a fancy you have taken in your head.", "pos": 1944768}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "What fortune has she?", "pos": 1944837}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But I tell you——", "pos": 1944861}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "A million?", "pos": 1944880}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Thank you,", "pos": 1945008}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Oh, I wish it you with all my heart! Stop, let me show you the way.", "pos": 1945041}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is not worthwhile.", "pos": 1945153}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yes, it is.", "pos": 1945177}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why?", "pos": 1945191}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Because there is a little secret, a precaution I thought it desirable to take, one of Huret & Fichet’s locks, revised and improved by Gaspard Caderousse; I will manufacture you a similar one when you are a capitalist.", "pos": 1945198}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Thank you,", "pos": 1945418}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will let you know a week beforehand.", "pos": 1945444}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Dear Benedetto. I think he will not be sorry to inherit his fortune, and he who hastens the day when he can touch his five hundred thousand will not be his worst friend.", "pos": 1945746}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now,", "pos": 1946792}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I may require to go in one night from Paris to Tréport; let eight fresh horses be in readiness on the road, which will enable me to go fifty leagues in ten hours.", "pos": 1946808}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Your highness had already expressed that wish, and the horses are ready. I have bought them, and stationed them myself at the most desirable posts, that is, in villages, where no one generally stops.", "pos": 1946973}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That’s well. I remain here a day or two—arrange accordingly.", "pos": 1947193}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What are you doing here?", "pos": 1947405}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I did not send for you, I think?", "pos": 1947479}
{"speaker": "Baptistin", "text": "Important and urgent. M. de Monte Cristo is apprised that this night a man will enter his house in the Champs-Élysées with the intention of carrying off some papers supposed to be in the secretaire in the dressing-room. The count’s well-known courage will render unnecessary the aid of the police, whose interference might seriously affect him who sends this advice. The count, by any opening from the bedroom, or by concealing himself in the dressing-room, would be able to defend his property himself. Many attendants or apparent precautions would prevent the villain from the attempt, and M. de Monte Cristo would lose the opportunity of discovering an enemy whom chance has revealed to him who now sends this warning to the count,—a warning he might not be able to send another time, if this first attempt should fail and another be made.", "pos": 1947592}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "They do not want my papers, they want to kill me; they are no robbers, but assassins. I will not allow the prefect of police to interfere with my private affairs. I am rich enough, forsooth, to distribute his authority on this occasion. Return to Paris, assemble the servants who remain there. I want all my household at Auteuil.", "pos": 1949435}
{"speaker": "Baptistin", "text": "But will no one remain in the house, my lord?", "pos": 1949882}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, the porter.", "pos": 1949947}
{"speaker": "Baptistin", "text": "My lord will remember that the lodge is at a distance from the house.", "pos": 1949966}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well?", "pos": 1950038}
{"speaker": "Baptistin", "text": "The house might be stripped without his hearing the least noise.", "pos": 1950046}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "By whom?", "pos": 1950113}
{"speaker": "Baptistin", "text": "By thieves.", "pos": 1950124}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are a fool, M. Baptistin. Thieves might strip the house—it would annoy me less than to be disobeyed. You understand me? Bring your comrades here, one and all; but let everything remain as usual, only close the shutters of the ground floor. And those of the first floor? You know they are never closed. Go!", "pos": 1950138}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That’s a daring rascal. I see! there are two of them; one does the work while the other stands guard.", "pos": 1954819}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, ha, he is only a thief. By heavens, it is—— Don’t stir, and put down your hatchet; we shall require no arms.", "pos": 1956363}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Try again, try again, you have a few minutes’ work there.", "pos": 1957947}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Remain here, concealed in the dark, and whatever noise you hear, whatever passes, only come in or show yourself if I call you. Ah, good-evening, my dear M. Caderousse, what are you doing here, at such an hour?", "pos": 1958657}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "The Abbé Busoni! The Abbé Busoni!", "pos": 1959264}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, undoubtedly, the Abbé Busoni himself. And I am very glad you recognize me, dear M. Caderousse; it proves you have a good memory, for it must be about ten years since we last met.", "pos": 1959667}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "The abbé, the abbé!", "pos": 1959962}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So you would rob the Count of Monte Cristo?", "pos": 1960044}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Reverend sir. I don’t know—believe me—I take my oath——", "pos": 1960116}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A pane of glass out, a dark lantern, a bunch of false keys, a secretaire half forced—it is tolerably evident—— Come, come. I see you are still the same,—an assassin.", "pos": 1960275}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Reverend sir, since you know everything, you know it was not I—it was La Carconte; that was proved at the trial, since I was only condemned to the galleys.", "pos": 1960580}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Is your time, then, expired, since I find you in a fair way to return there?", "pos": 1960738}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "No, reverend sir; I have been liberated by someone.", "pos": 1960817}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That someone has done society a great kindness.", "pos": 1960871}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah. I had promised——", "pos": 1960921}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And you are breaking your promise!", "pos": 1960963}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Alas, yes!", "pos": 1961026}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A bad relapse, that will lead you, if I mistake not, to the Place de Grève. So much the worse, so much the worse—diavolo! as they say in my country.", "pos": 1961070}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Reverend sir, I am impelled——", "pos": 1961221}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Every criminal says the same thing.", "pos": 1961253}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Poverty——", "pos": 1961291}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Pshaw! poverty may make a man beg, steal a loaf of bread at a baker’s door, but not cause him to open a secretaire in a house supposed to be inhabited. And when the jeweller Johannes had just paid you 45,000 francs for the diamond I had given you, and you killed him to get the diamond and the money both, was that also poverty?", "pos": 1961303}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Pardon, reverend sir, you have saved my life once, save me again!", "pos": 1961662}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That is but poor encouragement.", "pos": 1961749}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Are you alone, reverend sir, or have you there soldiers ready to seize me?", "pos": 1961783}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am alone, and I will again have pity on you, and will let you escape, at the risk of the fresh miseries my weakness may lead to, if you tell me the truth.", "pos": 1961860}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah, reverend sir. I may indeed say you are my deliverer!", "pos": 1962036}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You mean to say you have been freed from confinement?", "pos": 1962171}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yes, that is true, reverend sir.", "pos": 1962227}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Who was your liberator?", "pos": 1962262}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "An Englishman.", "pos": 1962288}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What was his name?", "pos": 1962305}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Lord Wilmore.", "pos": 1962326}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I know him; I shall know if you lie.", "pos": 1962342}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah, reverend sir, I tell you the simple truth.", "pos": 1962381}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Was this Englishman protecting you?", "pos": 1962430}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "No, not me, but a young Corsican, my companion.", "pos": 1962468}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What was this young Corsican’s name?", "pos": 1962518}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Benedetto.", "pos": 1962557}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Is that his Christian name?", "pos": 1962570}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "He had no other; he was a foundling.", "pos": 1962600}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then this young man escaped with you?", "pos": 1962639}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "He did.", "pos": 1962679}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In what way?", "pos": 1962689}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "We were working at Saint-Mandrier, near Toulon. Do you know Saint-Mandrier?", "pos": 1962704}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do.", "pos": 1962782}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "In the hour of rest, between noon and one o’clock——", "pos": 1962790}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Galley-slaves having a nap after dinner! We may well pity the poor fellows!", "pos": 1962844}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Nay, one can’t always work—one is not a dog.", "pos": 1962937}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So much the better for the dogs,", "pos": 1963003}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "While the rest slept, then, we went away a short distance; we severed our fetters with a file the Englishman had given us, and swam away.", "pos": 1963057}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And what is become of this Benedetto?", "pos": 1963197}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I don’t know.", "pos": 1963237}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You ought to know.", "pos": 1963253}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "No, in truth; we parted at Hyères.", "pos": 1963274}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You lie,", "pos": 1963495}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Reverend sir!", "pos": 1963567}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You lie! This man is still your friend, and you, perhaps, make use of him as your accomplice.", "pos": 1963583}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Oh, reverend sir!", "pos": 1963686}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Since you left Toulon what have you lived on? Answer me!", "pos": 1963706}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "On what I could get.", "pos": 1963765}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You lie. You have lived on the money he has given you.", "pos": 1963788}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "True. Benedetto has become the son of a great lord.", "pos": 1963958}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How can he be the son of a great lord?", "pos": 1964031}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "A natural son.", "pos": 1964072}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And what is that great lord’s name?", "pos": 1964089}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "The Count of Monte Cristo, the very same in whose house we are.", "pos": 1964127}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Benedetto the count’s son?", "pos": 1964193}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Well, I should think so, since the count has found him a false father—since the count gives him four thousand francs a month, and leaves him 500,000 francs in his will.", "pos": 1964268}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, yes, and what name does the young man bear meanwhile?", "pos": 1964439}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Andrea Cavalcanti.", "pos": 1964552}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Is it, then, that young man whom my friend the Count of Monte Cristo has received into his house, and who is going to marry Mademoiselle Danglars?", "pos": 1964573}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Exactly.", "pos": 1964722}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And you suffer that, you wretch!—you, who know his life and his crime?", "pos": 1964733}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Why should I stand in a comrade’s way?", "pos": 1964806}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are right; it is not you who should apprise M. Danglars, it is I.", "pos": 1964864}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Do not do so, reverend sir.", "pos": 1964936}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 1964966}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Because you would bring us to ruin.", "pos": 1964977}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And you think that to save such villains as you I will become an abettor of their plot, an accomplice in their crimes?", "pos": 1965015}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Reverend sir,", "pos": 1965136}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I will expose all.", "pos": 1965191}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "To whom?", "pos": 1965212}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To M. Danglars.", "pos": 1965223}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "By Heaven! you shall disclose nothing, reverend sir!", "pos": 1965241}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I know not what restrains me from crushing thy skull, rascal.", "pos": 1965910}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah, mercy—mercy!", "pos": 1965974}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Rise!", "pos": 1966047}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "What a wrist you have, reverend sir! what a wrist!", "pos": 1966081}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Silence! God gives me strength to overcome a wild beast like you; in the name of that God I act,—remember that, wretch,—and to spare thee at this moment is still serving him.", "pos": 1966224}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Oh!", "pos": 1966401}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Take this pen and paper, and write what I dictate.", "pos": 1966444}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I don’t know how to write, reverend sir.", "pos": 1966497}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You lie! Take this pen, and write! Sir,—The man whom you are receiving at your house, and to whom you intend to marry your daughter, is a felon who escaped with me from confinement at Toulon. He was No. 59, and I No. 58. He was called Benedetto, but he is ignorant of his real name, having never known his parents. Sign it!", "pos": 1966540}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "But would you ruin me?", "pos": 1966963}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "If I sought your ruin, fool, I should drag you to the first guard-house; besides, when that note is delivered, in all probability you will have no more to fear. Sign it, then! To monsieur the Baron Danglars, banker, Rue de la Chaussée d’Antin. Now, that suffices—begone!", "pos": 1966988}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Which way?", "pos": 1967367}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The way you came.", "pos": 1967380}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "You wish me to get out at that window?", "pos": 1967400}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You got in very well.", "pos": 1967441}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Oh, you have some design against me, reverend sir.", "pos": 1967465}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Idiot! what design can I have?", "pos": 1967518}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Why, then, not let me out by the door?", "pos": 1967551}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What would be the advantage of waking the porter?", "pos": 1967592}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah, reverend sir, tell me, do you wish me dead?", "pos": 1967644}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I wish what God wills.", "pos": 1967694}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "But swear that you will not strike me as I go down.", "pos": 1967719}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Cowardly fool!", "pos": 1967773}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "What do you intend doing with me?", "pos": 1967790}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I ask you what can I do? I have tried to make you a happy man, and you have turned out a murderer.", "pos": 1967826}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Oh, monsieur, make one more attempt—try me once more!", "pos": 1967927}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I will. Listen—you know if I may be relied on.", "pos": 1968002}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1968069}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "If you arrive safely at home——", "pos": 1968093}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "What have I to fear, except from you?", "pos": 1968126}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "If you reach your home safely, leave Paris, leave France, and wherever you may be, so long as you conduct yourself well, I will send you a small annuity; for, if you return home safely, then——", "pos": 1968166}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Then?", "pos": 1968361}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then I shall believe God has forgiven you, and I will forgive you too.", "pos": 1968406}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "As true as I am a Christian, you will make me die of fright!", "pos": 1968479}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Now begone,", "pos": 1968566}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "What are you doing, reverend sir? Suppose a watchman should pass?", "pos": 1969016}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Help! Help, murder!", "pos": 1970341}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Murder! I am dying! Help, reverend sir,—help! Help, reverend sir, help!", "pos": 1971027}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What is the matter?", "pos": 1971340}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Help. I am murdered!", "pos": 1971382}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "We are here;—take courage.", "pos": 1971425}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah, it’s all over! You are come too late—you are come to see me die. What blows, what blood!", "pos": 1971454}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My God! thy vengeance is sometimes delayed, but only that it may fall the more effectually. Bring here immediately the king’s attorney, M. de Villefort, who lives in the Faubourg Saint-Honoré. As you pass the lodge, wake the porter, and send him for a surgeon.", "pos": 1971705}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "A surgeon, reverend sir—a surgeon!", "pos": 1972255}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have sent for one,", "pos": 1972309}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I know he cannot save my life, but he may strengthen me to give my evidence.", "pos": 1972350}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Against whom?", "pos": 1972429}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Against my murderer.", "pos": 1972445}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Did you recognize him?", "pos": 1972468}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yes; it was Benedetto.", "pos": 1972493}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The young Corsican?", "pos": 1972518}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Himself.", "pos": 1972540}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Your comrade?", "pos": 1972551}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yes. After giving me the plan of this house, doubtless hoping I should kill the count and he thus become his heir, or that the count would kill me and I should be out of his way, he waylaid me, and has murdered me.", "pos": 1972567}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have also sent for the procureur.", "pos": 1972784}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "He will not come in time; I feel my life fast ebbing.", "pos": 1972822}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Wait a moment,", "pos": 1972878}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Hasten, reverend sir, hasten! I shall faint again! Oh, that is life to me; more, more!", "pos": 1973079}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Two drops more would kill you,", "pos": 1973318}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Oh, send for someone to whom I can denounce the wretch!", "pos": 1973369}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Shall I write your deposition? You can sign it.", "pos": 1973427}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yes, yes. I die, murdered by the Corsican Benedetto, my comrade in the galleys at Toulon, No. 59. Quick, quick! or I shall be unable to sign it. You will relate all the rest, reverend sir; you will say he calls himself Andrea Cavalcanti. He lodges at the Hôtel des Princes. Oh, I am dying! Ah, you will tell all I have said, will you not, reverend sir?", "pos": 1973477}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, and much more.", "pos": 1974224}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "What more will you say?", "pos": 1974246}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I will say he had doubtless given you the plan of this house, in the hope the count would kill you. I will say, likewise, he had apprised the count, by a note, of your intention, and, the count being absent, I read the note and sat up to await you.", "pos": 1974272}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "And he will be guillotined, will he not? Promise me that, and I will die with that hope.", "pos": 1974523}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I will say, that he followed and watched you the whole time, and when he saw you leave the house, ran to the angle of the wall to conceal himself.", "pos": 1974633}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Did you see all that?", "pos": 1974805}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Remember my words: ‘If you return home safely, I shall believe God has forgiven you, and I will forgive you also.’", "pos": 1974829}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "And you did not warn me! You knew I should be killed on leaving this house, and did not warn me!", "pos": 1974946}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No; for I saw God’s justice placed in the hands of Benedetto, and should have thought it sacrilege to oppose the designs of Providence.", "pos": 1975103}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "God’s justice! Speak not of it, reverend sir. If God were just, you know how many would be punished who now escape.", "pos": 1975241}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Patience, have patience! Besides. God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.", "pos": 1975359}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Do you then believe in God?", "pos": 1975599}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Had I been so unhappy as not to believe in him until now, I must believe on seeing you. Listen, this is what the God in whom, on your death-bed, you refuse to believe, has done for you—he gave you health, strength, regular employment, even friends—a life, in fact, which a man might enjoy with a calm conscience. Instead of improving these gifts, rarely granted so abundantly, this has been your course—you have given yourself up to sloth and drunkenness, and in a fit of intoxication have ruined your best friend.", "pos": 1975646}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Help! I require a surgeon, not a priest; perhaps I am not mortally wounded—I may not die; perhaps they can yet save my life.", "pos": 1976330}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Your wounds are so far mortal that, without the three drops I gave you, you would now be dead. Listen, then.", "pos": 1976477}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Ah, what a strange priest you are; you drive the dying to despair, instead of consoling them.", "pos": 1976588}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Listen. When you had betrayed your friend, God began not to strike, but to warn you. Poverty overtook you. You had already passed half your life in coveting that which you might have honorably acquired; and already you contemplated crime under the excuse of want, when God worked a miracle in your behalf, sending you, by my hands, a fortune—brilliant, indeed, for you, who had never possessed any. But this unexpected, unhoped-for, unheard-of fortune sufficed you no longer when you once possessed it; you wished to double it, and how?—by a murder! You succeeded, and then God snatched it from you, and brought you to justice.", "pos": 1976707}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "It was not I who wished to kill the Jew, it was La Carconte.", "pos": 1977359}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "and God,—I cannot say in justice, for his justice would have slain you,—but God, in his mercy, spared your life.", "pos": 1977467}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Pardieu! to transport me for life, how merciful!", "pos": 1977582}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You thought it a mercy then, miserable wretch! The coward who feared death rejoiced at perpetual disgrace; for like all galley-slaves, you said, ‘I may escape from prison, I cannot from the grave.’ And you said truly; the way was opened for you unexpectedly. An Englishman visited Toulon, who had vowed to rescue two men from infamy, and his choice fell on you and your companion. You received a second fortune, money and tranquillity were restored to you, and you, who had been condemned to a felon’s life, might live as other men. Then, wretched creature, then you tempted God a third time. ‘I have not enough,’ you said, when you had more than you before possessed, and you committed a third crime, without reason, without excuse. God is wearied; he has punished you.", "pos": 1977633}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Give me drink. I thirst—I burn! And yet that villain, Benedetto, will escape!", "pos": 1978435}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No one, I tell you, will escape; Benedetto will be punished.", "pos": 1978568}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Then, you, too, will be punished, for you did not do your duty as a priest—you should have prevented Benedetto from killing me.", "pos": 1978631}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I? when you had just broken your knife against the coat of mail which protected my breast! Yet perhaps if I had found you humble and penitent, I might have prevented Benedetto from killing you; but I found you proud and blood-thirsty, and I left you in the hands of God.", "pos": 1978761}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "I do not believe there is a God, you do not believe it; you lie—you lie!", "pos": 1979096}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Silence, you will force the last drop of blood from your veins. What! you do not believe in God when he is striking you dead? you will not believe in him, who requires but a prayer, a word, a tear, and he will forgive? God, who might have directed the assassin’s dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given you this quarter of an hour for repentance. Reflect, then, wretched man, and repent.", "pos": 1979192}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "No, no; I will not repent. There is no God; there is no Providence—all comes by chance.", "pos": 1979614}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "There is a Providence; there is a God, of whom you are a striking proof, as you lie in utter despair, denying him, while I stand before you, rich, happy, safe and entreating that God in whom you endeavor not to believe, while in your heart you still believe in him.", "pos": 1979723}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "But who are you, then?", "pos": 1980012}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Look well at me!", "pos": 1980091}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Well, the abbé—the Abbé Busoni.", "pos": 1980162}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am neither the Abbé Busoni nor Lord Wilmore; think again,—do you not recollect me?", "pos": 1980452}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Yes, indeed. I think I have seen you and known you formerly.", "pos": 1980674}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, Caderousse, you have seen me; you knew me once.", "pos": 1980748}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Who, then, are you? and why, if you knew me, do you let me die?", "pos": 1980803}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Because nothing can save you; your wounds are mortal. Had it been possible to save you, I should have considered it another proof of God’s mercy, and I would again have endeavored to restore you, I swear by my father’s tomb.", "pos": 1980869}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "By your father’s tomb! who, then, are you?", "pos": 1981096}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am—I am——", "pos": 1981485}
{"speaker": "Caderousse", "text": "Oh, my God, my God! pardon me for having denied thee; thou dost exist, thou art indeed man’s father in heaven, and his judge on earth. My God, my Lord, I have long despised thee! Pardon me, my God; receive me, Oh, my Lord!", "pos": 1981762}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "One!", "pos": 1982109}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Your arrival here, without waiting my visit at your house today, looks well, sir. Tell me, may I shake hands with you, saying, ‘Beauchamp, acknowledge you have injured me, and retain my friendship,’ or must I simply propose to you a choice of arms?", "pos": 1985898}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Albert, let us first sit down and talk.", "pos": 1986164}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Rather, sir, before we sit down, I must demand your answer.", "pos": 1986277}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Albert, these are questions which it is difficult to answer.", "pos": 1986339}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I will facilitate it by repeating the question, ‘Will you, or will you not, retract?’", "pos": 1986425}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Morcerf, it is not enough to answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to questions which concern the honor, the social interest, and the life of such a man as Lieutenant-général the Count of Morcerf, peer of France.", "pos": 1986513}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What must then be done?", "pos": 1986711}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "What I have done, Albert. I reasoned thus—money, time, and fatigue are nothing compared with the reputation and interests of a whole family; probabilities will not suffice, only facts will justify a deadly combat with a friend. If I strike with the sword, or discharge the contents of a pistol at man with whom, for three years, I have been on terms of intimacy, I must, at least, know why I do so; I must meet him with a heart at ease, and that quiet conscience which a man needs when his own arm must save his life.", "pos": 1986744}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, what does all this mean?", "pos": 1987264}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "It means that I have just returned from Yanina.", "pos": 1987326}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "From Yanina?", "pos": 1987376}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1987391}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Impossible!", "pos": 1987398}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Here is my passport; examine the visa—Geneva, Milan, Venice, Trieste, Delvino, Yanina. Will you believe the government of a republic, a kingdom, and an empire?", "pos": 1987412}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You have been to Yanina?", "pos": 1987659}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Albert, had you been a stranger, a foreigner, a simple lord, like that Englishman who came to demand satisfaction three or four months since, and whom I killed to get rid of, I should not have taken this trouble; but I thought this mark of consideration due to you. I took a week to go, another to return, four days of quarantine, and forty-eight hours to stay there; that makes three weeks. I returned last night, and here I am.", "pos": 1987695}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What circumlocution! How long you are before you tell me what I most wish to know?", "pos": 1988127}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Because, in truth, Albert——", "pos": 1988212}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You hesitate?", "pos": 1988242}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Yes,—I fear.", "pos": 1988258}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You fear to acknowledge that your correspondent has deceived you? Oh, no self-love, Beauchamp. Acknowledge it, Beauchamp; your courage cannot be doubted.", "pos": 1988273}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Not so, on the contrary—— The paragraph was correct, my friend.", "pos": 1988429}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What? That French officer——", "pos": 1988732}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1988762}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Fernand?", "pos": 1988769}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1988780}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "The traitor who surrendered the castle of the man in whose service he was——", "pos": 1988787}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Pardon me, my friend, that man was your father! here is a proof of it.", "pos": 1988865}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Now, Albert, you understand me—do you not? I wished to see all, and to judge of everything for myself, hoping the explanation would be in your father’s favor, and that I might do him justice. But, on the contrary, the particulars which are given prove that Fernand Mondego, raised by Ali Pasha to the rank of governor-general, is no other than Count Fernand of Morcerf; then, recollecting the honor you had done me, in admitting me to your friendship, I hastened to you. I hastened to you, to tell you, Albert, that in this changing age, the faults of a father cannot revert upon his children. Few have passed through this revolutionary period, in the midst of which we were born, without some stain of infamy or blood to soil the uniform of the soldier, or the gown of the magistrate. Now I have these proofs, Albert, and I am in your confidence, no human power can force me to a duel which your own conscience would reproach you with as criminal, but I come to offer you what you can no longer demand of me. Do you wish these proofs, these attestations, which I alone possess, to be destroyed? Do you wish this frightful secret to remain with us? Confided to me, it shall never escape my lips; say, Albert, my friend, do you wish it?", "pos": 1989637}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, noble fellow!", "pos": 1991070}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Take these,", "pos": 1991100}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Dear, excellent friend,", "pos": 1991402}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Let all be forgotten as a sorrowful dream, let it vanish as the last sparks from the blackened paper, and disappear as the smoke from those silent ashes.", "pos": 1991471}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, yes, and may there remain only the eternal friendship which I promised to my deliverer, which shall be transmitted to our children’s children, and shall always remind me that I owe my life and the honor of my name to you,—for had this been known, oh, Beauchamp, I should have destroyed myself; or,—no, my poor mother! I could not have killed her by the same blow,—I should have fled from my country.", "pos": 1991645}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Dear Albert. Well, what still oppresses you, my friend?", "pos": 1992067}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I am broken-hearted. Listen, Beauchamp! I cannot thus, in a moment relinquish the respect, the confidence, and pride with which a father’s untarnished name inspires a son. Oh, Beauchamp, Beauchamp, how shall I now approach mine? Shall I draw back my forehead from his embrace, or withhold my hand from his? I am the most wretched of men. Ah, my mother, my poor mother! if you know this, how much must you suffer!", "pos": 1992275}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Come, take courage, my friend.", "pos": 1992771}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But how came that first note to be inserted in your journal? Some unknown enemy—an invisible foe—has done this.", "pos": 1992845}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "The more must you fortify yourself, Albert. Let no trace of emotion be visible on your countenance, bear your grief as the cloud bears within it ruin and death—a fatal secret, known only when the storm bursts. Go, my friend, reserve your strength for the moment when the crash shall come.", "pos": 1992959}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You think, then, all is not over yet?", "pos": 1993257}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "I think nothing, my friend; but all things are possible. By the way——", "pos": 1993327}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What?", "pos": 1993399}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Are you going to marry Mademoiselle Danglars?", "pos": 1993453}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Why do you ask me now?", "pos": 1993501}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Because the rupture or fulfilment of this engagement is connected with the person of whom we were speaking.", "pos": 1993526}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "How? you think M. Danglars——", "pos": 1993636}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "I ask you only how your engagement stands? Pray put no construction on my words I do not mean they should convey, and give them no undue weight.", "pos": 1993703}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No. the engagement is broken off.", "pos": 1993850}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Well. Let us go out, Albert, a ride in the wood in the phaeton, or on horseback, will refresh you; we will then return to breakfast, and you shall attend to your affairs, and I to mine.", "pos": 1993901}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Willingly, but let us walk. I think a little exertion would do me good.", "pos": 1994183}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Since we are out, let us call on M. de Monte Cristo; he is admirably adapted to revive one’s spirits, because he never interrogates, and in my opinion those who ask no questions are the best comforters.", "pos": 1994352}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Gladly, let us call—I love him.", "pos": 1994575}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, ha! I hope all is over, explained and settled.", "pos": 1994724}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Yes, the absurd reports have died away, and should they be renewed, I would be the first to oppose them; so let us speak no more of it.", "pos": 1994788}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Albert will tell you, that I gave him the same advice. Look. I am finishing the most execrable morning’s work.", "pos": 1994944}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What is it? arranging your papers, apparently.", "pos": 1995089}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My papers, thank God, no,—my papers are all in capital order, because I have none; but M. Cavalcanti’s.", "pos": 1995153}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "M. Cavalcanti’s?", "pos": 1995259}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes; do you not know that this is a young man whom the count is introducing?", "pos": 1995295}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Let us not misunderstand each other. I introduce no one, and certainly not M. Cavalcanti.", "pos": 1995388}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And who, is to marry Mademoiselle Danglars instead of me, which grieves me cruelly.", "pos": 1995504}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "What? Cavalcanti is going to marry Mademoiselle Danglars?", "pos": 1995625}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly! do you come from the end of the world? you, a journalist, the husband of renown? It is the talk of all Paris.", "pos": 1995702}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "And you, count, have made this match?", "pos": 1995846}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I? Silence, purveyor of gossip, do not spread that report. I make a match? No, you do not know me; I have done all in my power to oppose it.", "pos": 1995903}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Ah, I understand, on our friend Albert’s account.", "pos": 1996046}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "On my account? oh, no, indeed, the count will do me the justice to assert that I have, on the contrary, always entreated him to break off my engagement, and happily it is ended. The count pretends I have not him to thank;—so be it—I will erect an altar Deo ignoto.", "pos": 1996116}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Listen. I have had little to do with it, for I am at variance both with the father-in-law and the young man; there is only Mademoiselle Eugénie, who appears but little charmed with the thoughts of matrimony, and who, seeing how little I was disposed to persuade her to renounce her dear liberty, retains any affection for me. And do you say this wedding is at hand? Oh, yes, in spite of all I could say. I do not know the young man; he is said to be of good family and rich, but I never trust to vague assertions. I have warned M. Danglars of it till I am tired, but he is fascinated with his Luccanese. I have even informed him of a circumstance I consider very serious; the young man was either charmed by his nurse, stolen by gypsies, or lost by his tutor, I scarcely know which. But I do know his father lost sight of him for more than ten years; what he did during these ten years, God only knows. Well, all that was useless. They have commissioned me to write to the major to demand papers, and here they are. I send them, but like Pilate—washing my hands. And what does Mademoiselle d’Armilly say to you for robbing her of her pupil? Oh, well, I don’t know; but I understand that she is going to Italy. Madame Danglars asked me for letters of recommendation for the impresari; I gave her a few lines for the director of the Valle Theatre, who is under some obligation to me. But what is the matter, Albert? you look dull; are you, after all, unconsciously in love with Mademoiselle Eugénie?", "pos": 1996405}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I am not aware of it,", "pos": 1997934}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But, you are not in your usual spirits?", "pos": 1998036}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I have a dreadful headache,", "pos": 1998104}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, my dear viscount. I have an infallible remedy to propose to you.", "pos": 1998147}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 1998241}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "A change.", "pos": 1998278}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Indeed?", "pos": 1998290}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; and as I am just now excessively annoyed, I shall go from home. Shall we go together?", "pos": 1998313}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "You annoyed, count? and by what?", "pos": 1998406}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, you think very lightly of it; I should like to see you with a brief preparing in your house.", "pos": 1998459}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "What brief?", "pos": 1998558}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The one M. de Villefort is preparing against my amiable assassin—some brigand escaped from the gallows apparently.", "pos": 1998572}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "True. I saw it in the paper. Who is this Caderousse?", "pos": 1998689}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Some Provençal, it appears. M. de Villefort heard of him at Marseilles, and M. Danglars recollects having seen him. Consequently, the procureur is very active in the affair, and the prefect of police very much interested; and, thanks to that interest, for which I am very grateful, they send me all the robbers of Paris and the neighborhood, under pretence of their being Caderousse’s murderers, so that in three months, if this continues, every robber and assassin in France will have the plan of my house at his fingers’ ends. I am resolved to desert them and go to some remote corner of the earth, and shall be happy if you will accompany me, viscount.", "pos": 1998762}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Willingly.", "pos": 1999420}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then it is settled?", "pos": 1999433}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, but where?", "pos": 1999455}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have told you, where the air is pure, where every sound soothes, where one is sure to be humbled, however proud may be his nature. I love that humiliation, I, who am master of the universe, as was Augustus.", "pos": 1999473}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But where are you really going?", "pos": 1999684}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To sea, viscount; you know I am a sailor. I was rocked when an infant in the arms of old Ocean, and on the bosom of the beautiful Amphitrite; I have sported with the green mantle of the one and the azure robe of the other; I love the sea as a mistress, and pine if I do not often see her.", "pos": 1999718}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Let us go, count.", "pos": 2000009}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To sea?", "pos": 2000029}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 2000039}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You accept my proposal?", "pos": 2000046}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I do.", "pos": 2000072}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, viscount, there will be in my courtyard this evening a good travelling britzka, with four post-horses, in which one may rest as in a bed. M. Beauchamp, it holds four very well, will you accompany us?", "pos": 2000080}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Thank you, I have just returned from sea.", "pos": 2000288}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What? you have been to sea?", "pos": 2000332}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Yes; I have just made a little excursion to the Borromean Islands18.", "pos": 2000362}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What of that? come with us,", "pos": 2000433}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "No, dear Morcerf; you know I only refuse when the thing is impossible. Besides, it is important, that I should remain in Paris just now to watch the paper.", "pos": 2000476}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, you are a good and an excellent friend, yes, you are right; watch, watch, Beauchamp, and try to discover the enemy who made this disclosure.", "pos": 2000660}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Beauchamp is a worthy fellow, is he not, Albert?", "pos": 2000943}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, and a sincere friend; I love him devotedly. But now we are alone,—although it is immaterial to me,—where are we going?", "pos": 2001045}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Into Normandy, if you like.", "pos": 2001171}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Delightful; shall we be quite retired? have no society, no neighbors?", "pos": 2001201}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Our companions will be riding-horses, dogs to hunt with, and a fishing-boat.", "pos": 2001273}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Exactly what I wish for; I will apprise my mother of my intention, and return to you.", "pos": 2001352}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But shall you be allowed to go into Normandy?", "pos": 2001440}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I may go where I please.", "pos": 2001488}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, I am aware you may go alone, since I once met you in Italy—but to accompany the mysterious Monte Cristo?", "pos": 2001515}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You forget, count, that I have often told you of the deep interest my mother takes in you.", "pos": 2001627}
{"speaker": "Francis I.", "text": "Woman is fickle.", "pos": 2001721}
{"speaker": "Shakespeare", "text": "woman is like a wave of the sea,", "pos": 2001757}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Woman’s, yes; my mother is not woman, but a woman.", "pos": 2001891}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "As I am only a humble foreigner, you must pardon me if I do not understand all the subtle refinements of your language.", "pos": 2001944}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What I mean to say is, that my mother is not quick to give her confidence, but when she does she never changes.", "pos": 2002066}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, yes, indeed, and do you think she is in the least interested in me?", "pos": 2002180}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I repeat it, you must really be a very strange and superior man, for my mother is so absorbed by the interest you have excited, that when I am with her she speaks of no one else.", "pos": 2002287}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And does she try to make you dislike me?", "pos": 2002468}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "On the contrary, she often says, ‘Morcerf, I believe the count has a noble nature; try to gain his esteem.’", "pos": 2002511}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Indeed?", "pos": 2002621}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You see, then, that instead of opposing, she will encourage me.", "pos": 2002659}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Adieu, then, until five o’clock; be punctual, and we shall arrive at twelve or one.", "pos": 2002740}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "At Tréport?", "pos": 2002826}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; or in the neighborhood.", "pos": 2002840}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But can we travel forty-eight leagues in eight hours?", "pos": 2002871}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Easily,", "pos": 2002927}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You are certainly a prodigy; you will soon not only surpass the railway, which would not be very difficult in France, but even the telegraph.", "pos": 2002956}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But, viscount, since we cannot perform the journey in less than seven or eight hours, do not keep me waiting.", "pos": 2003100}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Do not fear, I have little to prepare.", "pos": 2003212}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Bertuccio. I intend going this evening to Normandy, instead of tomorrow or the next day. You will have sufficient time before five o’clock; despatch a messenger to apprise the grooms at the first station. M. de Morcerf will accompany me. Truly, with your post-horses going at the rate of two leagues an hour, and that absurd law that one traveller shall not pass another without permission, so that an invalid or ill-tempered traveller may detain those who are well and active, it is impossible to move; I escape this annoyance by travelling with my own postilion and horses; do I not, Ali?", "pos": 2003465}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I never knew till now the delight of speed, but where the devil do you get such horses? Are they made to order?", "pos": 2005104}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Precisely, six years since I bought a horse in Hungary remarkable for its swiftness. The thirty-two that we shall use tonight are its progeny; they are all entirely black, with the exception of a star upon the forehead.", "pos": 2005280}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "That is perfectly admirable; but what do you do, count, with all these horses?", "pos": 2005520}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You see, I travel with them.", "pos": 2005601}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But you are not always travelling.", "pos": 2005632}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "When I no longer require them, Bertuccio will sell them, and he expects to realize thirty or forty thousand francs by the sale.", "pos": 2005669}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But no monarch in Europe will be wealthy enough to purchase them.", "pos": 2005799}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then he will sell them to some Eastern vizier, who will empty his coffers to purchase them, and refill them by applying the bastinado to his subjects.", "pos": 2005867}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Count, may I suggest one idea to you?", "pos": 2006020}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 2006060}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "It is that, next to you, Bertuccio must be the richest gentleman in Europe.", "pos": 2006073}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are mistaken, viscount; I believe he has not a franc in his possession.", "pos": 2006151}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Then he must be a wonder. My dear count, if you tell me many more marvellous things, I warn you I shall not believe them.", "pos": 2006229}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I countenance nothing that is marvellous, M. Albert. Tell me, why does a steward rob his master?", "pos": 2006353}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Because, I suppose, it is his nature to do so, for the love of robbing.", "pos": 2006452}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are mistaken; it is because he has a wife and family, and ambitious desires for himself and them. Also because he is not sure of always retaining his situation, and wishes to provide for the future. Now, M. Bertuccio is alone in the world; he uses my property without accounting for the use he makes of it; he is sure never to leave my service.", "pos": 2006526}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Why?", "pos": 2006877}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Because I should never get a better.", "pos": 2006884}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Probabilities are deceptive.", "pos": 2006923}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But I deal in certainties; he is the best servant over whom one has the power of life and death.", "pos": 2006954}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Do you possess that right over Bertuccio?", "pos": 2007053}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 2007097}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Florentin here! is my mother ill? From whom is this?", "pos": 2009749}
{"speaker": "Florentin", "text": "From M. Beauchamp,", "pos": 2010015}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Did he send you?", "pos": 2010055}
{"speaker": "Florentin", "text": "Yes, sir; he sent for me to his house, gave me money for my journey, procured a horse, and made me promise not to stop till I had reached you, I have come in fifteen hours.", "pos": 2010074}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Poor young man, it is then true that the sin of the father shall fall on the children to the third and fourth generation.", "pos": 2010456}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Florentin, is your horse fit to return immediately?", "pos": 2010703}
{"speaker": "Florentin", "text": "It is a poor, lame post-horse.", "pos": 2010757}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "In what state was the house when you left?", "pos": 2010790}
{"speaker": "Florentin", "text": "All was quiet, but on returning from M. Beauchamp’s, I found madame in tears; she had sent for me to know when you would return. I told her my orders from M. Beauchamp; she first extended her arms to prevent me, but after a moment’s reflection, ‘Yes, go, Florentin,’ said she, ‘and may he come quickly.’ Yes, go, Florentin, and may he come quickly.", "pos": 2010835}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, my mother. I will return, and woe to the infamous wretch! But first of all I must get there. Count. I thank you for your hospitality, which I would gladly have enjoyed longer; but I must return to Paris.", "pos": 2011141}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What has happened?", "pos": 2011672}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "A great misfortune, more important to me than life. Don’t question me, I beg of you, but lend me a horse.", "pos": 2011693}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My stables are at your command, viscount; but you will kill yourself by riding on horseback. Take a post-chaise or a carriage.", "pos": 2011801}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No, it would delay me, and I need the fatigue you warn me of; it will do me good.", "pos": 2011930}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ali, a horse for M. de Morcerf—quick! he is in a hurry!", "pos": 2012193}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Thank you! Return as soon as you can, Florentin. Must I use any password to procure a horse?", "pos": 2012335}
{"speaker": "Florentin", "text": "Only dismount; another will be immediately saddled.", "pos": 2012473}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You may think my departure strange and foolish, you do not know how a paragraph in a newspaper may exasperate one. Read that, when I am gone, that you may not be witness of my anger.", "pos": 2012554}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Here I am,", "pos": 2013972}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Well, my poor friend. I expected you.", "pos": 2013998}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I need not say I think you are too faithful and too kind to have spoken of that painful circumstance. Your having sent for me is another proof of your affection. So, without losing time, tell me, have you the slightest idea whence this terrible blow proceeds?", "pos": 2014059}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "I think I have some clew.", "pos": 2014321}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But first tell me all the particulars of this shameful plot.", "pos": 2014349}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Ah, pardieu! with the paper in your hand, my friend, I need not tell you the cause of my visit.", "pos": 2015124}
{"speaker": "Editor", "text": "Are you interested in the sugar question?", "pos": 2015240}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "No. I have not considered the question; a totally different subject interests me.", "pos": 2015327}
{"speaker": "Editor", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 2015432}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "The article relative to Morcerf.", "pos": 2015446}
{"speaker": "Editor", "text": "Indeed? Is it not a curious affair?", "pos": 2015481}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "So curious, that I think you are running a great risk of a prosecution for defamation of character.", "pos": 2015519}
{"speaker": "Editor", "text": "Not at all; we have received with the information all the requisite proofs, and we are quite sure M. de Morcerf will not raise his voice against us; besides, it is rendering a service to one’s country to denounce these wretched criminals who are unworthy of the honor bestowed on them.", "pos": 2015621}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Who, then, has so correctly informed you? for my paper, which gave the first information on the subject, has been obliged to stop for want of proof; and yet we are more interested than you in exposing M. de Morcerf, as he is a peer of France, and we are of the opposition.", "pos": 2015938}
{"speaker": "Editor", "text": "Oh, that is very simple; we have not sought to scandalize. This news was brought to us. A man arrived yesterday from Yanina, bringing a formidable array of documents; and when we hesitated to publish the accusatory article, he told us it should be inserted in some other paper.", "pos": 2016225}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My lords, it is not by time I could repel the attack made on me by enemies unknown to me, and, doubtless, hidden in obscurity; it is immediately, and by a thunderbolt, that I must repel the flash of lightning which, for a moment, startled me. Oh, that I could, instead of taking up this defence, shed my last drop of blood to prove to my noble colleagues that I am their equal in worth. I demand, then, that the examination shall take place as soon as possible, and I will furnish the house with all necessary information.", "pos": 2020356}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "What day do you fix?", "pos": 2020964}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Today I am at your service,", "pos": 2021008}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "Does the House approve that the examination should take place today?", "pos": 2021086}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 2021164}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What next?", "pos": 2022079}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "What next? My friend, you impose a painful task on me. Must you know all?", "pos": 2022106}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Absolutely; and rather from your lips than another’s.", "pos": 2022182}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Muster up all your courage, then, for never have you required it more.", "pos": 2022238}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Go on,", "pos": 2022531}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "You are at liberty to speak, M. de Morcerf,", "pos": 2023929}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But, so great was Ali Pasha’s confidence, that on his death-bed he resigned his favorite mistress and her daughter to my care. And what effect did this discourse produce?", "pos": 2024662}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "I acknowledge it affected me, and, indeed, all the committee also,", "pos": 2025087}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "Count, you have said that the Vizier of Yanina confided his wife and daughter to your care?", "pos": 2025369}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, sir, but in that, like all the rest, misfortune pursued me. On my return, Vasiliki and her daughter Haydée had disappeared.", "pos": 2025474}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "Did you know them?", "pos": 2025624}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My intimacy with the pasha and his unlimited confidence had gained me an introduction to them, and I had seen them above twenty times.", "pos": 2025645}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "Have you any idea what became of them?", "pos": 2025782}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "Yes, sir; I heard they had fallen victims to their sorrow, and, perhaps, to their poverty. I was not rich; my life was in constant danger; I could not seek them, to my great regret.", "pos": 2025823}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "Gentlemen, you have heard the Comte de Morcerf’s defence. Can you, sir, produce any witnesses to the truth of what you have asserted?", "pos": 2026044}
{"speaker": "Fernand", "text": "Alas, no, monsieur,", "pos": 2026191}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "all those who surrounded the vizier, or who knew me at his court, are either dead or gone away, I know not where. I believe that I alone, of all my countrymen, survived that dreadful war. I have only the letters of Ali Tepelini, which I have placed before you; the ring, a token of his good-will, which is here; and, lastly, the most convincing proof I can offer, after an anonymous attack, and that is the absence of any witness against my veracity and the purity of my military life.", "pos": 2026232}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Gentlemen and you, monsieur,—you will not be displeased, I presume, to listen to one who calls himself a very important witness, and who has just presented himself. He is, doubtless, come to prove the perfect innocence of our colleague. Here is a letter I have just received on the subject; shall it be read, or shall it be passed over? and shall we take no notice of this incident?", "pos": 2026933}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Mr. President,—I can furnish the committee of inquiry into the conduct of the Lieutenant-General the Count of Morcerf in Epirus and in Macedonia with important particulars.", "pos": 2027491}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was on the spot at the death of Ali Pasha. I was present during his last moments. I know what is become of Vasiliki and Haydée. I am at the command of the committee, and even claim the honor of being heard. I shall be in the lobby when this note is delivered to you.", "pos": 2027813}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And who is this witness, or rather this enemy?", "pos": 2028085}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We shall know, sir,", "pos": 2028202}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is the committee willing to hear this witness?", "pos": 2028247}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, yes,", "pos": 2028296}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, sir.", "pos": 2028412}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A woman, accompanied by a servant.", "pos": 2028437}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Bring her in,", "pos": 2028507}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "it was she.", "pos": 2029097}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who?", "pos": 2029111}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Haydée.", "pos": 2029118}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who told you that?", "pos": 2029128}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Alas, I guess it. But go on, Beauchamp. You see I am calm and strong. And yet we must be drawing near the disclosure.", "pos": 2029149}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Madame,", "pos": 2029779}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you have engaged to furnish the committee with some important particulars respecting the affair at Yanina, and you have stated that you were an eyewitness of the event.", "pos": 2029809}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was, indeed,", "pos": 2029980}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But allow me to say that you must have been very young then.", "pos": 2030100}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was four years old; but as those events deeply concerned me, not a single detail has escaped my memory.", "pos": 2030163}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In what manner could these events concern you? and who are you, that they should have made so deep an impression on you?", "pos": 2030271}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On them depended my father’s life,", "pos": 2030394}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am Haydée, the daughter of Ali Tepelini, pasha of Yanina, and of Vasiliki, his beloved wife.", "pos": 2030444}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Madame,", "pos": 2030898}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "allow me to ask one question; it shall be the last: Can you prove the authenticity of what you have now stated?", "pos": 2030961}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can, sir,", "pos": 2031076}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for here is the register of my birth, signed by my father and his principal officers, and that of my baptism, my father having consented to my being brought up in my mother’s faith,—this latter has been sealed by the grand primate of Macedonia and Epirus; and lastly (and perhaps the most important), the record of the sale of my person and that of my mother to the Armenian merchant El-Kobbir, by the French officer, who, in his infamous bargain with the Porte, had reserved as his part of the booty the wife and daughter of his benefactor, whom he sold for the sum of four hundred thousand francs.", "pos": 2031164}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I, El-Kobbir, a slave-merchant, and purveyor of the harem of his highness, acknowledge having received for transmission to the sublime emperor, from the French lord, the Count of Monte Cristo, an emerald valued at eight hundred thousand francs; as the ransom of a young Christian slave of eleven years of age, named Haydée, the acknowledged daughter of the late lord Ali Tepelini, pasha of Yanina, and of Vasiliki, his favorite; she having been sold to me seven years previously, with her mother, who had died on arriving at Constantinople, by a French colonel in the service of the Vizier Ali Tepelini, named Fernand Mondego. The above-mentioned purchase was made on his highness’s account, whose mandate I had, for the sum of four hundred thousand francs.", "pos": 2032424}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Given at Constantinople, by authority of his highness, in the year 1247 of the Hegira.", "pos": 2033184}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Signed, El-Kobbir.", "pos": 2033273}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That this record should have all due authority, it shall bear the imperial seal, which the vendor is bound to have affixed to it.", "pos": 2033295}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Madame,", "pos": 2033677}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "may reference be made to the Count of Monte Cristo, who is now, I believe, in Paris?", "pos": 2033707}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sir,", "pos": 2033795}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "the Count of Monte Cristo, my foster-father, has been in Normandy the last three days.", "pos": 2033818}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who, then, has counselled you to take this step, one for which the court is deeply indebted to you, and which is perfectly natural, considering your birth and your misfortunes?", "pos": 2033908}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sir,", "pos": 2034087}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have been led to take this step from a feeling of respect and grief. Although a Christian, may God forgive me, I have always sought to revenge my illustrious father. Since I set my foot in France, and knew the traitor lived in Paris, I have watched carefully. I live retired in the house of my noble protector, but I do it from choice. I love retirement and silence, because I can live with my thoughts and recollections of past days. But the Count of Monte Cristo surrounds me with every paternal care, and I am ignorant of nothing which passes in the world. I learn all in the silence of my apartments,—for instance, I see all the newspapers, every periodical, as well as every new piece of music; and by thus watching the course of the life of others, I learned what had transpired this morning in the House of Peers, and what was to take place this evening; then I wrote.", "pos": 2034110}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then,", "pos": 2034998}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "the Count of Monte Cristo knows nothing of your present proceedings?", "pos": 2035030}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He is quite unaware of them, and I have but one fear, which is that he should disapprove of what I have done. But it is a glorious day for me,", "pos": 2035101}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that on which I find at last an opportunity of avenging my father!", "pos": 2035307}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "M. de Morcerf,", "pos": 2035611}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "do you recognize this lady as the daughter of Ali Tepelini, pasha of Yanina?", "pos": 2035648}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No,", "pos": 2035727}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "it is a base plot, contrived by my enemies.", "pos": 2035767}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You do not know me?", "pos": 2035943}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, I fortunately recognize you! You are Fernand Mondego, the French officer who led the troops of my noble father! It is you who surrendered the castle of Yanina! It is you who, sent by him to Constantinople, to treat with the emperor for the life or death of your benefactor, brought back a false mandate granting full pardon! It is you who, with that mandate, obtained the pasha’s ring, which gave you authority over Selim, the fire-keeper! It is you who stabbed Selim. It is you who sold us, my mother and me, to the merchant, El-Kobbir! Assassin, assassin, assassin, you have still on your brow your master’s blood! Look, gentlemen, all!", "pos": 2035975}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You positively recognize M. de Morcerf as the officer, Fernand Mondego?", "pos": 2036836}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Indeed I do!", "pos": 2036910}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, my mother, it was you who said, “You were free, you had a beloved father, you were destined to be almost a queen. Look well at that man; it is he who raised your father’s head on the point of a spear; it is he who sold us; it is he who forsook us! Look well at his right hand, on which he has a large wound; if you forgot his features, you would know him by that hand, into which fell, one by one, the gold pieces of the merchant El-Kobbir!” I know him! Ah, let him say now if he does not recognize me!", "pos": 2036939}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Count of Morcerf,", "pos": 2037764}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "do not allow yourself to be cast down; answer. The justice of the court is supreme and impartial as that of God; it will not suffer you to be trampled on by your enemies without giving you an opportunity of defending yourself. Shall further inquiries be made? Shall two members of the House be sent to Yanina? Speak!", "pos": 2037804}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have no reply to make,", "pos": 2038485}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Has the daughter of Ali Tepelini spoken the truth?", "pos": 2038543}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is she, then, the terrible witness to whose charge you dare not plead “Not guilty”? Have you really committed the crimes of which you are accused?", "pos": 2038616}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I took advantage of the silence and the darkness to leave the house without being seen. The usher who had introduced me was waiting for me at the door, and he conducted me through the corridors to a private entrance opening into the Rue de Vaugirard. I left with mingled feelings of sorrow and delight. Excuse me, Albert,—sorrow on your account, and delight with that noble girl, thus pursuing paternal vengeance. Yes, Albert, from whatever source the blow may have proceeded—it may be from an enemy, but that enemy is only the agent of Providence.", "pos": 2039940}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My friend, my life is ended. I cannot calmly say with you, ‘Providence has struck the blow;’ but I must discover who pursues me with this hatred, and when I have found him I shall kill him, or he will kill me. I rely on your friendship to assist me, Beauchamp, if contempt has not banished it from your heart.", "pos": 2040616}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Contempt, my friend? How does this misfortune affect you? No, happily that unjust prejudice is forgotten which made the son responsible for the father’s actions. Review your life, Albert; although it is only just beginning, did a lovely summer’s day ever dawn with greater purity than has marked the commencement of your career? No, Albert, take my advice. You are young and rich—leave Paris—all is soon forgotten in this great Babylon of excitement and changing tastes. You will return after three or four years with a Russian princess for a bride, and no one will think more of what occurred yesterday than if it had happened sixteen years ago.", "pos": 2040939}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Thank you, my dear Beauchamp, thank you for the excellent feeling which prompts your advice; but it cannot be. I have told you my wish, or rather my determination. You understand that, interested as I am in this affair, I cannot see it in the same light as you do. What appears to you to emanate from a celestial source, seems to me to proceed from one far less pure. Providence appears to me to have no share in this affair; and happily so, for instead of the invisible, impalpable agent of celestial rewards and punishments, I shall find one both palpable and visible, on whom I shall revenge myself, I assure you, for all I have suffered during the last month. Now, I repeat, Beauchamp, I wish to return to human and material existence, and if you are still the friend you profess to be, help me to discover the hand that struck the blow.", "pos": 2041588}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Be it so,", "pos": 2042432}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "if you must have me descend to earth, I submit; and if you will seek your enemy, I will assist you, and I will engage to find him, my honor being almost as deeply interested as yours.", "pos": 2042460}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Well, then, you understand, Beauchamp, that we begin our search immediately. Each moment’s delay is an eternity for me. The calumniator is not yet punished, and he may hope that he will not be; but, on my honor, if he thinks so, he deceives himself.", "pos": 2042646}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, listen, Morcerf.", "pos": 2042898}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, Beauchamp, I see you know something already; you will restore me to life.", "pos": 2042923}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not say there is any truth in what I am going to tell you, but it is, at least, a ray of light in a dark night; by following it we may, perhaps, discover something more certain.", "pos": 2043003}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Tell me; satisfy my impatience.", "pos": 2043188}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, I will tell you what I did not like to mention on my return from Yanina.", "pos": 2043222}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Say on.", "pos": 2043303}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I went, of course, to the chief banker of the town to make inquiries. At the first word, before I had even mentioned your father’s name", "pos": 2043313}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah,", "pos": 2043453}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I guess what brings you here.", "pos": 2043468}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How, and why?", "pos": 2043501}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because a fortnight since I was questioned on the same subject.", "pos": 2043518}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "By whom?", "pos": 2043585}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "By a banker of Paris, my correspondent.", "pos": 2043597}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Whose name is——", "pos": 2043640}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Danglars.", "pos": 2043659}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "He! yes, it is indeed he who has so long pursued my father with jealous hatred. He, the man who would be popular, cannot forgive the Count of Morcerf for being created a peer; and this marriage broken off without a reason being assigned—yes, it is all from the same cause.", "pos": 2043672}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Make inquiries, Albert, but do not be angry without reason; make inquiries, and if it be true——", "pos": 2043963}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, yes, if it be true, he shall pay me all I have suffered.", "pos": 2044060}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Beware, Morcerf, he is already an old man.", "pos": 2044146}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I will respect his age as he has respected the honor of my family; if my father had offended him, why did he not attack him personally? Oh, no, he was afraid to encounter him face to face.", "pos": 2044191}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "I do not condemn you, Albert; I only restrain you. Act prudently.", "pos": 2044382}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, do not fear; besides, you will accompany me. Beauchamp, solemn transactions should be sanctioned by a witness. Before this day closes, if M. Danglars is guilty, he shall cease to live, or I shall die. Pardieu, Beauchamp, mine shall be a splendid funeral!", "pos": 2044450}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "When such resolutions are made, Albert, they should be promptly executed. Do you wish to go to M. Danglars? Let us go immediately.", "pos": 2044711}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah! parbleu! that’s good. If M. Danglars will not fight with me, I will kill his son-in-law; Cavalcanti will certainly fight.", "pos": 2044969}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Sir, am I no longer at liberty to receive whom I choose in my house? You appear to forget yourself sadly.", "pos": 2045436}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No, sir, there are circumstances in which one cannot, except through cowardice,—I offer you that refuge,—refuse to admit certain persons at least.", "pos": 2045564}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "What is your errand, then, with me, sir?", "pos": 2045736}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I mean, to propose a meeting in some retired corner where no one will interrupt us for ten minutes; that will be sufficient—where two men having met, one of them will remain on the ground. And you, too, come, if you like, monsieur; you have a claim, being almost one of the family, and I will give as many rendezvous of that kind as I can find persons willing to accept them.", "pos": 2045779}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Indeed, sir, if you are come to quarrel with this gentleman because I have preferred him to you, I shall resign the case to the king’s attorney.", "pos": 2046656}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You mistake, sir. I am not referring in the least to matrimony, and I only addressed myself to M. Cavalcanti because he appeared disposed to interfere between us. In one respect you are right, for I am ready to quarrel with everyone today; but you have the first claim, M. Danglars.", "pos": 2046824}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Sir. I warn you, when I have the misfortune to meet with a mad dog, I kill it; and far from thinking myself guilty of a crime, I believe I do society a kindness. Now, if you are mad and try to bite me, I will kill you without pity. Is it my fault that your father has dishonored himself?", "pos": 2047152}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, miserable wretch! it is your fault.", "pos": 2047488}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "My fault? you must be mad! What do I know of the Grecian affair? Have I travelled in that country? Did I advise your father to sell the castle of Yanina—to betray——", "pos": 2047580}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Silence! No; it is not you who have directly made this exposure and brought this sorrow on us, but you hypocritically provoked it.", "pos": 2047758}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I?", "pos": 2047931}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes; you! How came it known?", "pos": 2047936}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I suppose you read it in the paper in the account from Yanina?", "pos": 2047967}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Who wrote to Yanina?", "pos": 2048032}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "To Yanina?", "pos": 2048055}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes. Who wrote for particulars concerning my father?", "pos": 2048068}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I imagine anyone may write to Yanina.", "pos": 2048123}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But one person only wrote!", "pos": 2048163}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "One only?", "pos": 2048192}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes; and that was you!", "pos": 2048204}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I, doubtless, wrote. It appears to me that when about to marry your daughter to a young man, it is right to make some inquiries respecting his family; it is not only a right, but a duty.", "pos": 2048229}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You wrote, sir, knowing what answer you would receive.", "pos": 2048418}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I, indeed? I assure you. I solemnly declare to you, that I should never have thought of writing to Yanina, did I know anything of Ali Pasha’s misfortunes.", "pos": 2048475}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Who, then, urged you to write? Tell me.", "pos": 2048764}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Pardieu! it was the most simple thing in the world. I was speaking of your father’s past history. I said the origin of his fortune remained obscure. The person to whom I addressed my scruples asked me where your father had acquired his property? I answered, ‘In Greece.’—‘Then,’ said he, ‘write to Yanina.’", "pos": 2048806}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And who thus advised you?", "pos": 2049115}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "No other than your friend, Monte Cristo.", "pos": 2049143}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "The Count of Monte Cristo told you to write to Yanina?", "pos": 2049186}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes; and I wrote, and will show you my correspondence, if you like.", "pos": 2049243}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Sir, you appear to accuse the count, who is absent from Paris at this moment, and cannot justify himself.", "pos": 2049356}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I accuse no one, sir; I relate, and I will repeat before the count what I have said to you.", "pos": 2049506}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Does the count know what answer you received?", "pos": 2049617}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes; I showed it to him.", "pos": 2049665}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Did he know my father’s Christian name was Fernand, and his family name Mondego?", "pos": 2049692}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes, I had told him that long since, and I did only what any other would have done in my circumstances, and perhaps less. When, the day after the arrival of this answer, your father came by the advice of Monte Cristo to ask my daughter’s hand for you, I decidedly refused him, but without any explanation or exposure. In short, why should I have any more to do with the affair? How did the honor or disgrace of M. de Morcerf affect me? It neither increased nor decreased my income.", "pos": 2049775}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Listen, just now I told you it was of M. de Monte Cristo you must demand an explanation.", "pos": 2052388}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes; and we are going to his house.", "pos": 2052490}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Reflect, Morcerf, one moment before you go.", "pos": 2052528}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "On what shall I reflect?", "pos": 2052574}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "On the importance of the step you are taking.", "pos": 2052601}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Is it more serious than going to M. Danglars?", "pos": 2052649}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Yes; M. Danglars is a money-lover, and those who love money, you know, think too much of what they risk to be easily induced to fight a duel. The other is, on the contrary, to all appearance a true nobleman; but do you not fear to find him a bully?", "pos": 2052697}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I only fear one thing; namely, to find a man who will not fight.", "pos": 2052948}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Do not be alarmed, he will meet you. My only fear is that he will be too strong for you.", "pos": 2053015}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My friend, that is what I wish. The happiest thing that could occur to me, would be to die in my father’s stead; that would save us all.", "pos": 2053124}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Your mother would die of grief.", "pos": 2053299}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My poor mother! I know she would; but better so than die of shame.", "pos": 2053333}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Are you quite decided, Albert?", "pos": 2053451}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes; let us go.", "pos": 2053484}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "But do you think we shall find the count at home?", "pos": 2053502}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "He intended returning some hours after me, and doubtless he is now at home.", "pos": 2053554}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But after his bath? My master will go to dinner. And after dinner? He will sleep an hour. Then? He is going to the Opera. Are you sure of it? Quite, sir; my master has ordered his horses at eight o’clock precisely. Very good, that is all I wished to know. If you have anything to attend to, Beauchamp, do it directly; if you have any appointment for this evening, defer it till tomorrow. I depend on you to accompany me to the Opera; and if you can, bring Château-Renaud with you.", "pos": 2054217}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "My dear mother, do you know if M. de Morcerf has any enemy?", "pos": 2055558}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "My son, persons in the count’s situation have many secret enemies. Those who are known are not the most dangerous.", "pos": 2055705}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I know it, and appeal to your penetration. You are of so superior a mind, nothing escapes you.", "pos": 2055834}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Why do you say so?", "pos": 2055931}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Because, for instance, you noticed on the evening of the ball we gave, that M. de Monte Cristo would eat nothing in our house.", "pos": 2055952}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "M. de Monte Cristo! and how is he connected with the question you asked me?", "pos": 2056126}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You know, mother, M. de Monte Cristo is almost an Oriental, and it is customary with the Orientals to secure full liberty for revenge by not eating or drinking in the houses of their enemies.", "pos": 2056228}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Do you say M. de Monte Cristo is our enemy? Who told you so? Why, you are mad, Albert! M. de Monte Cristo has only shown us kindness. M. de Monte Cristo saved your life; you yourself presented him to us. Oh, I entreat you, my son, if you had entertained such an idea, dispel it; and my counsel to you—nay, my prayer—is to retain his friendship.", "pos": 2056422}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Mother, you have special reasons for telling me to conciliate that man.", "pos": 2056838}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "and is it not that he may never do us any harm? You speak strangely, and you appear to have some singular prejudices. What has the count done? Three days since you were with him in Normandy; only three days since we looked on him as our best friend. You came to inquire after my health; I will candidly acknowledge that I am not well. You should install yourself here, and cheer my solitude. I do not wish to be left alone.", "pos": 2057053}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "you know how gladly I would obey your wish, but an urgent and important affair obliges me to leave you for the whole evening.", "pos": 2057868}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Well, go, Albert; I will not make you a slave to your filial piety.", "pos": 2057996}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "To the Opera.", "pos": 2058836}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Well,", "pos": 2060949}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "my cavalier has attained his object. Good-evening, M. de Morcerf. We are not come here, sir, to exchange hypocritical expressions of politeness, or false professions of friendship, but to demand an explanation. An explanation at the Opera? Still, if people will shut themselves up, and cannot be seen because they are bathing, dining, or asleep, we must avail ourselves of the opportunity whenever they are to be seen.", "pos": 2061075}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am not difficult of access, sir; for yesterday, if my memory does not deceive me, you were at my house.", "pos": 2062148}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yesterday I was at your house, sir, because then I knew not who you were.", "pos": 2062256}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Where are you come from, sir? You do not appear to be in the possession of your senses.", "pos": 2062539}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Provided I understand your perfidy, sir, and succeed in making you understand that I will be revenged, I shall be reasonable enough,", "pos": 2062650}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I do not understand you, sir, and if I did, your tone is too high. I am at home here, and I alone have a right to raise my voice above another’s. Leave the box, sir!", "pos": 2062808}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, I shall know how to make you leave your home!", "pos": 2063072}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, well. I see you wish to quarrel with me; but I would give you one piece of advice, which you will do well to keep in mind. It is in poor taste to make a display of a challenge. Display is not becoming to everyone, M. de Morcerf.", "pos": 2063225}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Sir. I consider your glove thrown, and will return it to you wrapped around a bullet. Now leave me or I will summon my servants to throw you out at the door.", "pos": 2064039}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "What have you done to him?", "pos": 2064466}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I? Nothing—at least personally. The Count of Morcerf’s adventure exasperates the young man.", "pos": 2064495}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Have you anything to do with it?", "pos": 2064665}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It was through Haydée that the Chamber was informed of his father’s treason.", "pos": 2064700}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Indeed? I had been told, but would not credit it, that the Grecian slave I have seen with you here in this very box was the daughter of Ali Pasha.", "pos": 2064779}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is true, nevertheless.", "pos": 2064943}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Then. I understand it all, and this scene was premeditated.", "pos": 2064971}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "How so?", "pos": 2065048}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes. Albert wrote to request me to come to the Opera, doubtless that I might be a witness to the insult he meant to offer you.", "pos": 2065058}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Probably,", "pos": 2065187}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "But what shall you do with him?", "pos": 2065254}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "With whom?", "pos": 2065288}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "With Albert.", "pos": 2065301}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What shall I do with Albert? As certainly, Maximilian, as I now press your hand, I shall kill him before ten o’clock tomorrow morning.", "pos": 2065316}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Ah, count, his father loves him so much!", "pos": 2065568}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do not speak to me of that. I will make him suffer.", "pos": 2065622}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Count, count!", "pos": 2065793}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Dear Maximilian, listen how adorably Duprez is singing that line,— O Mathilde! idole de mon âme! I was the first to discover Duprez at Naples, and the first to applaud him. Bravo, bravo! Come in. Good-evening, M. Beauchamp, be seated.", "pos": 2065818}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Sir. I just now accompanied M. de Morcerf, as you saw.", "pos": 2066486}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And that means, that you had, probably, just dined together. I am happy to see, M. Beauchamp, that you are more sober than he was.", "pos": 2066554}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Sir. Albert was wrong, I acknowledge, to betray so much anger, and I come, on my own account, to apologize for him. And having done so, entirely on my own account, be it understood, I would add that I believe you too gentlemanly to refuse giving him some explanation concerning your connection with Yanina. Then I will add two words about the young Greek girl.", "pos": 2066721}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Come, there are all my hopes about to be destroyed.", "pos": 2067145}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "How so?", "pos": 2067220}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Doubtless you wish to make me appear a very eccentric character. I am, in your opinion, a Lara, a Manfred, a Lord Ruthven; then, just as I am arriving at the climax, you defeat your own end, and seek to make an ordinary man of me. You bring me down to your own level, and demand explanations! Indeed, M. Beauchamp, it is quite laughable.", "pos": 2067247}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Yet, there are occasions when probity commands——", "pos": 2067587}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "M. Beauchamp, the Count of Monte Cristo bows to none but the Count of Monte Cristo himself. Say no more, I entreat you. I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.", "pos": 2067669}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Sir, honest men are not to be paid with such coin. I require honorable guaranties.", "pos": 2067884}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am, sir, a living guaranty, we have both blood in our veins which we wish to shed—that is our mutual guaranty. Tell the viscount so, and that tomorrow, before ten o’clock, I shall see what color his is.", "pos": 2067994}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Then I have only to make arrangements for the duel,", "pos": 2068266}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is quite immaterial to me, and it was very unnecessary to disturb me at the Opera for such a trifle. In France people fight with the sword or pistol, in the colonies with the carbine, in Arabia with the dagger. Tell your client that, although I am the insulted party, in order to carry out my eccentricity, I leave him the choice of arms, and will accept without discussion, without dispute, anything, even combat by drawing lots, which is always stupid, but with me different from other people, as I am sure to gain.", "pos": 2068336}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Sure to gain!", "pos": 2068880}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly, otherwise I would not fight with M. de Morcerf. I shall kill him—I cannot help it. Only by a single line this evening at my house let me know the arms and the hour; I do not like to be kept waiting.", "pos": 2068953}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Pistols, then, at eight o’clock, in the Bois de Vincennes,", "pos": 2069220}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Very well, sir. Now all that is settled, do let me see the performance, and tell your friend Albert not to come any more this evening; he will hurt himself with all his ill-chosen barbarisms: let him go home and go to sleep. Now. I may depend upon you, may I not?", "pos": 2069401}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Certainly. I am at your service, count; still——", "pos": 2069777}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What?", "pos": 2069842}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "It is desirable I should know the real cause.", "pos": 2069850}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That is to say, you would rather not?", "pos": 2069898}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "No.", "pos": 2069938}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The young man himself is acting blindfolded, and knows not the true cause, which is known only to God and to me; but I give you my word, Morrel, that God, who does know it, will be on our side.", "pos": 2069944}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Enough, who is your second witness?", "pos": 2070140}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I know no one in Paris, Morrel, on whom I could confer that honor besides you and your brother Emmanuel. Do you think Emmanuel would oblige me?", "pos": 2070193}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I will answer for him, count.", "pos": 2070339}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well? that is all I require. Tomorrow morning, at seven o’clock, you will be with me, will you not?", "pos": 2070371}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "We will.", "pos": 2070473}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Hush, the curtain is rising. Listen! I never lose a note of this opera if I can avoid it; the music of William Tell is so sweet.", "pos": 2070484}
{"speaker": "Ali", "text": "Ali, bring me my pistols with the ivory cross.", "pos": 2071061}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Who are you, madame?", "pos": 2072024}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Edmond, you will not kill my son!", "pos": 2072271}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What name did you pronounce then, Madame de Morcerf?", "pos": 2072398}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Yours! yours, which I alone, perhaps, have not forgotten. Edmond, it is not Madame de Morcerf who is come to you, it is Mercédès.", "pos": 2072462}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Mercédès is dead, madame. I know no one now of that name.", "pos": 2072631}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Mercédès lives, sir, and she remembers, for she alone recognized you when she saw you, and even before she saw you, by your voice, Edmond,—by the simple sound of your voice; and from that moment she has followed your steps, watched you, feared you, and she needs not to inquire what hand has dealt the blow which now strikes M. de Morcerf.", "pos": 2072712}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Fernand, do you mean?", "pos": 2073054}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "You see, Edmond, I am not mistaken, and have cause to say, ‘Spare my son!’", "pos": 2073321}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And who told you, madame, that I have any hostile intentions against your son?", "pos": 2073398}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "No one, in truth; but a mother has twofold sight. I guessed all; I followed him this evening to the Opera, and, concealed in a parquet box, have seen all.", "pos": 2073479}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "If you have seen all, madame, you know that the son of Fernand has publicly insulted me,", "pos": 2073636}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Oh, for pity’s sake!", "pos": 2073766}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You have seen that he would have thrown his glove in my face if Morrel, one of my friends, had not stopped him.", "pos": 2073789}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Listen to me, my son has also guessed who you are,—he attributes his father’s misfortunes to you.", "pos": 2073903}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Madame, you are mistaken, they are not misfortunes,—it is a punishment. It is not I who strike M. de Morcerf; it is Providence which punishes him.", "pos": 2074003}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "And why do you represent Providence? Why do you remember when it forgets? What are Yanina and its vizier to you, Edmond? What injury has Fernand Mondego done you in betraying Ali Tepelini?", "pos": 2074152}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, madame, all this is an affair between the French captain and the daughter of Vasiliki. It does not concern me, you are right; and if I have sworn to revenge myself, it is not on the French captain, or the Count of Morcerf, but on the fisherman Fernand, the husband of Mercédès the Catalane.", "pos": 2074361}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Ah, sir! how terrible a vengeance for a fault which fatality made me commit!—for I am the only culprit, Edmond, and if you owe revenge to anyone, it is to me, who had not fortitude to bear your absence and my solitude.", "pos": 2074682}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But, why was I absent? And why were you alone?", "pos": 2074925}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Because you had been arrested, Edmond, and were a prisoner.", "pos": 2075007}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And why was I arrested? Why was I a prisoner?", "pos": 2075069}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "I do not know,", "pos": 2075117}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You do not, madame; at least, I hope not. But I will tell you. I was arrested and became a prisoner because, under the arbor of La Réserve, the day before I was to marry you, a man named Danglars wrote this letter, which the fisherman Fernand himself posted.", "pos": 2075149}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "How dreadful! and that letter——", "pos": 2076626}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I bought it for two hundred thousand francs, madame, but that is a trifle, since it enables me to justify myself to you.", "pos": 2076736}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "And the result of that letter——", "pos": 2076880}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You well know, madame, was my arrest; but you do not know how long that arrest lasted. You do not know that I remained for fourteen years within a quarter of a league of you, in a dungeon in the Château d’If. You do not know that every day of those fourteen years I renewed the vow of vengeance which I had made the first day; and yet I was not aware that you had married Fernand, my calumniator, and that my father had died of hunger!", "pos": 2076914}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Can it be?", "pos": 2077352}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That is what I heard on leaving my prison fourteen years after I had entered it; and that is why, on account of the living Mercédès and my deceased father, I have sworn to revenge myself on Fernand, and—I have revenged myself.", "pos": 2077393}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "And you are sure the unhappy Fernand did that?", "pos": 2077622}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am satisfied, madame, that he did what I have told you; besides, that is not much more odious than that a Frenchman by adoption should pass over to the English; that a Spaniard by birth should have fought against the Spaniards; that a stipendiary of Ali should have betrayed and murdered Ali. Compared with such things, what is the letter you have just read?—a lover’s deception, which the woman who has married that man ought certainly to forgive; but not so the lover who was to have married her. Well, the French did not avenge themselves on the traitor, the Spaniards did not shoot the traitor, Ali in his tomb left the traitor unpunished; but I, betrayed, sacrificed, buried, have risen from my tomb, by the grace of God, to punish that man. He sends me for that purpose, and here I am.", "pos": 2077671}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Forgive, Edmond, forgive for my sake, who love you still!", "pos": 2078556}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Not crush that accursed race? abandon my purpose at the moment of its accomplishment? Impossible, madame, impossible!", "pos": 2078919}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Edmond, when I call you Edmond, why do you not call me Mercédès?", "pos": 2079054}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Mercédès!", "pos": 2079168}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Revenge yourself, then, Edmond, but let your vengeance fall on the culprits,—on him, on me, but not on my son!", "pos": 2079922}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is written in the good book, that the sins of the fathers shall fall upon their children to the third and fourth generation. Since God himself dictated those words to his prophet, why should I seek to make myself better than God?", "pos": 2080060}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Edmond, since I first knew you, I have adored your name, have respected your memory. Edmond, my friend, do not compel me to tarnish that noble and pure image reflected incessantly on the mirror of my heart. Edmond, if you knew all the prayers I have addressed to God for you while I thought you were living and since I have thought you must be dead! Yes, dead, alas! I imagined your dead body buried at the foot of some gloomy tower, or cast to the bottom of a pit by hateful jailers, and I wept! What could I do for you, Edmond, besides pray and weep? Listen; for ten years I dreamed each night the same dream. I had been told that you had endeavored to escape; that you had taken the place of another prisoner; that you had slipped into the winding sheet of a dead body; that you had been thrown alive from the top of the Château d’If, and that the cry you uttered as you dashed upon the rocks first revealed to your jailers that they were your murderers. Well, Edmond, I swear to you, by the head of that son for whom I entreat your pity,—Edmond, for ten years I saw every night every detail of that frightful tragedy, and for ten years I heard every night the cry which awoke me, shuddering and cold. And I, too, Edmond—oh! believe me—guilty as I was—oh, yes, I, too, have suffered much!", "pos": 2080316}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Have you known what it is to have your father starve to death in your absence? have you seen the woman you loved giving her hand to your rival, while you were perishing at the bottom of a dungeon?", "pos": 2081674}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "but I have seen him whom I loved on the point of murdering my son.", "pos": 2081958}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What do you ask of me? your son’s life? Well, he shall live!", "pos": 2082213}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "oh, thank you, thank you, Edmond! Now you are exactly what I dreamt you were,—the man I always loved. Oh, now I may say so!", "pos": 2082626}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So much the better, as that poor Edmond will not have long to be loved by you. Death is about to return to the tomb, the phantom to retire in darkness.", "pos": 2082752}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "What do you say, Edmond?", "pos": 2082930}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I say, since you command me, Mercédès, I must die.", "pos": 2082957}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Die? and why so? Who talks of dying? Whence have you these ideas of death?", "pos": 2083010}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You do not suppose that, publicly outraged in the face of a whole theatre, in the presence of your friends and those of your son—challenged by a boy who will glory in my forgiveness as if it were a victory—you do not suppose that I can for one moment wish to live. What I most loved after you, Mercédès, was myself, my dignity, and that strength which rendered me superior to other men; that strength was my life. With one word you have crushed it, and I die. It will take place, but instead of your son’s blood to stain the ground, mine will flow.", "pos": 2083087}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Edmond, there is a God above us, since you live and since I have seen you again; I trust to him from my heart. While waiting his assistance I trust to your word; you have said that my son should live, have you not?", "pos": 2083823}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, madame, he shall live,", "pos": 2084052}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Edmond, how noble it is of you, how great the action you have just performed, how sublime to have taken pity on a poor woman who appealed to you with every chance against her, Alas, I am grown old with grief more than with years, and cannot now remind my Edmond by a smile, or by a look, of that Mercédès whom he once spent so many hours in contemplating. Ah, believe me, Edmond, as I told you, I too have suffered much; I repeat, it is melancholy to pass one’s life without having one joy to recall, without preserving a single hope; but that proves that all is not yet over. No, it is not finished; I feel it by what remains in my heart. Oh, I repeat it, Edmond; what you have just done is beautiful—it is grand; it is sublime.", "pos": 2084238}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do you say so now, Mercédès?—then what would you say if you knew the extent of the sacrifice I make to you? Suppose that the Supreme Being, after having created the world and fertilized chaos, had paused in the work to spare an angel the tears that might one day flow for mortal sins from her immortal eyes; suppose that when everything was in readiness and the moment had come for God to look upon his work and see that it was good—suppose he had snuffed out the sun and tossed the world back into eternal night—then—even then, Mercédès, you could not imagine what I lose in sacrificing my life at this moment.", "pos": 2085055}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Edmond. I have but one word more to say to you. Edmond, you will see that if my face is pale, if my eyes are dull, if my beauty is gone; if Mercédès, in short, no longer resembles her former self in her features, you will see that her heart is still the same. Adieu, then, Edmond; I have nothing more to ask of heaven—I have seen you again, and have found you as noble and as great as formerly you were. Adieu, Edmond, adieu, and thank you.", "pos": 2085920}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself! what? what? this edifice which I have been so long preparing, which I have reared with so much care and toil, is to be crushed by a single touch, a word, a breath! Yes, this self, of whom I thought so much, of whom I was so proud, who had appeared so worthless in the dungeons of the Château d’If, and whom I had succeeded in making so great, will be but a lump of clay tomorrow. Alas, it is not the death of the body I regret; for is not the destruction of the vital principle, the repose to which everything is tending, to which every unhappy being aspires,—is not this the repose of matter after which I so long sighed, and which I was seeking to attain by the painful process of starvation when Faria appeared in my dungeon? What is death for me? One step farther into rest,—two, perhaps, into silence. No, it is not existence, then, that I regret, but the ruin of projects so slowly carried out, so laboriously framed. Providence is now opposed to them, when I most thought it would be propitious. It is not God’s will that they should be accomplished. This burden, almost as heavy as a world, which I had raised, and I had thought to bear to the end, was too great for my strength, and I was compelled to lay it down in the middle of my career. Oh, shall I then, again become a fatalist, whom fourteen years of despair and ten of hope had rendered a believer in Providence? And all this—all this, because my heart, which I thought dead, was only sleeping; because it has awakened and has begun to beat again, because I have yielded to the pain of the emotion excited in my breast by a woman’s voice. yet, it is impossible that so noble-minded a woman should thus through selfishness consent to my death when I am in the prime of life and strength; it is impossible that she can carry to such a point maternal love, or rather delirium. There are virtues which become crimes by exaggeration. No, she must have conceived some pathetic scene; she will come and throw herself between us; and what would be sublime here will there appear ridiculous. Ridiculous? and the ridicule will fall on me. I ridiculous? No, I would rather die. Folly, folly, folly!—to carry generosity so far as to put myself up as a mark for that young man to aim at. He will never believe that my death was suicide; and yet it is important for the honor of my memory,—and this surely is not vanity, but a justifiable pride,—it is important the world should know that I have consented, by my free will, to stop my arm, already raised to strike, and that with the arm which has been so powerful against others I have struck myself. It must be; it shall be. I do this, Oh, my God, as much for thy honor as for mine. I have during ten years considered myself the agent of thy vengeance, and other wretches, like Morcerf, Danglars, Villefort, even Morcerf himself, must not imagine that chance has freed them from their enemy. Let them know, on the contrary, that their punishment, which had been decreed by Providence, is only delayed by my present determination, and although they escape it in this world, it awaits them in another, and that they are only exchanging time for eternity.", "pos": 2086805}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "She remembered that she had a son, and I forgot I had a daughter. Poor Haydée, she wished to see me, to speak to me; she has feared or guessed something. Oh, I cannot go without taking leave of her; I cannot die without confiding her to someone.", "pos": 2092076}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Haydée,", "pos": 2092889}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "did you read it? oh, my lord, why are you writing thus at such an hour? Why are you bequeathing all your fortune to me? Are you going to leave me?", "pos": 2093505}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am going on a journey, dear child, and if any misfortune should happen to me——", "pos": 2093668}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Well?", "pos": 2093849}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I wish my daughter to be happy.", "pos": 2094029}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Do you think of dying, my lord?", "pos": 2094110}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The wise man, my child, has said, ‘It is good to think of death.’", "pos": 2094154}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Well, if you die, bequeath your fortune to others, for if you die I shall require nothing;", "pos": 2094222}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Alas. I might, then, have been happy yet.", "pos": 2094820}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Morrel, it is a happy day for me, to feel that I am beloved by such a man as you. Good-morning, Emmanuel; you will come with me then, Maximilian?", "pos": 2095822}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Did you doubt it?", "pos": 2095981}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But if I were wrong——", "pos": 2096025}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I watched you during the whole scene of that challenge yesterday; I have been thinking of your firmness all night, and I said to myself that justice must be on your side, or man’s countenance is no longer to be relied on.", "pos": 2096049}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Thank you, Morrel. Look. take that to my solicitor. It is my will, Morrel. When I am dead, you will go and examine it.", "pos": 2096472}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "What? you dead?", "pos": 2096663}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; must I not be prepared for everything, dear friend? But what did you do yesterday after you left me?", "pos": 2096696}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I went to Tortoni’s, where, as I expected, I found Beauchamp and Château-Renaud. I own I was seeking them.", "pos": 2096804}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why, when all was arranged?", "pos": 2096913}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Listen, count; the affair is serious and unavoidable.", "pos": 2096943}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Did you doubt it!", "pos": 2096999}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "No; the offence was public, and everyone is already talking of it.", "pos": 2097019}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well?", "pos": 2097088}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Well, I hoped to get an exchange of arms,—to substitute the sword for the pistol; the pistol is blind.", "pos": 2097096}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Have you succeeded?", "pos": 2097201}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "No; for your skill with the sword is so well known.", "pos": 2097288}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah?—who has betrayed me?", "pos": 2097342}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "The skilful swordsman whom you have conquered.", "pos": 2097369}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And you failed?", "pos": 2097418}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "They positively refused.", "pos": 2097436}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Morrel, have you ever seen me fire a pistol? Well, we have time; look.", "pos": 2097463}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "It is astonishing. Look, Emmanuel. Count, in the name of all that is dear to you, I entreat you not to kill Albert!—the unhappy youth has a mother.", "pos": 2097917}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are right, and I have none.", "pos": 2098126}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "You are the offended party, count.", "pos": 2098243}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Doubtless; what does that imply?", "pos": 2098280}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "That you will fire first.", "pos": 2098315}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I fire first?", "pos": 2098343}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, I obtained, or rather claimed that; we had conceded enough for them to yield us that.", "pos": 2098359}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And at what distance?", "pos": 2098451}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Twenty paces.", "pos": 2098475}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Morrel, do not forget what you have just seen.", "pos": 2098548}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "The only chance for Albert’s safety, then, will arise from your emotion.", "pos": 2098608}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I suffer from emotion?", "pos": 2098683}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Or from your generosity, my friend; to so good a marksman as you are, I may say what would appear absurd to another.", "pos": 2098727}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 2098846}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Break his arm—wound him—but do not kill him.", "pos": 2098862}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I will tell you, Morrel, that I do not need entreating to spare the life of M. de Morcerf; he shall be so well spared, that he will return quietly with his two friends, while I——", "pos": 2098909}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "And you?", "pos": 2099108}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That will be another thing; I shall be brought home.", "pos": 2099119}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "No, no,", "pos": 2099174}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "As I told you, my dear Morrel, M. de Morcerf will kill me.", "pos": 2099241}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "But what has happened, then, since last evening, count?", "pos": 2099343}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The same thing that happened to Brutus the night before the battle of Philippi; I have seen a ghost. Told me, Morrel, that I had lived long enough.", "pos": 2099401}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I like, to feel a hand like this, when its owner relies on the goodness of his cause.", "pos": 2100464}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "that I see two young men down there, who are evidently, waiting.", "pos": 2100596}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Maximilian, are your affections disengaged?", "pos": 2100729}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I do not seek your confidence, my dear friend. I only ask you a simple question; answer it;—that is all I require. I love a young girl, count.", "pos": 2100835}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do you love her much?", "pos": 2100982}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "More than my life.", "pos": 2101006}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Another hope defeated! Poor Haydée!", "pos": 2101027}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "To tell the truth, count, if I knew less of you, I should think that you were less brave than you are.", "pos": 2101115}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Because I sigh when thinking of someone I am leaving? Come, Morrel, it is not like a soldier to be so bad a judge of courage. Do I regret life? What is it to me, who have passed twenty years between life and death? Moreover, do not alarm yourself, Morrel; this weakness, if it is such, is betrayed to you alone. I know the world is a drawing-room, from which we must retire politely and honestly; that is, with a bow, and our debts of honor paid.", "pos": 2101220}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "That is to the purpose. Have you brought your arms?", "pos": 2101669}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I?—what for? I hope these gentlemen have theirs.", "pos": 2101723}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Do; but make no treaty—you understand me? You need not fear. Excuse me, gentlemen, but I do not see M. de Morcerf.", "pos": 2101805}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "He sent us word this morning, that he would meet us on the ground.", "pos": 2102109}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Ah,", "pos": 2102204}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "It is only five minutes past eight, there is not much time lost yet.", "pos": 2102255}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, I made no allusion of that kind,", "pos": 2102347}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "There is a carriage coming,", "pos": 2102402}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "You are doubtless provided with pistols, gentlemen? M. de Monte Cristo yields his right of using his.", "pos": 2102556}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "We had anticipated this kindness on the part of the count, and I have brought some weapons which I bought eight or ten days since, thinking to want them on a similar occasion. They are quite new, and have not yet been used. Will you examine them. Oh, M. Beauchamp, if you assure me that M. de Morcerf does not know these pistols, you may readily believe that your word will be quite sufficient.", "pos": 2102660}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Gentlemen, it is not Morcerf coming in that carriage;—faith, it is Franz and Debray!", "pos": 2103077}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Because. Albert sent this morning to request us to come.", "pos": 2103339}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I think I understand his reason. What is it? Yesterday afternoon I received a letter from M. de Morcerf, begging me to attend the Opera.", "pos": 2103475}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "And I,", "pos": 2103631}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "And I also,", "pos": 2103653}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Having wished you all to witness the challenge, he now wishes you to be present at the combat.", "pos": 2103730}
{"speaker": "young men", "text": "Exactly so, you have probably guessed right.", "pos": 2103827}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Albert is ten minutes after time.", "pos": 2103980}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "There he comes, on horseback, at full gallop, followed by a servant.", "pos": 2104016}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "How imprudent, to come on horseback to fight a duel with pistols, after all the instructions I had given him.", "pos": 2104105}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "And besides, with a collar above his cravat, an open coat and white waistcoat! Why has he not painted a spot upon his heart?—it would have been more simple.", "pos": 2104240}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I thank you, gentlemen, for having complied with my request; I feel extremely grateful for this mark of friendship. And to you also, M. Morrel, my thanks are due. Come, there cannot be too many.", "pos": 2104763}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Sir, you are not perhaps aware that I am M. de Monte Cristo’s friend?", "pos": 2105061}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I was not sure, but I thought it might be so. So much the better; the more honorable men there are here the better I shall be satisfied.", "pos": 2105152}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "will you apprise the Count of Monte Cristo that M. de Morcerf is arrived, and we are at his disposal?", "pos": 2105325}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I have two words to say to the Count of Monte Cristo.", "pos": 2105576}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "In private?", "pos": 2105632}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No, sir; before all who are here.", "pos": 2105660}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What does he want with me?", "pos": 2105913}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I do not know, but he wishes to speak to you.", "pos": 2105961}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah? I trust he is not going to tempt me by some fresh insult!", "pos": 2106009}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I do not think that such is his intention,", "pos": 2106094}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Approach, gentlemen. I wish you not to lose one word of what I am about to have the honor of saying to the Count of Monte Cristo, for it must be repeated by you to all who will listen to it, strange as it may appear to you.", "pos": 2106431}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Proceed, sir,", "pos": 2106672}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Sir. I reproached you with exposing the conduct of M. de Morcerf in Epirus, for guilty as I knew he was, I thought you had no right to punish him; but I have since learned that you had that right. It is not Fernand Mondego’s treachery towards Ali Pasha which induces me so readily to excuse you, but the treachery of the fisherman Fernand towards you, and the almost unheard-of miseries which were its consequences; and I say, and proclaim it publicly, that you were justified in revenging yourself on my father, and I, his son, thank you for not using greater severity.", "pos": 2106704}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Now, sir,", "pos": 2107894}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "if you think my apology sufficient, pray give me your hand. Next to the merit of infallibility which you appear to possess, I rank that of candidly acknowledging a fault. But this confession concerns me only. I acted well as a man, but you have acted better than man. An angel alone could have saved one of us from death—that angel came from heaven, if not to make us friends (which, alas, fatality renders impossible), at least to make us esteem each other. Gentlemen. M. de Monte Cristo receives my apology. I had acted hastily towards him. Hasty actions are generally bad ones. Now my fault is repaired. I hope the world will not call me cowardly for acting as my conscience dictated. But if anyone should entertain a false opinion of me. I shall endeavor to correct his mistake.", "pos": 2107919}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "What happened during the night? we appear to make a very sorry figure here.", "pos": 2108965}
{"speaker": "baron", "text": "In truth, what Albert has just done is either very despicable or very noble,", "pos": 2109080}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "What can it mean?", "pos": 2109178}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "The Count of Monte Cristo acts dishonorably to M. de Morcerf, and is justified by his son! Had I ten Yaninas in my family, I should only consider myself the more bound to fight ten times.", "pos": 2109220}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "Providence still, now only am I fully convinced of being the emissary of God!", "pos": 2109894}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Indeed, my dear friend, allow me to congratulate you; this is a very unhoped-for conclusion of a very disagreeable affair.", "pos": 2110340}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Are we not going?", "pos": 2110675}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "When you please, allow me only to compliment M. de Morcerf, who has given proof today of rare chivalric generosity.", "pos": 2110737}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Oh, yes,", "pos": 2110876}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "It is magnificent, to be able to exercise so much self-control!", "pos": 2110908}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Assuredly; as for me, I should have been incapable of it,", "pos": 2110997}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Gentlemen. I think you did not understand that something very serious had passed between M. de Monte Cristo and myself.", "pos": 2111110}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Possibly, possibly, but every simpleton would not be able to understand your heroism, and sooner or later you will find yourself compelled to explain it to them more energetically than would be convenient to your bodily health and the duration of your life. May I give you a friendly counsel? Set out for Naples, the Hague, or St. Petersburg—calm countries, where the point of honor is better understood than among our hot-headed Parisians. Seek quietude and oblivion, so that you may return peaceably to France after a few years. Am I not right, M. de Château-Renaud?", "pos": 2111254}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "That is quite my opinion, nothing induces serious duels so much as a duel forsworn.", "pos": 2111862}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Thank you, gentlemen. I shall follow your advice—not because you give it, but because I had before intended to quit France. I thank you equally for the service you have rendered me in being my seconds. It is deeply engraved on my heart, and, after what you have just said, I remember that only. Good-bye. Good-bye, Albert. Good-bye,", "pos": 2111970}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Good-bye,", "pos": 2112923}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "My mother!", "pos": 2116072}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "What are you doing?", "pos": 2116369}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "What were you doing?", "pos": 2116401}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, my mother! it is not the same with you and me—you cannot have made the same resolution I have, for I have come to warn you that I bid adieu to your house, and—and to you.", "pos": 2116437}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "I also, am going, and I acknowledge I had depended on your accompanying me; have I deceived myself?", "pos": 2116671}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Mother. I cannot make you share the fate I have planned for myself. I must live henceforth without rank and fortune, and to begin this hard apprenticeship I must borrow from a friend the loaf I shall eat until I have earned one. So, my dear mother, I am going at once to ask Franz to lend me the small sum I shall require to supply my present wants.", "pos": 2116793}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "You, my poor child, suffer poverty and hunger? Oh, do not say so; it will break my resolutions.", "pos": 2117174}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But not mine, mother. I am young and strong; I believe I am courageous, and since yesterday I have learned the power of will. Alas, my dear mother, some have suffered so much, and yet live, and have raised a new fortune on the ruin of all the promises of happiness which heaven had made them—on the fragments of all the hope which God had given them! I have seen that, mother; I know that from the gulf in which their enemies have plunged them they have risen with so much vigor and glory that in their turn they have ruled their former conquerors, and have punished them. No, mother; from this moment I have done with the past, and accept nothing from it—not even a name, because you can understand that your son cannot bear the name of a man who ought to blush for it before another.", "pos": 2117272}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Albert, my child, if I had a stronger heart, that is the counsel I would have given you; your conscience has spoken when my voice became too weak; listen to its dictates. You had friends, Albert; break off their acquaintance. But do not despair; you have life before you, my dear Albert, for you are yet scarcely twenty-two years old; and as a pure heart like yours wants a spotless name, take my father’s—it was Herrera. I am sure, my dear Albert, whatever may be your career, you will soon render that name illustrious. Then, my son, return to the world still more brilliant because of your former sorrows; and if I am wrong, still let me cherish these hopes, for I have no future to look forward to. For me the grave opens when I pass the threshold of this house.", "pos": 2118078}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I will fulfil all your wishes, my dear mother. Yes, I share your hopes; the anger of Heaven will not pursue us, since you are pure and I am innocent. But, since our resolution is formed, let us act promptly. M. de Morcerf went out about half an hour ago; the opportunity is favorable to avoid an explanation.", "pos": 2118864}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "I am ready, my son,", "pos": 2119197}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "From the count,", "pos": 2119595}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "I accept it, he has a right to pay the dowry, which I shall take with me to some convent!", "pos": 2122349}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "Count,", "pos": 2123250}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "put me down at my door, that my wife may not have a single moment of needless anxiety on my account or yours. If it were not ridiculous to make a display of our triumph, said Morrel, I would invite the count to our house; besides that, he doubtless has some trembling heart to comfort. So we will take leave of our friend, and let him hasten home.", "pos": 2123321}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Stop a moment, do not let me lose both my companions. Return, Emmanuel, to your charming wife, and present my best compliments to her; and do you, Morrel, accompany me to the Champs-Élysées.", "pos": 2123673}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "Shall we wait breakfast for you?", "pos": 2123968}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "See what good fortune I brought you! Have you not thought so?", "pos": 2124097}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, for that reason I wished to keep you near me.", "pos": 2124210}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "It is miraculous!", "pos": 2124284}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What?", "pos": 2124350}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "What has just happened.", "pos": 2124377}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 2124403}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "For Albert is brave,", "pos": 2124460}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Very brave,", "pos": 2124499}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "And I know he has fought two duels. How can you reconcile that with his conduct this morning?", "pos": 2124594}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "All owing to your influence,", "pos": 2124705}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "It is well for Albert he is not in the army,", "pos": 2124767}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why?", "pos": 2124827}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "An apology on the ground!", "pos": 2124834}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Come, do not entertain the prejudices of ordinary men, Morrel! Acknowledge, that if Albert is brave, he cannot be a coward; he must then have had some reason for acting as he did this morning, and confess that his conduct is more heroic than otherwise.", "pos": 2124904}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Doubtless, doubtless, but I shall say, like the Spaniard, ‘He has not been so brave today as he was yesterday.’", "pos": 2125184}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You will breakfast with me, will you not, Morrel?", "pos": 2125313}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "No; I must leave you at ten o’clock.", "pos": 2125407}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Your engagement was for breakfast, then?", "pos": 2125446}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Still you must breakfast somewhere. But if I am not hungry?", "pos": 2125540}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh. I only know two things which destroy the appetite,—grief—and as I am happy to see you very cheerful, it is not that—and love. Now after what you told me this morning of your heart, I may believe——", "pos": 2125624}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Well, count. I will not dispute it.", "pos": 2125845}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But you will not make me your confidant, Maximilian?", "pos": 2125907}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I showed you this morning that I had a heart, did I not, count? since that heart is no longer with you in the Bois de Vincennes, it is elsewhere, and I must go and find it.", "pos": 2126055}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Go, go, dear friend, but promise me if you meet with any obstacle to remember that I have some power in this world, that I am happy to use that power in the behalf of those I love, and that I love you, Morrel.", "pos": 2126329}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I will remember it, as selfish children recollect their parents when they want their aid. When I need your assistance, and the moment arrives, I will come to you, count.", "pos": 2126579}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, I rely upon your promise. Good-bye, then.", "pos": 2126773}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Good-bye, till we meet again.", "pos": 2126823}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well?", "pos": 2127097}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "She is going to leave her house. Florentin, his valet, thinks he is going to do the same.", "pos": 2127115}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Come this way. Here I am,", "pos": 2127242}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "M. de Morcerf! Which, the viscount or the count?", "pos": 2128387}
{"speaker": "Baptistin", "text": "The count.", "pos": 2128547}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "is it not yet over?", "pos": 2128584}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I know not if it is finished, my beloved child, but I do know you have nothing more to fear.", "pos": 2128606}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "But it is the wretched——", "pos": 2128753}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "That man cannot injure me, Haydée,", "pos": 2128780}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "And what I have suffered, you shall never know, my lord.", "pos": 2128889}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "By my father’s tomb. I swear to you, Haydée, that if any misfortune happens, it will not be to me.", "pos": 2128992}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "I believe you, my lord, as implicitly as if God had spoken to me,", "pos": 2129156}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "shall I then be permitted to love again? Ask M. de Morcerf into the drawing-room,", "pos": 2129439}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, it is M. de Morcerf. I thought I had not heard aright.", "pos": 2132528}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, it is I,", "pos": 2132618}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "May I know the cause which procures me the pleasure of seeing M. de Morcerf so early?", "pos": 2132727}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Had you not a meeting with my son this morning?", "pos": 2132815}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I had,", "pos": 2132884}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And I know my son had good reasons to wish to fight with you, and to endeavor to kill you.", "pos": 2132912}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, sir, he had very good ones; but you see that in spite of them he has not killed me, and did not even fight.", "pos": 2133005}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yet he considered you the cause of his father’s dishonor, the cause of the fearful ruin which has fallen on my house.", "pos": 2133120}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is true, sir, a secondary cause, but not the principal.", "pos": 2133240}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Doubtless you made, then, some apology or explanation?", "pos": 2133349}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I explained nothing, and it is he who apologized to me.", "pos": 2133406}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But to what do you attribute this conduct?", "pos": 2133464}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To the conviction, probably, that there was one more guilty than I.", "pos": 2133509}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And who was that?", "pos": 2133579}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "His father.", "pos": 2133599}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "That may be, but you know the guilty do not like to find themselves convicted.", "pos": 2133613}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I know it, and I expected this result.", "pos": 2133726}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "You expected my son would be a coward?", "pos": 2133767}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "M. Albert de Morcerf is no coward!", "pos": 2133825}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A man who holds a sword in his hand, and sees a mortal enemy within reach of that sword, and does not fight, is a coward! Why is he not here that I may tell him so?", "pos": 2133880}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Sir. I did not expect that you had come here to relate to me your little family affairs. Go and tell M. Albert that, and he may know what to answer you.", "pos": 2134047}
{"speaker": "the general", "text": "Oh, no, no. I did not come for that purpose; you are right. I came to tell you that I also look upon you as my enemy. I came to tell you that I hate you instinctively; that it seems as if I had always known you, and always hated you; and, in short, since the young people of the present day will not fight, it remains for us to do so. Do you think so, sir?", "pos": 2134233}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly. And when I told you I had foreseen the result, it is the honor of your visit I alluded to.", "pos": 2134629}
{"speaker": "the general", "text": "So much the better. Are you prepared?", "pos": 2134733}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, sir.", "pos": 2134773}
{"speaker": "the general", "text": "You know that we shall fight till one of us is dead,", "pos": 2134785}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Until one of us dies,", "pos": 2134902}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let us start, then; we need no witnesses.", "pos": 2134987}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Very true, it is unnecessary, we know each other so well! On the contrary, we know so little of each other. Indeed? let us see. Are you not the soldier Fernand who deserted on the eve of the battle of Waterloo? Are you not the Lieutenant Fernand who served as guide and spy to the French army in Spain? Are you not the Captain Fernand who betrayed, sold, and murdered his benefactor, Ali? And have not all these Fernands, united, made Lieutenant-General, the Count of Morcerf, peer of France?", "pos": 2135031}
{"speaker": "the general", "text": "Oh, wretch,—to reproach me with my shame when about, perhaps, to kill me! No, I did not say I was a stranger to you. I know well, demon, that you have penetrated into the darkness of the past, and that you have read, by the light of what torch I know not, every page of my life; but perhaps I may be more honorable in my shame than you under your pompous coverings. No—no, I am aware you know me; but I know you only as an adventurer sewn up in gold and jewellery. You call yourself, in Paris, the Count of Monte Cristo; in Italy, Sinbad the Sailor; in Malta, I forget what. But it is your real name I want to know, in the midst of your hundred names, that I may pronounce it when we meet to fight, at the moment when I plunge my sword through your heart.", "pos": 2135626}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Fernand, of my hundred names I need only tell you one, to overwhelm you! But you guess it now, do you not?—or, rather, you remember it? For, notwithstanding all my sorrows and my tortures, I show you today a face which the happiness of revenge makes young again—a face you must often have seen in your dreams since your marriage with Mercédès, my betrothed!", "pos": 2137073}
{"speaker": "general", "text": "Edmond Dantès!", "pos": 2137755}
{"speaker": "the general", "text": "Home, home.", "pos": 2137967}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Courage, mother! Come, this is no longer our home!", "pos": 2138808}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Now, now let us talk about our own affairs. You know, Maximilian, grandpapa once thought of leaving this house, and taking an apartment away from M. de Villefort’s.", "pos": 2141133}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes. I recollect the project, of which I highly approved.", "pos": 2141414}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Well, you may approve again, for grandpapa is again thinking of it.", "pos": 2141493}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Bravo,", "pos": 2141581}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "And do you know, what reason grandpapa gives for leaving this house.", "pos": 2141614}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, whatever may be M. Noirtier’s reason. I can readily believe it to be a good one.", "pos": 2141832}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "An excellent one. He pretends the air of the Faubourg Saint-Honoré is not good for me.", "pos": 2141938}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Indeed? in that M. Noirtier may be right; you have not seemed to be well for the last fortnight.", "pos": 2142045}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Not very. And grandpapa has become my physician, and I have the greatest confidence in him, because he knows everything.", "pos": 2142159}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Do you then really suffer?", "pos": 2142300}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, it must not be called suffering; I feel a general uneasiness, that is all. I have lost my appetite, and my stomach feels as if it were struggling to get accustomed to something.", "pos": 2142351}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And what treatment do you adopt for this singular complaint?", "pos": 2142588}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "A very simple one. I swallow every morning a spoonful of the mixture prepared for my grandfather. When I say one spoonful, I began by one—now I take four. Grandpapa says it is a panacea.", "pos": 2142651}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "But. I thought this mixture, of which you now take four spoonfuls, was prepared for M. Noirtier?", "pos": 2143543}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I know it is very bitter, so bitter, that all I drink afterwards appears to have the same taste. Yes, grandpapa, it is so. Just now, before I came down to you, I drank a glass of sugared water; I left half, because it seemed so bitter. Oh, this is singular! I can’t see! Did the sun shine in my eyes?", "pos": 2143657}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "The sun is not shining,", "pos": 2144379}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Cheer up. Do not be alarmed, Maximilian; it is nothing, and has already passed away. But listen! Do I not hear a carriage in the courtyard? Yes, it is Madame Danglars and her daughter, who have come to call on us. Good-bye;—I must run away, for they would send here for me, or, rather, farewell till I see you again. Stay with grandpapa, Maximilian; I promise you not to persuade them to stay.", "pos": 2144534}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Fetch the glass of water and the decanter from Valentine’s room. Why are the glass and decanter empty? Valentine said she only drank half the glassful.", "pos": 2145604}
{"speaker": "the servant", "text": "I do not know, but the housemaid is in Mademoiselle Valentine’s room: perhaps she has emptied them.", "pos": 2146078}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Ask her,", "pos": 2146200}
{"speaker": "the servant", "text": "Mademoiselle Valentine passed through the room to go to Madame de Villefort’s, and in passing, as she was thirsty, she drank what remained in the glass; as for the decanter, Master Edward had emptied that to make a pond for his ducks.", "pos": 2146333}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "My dear friend. I and Eugénie are come to be the first to announce to you the approaching marriage of my daughter with Prince Cavalcanti.", "pos": 2147329}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Allow me to present you my sincere congratulations. Prince Cavalcanti appears to be a young man of rare qualities.", "pos": 2147636}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Listen, speaking to you as a friend I can say that the prince does not yet appear all he will be. He has about him a little of that foreign manner by which French persons recognize, at first sight, the Italian or German nobleman. Besides, he gives evidence of great kindness of disposition, much keenness of wit, and as to suitability, M. Danglars assures me that his fortune is majestic—that is his word.", "pos": 2147791}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "And then, add that you have taken a great fancy to the young man.", "pos": 2148229}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "And. I need not ask you if you share that fancy.", "pos": 2148375}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "I? Oh, not the least in the world, madame! My wish was not to confine myself to domestic cares, or the caprices of any man, but to be an artist, and consequently free in heart, in person, and in thought. At any rate, since I am to be married whether I will or not, I ought to be thankful to Providence for having released me from my engagement with M. Albert de Morcerf, or I should this day have been the wife of a dishonored man.", "pos": 2148454}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "It is true, it is very true that had not the Morcerfs hesitated, my daughter would have married Monsieur Albert. The general depended much on it; he even came to force M. Danglars. We have had a narrow escape.", "pos": 2149153}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "But, does all the father’s shame revert upon the son? Monsieur Albert appears to me quite innocent of the treason charged against the general.", "pos": 2149527}
{"speaker": "the young girl", "text": "Excuse me. Monsieur Albert claims and well deserves his share. It appears that after having challenged M. de Monte Cristo at the Opera yesterday, he apologized on the ground today.", "pos": 2149699}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Impossible,", "pos": 2149916}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Ah, my dear friend, it is a fact. I heard it from M. Debray, who was present at the explanation.", "pos": 2149956}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 2150560}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "It is, my dear Valentine, that you are, doubtless, suffering.", "pos": 2150666}
{"speaker": "the young girl", "text": "I?", "pos": 2150758}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, look at yourself in that glass; you have turned pale and then red successively, three or four times in one minute.", "pos": 2150830}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Indeed, you are very pale!", "pos": 2150952}
{"speaker": "the young girl", "text": "Oh, do not be alarmed; I have been so for many days.", "pos": 2150998}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Retire, Valentine, you are really suffering, and these ladies will excuse you; drink a glass of pure water, it will restore you. That poor child, she makes me very uneasy, and I should not be astonished if she had some serious illness.", "pos": 2151189}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, what a clumsy thing I am. I don’t know my way. I forgot there were three more steps before the landing.", "pos": 2152289}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "You have hurt yourself, perhaps. What can I do for you, Valentine?", "pos": 2152436}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Don’t worry, dear grandpapa, it is nothing—it is nothing; I was giddy, that is all.", "pos": 2152605}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Another attack of giddiness. Oh, attend to it, Valentine, I entreat you.", "pos": 2152725}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "But no, no, I tell you it is all past, and it was nothing. Now, let me tell you some news; Eugénie is to be married in a week, and in three days there is to be a grand feast, a betrothal festival. We are all invited, my father, Madame de Villefort, and I—at least, I understood it so. And do you, depend on me to stimulate the tardiness and arouse the memory of grandpapa?", "pos": 2152835}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 2153397}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, oh, indeed, Maximilian, you are too timid for an officer, for a soldier who, they say, never knows fear. Ha, ha, ha!", "pos": 2153509}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "I told you so! Poor child!", "pos": 2154430}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "What is the matter? A physician, a physician,—M. d’Avrigny! or rather I will go for him myself.", "pos": 2154608}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "is it you?", "pos": 2156126}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "it is I, who am come in my turn to ask you if we are quite alone. Doctor, my house is accursed!", "pos": 2156190}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "have you another invalid?", "pos": 2156359}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "yes!", "pos": 2156439}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Who is now dying in your house? What new victim is going to accuse you of weakness before God?", "pos": 2156537}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Valentine, it is Valentine’s turn!", "pos": 2156726}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Your daughter!", "pos": 2156781}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You see you were deceived, come and see her, and on her bed of agony entreat her pardon for having suspected her.", "pos": 2156839}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Each time you have applied to me, it has been too late; still I will go. But let us make haste, sir; with the enemies you have to do with there is no time to be lost.", "pos": 2156982}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Oh, this time, doctor, you shall not have to reproach me with weakness. This time I will know the assassin, and will pursue him.", "pos": 2157170}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Let us try first to save the victim before we think of revenging her. Come.", "pos": 2157301}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What is the matter, Maximilian? you are pale, and the perspiration rolls from your forehead.", "pos": 2157767}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes. I came quickly; I wanted to speak to you.", "pos": 2157900}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Are all your family well?", "pos": 2157960}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Thank you, count—thank you, yes, everyone in my family is well.", "pos": 2158088}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So much the better; yet you have something to tell me?", "pos": 2158229}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes, it is true; I have but now left a house where death has just entered, to run to you.", "pos": 2158328}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Are you then come from M. de Morcerf’s?", "pos": 2158435}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "No,", "pos": 2158497}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "The general has just blown his brains out,", "pos": 2158548}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, what a dreadful event!", "pos": 2158635}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Not for the countess, or for Albert, a dead father or husband is better than a dishonored one,—blood washes out shame.", "pos": 2158682}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Poor countess. I pity her very much; she is so noble a woman!", "pos": 2158824}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Pity Albert also, Maximilian; for believe me he is the worthy son of the countess. But let us return to yourself. You have hastened to me—can I have the happiness of being useful to you?", "pos": 2158907}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes, I need your help: that is I thought like a madman that you could lend me your assistance in a case where God alone can succor me.", "pos": 2159103}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Tell me what it is,", "pos": 2159240}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh. I know not, indeed, if I may reveal this secret to mortal ears, but fatality impels me, necessity constrains me, count——", "pos": 2159284}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do you think I love you?", "pos": 2159444}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, you encourage me, and something tells me there, that I ought to have no secret from you.", "pos": 2159541}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are right, Morrel; God is speaking to your heart, and your heart speaks to you. Tell me what it says.", "pos": 2159669}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Count, will you allow me to send Baptistin to inquire after someone you know?", "pos": 2159777}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am at your service, and still more my servants.", "pos": 2159857}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, I cannot live if she is not better.", "pos": 2159909}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Shall I ring for Baptistin?", "pos": 2159951}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "No, I will go and speak to him myself.", "pos": 2159981}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, have you sent?", "pos": 2160115}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes, and now I shall be more calm.", "pos": 2160180}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You know I am waiting,", "pos": 2160217}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes, and I will tell you. One evening I was in a garden; a clump of trees concealed me; no one suspected I was there. Two persons passed near me—allow me to conceal their names for the present; they were speaking in an undertone, and yet I was so interested in what they said that I did not lose a single word.", "pos": 2160270}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "This is a gloomy introduction, if I may judge from your pallor and shuddering, Morrel.", "pos": 2160583}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, yes, very gloomy, my friend. Someone had just died in the house to which that garden belonged. One of the persons whose conversation I overheard was the master of the house; the other, the physician. The former was confiding to the latter his grief and fear, for it was the second time within a month that death had suddenly and unexpectedly entered that house which was apparently destined to destruction by some exterminating angel, as an object of God’s anger.", "pos": 2160672}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, indeed?", "pos": 2161142}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes, death had entered that house twice within one month.", "pos": 2161344}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And what did the doctor answer?", "pos": 2161424}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "He replied—he replied, that the death was not a natural one, and must be attributed", "pos": 2161478}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To what?", "pos": 2161565}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "To poison.", "pos": 2161576}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Indeed!", "pos": 2161589}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes, my dear count, I heard it; and the doctor added that if another death occurred in a similar way he must appeal to justice. death came a third time, and neither the master of the house nor the doctor said a word. Death is now, perhaps, striking a fourth blow. Count, what am I bound to do, being in possession of this secret?", "pos": 2161809}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My dear friend, you appear to be relating an adventure which we all know by heart. I know the house where you heard it, or one very similar to it; a house with a garden, a master, a physician, and where there have been three unexpected and sudden deaths. Well, I have not intercepted your confidence, and yet I know all that as well as you, and I have no conscientious scruples. No, it does not concern me. You say an exterminating angel appears to have devoted that house to God’s anger—well, who says your supposition is not reality? Do not notice things which those whose interest it is to see them pass over. If it is God’s justice, instead of his anger, which is walking through that house, Maximilian, turn away your face and let his justice accomplish its purpose. Besides, besides, who says that it will begin again?", "pos": 2162241}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "It has returned, count, that is why I hastened to you.", "pos": 2163284}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, what do you wish me to do? Do you wish me, for instance, to give information to the procureur?", "pos": 2163361}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "You know of whom I speak, count, do you not?", "pos": 2163558}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Perfectly well, my good friend; and I will prove it to you by putting the dots to the i, or rather by naming the persons. You were walking one evening in M. de Villefort’s garden; from what you relate, I suppose it to have been the evening of Madame de Saint-Méran’s death. You heard M. de Villefort talking to M. d’Avrigny about the death of M. de Saint-Méran, and that no less surprising, of the countess. M. d’Avrigny said he believed they both proceeded from poison; and you, honest man, have ever since been asking your heart and sounding your conscience to know if you ought to expose or conceal this secret. We are no longer in the Middle Ages; there is no longer a Vehmgericht, or Free Tribunals; what do you want to ask these people? ‘Conscience, what hast thou to do with me?’ as Sterne said. My dear fellow, let them sleep on, if they are asleep; let them grow pale in their drowsiness, if they are disposed to do so, and pray do you remain in peace, who have no remorse to disturb you.", "pos": 2163605}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "But it is beginning again, I say!", "pos": 2164682}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, let it begin again,—it is like the house of the Atreidae;19 God has condemned them, and they must submit to their punishment. They will all disappear, like the fabrics children build with cards, and which fall, one by one, under the breath of their builder, even if there are two hundred of them. Three months since it was M. de Saint-Méran; Madame de Saint-Méran two months since; the other day it was Barrois; today, the old Noirtier, or young Valentine.", "pos": 2164718}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "You knew it?", "pos": 2165312}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "you knew it, and said nothing? And what is it to me? do I know those people? and must I lose the one to save the other? Faith, no, for between the culprit and the victim I have no choice.", "pos": 2165451}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "But I. I love her!", "pos": 2165692}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You love?—whom?", "pos": 2165751}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I love most fondly—I love madly—I love as a man who would give his life-blood to spare her a tear—I love Valentine de Villefort, who is being murdered at this moment! Do you understand me? I love her; and I ask God and you how I can save her?", "pos": 2165878}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Unhappy man, you love Valentine,—that daughter of an accursed race!", "pos": 2166223}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "See, my dear friend, how God punishes the most thoughtless and unfeeling men for their indifference, by presenting dreadful scenes to their view. I, who was looking on, an eager and curious spectator,—I, who was watching the working of this mournful tragedy,—I, who like a wicked angel was laughing at the evil men committed protected by secrecy (a secret is easily kept by the rich and powerful), I am in my turn bitten by the serpent whose tortuous course I was watching, and bitten to the heart! Come, come, complaints are unavailing, be a man, be strong, be full of hope, for I am here and will watch over you. I tell you to hope. Do you understand me? Remember that I never uttered a falsehood and am never deceived. It is twelve o’clock, Maximilian; thank heaven that you came at noon rather than in the evening, or tomorrow morning. Listen, Morrel—it is noon; if Valentine is not now dead, she will not die.", "pos": 2167016}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "How so? when I left her dying?", "pos": 2168044}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Maximilian, return home. I command you not to stir—attempt nothing, not to let your countenance betray a thought, and I will send you tidings. Go.", "pos": 2168428}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, count, you overwhelm me with that coolness. Have you, then, power against death? Are you superhuman? Are you an angel?", "pos": 2168588}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I can do much for you, my friend. Go; I must be alone.", "pos": 2168938}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "She is still alive!", "pos": 2169851}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Still? oh, doctor, what a dreadful word is that.", "pos": 2169873}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Yes. I repeat it; she is still alive, and I am astonished at it.", "pos": 2169943}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "But is she safe?", "pos": 2170032}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Yes, since she lives. Sir, call Mademoiselle Valentine’s maid, if you please. Have you something to tell me? Privately?", "pos": 2170069}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 2170807}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Well, I will remain with you.", "pos": 2170814}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "What is the matter, then, with this dear child? she has just left me, and she complained of being indisposed, but I did not think seriously of it.", "pos": 2170950}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Ah,", "pos": 2171406}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "This poor child would be better in bed. Come, Fanny, we will put her to bed.", "pos": 2171517}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Do you, know anything of this young lady’s illness?", "pos": 2172466}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 2172531}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "We have no time to lose; I will question, and do you answer me. Did you anticipate the accident which has happened to your granddaughter?", "pos": 2172556}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 2172748}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Pardon what I am going to say. Did you see poor Barrois die? Do you know of what he died! Do you think he died a natural death?", "pos": 2172812}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Then you have thought that Barrois was poisoned? Yes.", "pos": 2173214}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Do you think the poison he fell a victim to was intended for him?", "pos": 2173272}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "No.", "pos": 2173340}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Do you think the same hand which unintentionally struck Barrois has now attacked Valentine?", "pos": 2173346}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 2173440}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Then will she die too? Then you hope? What do you hope? Do you hope the assassin will be tried? Then you hope the poison will take no effect on Valentine? It is no news to you,", "pos": 2173447}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 2174528}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "To prepare her system to resist poison?", "pos": 2174544}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 2174586}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "By accustoming her by degrees——", "pos": 2174593}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes, yes, yes,", "pos": 2174627}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Here, doctor,", "pos": 2175321}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Was this prepared in your presence? Have you not let it go out of your hands?", "pos": 2175373}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "No.", "pos": 2175485}
{"speaker": "Étienne", "text": "see why Mademoiselle Eugénie has asked me to meet her in the drawing-room, and why she makes me wait so long.", "pos": 2177612}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle’s lady’s maid", "text": "mademoiselle is finishing her toilette, and will be here shortly.", "pos": 2178186}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Well, Eugénie, what is it you want with me? and why in this solemn drawing-room when the study is so comfortable?", "pos": 2179304}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "I quite understand why you ask, sir, and in fact your two questions suggest fully the theme of our conversation. I will answer them both, and contrary to the usual method, the last first, because it is the least difficult. I have chosen the drawing-room, sir, as our place of meeting, in order to avoid the disagreeable impressions and influences of a banker’s study. Those gilded cashbooks, drawers locked like gates of fortresses, heaps of bank-bills, come from I know not where, and the quantities of letters from England, Holland, Spain, India, China, and Peru, have generally a strange influence on a father’s mind, and make him forget that there is in the world an interest greater and more sacred than the good opinion of his correspondents. I have, therefore, chosen this drawing-room, where you see, smiling and happy in their magnificent frames, your portrait, mine, my mother’s, and all sorts of rural landscapes and touching pastorals. I rely much on external impressions; perhaps, with regard to you, they are immaterial, but I should be no artist if I had not some fancies.", "pos": 2179420}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Very well,", "pos": 2180573}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "There is, then, the second point cleared up, or nearly so, and you appear satisfied with the explanation. Now, let us return to the first. You ask me why I have requested this interview; I will tell you in two words, sir; I will not marry count Andrea Cavalcanti. Yes, indeed, sir,", "pos": 2180847}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Well?", "pos": 2181926}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Well, sir, I have tried to the very last and now that the moment has come, I feel in spite of all my efforts that it is impossible.", "pos": 2181969}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "But,", "pos": 2182103}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "My reason? Well, it is not that the man is more ugly, more foolish, or more disagreeable than any other; no, M. Andrea Cavalcanti may appear to those who look at men’s faces and figures as a very good specimen of his kind. It is not, either, that my heart is less touched by him than any other; that would be a schoolgirl’s reason, which I consider quite beneath me. I actually love no one, sir; you know it, do you not? I do not then see why, without real necessity, I should encumber my life with a perpetual companion. Has not some sage said, ‘Nothing too much’? and another, ‘I carry all my effects with me’? I have been taught these two aphorisms in Latin and in Greek; one is, I believe, from Phædrus, and the other from Bias. Well, my dear father, in the shipwreck of life—for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes—I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and consequently perfectly free.", "pos": 2182363}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Unhappy girl, unhappy girl!", "pos": 2183346}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Unhappy girl, unhappy girl, do you say, sir? No, indeed; the exclamation appears quite theatrical and affected. Happy, on the contrary, for what am I in want of? The world calls me beautiful. It is something to be well received. I like a favorable reception; it expands the countenance, and those around me do not then appear so ugly. I possess a share of wit, and a certain relative sensibility, which enables me to draw from life in general, for the support of mine, all I meet with that is good, like the monkey who cracks the nut to get at its contents. I am rich, for you have one of the first fortunes in France. I am your only daughter, and you are not so exacting as the fathers of the Porte Saint-Martin and Gaîté, who disinherit their daughters for not giving them grandchildren. Besides, the provident law has deprived you of the power to disinherit me, at least entirely, as it has also of the power to compel me to marry Monsieur This or Monsieur That. And so—being, beautiful, witty, somewhat talented, as the comic operas say, and rich—and that is happiness, sir—why do you call me unhappy? No,", "pos": 2183522}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Truly, my daughter. My daughter,", "pos": 2184992}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "This is not to the purpose; let us speak candidly, sir; I admire candor. Oh,", "pos": 2186178}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I have proposed to you to marry, not for your sake, for indeed I did not think of you in the least at the moment (you admire candor, and will now be satisfied, I hope); but because it suited me to marry you as soon as possible, on account of certain commercial speculations I am desirous of entering into. It is just as I tell you, I assure you, and you must not be angry with me, for you have sought this disclosure. I do not willingly enter into arithmetical explanations with an artist like you, who fears to enter my study lest she should imbibe disagreeable or anti-poetic impressions and sensations. But in that same banker’s study, where you very willingly presented yourself yesterday to ask for the thousand francs I give you monthly for pocket-money, you must know, my dear young lady, that many things may be learned, useful even to a girl who will not marry. There one may learn, for instance, what, out of regard to your nervous susceptibility, I will inform you of in the drawing-room, namely, that the credit of a banker is his physical and moral life; that credit sustains him as breath animates the body; and M. de Monte Cristo once gave me a lecture on that subject, which I have never forgotten. There we may learn that as credit sinks, the body becomes a corpse, and this is what must happen very soon to the banker who is proud to own so good a logician as you for his daughter.", "pos": 2186410}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Ruined?", "pos": 2187910}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Exactly, my daughter; that is precisely what I mean,", "pos": 2187930}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Ah!", "pos": 2188155}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes. Yes, ruined! Now it is revealed, this secret so full of horror, as the tragic poet says. Now, my daughter, learn from my lips how you may alleviate this misfortune, so far as it will affect you.", "pos": 2188175}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh,", "pos": 2188372}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "you are a bad physiognomist, if you imagine I deplore on my own account the catastrophe of which you warn me. I ruined? and what will that signify to me? Have I not my talent left? Can I not, like Pasta, Malibran, Grisi, acquire for myself what you would never have given me, whatever might have been your fortune, a hundred or a hundred and fifty thousand livres per annum, for which I shall be indebted to no one but myself; and which, instead of being given as you gave me those poor twelve thousand francs, with sour looks and reproaches for my prodigality, will be accompanied with acclamations, with bravos, and with flowers? And if I do not possess that talent, which your smiles prove to me you doubt, should I not still have that ardent love of independence, which will be a substitute for wealth, and which in my mind supersedes even the instinct of self-preservation? No, I grieve not on my own account, I shall always find a resource; my books, my pencils, my piano, all the things which cost but little, and which I shall be able to procure, will remain my own. Do you think that I sorrow for Madame Danglars? Undeceive yourself again; either I am greatly mistaken, or she has provided against the catastrophe which threatens you, and, which will pass over without affecting her. She has taken care for herself,—at least I hope so,—for her attention has not been diverted from her projects by watching over me. She has fostered my independence by professedly indulging my love for liberty. Oh, no, sir; from my childhood I have seen too much, and understood too much, of what has passed around me, for misfortune to have an undue power over me. From my earliest recollections, I have been beloved by no one—so much the worse; that has naturally led me to love no one—so much the better—now you have my profession of faith.", "pos": 2188393}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Then, then, mademoiselle, you persist in your determination to accelerate my ruin?", "pos": 2190231}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Your ruin? I accelerate your ruin? What do you mean? I do not understand you.", "pos": 2190402}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "So much the better, I have a ray of hope left; listen.", "pos": 2190482}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have done my duty, now let others do theirs.", "pos": 2209730}
{"speaker": "the notary", "text": "Gentlemen, we are about to sign the contract.", "pos": 2211771}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "My dear, is it not vexatious? An unexpected incident, in the affair of murder and theft at the Count of Monte Cristo’s, in which he nearly fell a victim, deprives us of the pleasure of seeing M. de Villefort.", "pos": 2212141}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Indeed? Oh, well, what do I care?", "pos": 2212385}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "As a matter of fact. I am much afraid that I am the involuntary cause of his absence.", "pos": 2212487}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "What, you, count? if you are, take care, for I shall never forgive you.", "pos": 2212609}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But it is not my fault, as I shall endeavor to prove. You remember, that the unhappy wretch who came to rob me died at my house; the supposition is that he was stabbed by his accomplice, on attempting to leave it.", "pos": 2212744}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 2213105}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In order that his wounds might be examined he was undressed, and his clothes were thrown into a corner, where the police picked them up, with the exception of the waistcoat, which they overlooked. Well, this waistcoat was discovered today, covered with blood, and with a hole over the heart. It was brought to me. No one could guess what the dirty rag could be; I alone suspected that it was the waistcoat of the murdered man. My valet, in examining this mournful relic, felt a paper in the pocket and drew it out; it was a letter addressed to you, baron.", "pos": 2213127}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "To me?", "pos": 2213874}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, indeed, to you; I succeeded in deciphering your name under the blood with which the letter was stained,", "pos": 2213899}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "But, how could that prevent M. de Villefort——", "pos": 2214072}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In this simple way, madame, the waistcoat and the letter were both what is termed circumstantial evidence; I therefore sent them to the king’s attorney. You understand, my dear baron, that legal methods are the safest in criminal cases; it was, perhaps, some plot against you.", "pos": 2214185}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Possibly, was not this murdered man an old galley-slave?", "pos": 2214571}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, a felon named Caderousse. But go on signing. I perceive that my story has caused a general emotion, and I beg to apologize to you, baroness, and to Mademoiselle Danglars.", "pos": 2214654}
{"speaker": "the notary", "text": "Prince Cavalcanti. Prince Cavalcanti, where are you?", "pos": 2215029}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Andrea, Andrea,", "pos": 2215103}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Call the prince; inform him that it is his turn to sign,", "pos": 2215244}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What is the matter, sir?", "pos": 2215939}
{"speaker": "The magistrate", "text": "Which of you gentlemen, answers to the name of Andrea Cavalcanti?", "pos": 2216022}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "But who then is Andrea Cavalcanti?", "pos": 2216237}
{"speaker": "The commissary", "text": "A galley-slave, escaped from confinement at Toulon.", "pos": 2216303}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "And what crime has he committed?", "pos": 2216357}
{"speaker": "The commissary", "text": "He is accused, of having assassinated the man named Caderousse, his former companion in prison, at the moment he was making his escape from the house of the Count of Monte Cristo.", "pos": 2216392}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "Ah, what a dreadful thing, who would have suspected it? M. Andrea Cavalcanti a murderer—a galley-slave escaped—a convict!", "pos": 2218452}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "In truth, I was fated. I escaped the Morcerf only to fall into the Cavalcanti.", "pos": 2218648}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "Oh, do not confound the two, Eugénie.", "pos": 2218741}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Hold your tongue! The men are all infamous, and I am happy to be able now to do more than detest them—I despise them.", "pos": 2218781}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "What shall we do?", "pos": 2218901}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "What shall we do?", "pos": 2218935}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 2218955}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Why, the same we had intended doing three days since—set off.", "pos": 2218962}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "What?—although you are not now going to be married, you intend still——", "pos": 2219026}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Listen, Louise. I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself. Remain here? What for?—that they may try, a month hence, to marry me again; and to whom?—M. Debray, perhaps, as it was once proposed. No, Louise, no! This evening’s adventure will serve for my excuse. I did not seek one, I did not ask for one. God sends me this, and I hail it joyfully!", "pos": 2219099}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "How strong and courageous you are!", "pos": 2219669}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Did you not yet know me? Come, Louise, let us talk of our affairs. The post-chaise——", "pos": 2219759}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "Was happily bought three days since.", "pos": 2219846}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Have you had it sent where we are to go for it?", "pos": 2219885}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 2219935}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Our passport?", "pos": 2219942}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "Here it is.", "pos": 2219958}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "M. Léon d’Armilly, twenty years of age; profession, artist; hair black, eyes black; travelling with his sister. Capital! How did you get this passport?", "pos": 2220045}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "When I went to ask M. de Monte Cristo for letters to the directors of the theatres at Rome and Naples, I expressed my fears of travelling as a woman; he perfectly understood them, and undertook to procure for me a man’s passport, and two days after I received this, to which I have added with my own hand, ‘travelling with his sister.’", "pos": 2220201}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Well, we have then only to pack up our trunks; we shall start the evening of the signing of the contract, instead of the evening of the wedding—that is all.", "pos": 2220546}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "But consider the matter seriously, Eugénie!", "pos": 2220732}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Oh, I am done with considering! I am tired of hearing only of market reports, of the end of the month, of the rise and fall of Spanish funds, of Haitian bonds. Instead of that, Louise—do you understand?—air, liberty, melody of birds, plains of Lombardy, Venetian canals, Roman palaces, the Bay of Naples. How much have we, Louise?", "pos": 2220778}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "Twenty-three thousand francs,", "pos": 2221270}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "And as much, at least, in pearls, diamonds, and jewels. We are rich. With forty-five thousand francs we can live like princesses for two years, and comfortably for four; but before six months—you with your music, and I with my voice—we shall double our capital. Come, you shall take charge of the money, I of the jewel-box; so that if one of us had the misfortune to lose her treasure, the other would still have hers left. Now, the portmanteau—let us make haste—the portmanteau!", "pos": 2221312}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "Stop!", "pos": 2221810}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "What do you fear?", "pos": 2221873}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "That we may be discovered.", "pos": 2221893}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "The door is locked.", "pos": 2221922}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "They may tell us to open it.", "pos": 2221944}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "They may if they like, but we will not.", "pos": 2221975}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "You are a perfect Amazon, Eugénie!", "pos": 2222017}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "There now, while I change my costume do you lock the portmanteau.", "pos": 2222154}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "But I cannot. I am not strong enough; do you shut it.", "pos": 2222326}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Ah, you do well to ask. I forgot that I was Hercules, and you only the pale Omphale! Here, you see I have thought of everything; with this cloak you will not be cold.", "pos": 2222394}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "But you?", "pos": 2222890}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Oh, I am never cold, you know! Besides, with these men’s clothes——", "pos": 2222901}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "Will you dress here?", "pos": 2222970}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 2222993}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "Shall you have time?", "pos": 2223006}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Do not be uneasy, you little coward! All our servants are busy, discussing the grand affair. Besides, what is there astonishing, when you think of the grief I ought to be in, that I shut myself up?—tell me!", "pos": 2223029}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "No, truly—you comfort me.", "pos": 2223238}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Come and help me.", "pos": 2223266}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "Oh, that is very good—indeed, it is very good! but that beautiful black hair, those magnificent braids, which made all the ladies sigh with envy,—will they go under a man’s hat like the one I see down there?", "pos": 2223756}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "You shall see,", "pos": 2224013}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "Oh, the magnificent hair!", "pos": 2224523}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "And am I not a hundred times better thus? and do you not think me handsomer so?", "pos": 2224577}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "Oh, you are beautiful—always beautiful! Now, where are you going?", "pos": 2224763}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "To Brussels, if you like; it is the nearest frontier. We can go to Brussels, Liège, Aix-la-Chapelle; then up the Rhine to Strasbourg. We will cross Switzerland, and go down into Italy by the Saint-Gothard. Will that do?", "pos": 2224847}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 2225069}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "What are you looking at?", "pos": 2225076}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "I am looking at you; indeed you are adorable like that! One would say you were carrying me off.", "pos": 2225103}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "And they would be right, pardieu!", "pos": 2225201}
{"speaker": "Louise d’Armilly", "text": "Oh, I think you swore, Eugénie.", "pos": 2225237}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Gate!", "pos": 2226427}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Mademoiselle, let the porter get the post-chaise from the coach-house, and fetch some post-horses from the hotel. Here are five francs for his trouble.", "pos": 2227498}
{"speaker": "Louise", "text": "Indeed. I admire you, and I could almost say respect you.", "pos": 2227668}
{"speaker": "the postilion", "text": "Here is the passport, which way are we going, young gentleman?", "pos": 2228067}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "To Fontainebleau,", "pos": 2228154}
{"speaker": "Louise", "text": "What do you say?", "pos": 2228222}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "I am giving them the slip, this woman to whom we have given twenty louis may betray us for forty; we will soon alter our direction.", "pos": 2228254}
{"speaker": "Louise", "text": "You are always right. Ah, here we are out of Paris.", "pos": 2228530}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Yes, my dear, the abduction is an accomplished fact,", "pos": 2228850}
{"speaker": "Louise", "text": "Yes, and without violence,", "pos": 2228922}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "I shall bring that forward as an extenuating circumstance,", "pos": 2228964}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Am I to be captured? no, not if I can use more activity than my enemies. My safety is now a mere question of speed. Ho, friend!", "pos": 2230977}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "What do you want, sir?", "pos": 2231353}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Is your horse tired?", "pos": 2231396}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "Tired? oh, yes, tired enough—he has done nothing the whole of this blessed day! Four wretched fares, and twenty sous over, making in all seven francs, are all that I have earned, and I ought to take ten to the owner.", "pos": 2231419}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Will you add these twenty francs to the seven you have?", "pos": 2231638}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "With pleasure, sir; twenty francs are not to be despised. Tell me what I am to do for this.", "pos": 2231696}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "A very easy thing, if your horse isn’t tired.", "pos": 2231790}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "I tell you he’ll go like the wind,—only tell me which way to drive.", "pos": 2231838}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Towards the Louvres.", "pos": 2231908}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "Ah, I know the way—you get good sweetened rum over there.", "pos": 2231931}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Exactly so; I merely wish to overtake one of my friends, with whom I am going to hunt tomorrow at Chapelle-en-Serval. He should have waited for me here with a cabriolet till half-past eleven; it is twelve, and, tired of waiting, he must have gone on.", "pos": 2231991}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "It is likely.", "pos": 2232244}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well, will you try and overtake him?", "pos": 2232260}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "Nothing I should like better.", "pos": 2232299}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "If you do not overtake him before we reach Bourget you shall have twenty francs; if not before Louvres, thirty.", "pos": 2232331}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "And if we do overtake him?", "pos": 2232445}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Forty,", "pos": 2232474}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "That’s all right, hop in, and we’re off! Who-o-o-pla!", "pos": 2232589}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Ah, if I only had that britzka, those two good post-horses, and above all the passport that carries them on! Hurry, hurry! we must overtake him soon. Certainly. I shall not overtake my friend, but I shall kill your horse, therefore I had better stop. Here are thirty francs; I will sleep at the Cheval Rouge, and will secure a place in the first coach. Good-night, friend.", "pos": 2233439}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "My friend. I was coming from Mortefontaine to Senlis, when my horse, which is a troublesome creature, stumbled and threw me. I must reach Compiègne tonight, or I shall cause deep anxiety to my family. Could you let me hire a horse of you?", "pos": 2235483}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "My friend. I have been dining at Saint-Jean-aux-Bois, and expected to catch the coach which passes by at midnight, but like a fool I have lost my way, and have been walking for the last four hours in the forest. Show me into one of those pretty little rooms which overlook the court, and bring me a cold fowl and a bottle of Bordeaux.", "pos": 2237152}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Why is that gendarme there? There is nothing astonishing in seeing a gendarme at an inn; instead of being astonished, let me dress myself. Now then. I’ll wait till he leaves, and then I’ll slip away.", "pos": 2241322}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "They’re after me! Diable! I am lost!", "pos": 2242495}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "I have no money to pay my bill, but I am not a dishonest man; I leave behind me as a pledge this pin, worth ten times the amount. I shall be excused for leaving at daybreak, for I was ashamed.", "pos": 2243396}
{"speaker": "brigadier", "text": "Oh, oh, a bad sign to find the door open! I would rather find it triply bolted.", "pos": 2245709}
{"speaker": "brigadier", "text": "He is not here!", "pos": 2246984}
{"speaker": "two gendarmes", "text": "Well?", "pos": 2248303}
{"speaker": "brigadier", "text": "Well, my boys, the brigand must really have escaped early this morning; but we will send to the Villers-Coterets and Noyon roads, and search the forest, when we shall catch him, no doubt. Ah, what is that?", "pos": 2248336}
{"speaker": "host", "text": "Some traveller seems impatient. What number was it that rang?", "pos": 2248831}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Number 3.", "pos": 2248912}
{"speaker": "host", "text": "Run, waiter!", "pos": 2248924}
{"speaker": "brigadier", "text": "Aha! the person who is ringing appears to want something more than a waiter; we will attend upon him with a gendarme. Who occupies Number 3?", "pos": 2248994}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The little fellow who arrived last night in a post-chaise with his sister, and who asked for an apartment with two beds.", "pos": 2249181}
{"speaker": "brigadier", "text": "Follow me, Mr. Commissary! tread in my steps.", "pos": 2249375}
{"speaker": "host", "text": "Wait an instant. Number 3 has two staircases,—inside and outside.", "pos": 2249445}
{"speaker": "brigadier", "text": "Good. I will take charge of the inside one. Are the carbines loaded?", "pos": 2249530}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, brigadier.", "pos": 2249623}
{"speaker": "brigadier", "text": "Well, you guard the exterior, and if he attempts to fly, fire upon him; he must be a great criminal, from what the telegraph says.", "pos": 2249641}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "For pity’s sake, for pity’s sake do not call assistance! Save me!—I will not harm you.", "pos": 2250627}
{"speaker": "one of the ladies", "text": "Andrea, the murderer!", "pos": 2250788}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Eugénie! Mademoiselle Danglars!", "pos": 2250837}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle d’Armilly", "text": "Help, help!", "pos": 2250900}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Save me, I am pursued! For pity, for mercy’s sake do not deliver me up!", "pos": 2251022}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "It is too late, they are coming,", "pos": 2251131}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well, conceal me somewhere; you can say you were needlessly alarmed; you can turn their suspicions and save my life!", "pos": 2251180}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Well, be it so, return by the same road you came, and we will say nothing about you, unhappy wretch.", "pos": 2251501}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Here he is, here he is!", "pos": 2251630}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "here he is! I see him!", "pos": 2251688}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle d’Armilly", "text": "Fly, then! fly!", "pos": 2252142}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Or kill yourself!", "pos": 2252237}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Kill myself? why should I do so?", "pos": 2252533}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Why, you said, that you would be condemned to die like the worst criminals.", "pos": 2252605}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Bah, one has friends. Come, come, sheathe your sword, my fine fellow; there is no occasion to make such a fuss, since I give myself up; Have you any message for your father, Mademoiselle Danglars, for in all probability I shall return to Paris? Oh, oh! you need not be ashamed, even though you did post after me. Was I not nearly your husband?", "pos": 2252724}
{"speaker": "Eugénie", "text": "Oh, why is not the world a wilderness?", "pos": 2254011}
{"speaker": "maid", "text": "Mademoiselle Eugénie, retired to her apartment with Mademoiselle d’Armilly; they then took tea together, after which they desired me to leave, saying that they needed me no longer.", "pos": 2258717}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Eugénie, is lost, and so are we. The affair, as it will be reported, will cover us with shame; for in a society such as ours satire inflicts a painful and incurable wound. How fortunate that Eugénie is possessed of that strange character which has so often made me tremble!", "pos": 2259526}
{"speaker": "neighbors", "text": "Will there be another funeral today at the procureur’s house?", "pos": 2262824}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Do you intend opening the door?", "pos": 2263379}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "First, madame, who are you?", "pos": 2263432}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Who am I? You know me well enough.", "pos": 2263462}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "We no longer know anyone, madame.", "pos": 2263499}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "You must be mad, my friend,", "pos": 2263535}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "Where do you come from?", "pos": 2263584}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Oh, this is too much!", "pos": 2263610}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "Madame, these are my orders; excuse me. Your name?", "pos": 2263634}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "The baroness Danglars; you have seen me twenty times.", "pos": 2263687}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "Possibly, madame. And now, what do you want?", "pos": 2263743}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Oh, how extraordinary! I shall complain to M. de Villefort of the impertinence of his servants.", "pos": 2263790}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "Madame, this is precaution, not impertinence; no one enters here without an order from M. d’Avrigny, or without speaking to the procureur.", "pos": 2263888}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Well, I have business with the procureur.", "pos": 2264029}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "Is it pressing business?", "pos": 2264073}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "You can imagine so, since I have not even brought my carriage out yet. But enough of this—here is my card, take it to your master.", "pos": 2264100}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "Madame will await my return?", "pos": 2264233}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Yes; go.", "pos": 2264264}
{"speaker": "Valet de chambre", "text": "You will excuse this poor fellow, madame, but his orders are precise, and M. de Villefort begged me to tell you that he could not act otherwise.", "pos": 2264675}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Forgive my servants,", "pos": 2265536}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "You too, then, are unhappy?", "pos": 2265856}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes, madame,", "pos": 2265896}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Then you pity me!", "pos": 2265935}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sincerely, madame.", "pos": 2265955}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "And you understand what brings me here?", "pos": 2265976}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You wish to speak to me about the circumstance which has just happened?", "pos": 2266018}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Yes, sir,—a fearful misfortune.", "pos": 2266092}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You mean a mischance.", "pos": 2266126}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "A mischance?", "pos": 2266150}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Alas, madame, I consider those alone misfortunes which are irreparable.", "pos": 2266188}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "And do you suppose this will be forgotten?", "pos": 2266326}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Everything will be forgotten, madame. Your daughter will be married tomorrow, if not today—in a week, if not tomorrow; and I do not think you can regret the intended husband of your daughter.", "pos": 2266371}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Am I come to a friend?", "pos": 2266669}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You know that you are, madame,", "pos": 2266740}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Well, then, be more affectionate, my dear Villefort. Speak to me not as a magistrate, but as a friend; and when I am in bitter anguish of spirit, do not tell me that I ought to be gay.", "pos": 2266970}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "When I hear misfortunes named, madame, I have within the last few months contracted the bad habit of thinking of my own, and then I cannot help drawing up an egotistical parallel in my mind. That is the reason that by the side of my misfortunes yours appear to me mere mischances; that is why my dreadful position makes yours appear enviable. But this annoys you; let us change the subject. You were saying, madame——", "pos": 2267195}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "I came to ask you, my friend, what will be done with this impostor?", "pos": 2267625}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Impostor, certainly, madame, you appear to extenuate some cases, and exaggerate others. Impostor, indeed!—M. Andrea Cavalcanti, or rather M. Benedetto, is nothing more nor less than an assassin!", "pos": 2267738}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Sir, I do not deny the justice of your correction, but the more severely you arm yourself against that unfortunate man, the more deeply will you strike our family. Come, forget him for a moment, and instead of pursuing him, let him go.", "pos": 2267935}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You are too late, madame; the orders are issued.", "pos": 2268173}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Well, should he be arrested—do they think they will arrest him?", "pos": 2268224}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I hope so.", "pos": 2268290}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "If they should arrest him (I know that sometimes prisons afford means of escape), will you leave him in prison?", "pos": 2268303}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Impossible, madame; justice has its formalities.", "pos": 2268502}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "What, even for me?", "pos": 2268553}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "For all, even for myself among the rest,", "pos": 2268624}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Ah!", "pos": 2268693}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes, I know what you mean, you refer to the terrible rumors spread abroad in the world, that the deaths which have kept me in mourning for the last three months, and from which Valentine has only escaped by a miracle, have not happened by natural means.", "pos": 2268883}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "I was not thinking of that,", "pos": 2269139}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You were thinking of it, and with justice. You could not help thinking of it, and saying to yourself, ‘you, who pursue crime so vindictively, answer now, why are there unpunished crimes in your dwelling?’", "pos": 2269207}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Well, I own it.", "pos": 2269478}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I will answer you. There are crimes which remain unpunished because the criminals are unknown, and we might strike the innocent instead of the guilty; but when the culprits are discovered, when they are discovered, I swear to you, by all I hold most sacred, that whoever they may be they shall die. Now, after the oath I have just taken, and which I will keep, madame, dare you ask for mercy for that wretch!", "pos": 2269496}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "But, sir, are you sure he is as guilty as they say?", "pos": 2270133}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Listen; this is his description: ‘Benedetto, condemned, at the age of sixteen, for five years to the galleys for forgery.’ He promised well, as you see—first a runaway, then an assassin.", "pos": 2270187}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "And who is this wretch?", "pos": 2270376}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Who can tell?—a vagabond, a Corsican.", "pos": 2270402}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Has no one owned him?", "pos": 2270442}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "No one; his parents are unknown.", "pos": 2270466}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "But who was the man who brought him from Lucca?", "pos": 2270501}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Another rascal like himself, perhaps his accomplice.", "pos": 2270551}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Villefort,", "pos": 2270638}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "For Heaven’s sake, madame, do not ask pardon of me for a guilty wretch! What am I?—the law. Has the law any eyes to witness your grief? Has the law ears to be melted by your sweet voice? Has the law a memory for all those soft recollections you endeavor to recall? No, madame; the law has commanded, and when it commands it strikes. You will tell me that I am a living being, and not a code—a man, and not a volume. Look at me, madame—look around me. Has mankind treated me as a brother? Have men loved me? Have they spared me? Has anyone shown the mercy towards me that you now ask at my hands? No, madame, they struck me, always struck me! Woman, siren that you are, do you persist in fixing on me that fascinating eye, which reminds me that I ought to blush? Well, be it so; let me blush for the faults you know, and perhaps—perhaps for even more than those! But having sinned myself,—it may be more deeply than others,—I never rest till I have torn the disguises from my fellow-creatures, and found out their weaknesses. I have always found them; and more,—I repeat it with joy, with triumph,—I have always found some proof of human perversity or error. Every criminal I condemn seems to me living evidence that I am not a hideous exception to the rest. Alas, alas, alas; all the world is wicked; let us therefore strike at wickedness!", "pos": 2270811}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "But this young man, though a murderer, is an orphan, abandoned by everybody.", "pos": 2272326}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "So much the worse, or rather, so much the better; it has been so ordained that he may have none to weep his fate.", "pos": 2272405}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "But this is trampling on the weak, sir.", "pos": 2272521}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "The weakness of a murderer!", "pos": 2272563}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "His dishonor reflects upon us.", "pos": 2272593}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Is not death in my house?", "pos": 2272626}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Oh, sir, you are without pity for others, well, then, I tell you they will have no mercy on you!", "pos": 2272680}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Be it so!", "pos": 2272779}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "At least, delay the trial till the next assizes; we shall then have six months before us.", "pos": 2272862}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "No, madame; instructions have been given. There are yet five days left; five days are more than I require. Do you not think that I also long for forgetfulness? While working night and day, I sometimes lose all recollection of the past, and then I experience the same sort of happiness I can imagine the dead feel; still, it is better than suffering.", "pos": 2272972}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "But, sir, he has fled; let him escape—inaction is a pardonable offence.", "pos": 2273324}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I tell you it is too late; early this morning the telegraph was employed, and at this very minute——", "pos": 2273398}
{"speaker": "Valet de chambre", "text": "a dragoon has brought this despatch from the Minister of the Interior.", "pos": 2273553}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Arrested! he was taken at Compiègne, and all is over.", "pos": 2273763}
{"speaker": "Madame Danglars", "text": "Adieu, sir,", "pos": 2273870}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Adieu, madame. Come, I had a forgery, three robberies, and two cases of arson, I only wanted a murder, and here it is. It will be a splendid session!", "pos": 2273894}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "It is not he,", "pos": 2279157}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Now you may drink. The Count of Monte Cristo!", "pos": 2280796}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do not call anyone—do not be alarmed, do not let a shade of suspicion or uneasiness remain in your breast; the man standing before you, Valentine (for this time it is no ghost), is nothing more than the tenderest father and the most respectful friend you could dream of. Listen to me, or, rather, look upon me; look at my face, paler even than usual, and my eyes, red with weariness—for four days I have not closed them, for I have been constantly watching you, to protect and preserve you for Maximilian.", "pos": 2281446}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Maximilian! Maximilian!—has he then owned all to you?", "pos": 2282488}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Everything. He told me your life was his, and I have promised him that you shall live.", "pos": 2282624}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "You have promised him that I shall live?", "pos": 2282713}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 2282756}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "But, sir, you spoke of vigilance and protection. Are you a doctor?", "pos": 2282763}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; the best you could have at the present time, believe me.", "pos": 2282832}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "But you say you have watched? where have you been?—I have not seen you.", "pos": 2282896}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I was hidden behind that door, which leads into the next house, which I have rented.", "pos": 2283046}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Sir, I think you have been guilty of an unparalleled intrusion, and that what you call protection is more like an insult.", "pos": 2283247}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Valentine, during my long watch over you, all I have observed has been what people visited you, what nourishment was prepared, and what beverage was served; then, when the latter appeared dangerous to me, I entered, as I have now done, and substituted, in the place of the poison, a healthful draught; which, instead of producing the death intended, caused life to circulate in your veins.", "pos": 2283371}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Poison—death! what are you saying, sir?", "pos": 2283778}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Hush, my child. I did say poison and death. But drink some of this; Drink this, and then take nothing more tonight.", "pos": 2283925}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, yes. I recognize the flavor of my nocturnal beverage which refreshed me so much, and seemed to ease my aching brain. Thank you, sir, thank you!", "pos": 2284449}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "This is how you have lived during the last four nights, Valentine. But, oh, how I passed that time! Oh, the wretched hours I have endured—the torture to which I have submitted when I saw the deadly poison poured into your glass, and how I trembled lest you should drink it before I could find time to throw it away!", "pos": 2284616}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Sir, you say you endured tortures when you saw the deadly poison poured into my glass; but if you saw this, you must also have seen the person who poured it?", "pos": 2284952}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 2285159}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "You saw the person? What you tell me is horrible, sir. You wish to make me believe something too dreadful. What?—attempt to murder me in my father’s house, in my room, on my bed of sickness? Oh, leave me, sir; you are tempting me—you make me doubt the goodness of Providence—it is impossible, it cannot be!", "pos": 2285367}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Are you the first that this hand has stricken? Have you not seen M. de Saint-Méran, Madame de Saint-Méran, Barrois, all fall? Would not M. Noirtier also have fallen a victim, had not the treatment he has been pursuing for the last three years neutralized the effects of the poison?", "pos": 2285730}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, Heaven, is this the reason why grandpapa has made me share all his beverages during the last month?", "pos": 2286014}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And have they all tasted of a slightly bitter flavor, like that of dried orange-peel?", "pos": 2286138}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, yes, yes!", "pos": 2286226}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then that explains all. Your grandfather knows, then, that a poisoner lives here; perhaps he even suspects the person. He has been fortifying you, his beloved child, against the fatal effects of the poison, which has failed because your system was already impregnated with it. But even this would have availed little against a more deadly medium of death employed four days ago, which is generally but too fatal.", "pos": 2286242}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "But who, then, is this assassin, this murderer?", "pos": 2286678}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Let me also ask you a question. Have you never seen anyone enter your room at night?", "pos": 2286728}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, yes; I have frequently seen shadows pass close to me, approach, and disappear; but I took them for visions raised by my feverish imagination, and indeed when you entered I thought I was under the influence of delirium.", "pos": 2286815}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then you do not know who it is that attempts your life?", "pos": 2287040}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "No, who could desire my death?", "pos": 2287105}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You shall know it now, then. Because you are not feverish or delirious tonight, but thoroughly awake; midnight is striking, which is the hour murderers choose.", "pos": 2287156}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, heavens. I think I hear a noise, leave me.", "pos": 2287411}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Good-bye, for the present. Not a movement—not a word; let them think you asleep, or perhaps you may be killed before I have the power of helping you.", "pos": 2287861}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, do you still doubt? Do you still doubt?", "pos": 2293065}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh. Have you seen? Alas! Did you recognize? Oh, yes; I saw, but I cannot believe!", "pos": 2293104}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Would you rather die, then, and cause Maximilian’s death?", "pos": 2293252}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, can I not leave the house?—can I not escape?", "pos": 2293312}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Valentine, the hand which now threatens you will pursue you everywhere; your servants will be seduced with gold, and death will be offered to you disguised in every shape. You will find it in the water you drink from the spring, in the fruit you pluck from the tree.", "pos": 2293409}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "But did you not say that my kind grandfather’s precaution had neutralized the poison?", "pos": 2293678}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, but not against a strong dose; the poison will be changed, and the quantity increased. It is already done, brucine is no longer employed, but a simple narcotic! I can recognize the flavor of the alcohol in which it has been dissolved. If you had taken what Madame de Villefort has poured into your glass, Valentine—Valentine—you would have been doomed!", "pos": 2293766}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "But, why am I thus pursued?", "pos": 2294184}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Why?—are you so kind—so good—so unsuspicious of ill, that you cannot understand, Valentine?", "pos": 2294242}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "No, I have never injured her.", "pos": 2294336}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But you are rich, Valentine; you have 200,000 livres a year, and you prevent her son from enjoying these 200,000 livres.", "pos": 2294368}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "How so? The fortune is not her gift, but is inherited from my relations.", "pos": 2294491}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly; and that is why M. and Madame de Saint-Méran have died; that is why M. Noirtier was sentenced the day he made you his heir; that is why you, in your turn, are to die—it is because your father would inherit your property, and your brother, his only son, succeed to his.", "pos": 2294566}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Edward? Poor child! Are all these crimes committed on his account?", "pos": 2294848}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, then you at length understand?", "pos": 2294917}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Heaven grant that this may not be visited upon him!", "pos": 2294954}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Valentine, you are an angel!", "pos": 2295008}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "But why is my grandfather allowed to live?", "pos": 2295039}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It was considered, that you dead, the fortune would naturally revert to your brother, unless he were disinherited; and besides, the crime appearing useless, it would be folly to commit it.", "pos": 2295084}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "And is it possible that this frightful combination of crimes has been invented by a woman?", "pos": 2295275}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do you recollect in the arbor of the Hôtel des Postes, at Perugia, seeing a man in a brown cloak, whom your stepmother was questioning upon aqua tofana? Well, ever since then, the infernal project has been ripening in her brain.", "pos": 2295368}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Ah, then, indeed, sir. I see that I am condemned to die!", "pos": 2295599}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, Valentine, for I have foreseen all their plots; no, your enemy is conquered since we know her, and you will live, Valentine—live to be happy yourself, and to confer happiness upon a noble heart; but to insure this you must rely on me.", "pos": 2295698}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Command me, sir—what am I to do?", "pos": 2295939}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You must blindly take what I give you.", "pos": 2295974}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Alas, were it only for my own sake, I should prefer to die!", "pos": 2296015}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You must not confide in anyone—not even in your father.", "pos": 2296077}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "My father is not engaged in this fearful plot, is he, sir?", "pos": 2296135}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No; and yet your father, a man accustomed to judicial accusations, ought to have known that all these deaths have not happened naturally; it is he who should have watched over you—he should have occupied my place—he should have emptied that glass—he should have risen against the assassin. Spectre against spectre!", "pos": 2296233}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Sir. I will do all I can to live, for there are two beings who love me and will die if I die—my grandfather and Maximilian.", "pos": 2296608}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I will watch over them as I have over you.", "pos": 2296752}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Well, sir, do as you will with me; oh, heavens, what will befall me?", "pos": 2296797}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Whatever may happen, Valentine, do not be alarmed; though you suffer; though you lose sight, hearing, consciousness, fear nothing; though you should awake and be ignorant where you are, still do not fear; even though you should find yourself in a sepulchral vault or coffin. Reassure yourself, then, and say to yourself: ‘At this moment, a friend, a father, who lives for my happiness and that of Maximilian, watches over me!’", "pos": 2296906}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Alas, alas, what a fearful extremity!", "pos": 2297335}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Valentine, would you rather denounce your stepmother?", "pos": 2297375}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I would rather die a hundred times—oh, yes, die!", "pos": 2297431}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, you will not die; but will you promise me, whatever happens, that you will not complain, but hope?", "pos": 2297482}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "I will think of Maximilian!", "pos": 2297587}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are my own darling child, Valentine! I alone can save you, and I will. My child, believe in my devotion to you as you believe in the goodness of Providence and the love of Maximilian. Yes,", "pos": 2297617}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Go, whatever happens, I promise you not to fear.", "pos": 2298923}
{"speaker": "nurse", "text": "Good, she has taken part of her draught; the glass is three-quarters empty.", "pos": 2303501}
{"speaker": "nurse", "text": "Help, help!", "pos": 2304241}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "What is the matter?", "pos": 2304262}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "What is it? Doctor, do you hear them call for help?", "pos": 2304373}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Yes, yes; let us hasten up; it was in Valentine’s room.", "pos": 2304469}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Call Madame de Villefort!—Wake Madame de Villefort!", "pos": 2304788}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "What?—this one, too? Oh, where will be the end?", "pos": 2305057}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "What are you saying, doctor?", "pos": 2305155}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "I say that Valentine is dead!", "pos": 2305229}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Ah, it is no longer brucine that is used; let me see what it is! Ah,", "pos": 2306941}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Go to the assistance of Madame de Villefort. Madame de Villefort is ill.", "pos": 2308054}
{"speaker": "nurse", "text": "But Mademoiselle de Villefort——", "pos": 2308160}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Mademoiselle de Villefort no longer requires help, since she is dead.", "pos": 2308215}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Dead,—dead!", "pos": 2308305}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Dead! Who said Valentine was dead?", "pos": 2308461}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "How are you, sir?", "pos": 2309593}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Well,", "pos": 2309653}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "You are thoughtful, sir, you want something; shall I call one of the servants?", "pos": 2309757}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 2309858}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, why do they not come? Is anyone ill in the house? What is the matter? You alarm me. Valentine? Valentine?", "pos": 2310063}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes! Quicker, quicker!", "pos": 2310272}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Valentine is dead!", "pos": 2310952}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Dead,—dead! Who are you, sir, that forget that this is not the manner to enter a house stricken with death? Go, sir, go! Go!—do you hear?", "pos": 2311021}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "See what they have done! See, my father, see!", "pos": 2312811}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Sir, they ask me who I am, and what right I have to be here. Oh, you know it, tell them, tell them! Tell them, tell them that I am her betrothed. Tell them she was my beloved, my noble girl, my only blessing in the world. Tell them—oh, tell them, that corpse belongs to me!", "pos": 2313531}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sir, you say you loved Valentine, that you were betrothed to her. I knew nothing of this engagement, of this love, yet I, her father, forgive you, for I see that your grief is real and deep; and besides my own sorrow is too great for anger to find a place in my heart. But you see that the angel whom you hoped for has left this earth—she has nothing more to do with the adoration of men. Take a last farewell, sir, of her sad remains; take the hand you expected to possess once more within your own, and then separate yourself from her forever. Valentine now requires only the ministrations of the priest.", "pos": 2314914}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "You are mistaken, sir, you are mistaken; Valentine, dying as she has, not only requires a priest, but an avenger. You, M. de Villefort, send for the priest; I will be the avenger.", "pos": 2315555}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "What do you mean, sir?", "pos": 2315850}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I tell you, sir, that two persons exist in you; the father has mourned sufficiently, now let the procureur fulfil his office. Gentlemen. I know what I am saying, and you know as well as I do what I am about to say—Valentine has been assassinated!", "pos": 2315954}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes", "pos": 2316423}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Now, sir, in these days no one can disappear by violent means without some inquiries being made as to the cause of her disappearance, even were she not a young, beautiful, and adorable creature like Valentine. Now, M. le Procureur du Roi, no mercy is allowed; I denounce the crime; it is your place to seek the assassin.", "pos": 2316444}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes", "pos": 2317075}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Assuredly,", "pos": 2317105}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Sir, sir, you are deceived; no one commits crimes here. I am stricken by fate. It is horrible, indeed, but no one assassinates.", "pos": 2317134}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "And I say that murders are committed here. I tell you that this is the fourth victim within the last four months. I tell you, Valentine’s life was attempted by poison four days ago, though she escaped, owing to the precautions of M. Noirtier. I tell you that the dose has been double, the poison changed, and that this time it has succeeded. I tell you that you know these things as well as I do, since this gentleman has forewarned you, both as a doctor and as a friend.", "pos": 2317484}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Oh, you rave, sir,", "pos": 2318048}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I rave? well, then, I appeal to M. d’Avrigny himself. Ask him, sir, if he recollects the words he uttered in the garden of this house on the night of Madame de Saint-Méran’s death. You thought yourselves alone, and talked about that tragical death, and the fatality you mentioned then is the same which has caused the murder of Valentine. Yes. Yes, yes, recall the scene, for the words you thought were only given to silence and solitude fell into my ears. Certainly, after witnessing the culpable indolence manifested by M. de Villefort towards his own relations, I ought to have denounced him to the authorities; then I should not have been an accomplice to thy death, as I now am, sweet, beloved Valentine; but the accomplice shall become the avenger. This fourth murder is apparent to all, and if thy father abandon thee, Valentine, it is I, and I swear it, that shall pursue the assassin.", "pos": 2318158}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "And I, too. I unite with M. Morrel in demanding justice for crime; my blood boils at the idea of having encouraged a murderer by my cowardly concession.", "pos": 2319458}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Oh, merciful Heavens!", "pos": 2319644}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Stay. M. Noirtier wishes to speak.", "pos": 2319787}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 2319835}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Do you know the assassin?", "pos": 2319952}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 2319994}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "And will you direct us? Listen, M. d’Avrigny, listen! Do you wish me to leave?", "pos": 2320019}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 2320375}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Alas, alas, sir, have pity on me! May I, at least, return? Must I leave alone?", "pos": 2320400}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "No.", "pos": 2320553}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Whom am I to take with me? The procureur? The doctor? You wish to remain alone with M. de Villefort? But can he understand you?", "pos": 2320559}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "oh, be satisfied, I can understand my father.", "pos": 2320826}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Gentlemen, give me your word of honor that this horrible secret shall forever remain buried amongst ourselves! I entreat you——", "pos": 2321536}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "the culprit—the murderer—the assassin.", "pos": 2321760}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Do not alarm yourself, sir; justice will be done. My father has revealed the culprit’s name; my father thirsts for revenge as much as you do, yet even he conjures you as I do to keep this secret. Do you not, father?", "pos": 2321801}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 2322037}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "if my father, the inflexible man, makes this request, it is because he knows, be assured, that Valentine will be terribly revenged. Is it not so, father? He knows me, and I have pledged my word to him. Rest assured, gentlemen, that within three days, in a less time than justice would demand, the revenge I shall have taken for the murder of my child will be such as to make the boldest heart tremble;", "pos": 2322202}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Will this promise be fulfilled, M. Noirtier?", "pos": 2322764}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Swear, then, swear that you will spare the honor of my house, and leave me to avenge my child.", "pos": 2322921}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "she is indeed dead, poor child!", "pos": 2324594}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "And now the priest. fetch the nearest.", "pos": 2325434}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "The nearest, is a good Italian abbé, who lives next door to you. Shall I call on him as I pass?", "pos": 2325582}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "D’Avrigny, be so kind, I beseech you, as to accompany this gentleman. Here is the key of the door, so that you can go in and out as you please; you will bring the priest with you, and will oblige me by introducing him into my child’s room. Do you wish to see him? I only wish to be alone. You will excuse me, will you not? A priest can understand a father’s grief.", "pos": 2325708}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "Sir, are you disposed to confer a great obligation on an unhappy father who has just lost his daughter? I mean M. de Villefort, the king’s attorney.", "pos": 2326511}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, yes, I have heard that death is in that house.", "pos": 2326673}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "Then I need not tell you what kind of service he requires of you.", "pos": 2326773}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I was about to offer myself, sir, it is our mission to forestall our duties. It is a young girl. I know it, sir; the servants who fled from the house informed me. I also know that her name is Valentine, and I have already prayed for her.", "pos": 2326841}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Thank you, sir, since you have commenced your sacred office, deign to continue it. Come and watch by the dead, and all the wretched family will be grateful to you.", "pos": 2327104}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am going, sir; and I do not hesitate to say that no prayers will be more fervent than mine.", "pos": 2327288}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "See, nature knows how to alleviate the deepest sorrow. No one can say that M. Noirtier did not love his child, and yet he sleeps.", "pos": 2329183}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Yes, you are right, he sleeps, indeed! And this is the more strange, since the least contradiction keeps him awake all night.", "pos": 2329346}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Grief has stunned him,", "pos": 2329506}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "See, I have not slept, grief does not stun me. I have not been in bed for two nights; but then look at my desk; see what I have written during these two days and nights. I have filled those papers, and have made out the accusation against the assassin Benedetto. Oh, work, work,—my passion, my joy, my delight,—it is for thee to alleviate my sorrows!", "pos": 2329612}
{"speaker": "d'Avrigny", "text": "Do you require my services now?", "pos": 2330063}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "No,", "pos": 2330114}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "only return again at eleven o’clock; at twelve the—the—oh, Heavens, my poor, poor child! when I work I forget everything.", "pos": 2330136}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Poor girl, poor girl, so young, so rich, so beautiful! Could you have imagined this scene, Château-Renaud, when we saw her, at the most three weeks ago, about to sign that contract?", "pos": 2331983}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Indeed, no. I spoke to her once or twice at Madame de Morcerf’s, among the rest; she appeared to me charming, though rather melancholy. Where is her stepmother? Do you know?", "pos": 2332245}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "She is spending the day with the wife of the worthy gentleman who is receiving us.", "pos": 2332465}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Who is he? Whom do you mean?", "pos": 2332557}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Oh, no. I am condemned to witness those gentlemen every day, but he is perfectly unknown to me. It has been mentioned, but the article is not mine; indeed, I doubt if it will please M. Villefort, for it says that if four successive deaths had happened anywhere else than in the house of the king’s attorney, he would have interested himself somewhat more about it.", "pos": 2332639}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Still. Dr. d’Avrigny, who attends my mother, declares he is in despair about it. But whom are you seeking, Debray?", "pos": 2333073}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "I am seeking the Count of Monte Cristo", "pos": 2333213}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "I met him on the boulevard, on my way here. I think he is about to leave Paris; he was going to his banker.", "pos": 2333274}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "His banker? Danglars is his banker, is he not?", "pos": 2333402}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "I believe so. But Monte Cristo is not the only one I miss here; I do not see Morrel.", "pos": 2333483}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Morrel? Do they know him? I think he has only been introduced to Madame de Villefort.", "pos": 2333618}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Still, he ought to have been here. I wonder what will be talked about tonight; this funeral is the news of the day. But hush, here comes our minister of justice; he will feel obliged to make some little speech to the cousin,", "pos": 2333730}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Well. I suppose you have come to sympathize with me, for indeed misfortune has taken possession of my house. When I perceived you, I was just asking myself whether I had not wished harm towards those poor Morcerfs, which would have justified the proverb of ‘He who wishes misfortunes to happen to others experiences them himself.’ Well, on my word of honor, I answered, ‘No!’ I wished no ill to Morcerf; he was a little proud, perhaps, for a man who like myself has risen from nothing; but we all have our faults. Do you know, count, that persons of our time of life—not that you belong to the class, you are still a young man,—but as I was saying, persons of our time of life have been very unfortunate this year. For example, look at the puritanical procureur, who has just lost his daughter, and in fact nearly all his family, in so singular a manner; Morcerf dishonored and dead; and then myself covered with ridicule through the villany of Benedetto; besides—— Alas, do you not know? My daughter—— Eugénie has left us!", "pos": 2334317}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Good heavens, what are you telling me?", "pos": 2335475}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "The truth, my dear count. Oh, how happy you must be in not having either wife or children!", "pos": 2335516}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do you think so? And so Mademoiselle Danglars——", "pos": 2335609}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "She could not endure the insult offered to us by that wretch, so she asked permission to travel. The other night she left.", "pos": 2335676}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "No. No, with a relation. But still, we have quite lost our dear Eugénie; for I doubt whether her pride will ever allow her to return to France.", "pos": 2335846}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Still, baron, family griefs, or indeed any other affliction which would crush a man whose child was his only treasure, are endurable to a millionaire. Philosophers may well say, and practical men will always support the opinion, that money mitigates many trials; and if you admit the efficacy of this sovereign balm, you ought to be very easily consoled—you, the king of finance, the focus of immeasurable power.", "pos": 2335988}
{"speaker": "Noirtier", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 2336507}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "if a fortune brings consolation, I ought to be consoled; I am rich.", "pos": 2336527}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "So rich, dear sir, that your fortune resembles the pyramids; if you wished to demolish them you could not, and if it were possible, you would not dare!", "pos": 2336597}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "That reminds me, that when you entered I was on the point of signing five little bonds; I have already signed two: will you allow me to do the same to the others? Pray do so.", "pos": 2336812}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Are they Spanish, Haitian, or Neapolitan bonds?", "pos": 2337154}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "No, they are bonds on the bank of France, payable to bearer. Stay, count, you, who may be called the emperor, if I claim the title of king of finance, have you many pieces of paper of this size, each worth a million?", "pos": 2337223}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To the Governor of the Bank. Please pay to my order, from the fund deposited by me, the sum of a million, and charge the same to my account. Baron Danglars. One, two, three, four, five, five millions—why what a Crœsus you are!", "pos": 2337582}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "This is how I transact business,", "pos": 2337836}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is really wonderful, above all, if, as I suppose, it is payable at sight.", "pos": 2337886}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "It is, indeed,", "pos": 2337983}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is a fine thing to have such credit; really, it is only in France these things are done. Five millions on five little scraps of paper!—it must be seen to be believed.", "pos": 2338015}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "You do not doubt it?", "pos": 2338187}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No!", "pos": 2338210}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "You say so with an accent—stay, you shall be convinced; take my clerk to the bank, and you will see him leave it with an order on the Treasury for the same sum.", "pos": 2338216}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, most decidedly not; the thing is so curious, I will make the experiment myself. I am credited on you for six millions. I have drawn nine hundred thousand francs, you therefore still owe me five millions and a hundred thousand francs. I will take the five scraps of paper that I now hold as bonds, with your signature alone, and here is a receipt in full for the six millions between us. I had prepared it beforehand, for I am much in want of money today.", "pos": 2338379}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "What, do you mean to keep that money? Excuse me, excuse me, but I owe this money to the charity fund,—a deposit which I promised to pay this morning.", "pos": 2339101}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, well, then. I am not particular about these five notes, pay me in a different form; I wished, from curiosity, to take these, that I might be able to say that without any advice or preparation the house of Danglars had paid me five millions without a minute’s delay; it would have been remarkable. But here are your bonds; pay me differently;", "pos": 2339269}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Certainly, your receipt is money.", "pos": 2339937}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh dear, yes; and if you were at Rome, the house of Thomson & French would make no more difficulty about paying the money on my receipt than you have just done. Then I may keep this money?", "pos": 2339984}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes. Yes, keep it—keep it. no, decidedly no; keep my signatures. But you know none are so formal as bankers in transacting business; I intended this money for the charity fund, and I seemed to be robbing them if I did not pay them with these precise bonds. How absurd—as if one crown were not as good as another. Excuse me;", "pos": 2340208}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Certainly, I excuse you, and pocket them.", "pos": 2340832}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "But, there is still a sum of one hundred thousand francs?", "pos": 2340952}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, a mere nothing. The balance would come to about that sum; but keep it, and we shall be quits.", "pos": 2341029}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Count, are you speaking seriously?", "pos": 2341150}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I never joke with bankers. Ma foi, I think I arrived just in time to obtain your signatures, or they would have been disputed with me.", "pos": 2341204}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Good-morning, creditor, for I wager anything it is the creditor who visits me.", "pos": 2342153}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "You are right, baron, the charities present themselves to you through me; the widows and orphans depute me to receive alms to the amount of five millions from you.", "pos": 2342245}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "And yet they say orphans are to be pitied. Poor things!", "pos": 2342437}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Here I am in their name, but did you receive my letter yesterday?", "pos": 2342541}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 2342631}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "I have brought my receipt.", "pos": 2342638}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "My dear M. de Boville, your widows and orphans must oblige me by waiting twenty-four hours, since M. de Monte Cristo whom you just saw leaving here—you did see him, I think?", "pos": 2342674}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Yes; well?", "pos": 2342850}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Well, M. de Monte Cristo has just carried off their five millions.", "pos": 2342863}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "How so?", "pos": 2342932}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "The count has an unlimited credit upon me; a credit opened by Thomson & French, of Rome; he came to demand five millions at once, which I paid him with checks on the bank. My funds are deposited there, and you can understand that if I draw out ten millions on the same day it will appear rather strange to the governor. Two days will be a different thing,", "pos": 2342942}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Come, five millions to that gentleman who just left, and who bowed to me as though he knew me?", "pos": 2343324}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Perhaps he knows you, though you do not know him; M. de Monte Cristo knows everybody.", "pos": 2343472}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Five millions!", "pos": 2343560}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Here is his receipt. Believe your own eyes.", "pos": 2343577}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "It is really true. Do you know the house of Thomson & French?", "pos": 2343833}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes, I once had business to transact with it to the amount of 200,000 francs; but since then I have not heard it mentioned. It is one of the best houses in Europe. Indeed I do not know what he is; he has three unlimited credits—one on me, one on Rothschild, one on Lafitte; and, you see, he has given me the preference, by leaving a balance of 100,000 francs.", "pos": 2343919}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "I must visit him, and obtain some pious grant from him.", "pos": 2344530}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, you may make sure of him; his charities alone amount to 20,000 francs a month.", "pos": 2344599}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "It is magnificent! I will set before him the example of Madame de Morcerf and her son.", "pos": 2344684}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "What example?", "pos": 2344773}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "They gave all their fortune to the hospitals.", "pos": 2344789}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "What fortune?", "pos": 2344837}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Their own—M. de Morcerf’s, who is deceased.", "pos": 2344853}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "For what reason?", "pos": 2344899}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Because they would not spend money so guiltily acquired.", "pos": 2344918}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "And what are they to live upon?", "pos": 2344977}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "The mother retires into the country, and the son enters the army.", "pos": 2345011}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Well, I must confess, these are scruples.", "pos": 2345086}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "I registered their deed of gift yesterday.", "pos": 2345130}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "And how much did they possess?", "pos": 2345175}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Oh, not much—from twelve to thirteen hundred thousand francs. But to return to our millions.", "pos": 2345208}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Certainly. Are you then pressed for this money?", "pos": 2345303}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Yes; for the examination of our cash takes place tomorrow.", "pos": 2345409}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Tomorrow? Why did you not tell me so before? Why, it is as good as a century! At what hour does the examination take place?", "pos": 2345470}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "At two o’clock.", "pos": 2345596}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Send at twelve. How do you mean? The receipt of M. de Monte Cristo is as good as money; take it to Rothschild’s or Lafitte’s, and they will take it off your hands at once.", "pos": 2345614}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "What, though payable at Rome?", "pos": 2345947}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Certainly; it will only cost you a discount of 5,000 or 6,000 francs.", "pos": 2345979}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Ma foi! I prefer waiting till tomorrow. What a proposition!", "pos": 2346089}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I thought, perhaps, that you had a deficiency to make up?", "pos": 2346151}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Indeed,", "pos": 2346254}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "And if that were the case it would be worth while to make some sacrifice.", "pos": 2346283}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Thank you, no, sir.", "pos": 2346359}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Then it will be tomorrow.", "pos": 2346381}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Yes; but without fail.", "pos": 2346409}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Ah, you are laughing at me; send tomorrow at twelve, and the bank shall be notified.", "pos": 2346434}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "I will come myself.", "pos": 2346521}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Better still, since it will afford me the pleasure of seeing you.", "pos": 2346543}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "By the way, are you not going to the funeral of poor Mademoiselle de Villefort, which I met on my road here?", "pos": 2346651}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "No. I have appeared rather ridiculous since that affair of Benedetto, so I remain in the background.", "pos": 2346762}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Bah, you are wrong. How were you to blame in that affair?", "pos": 2346884}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Listen—when one bears an irreproachable name, as I do, one is rather sensitive.", "pos": 2346944}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "Everybody pities you, sir; and, above all, Mademoiselle Danglars!", "pos": 2347026}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Poor Eugénie! do you know she is going to embrace a religious life?", "pos": 2347094}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "No.", "pos": 2347181}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Alas, it is unhappily but too true. The day after the event, she decided on leaving Paris with a nun of her acquaintance; they are gone to seek a very strict convent in Italy or Spain.", "pos": 2347187}
{"speaker": "M. de Boville", "text": "It is terrible!", "pos": 2347378}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Fool! Yes, come at twelve o’clock; I shall then be far away. Good, it is available for two months longer.", "pos": 2347656}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Where is Morrel? do either of these gentlemen know where he is?", "pos": 2350153}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "We have already asked that question, for none of us has seen him.", "pos": 2350231}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "What is he doing up there?", "pos": 2352574}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "How pale he is!", "pos": 2352654}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "He is cold,", "pos": 2352705}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Not at all. I think he is violently agitated. He is very susceptible.", "pos": 2352732}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Bah, he scarcely knew Mademoiselle de Villefort; you said so yourself.", "pos": 2352835}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "True. Still I remember he danced three times with her at Madame de Morcerf’s. Do you recollect that ball, count, where you produced such an effect?", "pos": 2352923}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, I do not,", "pos": 2353080}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I was looking for you, my friend.", "pos": 2354365}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "You see I was praying.", "pos": 2354504}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Shall I drive you back to Paris?", "pos": 2354634}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "No, thank you.", "pos": 2354679}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do you wish anything?", "pos": 2354696}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Leave me to pray.", "pos": 2354720}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Ah, count,", "pos": 2355466}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Maximilian has just returned, has he not, madame?", "pos": 2355587}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Yes, I think I saw him pass; but pray, call Emmanuel.", "pos": 2355663}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Excuse me, madame, but I must go up to Maximilian’s room this instant. I have something of the greatest importance to tell him.", "pos": 2355719}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Go, then,", "pos": 2355873}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What shall I do! shall I ring? No, the sound of a bell, announcing a visitor, will but accelerate the resolution of one in Maximilian’s situation, and then the bell would be followed by a louder noise. I beg a thousand pardons, there is nothing the matter, but I slipped down and broke one of your panes of glass with my elbow. Since it is opened, I will take advantage of it to enter your room; do not disturb yourself—do not disturb yourself! Ma foi, it’s all your servant’s fault; your stairs are so polished, it is like walking on glass.", "pos": 2356486}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Are you hurt, sir?", "pos": 2357666}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I believe not. But what are you about there? You were writing.", "pos": 2357708}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I?", "pos": 2357773}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Your fingers are stained with ink.", "pos": 2357778}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Ah, true, I was writing. I do sometimes, soldier though I am.", "pos": 2357815}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You were writing?", "pos": 2357977}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I have already had the honor of telling you I was,", "pos": 2358038}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Your pistols are beside your desk,", "pos": 2358133}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I am on the point of starting on a journey,", "pos": 2358243}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My friend. Maximilian, let us both lay aside the mask we have assumed. You no more deceive me with that false calmness than I impose upon you with my frivolous solicitude. You can understand, can you not, that to have acted as I have done, to have broken that glass, to have intruded on the solitude of a friend—you can understand that, to have done all this, I must have been actuated by real uneasiness, or rather by a terrible conviction. Morrel, you are going to destroy yourself!", "pos": 2358318}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Indeed, count, what has put this into your head?", "pos": 2359091}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I tell you that you are about to destroy yourself, and here is proof of what I say; you wish to destroy yourself, you have written it.", "pos": 2359169}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Well, well, and if I do intend to turn this pistol against myself, who shall prevent me—who will dare prevent me? All my hopes are blighted, my heart is broken, my life a burden, everything around me is sad and mournful; earth has become distasteful to me, and human voices distract me. It is a mercy to let me die, for if I live I shall lose my reason and become mad. When, sir, I tell you all this with tears of heartfelt anguish, can you reply that I am wrong, can you prevent my putting an end to my miserable existence? Tell me, sir, could you have the courage to do so?", "pos": 2359618}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, Morrel, yes, I would do so.", "pos": 2360267}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "You? you, who have deceived me with false hopes, who have cheered and soothed me with vain promises, when I might, if not have saved her, at least have seen her die in my arms! You, who pretend to understand everything, even the hidden sources of knowledge,—and who enact the part of a guardian angel upon earth, and could not even find an antidote to a poison administered to a young girl! Ah, sir, indeed you would inspire me with pity, were you not hateful in my eyes. Morrel—— Yes; you tell me to lay aside the mask, and I will do so, be satisfied! When you spoke to me at the cemetery, I answered you—my heart was softened; when you arrived here, I allowed you to enter. But since you abuse my confidence, since you have devised a new torture after I thought I had exhausted them all, then, Count of Monte Cristo my pretended benefactor—then, Count of Monte Cristo, the universal guardian, be satisfied, you shall witness the death of your friend; And I again repeat, you shall not commit suicide. Prevent me, then!", "pos": 2360399}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I will prevent you.", "pos": 2361669}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "And who are you, then, that arrogate to yourself this tyrannical right over free and rational beings?", "pos": 2361698}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Who am I? Listen; I am the only man in the world having the right to say to you, ‘Morrel, your father’s son shall not die today;’", "pos": 2361802}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Why do you mention my father? why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?", "pos": 2362153}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Because I am he who saved your father’s life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today—because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Pharaon to old Morrel—because I am the Edmond Dantès who nursed you, a child, on my knees.", "pos": 2362268}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "Oh, count, how could you, hearing us so often speak of our unknown benefactor, seeing us pay such homage of gratitude and adoration to his memory,—how could you continue so long without discovering yourself to us? Oh, it was cruel to us, and—dare I say it?—to you also.", "pos": 2364117}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Listen, my friends. I may call you so since we have really been friends for the last eleven years—the discovery of this secret has been occasioned by a great event which you must never know. I wished to bury it during my whole life in my own bosom, but your brother Maximilian wrested it from me by a violence he repents of now, I am sure. Watch over him.", "pos": 2364389}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "Why so?", "pos": 2364933}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I cannot explain myself; but watch over him.", "pos": 2364975}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Here is the relic, do not think it will be less dear to us now we are acquainted with our benefactor!", "pos": 2365489}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My child, allow me to take back that purse? Since you now know my face, I wish to be remembered alone through the affection I hope you will grant me.", "pos": 2365605}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Oh, no, no, I beseech you do not take it, for some unhappy day you will leave us, will you not?", "pos": 2365787}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You have guessed rightly, madame, in a week I shall have left this country, where so many persons who merit the vengeance of Heaven lived happily, while my father perished of hunger and grief. My kind friends, leave me alone with Maximilian.", "pos": 2365932}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Let us leave them,", "pos": 2366719}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Come, are you a man again, Maximilian?", "pos": 2366820}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes; for I begin to suffer again.", "pos": 2366921}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Maximilian, Maximilian, the ideas you yield to are unworthy of a Christian.", "pos": 2367009}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, do not fear, my friend. I shall no longer attempt my life.", "pos": 2367098}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Then we are to have no more pistols—no more despair?", "pos": 2367246}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "No; I have found a better remedy for my grief than either a bullet or a knife.", "pos": 2367301}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Poor fellow, what is it?", "pos": 2367382}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "My grief will kill me of itself.", "pos": 2367409}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My friend, listen to me. One day, in a moment of despair like yours, since it led to a similar resolution, I also wished to kill myself; one day your father, equally desperate, wished to kill himself too. If anyone had said to your father, at the moment he raised the pistol to his head—if anyone had told me, when in my prison I pushed back the food I had not tasted for three days—if anyone had said to either of us then, ‘Live—the day will come when you will be happy, and will bless life!’—no matter whose voice had spoken, we should have heard him with the smile of doubt, or the anguish of incredulity,—and yet how many times has your father blessed life while embracing you—how often have I myself——", "pos": 2367444}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Ah, you had only lost your liberty, my father had only lost his fortune, but I have lost Valentine.", "pos": 2368225}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Look at me, look at me. There are no tears in my eyes, nor is there fever in my veins, yet I see you suffer—you, Maximilian, whom I love as my own son. Well, does not this tell you that in grief, as in life, there is always something to look forward to beyond? Now, if I entreat, if I order you to live, Morrel, it is in the conviction that one day you will thank me for having preserved your life.", "pos": 2368371}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, heavens, oh, heavens—what are you saying, count? Take care. But perhaps you have never loved!", "pos": 2368866}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Child!", "pos": 2368988}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I mean, as I love. You see, I have been a soldier ever since I attained manhood. I reached the age of twenty-nine without loving, for none of the feelings I before then experienced merit the appellation of love. Well, at twenty-nine I saw Valentine; for two years I have loved her, for two years I have seen written in her heart, as in a book, all the virtues of a daughter and wife. Count, to possess Valentine would have been a happiness too infinite, too ecstatic, too complete, too divine for this world, since it has been denied me; but without Valentine the earth is desolate.", "pos": 2369016}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I have told you to hope,", "pos": 2369601}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Then have a care, I repeat, for you seek to persuade me, and if you succeed I should lose my reason, for I should hope that I could again behold Valentine.", "pos": 2369644}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My friend, my father, have a care, I again repeat, for the power you wield over me alarms me. Weigh your words before you speak, for my eyes have already become brighter, and my heart beats strongly; be cautious, or you will make me believe in supernatural agencies. I must obey you, though you bade me call forth the dead or walk upon the water. Hope, my friend,", "pos": 2369820}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Ah, ah, you are playing with me, like those good, or rather selfish mothers who soothe their children with honeyed words, because their screams annoy them. No, my friend, I was wrong to caution you; do not fear, I will bury my grief so deep in my heart, I will disguise it so, that you shall not even care to sympathize with me. Adieu, my friend, adieu!", "pos": 2370239}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "On the contrary, after this time you must live with me—you must not leave me, and in a week we shall have left France behind us.", "pos": 2370672}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "And you still bid me hope?", "pos": 2370821}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I tell you to hope, because I have a method of curing you.", "pos": 2370850}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Count, you render me sadder than before, if it be possible. You think the result of this blow has been to produce an ordinary grief, and you would cure it by an ordinary remedy—change of scene.", "pos": 2370911}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "What can I say more? I have confidence in the remedy I propose, and only ask you to permit me to assure you of its efficacy. Then, your feeble spirit will not even grant me the trial I request? Come—do you know of what the Count of Monte Cristo is capable? do you know that he holds terrestrial beings under his control? nay, that he can almost work a miracle? Well, wait for the miracle I hope to accomplish, or——", "pos": 2371164}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Or?", "pos": 2371654}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Or, take care, Morrel, lest I call you ungrateful.", "pos": 2371677}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Have pity on me, count!", "pos": 2371730}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I feel so much pity towards you, Maximilian, that—listen to me attentively—if I do not cure you in a month, to the day, to the very hour, mark my words, Morrel, I will place loaded pistols before you, and a cup of the deadliest Italian poison—a poison more sure and prompt than that which has killed Valentine.", "pos": 2371756}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Will you promise me?", "pos": 2372069}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; for I am a man, and have suffered like yourself, and also contemplated suicide; indeed, often since misfortune has left me I have longed for the delights of an eternal sleep.", "pos": 2372092}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "But you are sure you will promise me this?", "pos": 2372274}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I not only promise, but swear it!", "pos": 2372345}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "In a month, then, on your honor, if I am not consoled, you will let me take my life into my own hands, and whatever may happen you will not call me ungrateful?", "pos": 2372419}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In a month, to the day, the very hour and the date is a sacred one, Maximilian. I do not know whether you remember that this is the 5th of September; it is ten years today since I saved your father’s life, who wished to die.", "pos": 2372581}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "In a month you will find on the table, at which we shall be then sitting, good pistols and a delicious draught; but, on the other hand, you must promise me not to attempt your life before that time. Oh, I also swear it!", "pos": 2372914}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And now, after today, you will come and live with me; you can occupy Haydée’s apartment, and my daughter will at least be replaced by my son.", "pos": 2373227}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Haydée? what has become of her?", "pos": 2373382}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "She departed last night.", "pos": 2373430}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "To leave you?", "pos": 2373457}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "To wait for me. Hold yourself ready then to join me at the Champs-Élysées, and lead me out of this house without anyone seeing my departure.", "pos": 2373473}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "Oh, Lucien—oh, my friend!", "pos": 2376218}
{"speaker": "The gentleman", "text": "Well, what is the matter, my dear? tell me what is the matter.", "pos": 2376427}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "Oh, Lucien, can I confide in you?", "pos": 2376556}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Of course, you know you can do so. But what can be the matter? Your note of this morning has completely bewildered me. This precipitation—this unusual appointment. Come, ease me of my anxiety, or else frighten me at once.", "pos": 2376592}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "Lucien, a great event has happened! M. Danglars left last night!", "pos": 2376816}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Left?—M. Danglars left? Where has he gone?", "pos": 2376932}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "I do not know.", "pos": 2376977}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "What do you mean? Has he gone intending not to return?", "pos": 2376994}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "Undoubtedly;—at ten o’clock at night his horses took him to the barrier of Charenton; there a post-chaise was waiting for him—he entered it with his valet de chambre, saying that he was going to Fontainebleau.", "pos": 2377051}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Then what did you mean——", "pos": 2377263}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Stay—he left a letter for me.", "pos": 2377290}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "A letter?", "pos": 2377322}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; read it.", "pos": 2377334}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Madame and most faithful wife.", "pos": 2377745}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When you receive this, you will no longer have a husband. Oh, you need not be alarmed, you will only have lost him as you have lost your daughter; I mean that I shall be travelling on one of the thirty or forty roads leading out of France. I owe you some explanations for my conduct, and as you are a woman that can perfectly understand me, I will give them. Listen, then. I received this morning five millions which I paid away; almost directly afterwards another demand for the same sum was presented to me; I put this creditor off till tomorrow and I intend leaving today, to escape that tomorrow, which would be rather too unpleasant for me to endure. You understand this, do you not, my most precious wife? I say you understand this, because you are as conversant with my affairs as I am; indeed, I think you understand them better, since I am ignorant of what has become of a considerable portion of my fortune, once very tolerable, while I am sure, madame, that you know perfectly well. For women have infallible instincts; they can even explain the marvellous by an algebraic calculation they have invented; but I, who only understand my own figures, know nothing more than that one day these figures deceived me. Have you admired the rapidity of my fall? Have you been slightly dazzled at the sudden fusion of my ingots? I confess I have seen nothing but the fire; let us hope you have found some gold among the ashes. With this consoling idea, I leave you, madame, and most prudent wife, without any conscientious reproach for abandoning you; you have friends left, and the ashes I have already mentioned, and above all the liberty I hasten to restore to you. And here, madame, I must add another word of explanation. So long as I hoped you were working for the good of our house and for the fortune of our daughter, I philosophically closed my eyes; but as you have transformed that house into a vast ruin I will not be the foundation of another man’s fortune. You were rich when I married you, but little respected. Excuse me for speaking so very candidly, but as this is intended only for ourselves, I do not see why I should weigh my words. I have augmented our fortune, and it has continued to increase during the last fifteen years, till extraordinary and unexpected catastrophes have suddenly overturned it,—without any fault of mine, I can honestly declare. You, madame, have only sought to increase your own, and I am convinced that you have succeeded. I leave you, therefore, as I took you,—rich, but little respected. Adieu! I also intend from this time to work on my own account. Accept my acknowledgments for the example you have set me, and which I intend following.", "pos": 2377912}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your very devoted husband,", "pos": 2380605}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Baron Danglars.", "pos": 2380634}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Well? Well, madame?", "pos": 2380890}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "With what ideas does that letter inspire you?", "pos": 2381008}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Oh, it is simple enough, madame; it inspires me with the idea that M. Danglars has left suspiciously.", "pos": 2381056}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly; but is this all you have to say to me?", "pos": 2381160}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "I do not understand you.", "pos": 2381212}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He is gone! Gone, never to return!", "pos": 2381275}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Oh, madame, do not think that!", "pos": 2381312}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I tell you he will never return. I know his character; he is inflexible in any resolutions formed for his own interests. If he could have made any use of me, he would have taken me with him; he leaves me in Paris, as our separation will conduce to his benefit;—therefore he has gone, and I am free forever,", "pos": 2381345}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "I have but one question to ask you,—what do you intend to do?", "pos": 2381847}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was going to ask you,", "pos": 2381911}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, then, you wish to ask advice of me?", "pos": 2381980}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; I do wish to ask your advice,", "pos": 2382022}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Then if you wish to take my advice, I would recommend you to travel.", "pos": 2382106}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To travel!", "pos": 2382206}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Certainly; as M. Danglars says, you are rich, and perfectly free. In my opinion, a withdrawal from Paris is absolutely necessary after the double catastrophe of Mademoiselle Danglars’ broken contract and M. Danglars’ disappearance. The world will think you abandoned and poor, for the wife of a bankrupt would never be forgiven, were she to keep up an appearance of opulence. You have only to remain in Paris for about a fortnight, telling the world you are abandoned, and relating the details of this desertion to your best friends, who will soon spread the report. Then you can quit your house, leaving your jewels and giving up your jointure, and everyone’s mouth will be filled with praises of your disinterestedness. They will know you are deserted, and think you also poor, for I alone know your real financial position, and am quite ready to give up my accounts as an honest partner.", "pos": 2382233}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Deserted?", "pos": 2383266}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "ah, yes, I am, indeed, deserted! You are right, sir, and no one can doubt my position.", "pos": 2383292}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Madame, it is nearly six months since we have been associated. You furnished a principal of 100,000 francs. Our partnership began in the month of April. In May we commenced operations, and in the course of the month gained 450,000 francs. In June the profit amounted to 900,000. In July we added 1,700,000 francs,—it was, you know, the month of the Spanish bonds. In August we lost 300,000 francs at the beginning of the month, but on the 13th we made up for it, and we now find that our accounts, reckoning from the first day of partnership up to yesterday, when I closed them, showed a capital of 2,400,000 francs, that is, 1,200,000 for each of us. Now, madame, there are still 80,000 francs, the interest of this money, in my hands.", "pos": 2383935}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But,", "pos": 2384774}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I thought you never put the money out to interest.", "pos": 2384800}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Excuse me, madame. I had your permission to do so, and I have made use of it. There are, then, 40,000 francs for your share, besides the 100,000 you furnished me to begin with, making in all 1,340,000 francs for your portion. Now, madame, I took the precaution of drawing out your money the day before yesterday; it is not long ago, you see, and I was in continual expectation of being called on to deliver up my accounts. There is your money,—half in bank-notes, the other half in checks payable to bearer. I say there, for as I did not consider my house safe enough, or lawyers sufficiently discreet, and as landed property carries evidence with it, and moreover since you have no right to possess anything independent of your husband, I have kept this sum, now your whole fortune, in a chest concealed under that closet, and for greater security I myself concealed it there. Now, madame, now, madame, here are 800 notes of 1,000 francs each, resembling, as you see, a large book bound in iron; to this I add a certificate in the funds of 25,000 francs; then, for the odd cash, making I think about 110,000 francs, here is a check upon my banker, who, not being M. Danglars, will pay you the amount, you may rest assured. Now, madame, you have a splendid fortune, an income of about 60,000 livres a year, which is enormous for a woman who cannot keep an establishment here for a year, at least. You will be able to indulge all your fancies; besides, should you find your income insufficient, you can, for the sake of the past, madame, make use of mine; and I am ready to offer you all I possess, on loan.", "pos": 2384853}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Thank you, sir—thank you,", "pos": 2386979}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you forget that what you have just paid me is much more than a poor woman requires, who intends for some time, at least, to retire from the world.", "pos": 2387029}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "As you please, madame, these are fine projects! She will remain at home, read novels, and speculate at cards, since she can no longer do so on the Bourse. I have 1,060,000 francs remaining. What a pity Mademoiselle de Villefort is dead! She suited me in every respect, and I would have married her.", "pos": 2387293}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Mother, let us reckon our riches, if you please; I want capital to build my plans upon.", "pos": 2392740}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Capital—nothing!", "pos": 2392901}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "No, mother,—capital 3,000 francs. And I have an idea of our leading a delightful life upon this 3,000 francs.", "pos": 2392960}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Child!", "pos": 2393072}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Alas, dear mother. I have unhappily spent too much of your money not to know the value of it. These 3,000 francs are enormous, and I intend building upon this foundation a miraculous certainty for the future.", "pos": 2393098}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "You say this, my dear boy; but do you think we ought to accept these 3,000 francs?", "pos": 2393331}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I think so. I think so. We will accept them the more readily, since we have them not here; you know they are buried in the garden of the little house in the Allées de Meilhan, at Marseilles. With 200 francs we can reach Marseilles.", "pos": 2393441}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "With 200 francs?—are you sure, Albert?", "pos": 2393697}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Oh, as for that, I have made inquiries respecting the diligences and steamboats, and my calculations are made. You will take your place in the coupé to Châlons. You see, mother, I treat you handsomely for thirty-five francs. Let us put down 120. You see I am generous, am I not, mother?", "pos": 2393738}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "But you, my poor child?", "pos": 2394464}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I? do you not see that I reserve eighty francs for myself? A young man does not require luxuries; besides, I know what travelling is.", "pos": 2394490}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "With a post-chaise and valet de chambre?", "pos": 2394626}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Any way, mother.", "pos": 2394669}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Well, be it so. But these 200 francs?", "pos": 2394688}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Here they are, and 200 more besides. See, I have sold my watch for 100 francs, and the guard and seals for 300. How fortunate that the ornaments were worth more than the watch. Still the same story of superfluities! Now I think we are rich, since instead of the 114 francs we require for the journey we find ourselves in possession of 250.", "pos": 2394728}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "But we owe something in this house?", "pos": 2395070}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Thirty francs; but I pay that out of my 150 francs,—that is understood,—and as I require only eighty francs for my journey, you see I am overwhelmed with luxury. But that is not all. What do you say to this, mother?", "pos": 2395108}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "What is this?", "pos": 2395592}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "A thousand francs.", "pos": 2395624}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "But whence have you obtained them?", "pos": 2395645}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Listen to me, mother, and do not yield too much to agitation. You cannot imagine, mother, how beautiful I think you! You are, indeed, the most beautiful and most noble woman I ever saw!", "pos": 2395682}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Dear child! Indeed, you only wanted misfortune to change my love for you to admiration. I am not unhappy while I possess my son!", "pos": 2396025}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Ah, just so, here begins the trial. Do you know the decision we have come to, mother?", "pos": 2396254}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Have we come to any?", "pos": 2396357}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes; it is decided that you are to live at Marseilles, and that I am to leave for Africa, where I will earn for myself the right to use the name I now bear, instead of the one I have thrown aside. Well, mother, I yesterday engaged myself as substitute in the Spahis. I thought my body was my own, and that I might sell it. I yesterday took the place of another. I sold myself for more than I thought I was worth. I fetched 2,000 francs.", "pos": 2396380}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Then these 1,000 francs——", "pos": 2397015}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Are the half of the sum, mother; the other will be paid in a year.", "pos": 2397070}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "The price of his blood!", "pos": 2397329}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Yes, if I am killed. But I assure you, mother, I have a strong intention of defending my person, and I never felt half so strong an inclination to live as I do now.", "pos": 2397369}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Merciful Heavens!", "pos": 2397561}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Besides, mother, why should you make up your mind that I am to be killed? Has Lamoricière, that Ney of the South, been killed? Has Changarnier been killed? Has Bedeau been killed? Has Morrel, whom we know, been killed? Think of your joy, mother, when you see me return with an embroidered uniform! I declare, I expect to look magnificent in it, and chose that regiment only from vanity. Well, now you understand, mother! here are more than 4,000 francs settled on you; upon these you can live at least two years.", "pos": 2397581}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Do you think so? I shall live!—then you will not leave me, Albert?", "pos": 2398270}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Mother, I must go, you love me too well to wish me to remain useless and idle with you; besides, I have signed. You will obey your own wish and the will of Heaven! Not my own wish, mother, but reason—necessity. Are we not two despairing creatures? What is life to you?—Nothing. What is life to me?—Very little without you, mother; for believe me, but for you I should have ceased to live on the day I doubted my father and renounced his name. Well, I will live, if you promise me still to hope; and if you grant me the care of your future prospects, you will redouble my strength. Then I will go to the governor of Algeria; he has a royal heart, and is essentially a soldier; I will tell him my gloomy story. I will beg him to turn his eyes now and then towards me, and if he keep his word and interest himself for me, in six months I shall be an officer, or dead. If I am an officer, your fortune is certain, for I shall have money enough for both, and, moreover, a name we shall both be proud of, since it will be our own. If I am killed—well then mother, you can also die, and there will be an end of our misfortunes.", "pos": 2398559}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "It is well, you are right, my love; let us prove to those who are watching our actions that we are worthy of compassion.", "pos": 2399730}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "But let us not yield to gloomy apprehensions. I assure you we are, or rather we shall be, very happy. You are a woman at once full of spirit and resignation; I have become simple in my tastes, and am without passion, I hope. Once in service, I shall be rich—once in M. Dantès’ house, you will be at rest. Let us strive, I beseech you,—let us strive to be cheerful.", "pos": 2399899}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Yes, let us strive, for you ought to live, and to be happy, Albert.", "pos": 2400288}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "And so our division is made, mother. We can now part; come, I shall engage your passage. I shall stay here for a few days longer; we must accustom ourselves to parting. I want recommendations and some information relative to Africa. I will join you again at Marseilles.", "pos": 2400358}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Well, be it so—let us part,", "pos": 2400702}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "You, Morcerf? Pardon me,", "pos": 2401177}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Mother, this is M. Debray, secretary of the Minister for the Interior, once a friend of mine.", "pos": 2401654}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "How once?", "pos": 2401787}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "I say so, M. Debray, because I have no friends now, and I ought not to have any. I thank you for having recognized me, sir.", "pos": 2401837}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Believe me, dear Albert, believe me, I feel deeply for your misfortunes, and if in any way I can serve you, I am yours.", "pos": 2402039}
{"speaker": "Albert", "text": "Thank you, sir. In the midst of our misfortunes, we are still rich enough not to require assistance from anyone. We are leaving Paris, and when our journey is paid, we shall have 5,000 francs left.", "pos": 2402220}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Alas,", "pos": 2403701}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "how can I restore the happiness I have taken away from these poor innocent creatures? God help me!", "pos": 2403723}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "See, the prince is pluming himself,", "pos": 2406792}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He's a fine looking fellow,", "pos": 2406855}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "if he had only a comb and hair-grease, he'd take the shine off the gentlemen in white kids.", "pos": 2406899}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "His coat looks nearly new, and his boots are brilliant. It is pleasant to have such well-dressed brethren; and those gendarmes behaved shamefully. What jealousy; to tear such clothes!", "pos": 2406993}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He looks like a big-bug,", "pos": 2407179}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Come, sir, lend me twenty francs; you will soon be paid; you run no risks with me. Remember, I have relations who possess more millions than you have deniers. Come, I beseech you, lend me twenty francs, so that I may buy a dressing-gown; it is intolerable always to be in a coat and boots! And what a coat, sir, for a prince of the Cavalcanti!", "pos": 2407410}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "I am no comrade of these people, you have no right to insult me thus.", "pos": 2408545}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Let us horsewhip the fine gentleman!", "pos": 2409535}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Benedetto! I am called,", "pos": 2410506}
{"speaker": "voice", "text": "To the visitors’ room!", "pos": 2410600}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "You see someone pays me a visit. Ah, my dear sir, you will see whether a Cavalcanti is to be treated like a common person! Everything, proves me to be under the protection of some powerful person,—this sudden fortune, the facility with which I have overcome all obstacles, an unexpected family and an illustrious name awarded to me, gold showered down upon me, and the most splendid alliances about to be entered into. An unhappy lapse of fortune and the absence of my protector have cast me down, certainly, but not forever. The hand which has retreated for a while will be again stretched forth to save me at the very moment when I shall think myself sinking into the abyss. Why should I risk an imprudent step? It might alienate my protector. He has two means of extricating me from this dilemma,—the one by a mysterious escape, managed through bribery; the other by buying off my judges with gold. I will say and do nothing until I am convinced that he has quite abandoned me, and then——", "pos": 2410646}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Ah,", "pos": 2412950}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Good morning, Benedetto,", "pos": 2412986}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "You—you?", "pos": 2413058}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Do you not recognize me, unhappy child?", "pos": 2413119}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Silence,—be silent! for Heaven’s sake, do not speak so loud!", "pos": 2413161}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "You wish to speak with me alone, do you not?", "pos": 2413302}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Oh, yes.", "pos": 2413365}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "That is well. Read?", "pos": 2413376}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 2413512}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "An order to conduct you to a room, and to leave you there to talk to me.", "pos": 2413542}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Oh. Still my unknown protector! I am not forgotten. They wish for secrecy, since we are to converse in a private room. I understand, Bertuccio has been sent by my protector.", "pos": 2413617}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Now, what have you to tell me?", "pos": 2414256}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "And you?", "pos": 2414309}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "You speak first.", "pos": 2414333}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Oh, no. You must have much to tell me, since you have come to seek me.", "pos": 2414352}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Well, be it so. You have continued your course of villany; you have robbed—you have assassinated.", "pos": 2414432}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well, I should say! If you had me taken to a private room only to tell me this, you might have saved yourself the trouble. I know all these things. But there are some with which, on the contrary, I am not acquainted. Let us talk of those, if you please. Who sent you?", "pos": 2414532}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Come, come, you are going on quickly, M. Benedetto!", "pos": 2414802}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes, and to the point. Let us dispense with useless words. Who sends you?", "pos": 2414856}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "No one.", "pos": 2414932}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "How did you know I was in prison?", "pos": 2414942}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "I recognized you, some time since, as the insolent dandy who so gracefully mounted his horse in the Champs-Élysées.", "pos": 2414978}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Oh, the Champs-Élysées? Ah, yes; we burn, as they say at the game of pincette. The Champs-Élysées? Come, let us talk a little about my father.", "pos": 2415096}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Who, then, am I?", "pos": 2415241}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "You, sir?—you are my adopted father. But it was not you, I presume, who placed at my disposal 100,000 francs, which I spent in four or five months; it was not you who manufactured an Italian gentleman for my father; it was not you who introduced me into the world, and had me invited to a certain dinner at Auteuil, which I fancy I am eating at this moment, in company with the most distinguished people in Paris—amongst the rest with a certain procureur, whose acquaintance I did very wrong not to cultivate, for he would have been very useful to me just now;—it was not you, in fact, who bailed me for one or two millions, when the fatal discovery of my little secret took place. Come, speak, my worthy Corsican, speak!", "pos": 2415260}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "What do you wish me to say?", "pos": 2415984}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "I will help you. You were speaking of the Champs-Élysées just now, worthy foster-father.", "pos": 2416014}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Well?", "pos": 2416105}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well, in the Champs-Élysées there resides a very rich gentleman.", "pos": 2416113}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "At whose house you robbed and murdered, did you not?", "pos": 2416180}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "I believe I did.", "pos": 2416235}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "The Count of Monte Cristo?", "pos": 2416254}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "’Tis you who have named him, as M. Racine says. Well, am I to rush into his arms, and strain him to my heart, crying, ‘My father, my father!’ like Monsieur Pixérécourt.", "pos": 2416284}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Do not let us jest, and dare not to utter that name again as you have pronounced it.", "pos": 2416456}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Bah, why not?", "pos": 2416572}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Because the person who bears it is too highly favored by Heaven to be the father of such a wretch as you.", "pos": 2416662}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Oh, these are fine words.", "pos": 2416770}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "And there will be fine doings, if you do not take care.", "pos": 2416798}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Menaces—I do not fear them. I will say——", "pos": 2416856}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "Do you think you are engaged with a pygmy like yourself? Do you think you have to do with galley-slaves, or novices in the world? Benedetto, you are fallen into terrible hands; they are ready to open for you—make use of them. Do not play with the thunderbolt they have laid aside for a moment, but which they can take up again instantly, if you attempt to intercept their movements.", "pos": 2416899}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "My father—I will know who my father is. I will perish if I must, but I will know it. What does scandal signify to me? What possessions, what reputation, what ‘pull,’ as Beauchamp says,—have I? You great people always lose something by scandal, notwithstanding your millions. Come, who is my father?", "pos": 2417398}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "I came to tell you.", "pos": 2417727}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Ah,", "pos": 2417749}
{"speaker": "jailer", "text": "Excuse me, sir, but the examining magistrate is waiting for the prisoner.", "pos": 2417883}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "And so closes our interview. I wish the troublesome fellow were at the devil!", "pos": 2417959}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "I will return tomorrow,", "pos": 2418076}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Good! Gendarmes, I am at your service. Ah, sir, do leave a few crowns for me at the gate that I may have some things I am in need of!", "pos": 2418118}
{"speaker": "Bertuccio", "text": "It shall be done,", "pos": 2418254}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "That’s what I mean. Can I be deceived? Never mind, we shall see! Tomorrow, then!", "pos": 2418399}
{"speaker": "steward", "text": "Tomorrow!", "pos": 2418713}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "It is well, sir, it is well; have patience but one day longer; what I have said I will do.", "pos": 2424305}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Today, today the man who holds the blade of justice must strike wherever there is guilt. Yes, yes, be satisfied.", "pos": 2425832}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "What are you bringing me?", "pos": 2426915}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "A cup of chocolate.", "pos": 2426952}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I did not ask for it. Who has paid me this attention?", "pos": 2426974}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "My mistress, sir. She said you would have to speak a great deal in the murder case, and that you should take something to keep up your strength;", "pos": 2427030}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "Madame de Villefort wishes to remind you, sir, that eleven o’clock has just struck, and that the trial commences at twelve.", "pos": 2427881}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Well, what then?", "pos": 2428018}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "Madame de Villefort is dressed; she is quite ready, and wishes to know if she is to accompany you, sir?", "pos": 2428055}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Where to?", "pos": 2428160}
{"speaker": "Servant", "text": "To the Palais.", "pos": 2428172}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "What to do?", "pos": 2428189}
{"speaker": "Servant", "text": "My mistress wishes much to be present at the trial.", "pos": 2428203}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Ah, does she wish that?", "pos": 2428257}
{"speaker": "Servant", "text": "If you wish to go alone, sir, I will go and tell my mistress.", "pos": 2428358}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Tell your mistress, that I wish to speak to her, and I beg she will wait for me in her own room.", "pos": 2428505}
{"speaker": "Servant", "text": "Yes, sir.", "pos": 2428629}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Then come to dress and shave me.", "pos": 2428641}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "Directly, sir. My mistress said she should expect you, sir, as soon as you had finished dressing.", "pos": 2428676}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I am going to her.", "pos": 2428921}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Ah, here you are, monsieur, but how pale you are! Have you been working all night? Why did you not come down to breakfast? Well, will you take me, or shall I take Edward?", "pos": 2429486}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Edward, go and play in the drawing-room, my dear; I wish to speak to your mamma. Edward, do you hear me?—Go! Go, go, my child.", "pos": 2429854}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Dear me! what is the matter?", "pos": 2430736}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Madame, where do you keep the poison you generally use?", "pos": 2430928}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I asked you, where you conceal the poison by the aid of which you have killed my father-in-law, M. de Saint-Méran, my mother-in-law, Madame de Saint-Méran, Barrois, and my daughter Valentine.", "pos": 2431546}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Ah, sir, what do you say?", "pos": 2431789}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "It is not for you to interrogate, but to answer.", "pos": 2431870}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Is it to the judge or to the husband?", "pos": 2431921}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "To the judge—to the judge, madame!", "pos": 2431992}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Ah, sir, ah, sir,", "pos": 2432150}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "I beseech you, do not believe appearances.", "pos": 2433298}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Are you, then, a coward? But I have always observed that poisoners were cowards. Can you be a coward, you, who have had the courage to witness the death of two old men and a young girl murdered by you?", "pos": 2433343}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Sir! sir!", "pos": 2433591}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Can you be a coward? you, who could count, one by one, the minutes of four death agonies? You, who have arranged your infernal plans, and removed the beverages with a talent and precision almost miraculous? Have you, then, who have calculated everything with such nicety, have you forgotten to calculate one thing—I mean where the revelation of your crimes will lead you to? Oh, it is impossible—you must have saved some surer, more subtle and deadly poison than any other, that you might escape the punishment that you deserve. You have done this—I hope so, at least. I understand, you confess; but a confession made to the judges, a confession made at the last moment, extorted when the crime cannot be denied, diminishes not the punishment inflicted on the guilty!", "pos": 2433603}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "The punishment? the punishment, monsieur? Twice you have pronounced that word!", "pos": 2434505}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Certainly. Did you hope to escape it because you were four times guilty? Did you think the punishment would be withheld because you are the wife of him who pronounces it?—No, madame, no; the scaffold awaits the poisoner, whoever she may be, unless, as I just said, the poisoner has taken the precaution of keeping for herself a few drops of her deadliest poison. Oh, do not fear the scaffold, madame. I will not dishonor you, since that would be dishonor to myself; no, if you have heard me distinctly, you will understand that you are not to die on the scaffold.", "pos": 2434619}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "No, I do not understand; what do you mean?", "pos": 2435326}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I mean that the wife of the first magistrate in the capital shall not, by her infamy, soil an unblemished name; that she shall not, with one blow, dishonor her husband and her child.", "pos": 2435424}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "No, no—oh, no!", "pos": 2435609}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Well, madame, it will be a laudable action on your part, and I will thank you for it!", "pos": 2435626}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "You will thank me—for what?", "pos": 2435714}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "For what you have just said.", "pos": 2435744}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "What did I say? Oh, my brain whirls; I no longer understand anything. Oh, my God, my God!", "pos": 2435775}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Have you answered the question I put to you on entering the room?—where do you keep the poison you generally use, madame?", "pos": 2435930}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "No, no, no, you cannot wish that!", "pos": 2436153}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "What I do not wish, madame, is that you should perish on the scaffold. Do you understand?", "pos": 2436215}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Oh, mercy, mercy, monsieur!", "pos": 2436324}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "What I require is, that justice be done. I am on the earth to punish, madame, any other woman, were it the queen herself, I would send to the executioner; but to you I shall be merciful. To you I will say, ‘Have you not, madame, put aside some of the surest, deadliest, most speedy poison?’", "pos": 2436354}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Oh, pardon me, sir; let me live!", "pos": 2436689}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "She is cowardly,", "pos": 2436724}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Reflect that I am your wife!", "pos": 2436759}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You are a poisoner.", "pos": 2436790}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "In the name of Heaven!", "pos": 2436812}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "No!", "pos": 2436837}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "In the name of the love you once bore me!", "pos": 2436843}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "No, no!", "pos": 2436887}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "In the name of our child! Ah, for the sake of our child, let me live!", "pos": 2436897}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "No, no, no, I tell you; one day, if I allow you to live, you will perhaps kill him, as you have the others!", "pos": 2436976}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "I?—I kill my boy? I kill my son? Ha, ha, ha!", "pos": 2437086}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Think of it, madame, if, on my return, justice has not been satisfied, I will denounce you with my own mouth, and arrest you with my own hands! Do you understand me? I am going down there to pronounce the sentence of death against a murderer. If I find you alive on my return, you shall sleep tonight in the conciergerie. Farewell, madame, farewell!", "pos": 2437347}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Well, we shall see our friend!", "pos": 2441091}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Yes, indeed! That worthy prince. Deuce take those Italian princes!", "pos": 2441142}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "A nobility of the rope!", "pos": 2441332}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "He will be condemned, will he not?", "pos": 2441394}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "My dear fellow, I think we should ask you that question; you know such news much better than we do. Did you see the president at the minister’s last night?", "pos": 2441458}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 2441616}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "What did he say?", "pos": 2441623}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Something which will surprise you.", "pos": 2441642}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Oh, make haste and tell me, then; it is a long time since that has happened.", "pos": 2441679}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Well, he told me that Benedetto, who is considered a serpent of subtlety and a giant of cunning, is really but a very commonplace, silly rascal, and altogether unworthy of the experiments that will be made on his phrenological organs after his death.", "pos": 2441758}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Bah, he played the prince very well.", "pos": 2442011}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Yes, for you who detest those unhappy princes, Beauchamp, and are always delighted to find fault with them; but not for me, who discover a gentleman by instinct, and who scent out an aristocratic family like a very bloodhound of heraldry.", "pos": 2442068}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Then you never believed in the principality?", "pos": 2442309}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Yes.—in the principality, but not in the prince.", "pos": 2442356}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Not so bad, still, I assure you, he passed very well with many people; I saw him at the ministers’ houses.", "pos": 2442407}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "The idea of thinking ministers understand anything about princes!", "pos": 2442566}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "There is something in what you have just said, laughing.", "pos": 2442634}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "But, if I spoke to the president, you must have been with the procureur.", "pos": 2442709}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "It was an impossibility; for the last week M. de Villefort has secluded himself. It is natural enough; this strange chain of domestic afflictions, followed by the no less strange death of his daughter—— Strange? What do you mean, Beauchamp? Oh, yes; do you pretend that all this has been unobserved at the minister’s?", "pos": 2442812}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "My dear sir, allow me to tell you that you do not understand that manœuvre with the eye-glass half so well as Debray. Give him a lesson, Debray.", "pos": 2443220}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Stay, surely I am not deceived.", "pos": 2443390}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Whom do you mean?", "pos": 2443469}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "They said she had left.", "pos": 2443489}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Mademoiselle Eugénie? has she returned?", "pos": 2443515}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "No, but her mother.", "pos": 2443580}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Madame Danglars? Nonsense! Impossible! only ten days after the flight of her daughter, and three days from the bankruptcy of her husband?", "pos": 2443602}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Come, it is only a veiled lady, some foreign princess, perhaps the mother of Cavalcanti. But you were just speaking on a very interesting topic, Beauchamp.", "pos": 2443854}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "I?", "pos": 2444023}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Yes; you were telling us about the extraordinary death of Valentine.", "pos": 2444028}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Ah, yes, so I was. But how is it that Madame de Villefort is not here?", "pos": 2444099}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Poor, dear woman, she is no doubt occupied in distilling balm for the hospitals, or in making cosmetics for herself or friends. Do you know she spends two or three thousand crowns a year in this amusement? But I wonder she is not here. I should have been pleased to see her, for I like her very much.", "pos": 2444172}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "And I hate her. I do not know. Why do we love? Why do we hate? I detest her, from antipathy.", "pos": 2444490}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Or, rather, by instinct.", "pos": 2444615}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Perhaps so. But to return to what you were saying, Beauchamp.", "pos": 2444642}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Well, do you know why they die so multitudinously at M. de Villefort’s?", "pos": 2444706}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "‘Multitudinously’ is good,", "pos": 2444781}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "My good fellow, you’ll find the word in Saint-Simon.", "pos": 2444830}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "But the thing itself is at M. de Villefort’s; but let’s get back to the subject.", "pos": 2444885}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Talking of that. Madame was making inquiries about that house, which for the last three months has been hung with black.", "pos": 2444968}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Who is Madame?", "pos": 2445106}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "The minister’s wife, pardieu!", "pos": 2445145}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Oh, your pardon! I never visit ministers; I leave that to the princes. Really, you were only before sparkling, but now you are brilliant; take compassion on us, or, like Jupiter, you will wither us up. I will not speak again, pray have compassion upon me, and do not take up every word I say.", "pos": 2445177}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Come, let us endeavor to get to the end of our story, Beauchamp; I told you that yesterday Madame made inquiries of me upon the subject; enlighten me, and I will then communicate my information to her. Well, gentlemen, the reason people die so multitudinously (I like the word) at M. de Villefort’s is that there is an assassin in the house! And who is the assassin; Young Edward! Yes, gentlemen; Edward, the infant phenomenon, who is quite an adept in the art of killing. You are jesting. Not at all. I yesterday engaged a servant, who had just left M. de Villefort—I intend sending him away tomorrow, for he eats so enormously, to make up for the fast imposed upon him by his terror in that house. Well, now listen. We are listening. It appears the dear child has obtained possession of a bottle containing some drug, which he every now and then uses against those who have displeased him. First, M. and Madame de Saint-Méran incurred his displeasure, so he poured out three drops of his elixir—three drops were sufficient; then followed Barrois, the old servant of M. Noirtier, who sometimes rebuffed this little wretch—he therefore received the same quantity of the elixir; the same happened to Valentine, of whom he was jealous; he gave her the same dose as the others, and all was over for her as well as the rest.", "pos": 2445499}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Why, what nonsense are you telling us?", "pos": 2447040}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Yes, it is an extraordinary story, is it not?", "pos": 2447102}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "It is absurd,", "pos": 2447168}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Ah, you doubt me? Well, you can ask my servant, or rather him who will no longer be my servant tomorrow, it was the talk of the house. And this elixir, where is it? what is it?", "pos": 2447197}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The child conceals it.", "pos": 2447396}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But where did he find it?", "pos": 2447421}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In his mother’s laboratory.", "pos": 2447449}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Does his mother then, keep poisons in her laboratory?", "pos": 2447479}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How can I tell? You are questioning me like a king’s attorney. I only repeat what I have been told, and like my informant I can do no more. The poor devil would eat nothing, from fear.", "pos": 2447535}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is incredible!", "pos": 2447722}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, my dear fellow, it is not at all incredible. You saw the child pass through the Rue Richelieu last year, who amused himself with killing his brothers and sisters by sticking pins in their ears while they slept. The generation who follow us are very precocious.", "pos": 2447742}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Come, Beauchamp. I will bet anything you do not believe a word of all you have been telling us. But I do not see the Count of Monte Cristo here.", "pos": 2448009}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "He is worn out, besides, he could not well appear in public, since he has been the dupe of the Cavalcanti, who, it appears, presented themselves to him with false letters of credit, and cheated him out of 100,000 francs upon the hypothesis of this principality.", "pos": 2448179}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "By the way, M. de Château-Renaud, how is Morrel?", "pos": 2448458}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Ma foi, I have called three times without once seeing him. Still, his sister did not seem uneasy, and told me that though she had not seen him for two or three days, she was sure he was well.", "pos": 2448528}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Ah, now I think of it, the Count of Monte Cristo cannot appear in the hall,", "pos": 2448722}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 2448816}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Because he is an actor in the drama.", "pos": 2448827}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Has he assassinated anyone, then?", "pos": 2448866}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "No, on the contrary, they wished to assassinate him. You know that it was in leaving his house that M. de Caderousse was murdered by his friend Benedetto. You know that the famous waistcoat was found in his house, containing the letter which stopped the signature of the marriage-contract. Do you see the waistcoat? There it is, all blood-stained, on the desk, as a testimony of the crime.", "pos": 2448902}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, very good.", "pos": 2449294}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "Hush, gentlemen, here is the court; let us go back to our places.", "pos": 2449311}
{"speaker": "Door-keeper", "text": "The court, gentlemen!", "pos": 2449596}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "Gendarmes, lead in the accused.", "pos": 2450134}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "Accused, your name and surname?", "pos": 2452364}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Excuse me, Mr. President, but I see you are going to adopt a course of questions through which I cannot follow you. I have an idea, which I will explain by and by, of making an exception to the usual form of accusation. Allow me, then, if you please, to answer in different order, or I will not do so at all.", "pos": 2452434}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "Your age? will you answer that question?", "pos": 2452933}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "I will answer that question, as well as the rest, Mr. President, but in its turn.", "pos": 2452998}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "Your age?", "pos": 2453082}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "I am twenty-one years old, or rather I shall be in a few days, as I was born the night of the 27th of September, 1817.", "pos": 2453118}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "Where were you born?", "pos": 2453338}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "At Auteuil, near Paris.", "pos": 2453386}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "Your profession?", "pos": 2453633}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "First I was a forger, then I became a thief, and lately have become an assassin.", "pos": 2453652}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "Are you looking for anything, Mr. Procureur? And now, prisoner, will you consent to tell your name? The brutal affectation with which you have enumerated and classified your crimes calls for a severe reprimand on the part of the court, both in the name of morality, and for the respect due to humanity. You appear to consider this a point of honor, and it may be for this reason, that you have delayed acknowledging your name. You wished it to be preceded by all these titles.", "pos": 2454191}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "It is quite wonderful, Mr. President, how entirely you have read my thoughts. This is, indeed, the reason why I begged you to alter the order of the questions.", "pos": 2454839}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "Well, your name?", "pos": 2455266}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "I cannot tell you my name, since I do not know it; but I know my father’s, and can tell it to you.", "pos": 2455307}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "Repeat your father’s name,", "pos": 2455550}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "My father is king’s attorney,", "pos": 2455688}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "King’s attorney?", "pos": 2455750}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Yes; and if you wish to know his name, I will tell it,—he is named Villefort.", "pos": 2455901}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "Are you playing with justice, accused, and do you dare set your fellow-citizens an example of disorder which even in these times has never been equalled?", "pos": 2456635}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Gentlemen, I assure you I had no idea of insulting the court, or of making a useless disturbance in the presence of this honorable assembly. They ask my age; I tell it. They ask where I was born; I answer. They ask my name, I cannot give it, since my parents abandoned me. But though I cannot give my own name, not possessing one, I can tell them my father’s. Now I repeat, my father is named M. de Villefort, and I am ready to prove it. I owe you the proofs and explanations of what I have said.", "pos": 2457369}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "But, you called yourself Benedetto, declared yourself an orphan, and claimed Corsica as your country.", "pos": 2458184}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "I said anything I pleased, in order that the solemn declaration I have just made should not be withheld, which otherwise would certainly have been the case. I now repeat that I was born at Auteuil on the night of the 27th of September, 1817, and that I am the son of the procureur, M. de Villefort. Do you wish for any further details? I will give them. I was born in No. 28, Rue de la Fontaine, in a room hung with red damask; my father took me in his arms, telling my mother I was dead, wrapped me in a napkin marked with an H and an N, and carried me into a garden, where he buried me alive.", "pos": 2458320}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "But how have you become acquainted with all these details?", "pos": 2459060}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "I will tell you, Mr. President. A man who had sworn vengeance against my father, and had long watched his opportunity to kill him, had introduced himself that night into the garden in which my father buried me. He was concealed in a thicket; he saw my father bury something in the ground, and stabbed him; then thinking the deposit might contain some treasure he turned up the ground, and found me still living. The man carried me to the foundling asylum, where I was registered under the number 37. Three months afterwards, a woman travelled from Rogliano to Paris to fetch me, and having claimed me as her son, carried me away. Thus, you see, though born in Paris, I was brought up in Corsica.", "pos": 2459142}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "Proceed,", "pos": 2459953}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Certainly, I might have lived happily amongst those good people, who adored me, but my perverse disposition prevailed over the virtues which my adopted mother endeavored to instil into my heart. I increased in wickedness till I committed crime. One day when I cursed Providence for making me so wicked, and ordaining me to such a fate, my adopted father said to me, ‘Do not blaspheme, unhappy child, the crime is that of your father, not yours,—of your father, who consigned you to hell if you died, and to misery if a miracle preserved you alive.’ After that I ceased to blaspheme, but I cursed my father. That is why I have uttered the words for which you blame me; that is why I have filled this whole assembly with horror. If I have committed an additional crime, punish me, but if you will allow that ever since the day of my birth my fate has been sad, bitter, and lamentable, then pity me.", "pos": 2459984}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "But your mother?", "pos": 2460883}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "My mother thought me dead; she is not guilty. I did not even wish to know her name, nor do I know it.", "pos": 2460923}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "The proofs, the proofs! remember this tissue of horrors must be supported by the clearest proofs.", "pos": 2461474}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "do you want proofs?", "pos": 2461636}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 2461658}
{"speaker": "Andrea Cavalcanti", "text": "Well, then, look at M. de Villefort, and then ask me for proofs. Father. I am asked for proofs, do you wish me to give them?", "pos": 2461665}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "No, no, it is useless, no, it is useless!", "pos": 2462102}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "How useless? what do you mean?", "pos": 2462193}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I mean that I feel it impossible to struggle against this deadly weight which crushes me. Gentlemen, I know I am in the hands of an avenging God! We need no proofs; everything relating to this young man is true.", "pos": 2462249}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "What, M. de Villefort, do you yield to an hallucination? What, are you no longer in possession of your senses? This strange, unexpected, terrible accusation has disordered your reason. Come, recover.", "pos": 2462593}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "I am in possession of all my senses, sir, my body alone suffers, as you may suppose. I acknowledge myself guilty of all the young man has brought against me, and from this hour hold myself under the authority of the procureur who will succeed me.", "pos": 2462951}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "let them now say that drama is unnatural!", "pos": 2463581}
{"speaker": "Château-Renaud", "text": "Ma foi! I would rather end my career like M. de Morcerf; a pistol-shot seems quite delightful compared with this catastrophe.", "pos": 2463625}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp", "text": "And moreover, it kills,", "pos": 2463776}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "And to think that I had an idea of marrying his daughter. She did well to die, poor girl!", "pos": 2463818}
{"speaker": "President", "text": "The sitting is adjourned, gentlemen, fresh inquiries will be made, and the case will be tried next session by another magistrate.", "pos": 2463925}
{"speaker": "Debray", "text": "Well, what do you think of this, my fine fellow?", "pos": 2464223}
{"speaker": "Sergeant-at-arms", "text": "There will be extenuating circumstances,", "pos": 2464344}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "God. God—God! The hand of God. Oh!", "pos": 2466366}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Ah, that woman became criminal only from associating with me! I carried the infection of crime with me, and she has caught it as she would the typhus fever, the cholera, the plague! And yet I have punished her—I have dared to tell her—I have—‘Repent and die!’ But no, she must not die; she shall live, and with me. We will flee from Paris and go as far as the earth reaches. I told her of the scaffold; oh, Heavens, I forgot that it awaits me also! How could I pronounce that word? Yes, we will fly; I will confess all to her,—I will tell her daily that I also have committed a crime!—Oh, what an alliance—the tiger and the serpent; worthy wife of such as I am! She must live that my infamy may diminish hers. Faster, faster! Yes, yes, yes, that woman must live; she must repent, and educate my son, the sole survivor, with the exception of the indestructible old man, of the wreck of my house. She loves him; it was for his sake she has committed these crimes. We ought never to despair of softening the heart of a mother who loves her child. She will repent, and no one will know that she has been guilty. The events which have taken place in my house, though they now occupy the public mind, will be forgotten in time, or if, indeed, a few enemies should persist in remembering them, why then I will add them to my list of crimes. What will it signify if one, two, or three more are added? My wife and child shall escape from this gulf, carrying treasures with them; she will live and may yet be happy, since her child, in whom all her love is centred, will be with her. I shall have performed a good action, and my heart will be lighter.", "pos": 2467768}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Come, nothing is changed here. No one must disturb us. I must speak freely to her, accuse myself, and say Not locked, that is well. Not here, doubtless she is in her bedroom. Héloïse! Héloïse!", "pos": 2470215}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "Who is there?", "pos": 2471031}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Open the door! Open; it is I. Héloïse, Héloïse! what is the matter? Speak!", "pos": 2471130}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "It is done, monsieur. What more do you want?", "pos": 2471621}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "My son! where is my son?—Edward, Edward! Edward, Edward! Where is my son? let him be removed from the house, that he may not see——", "pos": 2472020}
{"speaker": "the valet", "text": "Master Edward is not downstairs, sir,", "pos": 2472322}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Then he must be playing in the garden; go and see.", "pos": 2472381}
{"speaker": "the valet", "text": "No, sir; Madame de Villefort sent for him half an hour ago; he went into her room, and has not been downstairs since.", "pos": 2472441}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "In Madame de Villefort’s room? Edward! Edward!", "pos": 2472717}
{"speaker": "Madame de Villefort", "text": "You know that I was a good mother, since it was for my son’s sake I became criminal. A good mother cannot depart without her son.", "pos": 2474758}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Still the hand of God.", "pos": 2475121}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You here, sir! do you, then, never appear but to act as an escort to death?", "pos": 2476271}
{"speaker": "Busoni", "text": "I came to pray over the body of your daughter.", "pos": 2476581}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "And now why are you here?", "pos": 2476630}
{"speaker": "Busoni", "text": "I come to tell you that you have sufficiently repaid your debt, and that from this moment I will pray to God to forgive you, as I do.", "pos": 2476658}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Good heavens! surely that is not the voice of the Abbé Busoni!", "pos": 2476794}
{"speaker": "Busoni", "text": "No!", "pos": 2476907}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "The face of the Count of Monte Cristo!", "pos": 2477041}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You are not exactly right, M. Procureur; you must go farther back.", "pos": 2477134}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "That voice, that voice!—where did I first hear it?", "pos": 2477203}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You heard it for the first time at Marseilles, twenty-three years ago, the day of your marriage with Mademoiselle de Saint-Méran. Refer to your papers.", "pos": 2477256}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You are not Busoni?—you are not Monte Cristo? Oh, heavens! you are, then, some secret, implacable, and mortal enemy! I must have wronged you in some way at Marseilles. Oh, woe to me!", "pos": 2477410}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; you are now on the right path, search—search!", "pos": 2477595}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "But what have I done to you? what have I done to you? Tell me, then! Speak!", "pos": 2477706}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You condemned me to a horrible, tedious death; you killed my father; you deprived me of liberty, of love, and happiness.", "pos": 2477913}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Who are you, then? Who are you?", "pos": 2478036}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am the spectre of a wretch you buried in the dungeons of the Château d’If. God gave that spectre the form of the Count of Monte Cristo when he at length issued from his tomb, enriched him with gold and diamonds, and led him to you!", "pos": 2478070}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Ah, I recognize you—I recognize you! you are——", "pos": 2478306}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I am Edmond Dantès!", "pos": 2478388}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "You are Edmond Dantès, then come here! There, Edmond Dantès! see, are you well avenged? My child. He carries away the body of my child! Oh. My child! curses, woe, death to you!", "pos": 2478410}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Where is M. de Villefort?", "pos": 2480241}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "It is not here! It is not here!", "pos": 2480506}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Sir, you have indeed lost a son; but——", "pos": 2480701}
{"speaker": "Villefort", "text": "Oh, I will find it, you may pretend he is not here, but I will find him, though I dig forever!", "pos": 2480804}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "he is mad! Oh, enough of this,—enough of this, let me save the last. Prepare yourself, Maximilian, we leave Paris tomorrow.", "pos": 2480962}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Have you nothing more to do there?", "pos": 2481441}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No. God grant I may not have done too much already.", "pos": 2481492}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Indeed, might we not almost fancy, Emmanuel, that those people, so rich, so happy but yesterday, had forgotten in their prosperity that an evil genius—like the wicked fairies in Perrault’s stories who present themselves unbidden at a wedding or baptism—hovered over them, and appeared all at once to revenge himself for their fatal neglect?", "pos": 2482149}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "What a dire misfortune!", "pos": 2482506}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "What dreadful sufferings!", "pos": 2482581}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "If the Supreme Being has directed the fatal blow, it must be that he in his great goodness has perceived nothing in the past lives of these people to merit mitigation of their awful punishment.", "pos": 2482724}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Do you not form a very rash judgment, Emmanuel? When my father, with a pistol in his hand, was once on the point of committing suicide, had anyone then said, ‘This man deserves his misery,’ would not that person have been deceived?", "pos": 2482937}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "Yes; but your father was not allowed to fall. A being was commissioned to arrest the fatal hand of death about to descend on him.", "pos": 2483185}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Maximilian Maximilian. I come to seek you.", "pos": 2483615}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "To seek me?", "pos": 2483842}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes, has it not been agreed that I should take you with me, and did I not tell you yesterday to prepare for departure?", "pos": 2483903}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I am ready. I came expressly to wish them farewell.", "pos": 2484045}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Whither are you going, count?", "pos": 2484118}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "In the first instance to Marseilles, madame.", "pos": 2484163}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "will you restore him to us cured of his melancholy?", "pos": 2484320}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You perceive, then, that he is not happy?", "pos": 2484438}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "and fear much that he finds our home but a dull one.", "pos": 2484530}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I will undertake to divert him.", "pos": 2484585}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I am ready to accompany you, sir. Adieu, my kind friends! Emmanuel—Julie—farewell!", "pos": 2484638}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "How farewell? do you leave us thus, so suddenly, without any preparations for your journey, without even a passport?", "pos": 2484742}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Needless delays but increase the grief of parting and Maximilian has doubtless provided himself with everything requisite; at least, I advised him to do so.", "pos": 2484880}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I have a passport, and my clothes are ready packed.", "pos": 2485061}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Good in these prompt arrangements we recognize the order of a well-disciplined soldier.", "pos": 2485164}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "And you leave us at a moment’s warning? you do not give us a day—no, not even an hour before your departure?", "pos": 2485285}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My carriage is at the door, madame, and I must be in Rome in five days.", "pos": 2485411}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "But does Maximilian go to Rome?", "pos": 2485485}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I am going wherever it may please the count to take me I am under his orders for the next month.", "pos": 2485539}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Oh, heavens, how strangely he expresses himself, count!", "pos": 2485682}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Maximilian goes with me therefore do not make yourself uneasy on your brother’s account.", "pos": 2485752}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Once more farewell, my dear sister; Emmanuel, adieu!", "pos": 2485905}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "His carelessness and indifference touch me to the heart. Oh, Maximilian, Maximilian, you are certainly concealing something from us.", "pos": 2485977}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Pshaw! you will see him return to you gay, smiling, and joyful. We must leave you.", "pos": 2486126}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Before you quit us, count, will you permit us to express to you all that the other day——", "pos": 2486326}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Madame all that you could say in words would never express what I read in your eyes; the thoughts of your heart are fully understood by mine. Like benefactors in romances, I should have left you without seeing you again, but that would have been a virtue beyond my strength, because I am a weak and vain man, fond of the tender, kind, and thankful glances of my fellow-creatures. On the eve of departure I carry my egotism so far as to say, ‘Do not forget me, my kind friends, for probably you will never see me again.’", "pos": 2486431}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel", "text": "Never see you again? never behold you again? It is not a man, then, but some angel that leaves us, and this angel is on the point of returning to heaven after having appeared on earth to do good.", "pos": 2487008}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Say not so say not so, my friends; angels never err, celestial beings remain where they wish to be. Fate is not more powerful than they; it is they who, on the contrary, overcome fate. No, Emmanuel, I am but a man, and your admiration is as unmerited as your words are sacrilegious.", "pos": 2487278}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Restore my brother to peace and happiness", "pos": 2487935}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You still confide, then, in Sinbad the Sailor?", "pos": 2488133}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Oh, yes,", "pos": 2488201}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, then, sleep in peace, and put your trust in the Lord. Well have you been to see the old man? And have you placed the letter before him, as I ordered you to do? And what did he say, or rather do? Good; he accepts. Now let us go.", "pos": 2488234}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Morrel do you repent having followed me?", "pos": 2491503}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "No, count; but to leave Paris——", "pos": 2491649}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "If I thought happiness might await you in Paris, Morrel, I would have left you there.", "pos": 2491683}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Valentine reposes within the walls of Paris, and to leave Paris is like losing her a second time.", "pos": 2491771}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Maximilian the friends that we have lost do not repose in the bosom of the earth, but are buried deep in our hearts, and it has been thus ordained that we may always be accompanied by them. I have two friends, who in this way never depart from me; the one who gave me being, and the other who conferred knowledge and intelligence on me. Their spirits live in me. I consult them when doubtful, and if I ever do any good, it is due to their beneficent counsels. Listen to the voice of your heart, Morrel, and ask it whether you ought to preserve this melancholy exterior towards me.", "pos": 2491871}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "My friend the voice of my heart is very sorrowful, and promises me nothing but misfortune.", "pos": 2492473}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.", "pos": 2492586}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "That may possibly be true,", "pos": 2492788}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Here, here is the spot where my father stopped, when the Pharaon entered the port; it was here that the good old man, whom you saved from death and dishonor, threw himself into my arms. I yet feel his warm tears on my face, and his were not the only tears shed, for many who witnessed our meeting wept also.", "pos": 2495013}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I was there;", "pos": 2495415}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, heavens! I do not deceive myself—that young man who is waving his hat, that youth in the uniform of a lieutenant, is Albert de Morcerf!", "pos": 2495796}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes. I recognized him. Dear Maximilian have you nothing to do in this land?", "pos": 2495958}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I have to weep over the grave of my father.", "pos": 2496336}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, then, go,—wait for me there, and I will soon join you.", "pos": 2496416}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "You leave me, then?", "pos": 2496479}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; I also have a pious visit to pay.", "pos": 2496501}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Madame it is no longer in my power to restore you to happiness, but I offer you consolation; will you deign to accept it as coming from a friend?", "pos": 2499374}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "I am, indeed, most wretched. Alone in the world, I had but my son, and he has left me!", "pos": 2499541}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He possesses a noble heart, madame, and he has acted rightly. He feels that every man owes a tribute to his country; some contribute their talents, others their industry; these devote their blood, those their nightly labors, to the same cause. Had he remained with you, his life must have become a hateful burden, nor would he have participated in your griefs. He will increase in strength and honor by struggling with adversity, which he will convert into prosperity. Leave him to build up the future for you, and I venture to say you will confide it to safe hands.", "pos": 2499650}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Oh, the prosperity of which you speak, and which, from the bottom of my heart, I pray God in his mercy to grant him, I can never enjoy. The bitter cup of adversity has been drained by me to the very dregs, and I feel that the grave is not far distant. You have acted kindly, count, in bringing me back to the place where I have enjoyed so much bliss. I ought to meet death on the same spot where happiness was once all my own.", "pos": 2500240}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Alas, your words sear and embitter my heart, the more so as you have every reason to hate me. I have been the cause of all your misfortunes; but why do you pity, instead of blaming me? You render me still more unhappy——", "pos": 2500727}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Hate you, blame you—you, Edmond! Hate, reproach, the man that has spared my son’s life! For was it not your fatal and sanguinary intention to destroy that son of whom M. de Morcerf was so proud? Oh, look at me closely, and discover, if you can, even the semblance of a reproach in me. Oh, look at me, my eyes no longer dazzle by their brilliancy, for the time has long fled since I used to smile on Edmond Dantès, who anxiously looked out for me from the window of yonder garret, then inhabited by his old father. Years of grief have created an abyss between those days and the present. I neither reproach you nor hate you, my friend. Oh, no, Edmond, it is myself that I blame, myself that I hate! Oh, miserable creature that I am! I once possessed piety, innocence, and love, the three ingredients of the happiness of angels, and now what am I? No, no, my friend, touch me not. You have spared me, yet of all those who have fallen under your vengeance I was the most guilty. They were influenced by hatred, by avarice, and by self-love; but I was base, and for want of courage acted against my judgment. Nay, do not press my hand, Edmond; you are thinking, I am sure, of some kind speech to console me, but do not utter it to me, reserve it for others more worthy of your kindness. See see, misfortune has silvered my hair, my eyes have shed so many tears that they are encircled by a rim of purple, and my brow is wrinkled. You, Edmond, on the contrary,—you are still young, handsome, dignified; it is because you have had faith; because you have had strength, because you have had trust in God, and God has sustained you. But as for me, I have been a coward; I have denied God and he has abandoned me. It often happens, that a first fault destroys the prospects of a whole life. I believed you dead; why did I survive you? What good has it done me to mourn for you eternally in the secret recesses of my heart?—only to make a woman of thirty-nine look like a woman of fifty. Why, having recognized you, and I the only one to do so—why was I able to save my son alone? Ought I not also to have rescued the man that I had accepted for a husband, guilty though he were? Yet I let him die! What do I say? Oh, merciful heavens, was I not accessory to his death by my supine insensibility, by my contempt for him, not remembering, or not willing to remember, that it was for my sake he had become a traitor and a perjurer? In what am I benefited by accompanying my son so far, since I now abandon him, and allow him to depart alone to the baneful climate of Africa? Oh, I have been base, cowardly, I tell you; I have abjured my affections, and like all renegades I am of evil omen to those who surround me!", "pos": 2500970}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "No, Mercédès, no; you judge yourself with too much severity. You are a noble-minded woman, and it was your grief that disarmed me. Still I was but an agent, led on by an invisible and offended Deity, who chose not to withhold the fatal blow that I was destined to hurl. I take that God to witness, at whose feet I have prostrated myself daily for the last ten years, that I would have sacrificed my life to you, and with my life the projects that were indissolubly linked with it. But—and I say it with some pride, Mercédès—God needed me, and I lived. Examine the past and the present, and endeavor to dive into futurity, and then say whether I am not a divine instrument. The most dreadful misfortunes, the most frightful sufferings, the abandonment of all those who loved me, the persecution of those who did not know me, formed the trials of my youth; when suddenly, from captivity, solitude, misery, I was restored to light and liberty, and became the possessor of a fortune so brilliant, so unbounded, so unheard-of, that I must have been blind not to be conscious that God had endowed me with it to work out his own great designs. From that time I looked upon this fortune as something confided to me for a particular purpose. Not a thought was given to a life which you once, Mercédès, had the power to render blissful; not one hour of peaceful calm was mine; but I felt myself driven on like an exterminating angel. Like adventurous captains about to embark on some enterprise full of danger, I laid in my provisions, I loaded my weapons, I collected every means of attack and defence; I inured my body to the most violent exercises, my soul to the bitterest trials; I taught my arm to slay, my eyes to behold excruciating sufferings, and my mouth to smile at the most horrid spectacles. Good-natured, confiding, and forgiving as I had been, I became revengeful, cunning, and wicked, or rather, immovable as fate. Then I launched out into the path that was opened to me. I overcame every obstacle, and reached the goal; but woe to those who stood in my pathway!", "pos": 2504366}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Enough, enough, Edmond! Believe me, that she who alone recognized you has been the only one to comprehend you; and had she crossed your path, and you had crushed her like glass, still, Edmond, still she must have admired you! Like the gulf between me and the past, there is an abyss between you, Edmond, and the rest of mankind; and I tell you freely that the comparison I draw between you and other men will ever be one of my greatest tortures. No, there is nothing in the world to resemble you in worth and goodness! But we must say farewell, Edmond, and let us part.", "pos": 2506466}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Before I leave you, Mercédès, have you no request to make?", "pos": 2507055}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "I desire but one thing in this world, Edmond,—the happiness of my son.", "pos": 2507132}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Pray to the Almighty to spare his life, and I will take upon myself to promote his happiness.", "pos": 2507205}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Thank you, Edmond.", "pos": 2507301}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But have you no request to make for yourself, Mercédès?", "pos": 2507322}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "For myself I want nothing. I live, as it were, between two graves. One is that of Edmond Dantès, lost to me long, long since. He had my love! That word ill becomes my faded lip now, but it is a memory dear to my heart, and one that I would not lose for all that the world contains. The other grave is that of the man who met his death from the hand of Edmond Dantès. I approve of the deed, but I must pray for the dead.", "pos": 2507380}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Your son shall be happy, Mercédès,", "pos": 2507802}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Then I shall enjoy as much happiness as this world can possibly confer.", "pos": 2507859}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "But what are your intentions?", "pos": 2507933}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "To say that I shall live here, like the Mercédès of other times, gaining my bread by labor, would not be true, nor would you believe me. I have no longer the strength to do anything but to spend my days in prayer. However, I shall have no occasion to work, for the little sum of money buried by you, and which I found in the place you mentioned, will be sufficient to maintain me. Rumor will probably be busy respecting me, my occupations, my manner of living—that will signify but little, that concerns God, you, and myself.", "pos": 2507988}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Mercédès. I do not say it to blame you, but you made an unnecessary sacrifice in relinquishing the whole of the fortune amassed by M. de Morcerf; half of it at least by right belonged to you, in virtue of your vigilance and economy.", "pos": 2508516}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "I perceive what you are intending to propose to me; but I cannot accept it, Edmond—my son would not permit it.", "pos": 2508769}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Nothing shall be done without the full approbation of Albert de Morcerf. I will make myself acquainted with his intentions and will submit to them. But if he be willing to accept my offers, will you oppose them?", "pos": 2508882}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "You well know, Edmond, that I am no longer a reasoning creature; I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die. If succor be sent to me, I will accept it.", "pos": 2509096}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, madame, you should not talk thus! It is not so we should evince our resignation to the will of heaven; on the contrary, we are all free agents.", "pos": 2509485}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "Alas! if it were so, if I possessed free-will, but without the power to render that will efficacious, it would drive me to despair.", "pos": 2509656}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Will you not even say you will see me again?", "pos": 2509886}
{"speaker": "Mercédès", "text": "On the contrary, we shall meet again. I tell you so to prove to you that I still hope. Edmond, Edmond, Edmond!", "pos": 2509943}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I cannot have deceived myself. I must look upon the past in a false light. What! can I have been following a false path?—can the end which I proposed be a mistaken end?—can one hour have sufficed to prove to an architect that the work upon which he founded all his hopes was an impossible, if not a sacrilegious, undertaking? I cannot reconcile myself to this idea—it would madden me. The reason why I am now dissatisfied is that I have not a clear appreciation of the past. The past, like the country through which we walk, becomes indistinct as we advance. My position is like that of a person wounded in a dream; he feels the wound, though he cannot recollect when he received it. Come, then, thou regenerate man, thou extravagant prodigal, thou awakened sleeper, thou all-powerful visionary, thou invincible millionaire,—once again review thy past life of starvation and wretchedness, revisit the scenes where fate and misfortune conducted, and where despair received thee. Too many diamonds, too much gold and splendor, are now reflected by the mirror in which Monte Cristo seeks to behold Dantès. Hide thy diamonds, bury thy gold, shroud thy splendor, exchange riches for poverty, liberty for a prison, a living body for a corpse! And yet they were the same, only now it is broad daylight instead of night; it is the sun which brightens the place, and makes it appear so cheerful.", "pos": 2511326}
{"speaker": "Owner", "text": "Sir, we are at the landing.", "pos": 2515056}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Are there any stories connected with this prison besides the one relating to the poisoning of Mirabeau? are there any traditions respecting these dismal abodes,—in which it is difficult to believe men can ever have imprisoned their fellow-creatures?", "pos": 2516307}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "Yes, sir; indeed, the jailer Antoine told me one connected with this very dungeon. Would you like to hear the story, sir?", "pos": 2516578}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; relate it,", "pos": 2517125}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "This dungeon, was, it appears, some time ago occupied by a very dangerous prisoner, the more so since he was full of industry. Another person was confined in the Château at the same time, but he was not wicked, he was only a poor mad priest.", "pos": 2517267}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, indeed?—mad! and what was his mania?", "pos": 2517533}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "He offered millions to anyone who would set him at liberty.", "pos": 2517601}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Could the prisoners see each other?", "pos": 2517895}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "Oh, no, sir, it was expressly forbidden; but they eluded the vigilance of the guards, and made a passage from one dungeon to the other.", "pos": 2517943}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "And which of them made this passage?", "pos": 2518081}
{"speaker": "concierge", "text": "Oh, it must have been the young man, certainly, for he was strong and industrious, while the abbé was aged and weak; besides, his mind was too vacillating to allow him to carry out an idea.", "pos": 2518120}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Blind fools!", "pos": 2518312}
{"speaker": "the man", "text": "However, be that as it may, the young man made a tunnel, how or by what means no one knows; but he made it, and there is the evidence yet remaining of his work. Do you see it?", "pos": 2518346}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Ah, yes; I see,", "pos": 2518571}
{"speaker": "the man", "text": "The result was that the two men communicated with one another; how long they did so, nobody knows. One day the old man fell ill and died. Now guess what the young one did?", "pos": 2518637}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Tell me.", "pos": 2518811}
{"speaker": "the man", "text": "He carried off the corpse, which he placed in his own bed with its face to the wall; then he entered the empty dungeon, closed the entrance, and slipped into the sack which had contained the dead body. Did you ever hear of such an idea?", "pos": 2518822}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now this was his project. He fancied that they buried the dead at the Château d’If, and imagining they would not expend much labor on the grave of a prisoner, he calculated on raising the earth with his shoulders, but unfortunately their arrangements at the Château frustrated his projects. They never buried the dead; they merely attached a heavy cannon-ball to the feet, and then threw them into the sea. This is what was done. The young man was thrown from the top of the rock; the corpse was found on the bed next day, and the whole truth was guessed, for the men who performed the office then mentioned what they had not dared to speak of before, that at the moment the corpse was thrown into the deep, they heard a shriek, which was almost immediately stifled by the water in which it disappeared.", "pos": 2519260}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No,", "pos": 2520175}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "the doubt I felt was but the commencement of forgetfulness; but here the wound reopens, and the heart again thirsts for vengeance. And the prisoner,", "pos": 2520194}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "was he ever heard of afterwards?", "pos": 2520365}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, no; of course not. You can understand that one of two things must have happened; he must either have fallen flat, in which case the blow, from a height of ninety feet, must have killed him instantly, or he must have fallen upright, and then the weight would have dragged him to the bottom, where he remained—poor fellow!", "pos": 2520400}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you pity him?", "pos": 2520727}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ma foi, yes; though he was in his own element.", "pos": 2520764}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What do you mean?", "pos": 2520813}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The report was that he had been a naval officer, who had been confined for plotting with the Bonapartists.", "pos": 2520833}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Great is truth,", "pos": 2520942}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "fire cannot burn, nor water drown it! Thus the poor sailor lives in the recollection of those who narrate his history; his terrible story is recited in the chimney-corner, and a shudder is felt at the description of his transit through the air to be swallowed by the deep.", "pos": 2520980}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Was his name ever known?", "pos": 2521284}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, yes; but only as No. 34.", "pos": 2521311}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you wish to see anything more, sir?", "pos": 2521448}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, especially if you will show me the poor abbé’s room.", "pos": 2521509}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah! No. 27.", "pos": 2521569}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; No. 27.", "pos": 2521583}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Follow me, sir;", "pos": 2523540}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This is where the mad abbé was kept, sir, and that is where the young man entered;", "pos": 2524093}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sir,", "pos": 2524677}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you have made a mistake; you have given me gold.", "pos": 2524693}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I know it.", "pos": 2524744}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sir,", "pos": 2524808}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "sir, I cannot understand your generosity!", "pos": 2524867}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, it is very simple, my good fellow; I have been a sailor, and your story touched me more than it would others.", "pos": 2524911}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then, sir, since you are so liberal, I ought to offer you something.", "pos": 2525027}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What have you to offer to me, my friend? Shells? Straw-work? Thank you!", "pos": 2525105}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, sir, neither of those; something connected with this story.", "pos": 2525179}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Really? What is it?", "pos": 2525245}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Listen,", "pos": 2525267}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Something is always left in a cell inhabited by one prisoner for fifteen years,", "pos": 2525312}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah,", "pos": 2525425}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "After some search, I found that the floor gave a hollow sound near the head of the bed, and at the hearth.", "pos": 2525493}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 2525602}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "yes.", "pos": 2525625}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I raised the stones, and found——", "pos": 2525632}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A rope-ladder and some tools?", "pos": 2525667}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How do you know that?", "pos": 2525699}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not know—I only guess it, because that sort of thing is generally found in prisoners’ cells.", "pos": 2525756}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, sir, a rope-ladder and tools.", "pos": 2525856}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And have you them yet?", "pos": 2525893}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, sir; I sold them to visitors, who considered them great curiosities; but I have still something left.", "pos": 2525918}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 2526026}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A sort of book, written upon strips of cloth.", "pos": 2526070}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Go and fetch it, my good fellow; and if it be what I hope, you will do well.", "pos": 2526118}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will run for it, sir;", "pos": 2526197}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, second father,", "pos": 2526338}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "thou who hast given me liberty, knowledge, riches; thou who, like beings of a superior order to ourselves, couldst understand the science of good and evil; if in the depths of the tomb there still remain something within us which can respond to the voice of those who are left on earth; if after death the soul ever revisit the places where we have lived and suffered,—then, noble heart, sublime soul, then I conjure thee by the paternal love thou didst bear me, by the filial obedience I vowed to thee, grant me some sign, some revelation! Remove from me the remains of doubt, which, if it change not to conviction, must become remorse!", "pos": 2526373}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Here, sir,", "pos": 2527071}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Thou shalt tear out the dragons’ teeth, and shall trample the lions under foot, saith the Lord.", "pos": 2527415}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah,", "pos": 2527513}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "here is my answer. Thanks, father, thanks.", "pos": 2527533}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Here,", "pos": 2527695}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "take this pocket-book.", "pos": 2527712}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you give it to me?", "pos": 2527737}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; but only on condition that you will not open it till I am gone;", "pos": 2527761}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To Marseilles!", "pos": 2528006}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Woe,", "pos": 2528087}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "to those who confined me in that wretched prison; and woe to those who forgot that I was there!", "pos": 2528104}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Maximilian,", "pos": 2529407}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you should not look on the graves, but there;", "pos": 2529437}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The dead are everywhere,", "pos": 2529509}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "did you not yourself tell me so as we left Paris?", "pos": 2529549}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Maximilian,", "pos": 2529601}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you asked me during the journey to allow you to remain some days at Marseilles. Do you still wish to do so?", "pos": 2529631}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have no wishes, count; only I fancy I could pass the time less painfully here than anywhere else.", "pos": 2529741}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So much the better, for I must leave you; but I carry your word with me, do I not?", "pos": 2529843}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, count, I shall forget it.", "pos": 2529928}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, you will not forget it, because you are a man of honor, Morrel, because you have taken an oath, and are about to do so again.", "pos": 2529960}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, count, have pity upon me. I am so unhappy.", "pos": 2530092}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have known a man much more unfortunate than you, Morrel.", "pos": 2530141}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Impossible!", "pos": 2530202}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Alas,", "pos": 2530216}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "it is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!", "pos": 2530243}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What can be more wretched than the man who has lost all he loved and desired in the world?", "pos": 2530360}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Listen, Morrel, and pay attention to what I am about to tell you. I knew a man who like you had fixed all his hopes of happiness upon a woman. He was young, he had an old father whom he loved, a betrothed bride whom he adored. He was about to marry her, when one of the caprices of fate,—which would almost make us doubt the goodness of Providence, if that Providence did not afterwards reveal itself by proving that all is but a means of conducting to an end,—one of those caprices deprived him of his mistress, of the future of which he had dreamed (for in his blindness he forgot he could only read the present), and cast him into a dungeon.", "pos": 2530453}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah,", "pos": 2531100}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "one quits a dungeon in a week, a month, or a year.", "pos": 2531119}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He remained there fourteen years, Morrel,", "pos": 2531172}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Fourteen years!", "pos": 2531300}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Fourteen years!", "pos": 2531331}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "During that time he had many moments of despair. He also, Morrel, like you, considered himself the unhappiest of men.", "pos": 2531369}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well?", "pos": 2531489}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, at the height of his despair God assisted him through human means. At first, perhaps, he did not recognize the infinite mercy of the Lord, but at last he took patience and waited. One day he miraculously left the prison, transformed, rich, powerful. His first cry was for his father; but that father was dead.", "pos": 2531511}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My father, too, is dead,", "pos": 2531829}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; but your father died in your arms, happy, respected, rich, and full of years; his father died poor, despairing, almost doubtful of Providence; and when his son sought his grave ten years afterwards, his tomb had disappeared, and no one could say, ‘There sleeps the father you so well loved.’", "pos": 2531869}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh!", "pos": 2532168}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He was, then, a more unhappy son than you, Morrel, for he could not even find his father’s grave.", "pos": 2532192}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But then he had the woman he loved still remaining?", "pos": 2532292}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are deceived, Morrel, that woman——", "pos": 2532346}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She was dead?", "pos": 2532387}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Worse than that, she was faithless, and had married one of the persecutors of her betrothed. You see, then, Morrel, that he was a more unhappy lover than you.", "pos": 2532403}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And has he found consolation?", "pos": 2532564}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He has at least found peace.", "pos": 2532596}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And does he ever expect to be happy?", "pos": 2532627}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He hopes so, Maximilian.", "pos": 2532666}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have my promise,", "pos": 2532734}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Only remember——", "pos": 2532826}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On the 5th of October, Morrel, I shall expect you at the Island of Monte Cristo. On the 4th a yacht will wait for you in the port of Bastia, it will be called the Eurus. You will give your name to the captain, who will bring you to me. It is understood—is it not?", "pos": 2532844}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But, count, do you remember that the 5th of October——", "pos": 2533110}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Child,", "pos": 2533166}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "not to know the value of a man’s word! I have told you twenty times that if you wish to die on that day, I will assist you. Morrel, farewell!", "pos": 2533194}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you leave me?", "pos": 2533338}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; I have business in Italy. I leave you alone in your struggle with misfortune—alone with that strong-winged eagle which God sends to bear aloft the elect to his feet. The story of Ganymede, Maximilian, is not a fable, but an allegory.", "pos": 2533357}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When do you leave?", "pos": 2533598}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Immediately; the steamer waits, and in an hour I shall be far from you. Will you accompany me to the harbor, Maximilian?", "pos": 2533619}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am entirely yours, count.", "pos": 2533749}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Good! I have it still!", "pos": 2535640}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Messrs. Thomson & French?", "pos": 2537786}
{"speaker": "the attendant", "text": "Whom shall I announce?", "pos": 2537911}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Baron Danglars.", "pos": 2537956}
{"speaker": "the attendant", "text": "Follow me,", "pos": 2537974}
{"speaker": "the clerk", "text": "Ah, ha, here you are, Peppino!", "pos": 2538377}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "Yes. You have found out that there is something worth having about this large gentleman?", "pos": 2538421}
{"speaker": "the clerk", "text": "There is no great merit due to me, for we were informed of it.", "pos": 2538537}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "You know his business here, then.", "pos": 2538602}
{"speaker": "the clerk", "text": "Pardieu, he has come to draw, but I don’t know how much!", "pos": 2538638}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "You will know presently, my friend.", "pos": 2538697}
{"speaker": "the clerk", "text": "Very well, only do not give me false information as you did the other day.", "pos": 2538735}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "What do you mean?—of whom do you speak? Was it the Englishman who carried off 3,000 crowns from here the other day?", "pos": 2538812}
{"speaker": "the clerk", "text": "No; he really had 3,000 crowns, and we found them. I mean the Russian prince, who you said had 30,000 livres, and we only found 22,000.", "pos": 2538937}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "You must have searched badly.", "pos": 2539075}
{"speaker": "the clerk", "text": "Luigi Vampa himself searched.", "pos": 2539107}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "In that case he must either have paid his debts——", "pos": 2539139}
{"speaker": "the clerk", "text": "A Russian do that?", "pos": 2539191}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "Or spent the money?", "pos": 2539212}
{"speaker": "the clerk", "text": "Possibly, after all.", "pos": 2539234}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "Certainly. But you must let me make my observations, or the Frenchman will transact his business without my knowing the sum. Well?", "pos": 2539257}
{"speaker": "the clerk", "text": "Joy, joy—the sum is large!", "pos": 2539683}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "Five or six millions, is it not?", "pos": 2539712}
{"speaker": "the clerk", "text": "Yes, you know the amount.", "pos": 2539747}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "On the receipt of the Count of Monte Cristo?", "pos": 2539775}
{"speaker": "the clerk", "text": "Why, how came you to be so well acquainted with all this?", "pos": 2539822}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "I told you we were informed beforehand.", "pos": 2539882}
{"speaker": "the clerk", "text": "Then why do you apply to me?", "pos": 2539924}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "That I may be sure I have the right man.", "pos": 2539955}
{"speaker": "the clerk", "text": "Yes, it is indeed he. Five millions—a pretty sum, eh, Peppino? Hush—here is our man!", "pos": 2539998}
{"speaker": "the cicerone", "text": "Will your excellency visit Saint Peter’s?", "pos": 2540631}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I did not come to Rome to see. I came to touch!", "pos": 2540695}
{"speaker": "the cicerone", "text": "Then your excellency is going——", "pos": 2540885}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "To the hotel.", "pos": 2540919}
{"speaker": "the cicerone", "text": "Casa Pastrini!", "pos": 2540935}
{"speaker": "the postilion", "text": "Which road?", "pos": 2542605}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "The Ancona road,", "pos": 2542651}
{"speaker": "the postilion", "text": "Non capisco", "pos": 2543277}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I will stop at the first posting-house,", "pos": 2543418}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Eh? eh, mio caro? Come, my friend, where are we going?", "pos": 2545607}
{"speaker": "a solemn and imperious voice", "text": "Dentro la testa!", "pos": 2545931}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Some gendarme! Can I have been intercepted by French telegrams to the pontifical authorities? Where are you taking me?", "pos": 2546780}
{"speaker": "the same voice", "text": "Dentro la testa,", "pos": 2546961}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Decidedly. I must be under arrest. Oh, unfortunate! they must have obtained my arrest. Mon dieu! we are not returning to Rome; then it is not justice which is pursuing me! Gracious heavens; another idea presents itself—what if they should be—— They are robbers, perhaps,", "pos": 2547117}
{"speaker": "a commanding voice", "text": "Scendi!", "pos": 2548994}
{"speaker": "one of the men", "text": "Di quà,", "pos": 2549223}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "Avanti!", "pos": 2549841}
{"speaker": "a sentinel", "text": "Who comes there?", "pos": 2551560}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "A friend, a friend! but where is the captain?", "pos": 2551589}
{"speaker": "a sentinel", "text": "There,", "pos": 2551653}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "Fine spoil, captain, fine spoil!", "pos": 2551835}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "Is this the man?", "pos": 2552090}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "Himself, captain—himself.", "pos": 2552186}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "Very well, show him to me. The man is tired, conduct him to his bed.", "pos": 2552214}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, that bed is probably one of the coffins hollowed in the wall, and the sleep I shall enjoy will be death from one of the poniards I see glistening in the darkness.", "pos": 2552531}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, God be praised, it is a real bed!", "pos": 2553634}
{"speaker": "Peppino", "text": "Ecco!", "pos": 2553804}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes, yes. I am in the hands of the brigands of whom Albert de Morcerf spoke. No, they have not wounded, but perhaps they have robbed me! Singular bandits! they have left me my purse and pocket-book. As I was saying last night, they intend me to be ransomed. Hello, here is my watch! Let me see what time it is.", "pos": 2555954}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Faugh! Ah, ha, this fellow is more like an ogre than anything else; however, I am rather too old and tough to be very good eating! May I be hanged, may I be hanged if I can understand how people can eat such filth!", "pos": 2557693}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Monsieur Deniseau, let me have a nice little fricassee today.", "pos": 2559176}
{"speaker": "bandit", "text": "Che cosa?", "pos": 2559363}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Come, come. I think it is quite time to think of giving me something to eat!", "pos": 2559393}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Excuse me, sir, but are they not going to give me any dinner? Happen to be hungry,—that’s pretty good, when I haven’t eaten for twenty-four hours! Yes, sir, I am hungry—very hungry. At once, if possible Of course! Although, in justice, the people who arrest and imprison you, ought, at least, to feed you. A bad reason, but I am content. Let me have some dinner! Have you kitchens here? And cooks? Well, a fowl, fish, game,—it signifies little, so that I eat. Yes, a fowl. I could almost believe myself at the Café de Paris. Here, your excellency. Pardon me, excellency, people pay here before they eat. They might not be satisfied, and—— Ah, ha, this is not so much like Paris, except that I shall probably be skinned! Never mind, I’ll fix that all right. I have always heard how cheap poultry is in Italy; I should think a fowl is worth about twelve sous at Rome.—There. I said they would skin me. Come, how much do I owe you for this fowl? Very droll, very droll indeed. What! A hundred thousand francs for a fowl! Come, come, this is very droll—very amusing—I allow; but, as I am very hungry, pray allow me to eat. Stay, here is another louis for you. Oh, as for that, as for that you won’t get them at all. Go to the devil! You do not know with whom you have to deal! Brute! Come, sir, do not keep me starving here any longer, but tell me what they want. Then open the door directly. Now look here, I want something to eat! To eat—do you hear? Are you hungry? Come, you understand me. What would your excellency like to eat? A piece of dry bread, since the fowls are beyond all price in this accursed place. How much? What? One hundred thousand francs for a loaf? But you only asked 100,000 francs for a fowl! What, still keeping up this silly jest? My dear fellow, it is perfectly ridiculous—stupid! You had better tell me at once that you intend starving me to death. And what am I to pay with, brute? Do you suppose I carry 100,000 francs in my pocket? Come, if I pay you the 100,000 francs, will you be satisfied, and allow me to eat at my ease? Here, here is a draft at sight. The next day Danglars was again hungry; certainly the air of that dungeon was very provocative of appetite. The prisoner expected that he would be at no expense that day, for like an economical man he had concealed half of his fowl and a piece of the bread in the corner of his cell. But he had no sooner eaten than he felt thirsty; he had forgotten that. He struggled against his thirst till his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth; then, no longer able to resist, he called out. The sentinel opened the door; it was a new face. He thought it would be better to transact business with his old acquaintance, so he sent for Peppino. Here I am, your excellency. What do you want? Something to drink. Then give me water. Come, it is the same old story. Come, my friend, you will not refuse me a glass of wine? Well, then, let me have a bottle of the least expensive. Tell me, tell me that you wish to despoil me of all; it will be sooner over than devouring me piecemeal. The master?—who is he? Where is he? Let me see him. Are you, sir, the chief of the people who brought me here? How much do you require for my ransom? But this is all I have left in the world, out of an immense fortune. If you deprive me of that, take away my life also. You do, then, obey someone? I thought you said you were the chief? And did your superior order you to treat me in this way? Come, will you take a million? Two millions?—three?—four? Come, four? I will give them to you on condition that you let me go. Take all, then—take all, I tell you, and kill me! But when I have no more money left to pay you? Suffer hunger? And yet you will let me perish with hunger? Well, then, wretches. I will defy your infamous calculations—I would rather die at once! You may torture, torment, kill me, but you shall not have my signature again!", "pos": 2561020}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Are you not a Christian? Do you wish to assassinate a man who, in the eyes of Heaven, is a brother? Oh, my former friends, my former friends! The chief, the chief!", "pos": 2574290}
{"speaker": "Vampa", "text": "Here I am, what do you want?", "pos": 2574580}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Take my last gold, and let me live here; I ask no more for liberty—I only ask to live!", "pos": 2574646}
{"speaker": "The Count of Monte Cristo", "text": "Then you suffer a great deal?", "pos": 2574785}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, yes, yes, cruelly!", "pos": 2574817}
{"speaker": "The Count of Monte Cristo", "text": "Still, there have been men who suffered more than you.", "pos": 2574842}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "I do not think so.", "pos": 2574899}
{"speaker": "The Count of Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; those who have died of hunger.", "pos": 2574920}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Yes, there have been some who have suffered more than I have, but then they must have been martyrs at least.", "pos": 2575105}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you repent?", "pos": 2575227}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Of what must I repent?", "pos": 2575468}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Of the evil you have done,", "pos": 2575513}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Oh, yes; oh, yes, I do indeed repent.", "pos": 2575558}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I forgive you,", "pos": 2575648}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "The Count of Monte Cristo!", "pos": 2575732}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are mistaken—I am not the Count of Monte Cristo.", "pos": 2575851}
{"speaker": "Danglars", "text": "Then who are you?", "pos": 2575906}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am he whom you sold and dishonored—I am he whose betrothed you prostituted—I am he upon whom you trampled that you might raise yourself to fortune—I am he whose father you condemned to die of hunger—I am he whom you also condemned to starvation, and who yet forgives you, because he hopes to be forgiven—I am Edmond Dantès!", "pos": 2575933}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Rise,", "pos": 2576305}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "your life is safe; the same good fortune has not happened to your accomplices—one is mad, the other dead. Keep the 50,000 francs you have left—I give them to you. The 5,000,000 you stole from the hospitals has been restored to them by an unknown hand. And now eat and drink; I will entertain you tonight. Vampa, when this man is satisfied, let him be free.", "pos": 2576329}
{"speaker": "traveller", "text": "Is that Monte Cristo?", "pos": 2578861}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "yes, your excellency, we have reached it.", "pos": 2578983}
{"speaker": "traveller", "text": "We have reached it! Yes; that is the haven.", "pos": 2579047}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Your excellency, that was the land signal, will you answer yourself?", "pos": 2579475}
{"speaker": "traveller", "text": "What signal? Ah, yes. Give it to me.", "pos": 2579566}
{"speaker": "traveller", "text": "Give way,", "pos": 2580316}
{"speaker": "pilot", "text": "Will your excellency be so good as to mount the shoulders of two of our men, they will carry you ashore? Ah, your excellency, you should not have done so; our master will scold us for it.", "pos": 2580607}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Good-evening, Maximilian; you are punctual, thank you!", "pos": 2581315}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Ah, is it you, count?", "pos": 2581372}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; you see I am as exact as you are. But you are dripping, my dear fellow; you must change your clothes, as Calypso said to Telemachus. Come, I have a habitation prepared for you in which you will soon forget fatigue and cold.", "pos": 2581492}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Count, you are not the same here as in Paris.", "pos": 2582314}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How so?", "pos": 2582373}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Here you laugh.", "pos": 2582383}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right to recall me to myself, Maximilian,", "pos": 2582434}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting.", "pos": 2582495}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, no, no, count, pray laugh; be happy, and prove to me, by your indifference, that life is endurable to sufferers. Oh, how charitable, kind, and good you are; you affect this gayety to inspire me with courage.", "pos": 2582589}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are wrong, Morrel; I was really happy.", "pos": 2582850}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Then you forget me, so much the better.", "pos": 2582895}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How so?", "pos": 2582937}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes; for as the gladiator said to the emperor, when he entered the arena, ‘He who is about to die salutes you.’", "pos": 2582947}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you are not consoled?", "pos": 2583061}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, do you think it possible that I could be?", "pos": 2583118}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Listen,", "pos": 2583225}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you understand the meaning of my words? You cannot take me for a commonplace man, a mere rattle, emitting a vague and senseless noise. When I ask you if you are consoled, I speak to you as a man for whom the human heart has no secrets. Well, Morrel, let us both examine the depths of your heart. Do you still feel the same feverish impatience of grief which made you start like a wounded lion? Have you still that devouring thirst which can only be appeased in the grave? Are you still actuated by the regret which drags the living to the pursuit of death; or are you only suffering from the prostration of fatigue and the weariness of hope deferred? Has the loss of memory rendered it impossible for you to weep? Oh, my dear friend, if this be the case,—if you can no longer weep, if your frozen heart be dead, if you put all your trust in God, then, Maximilian, you are consoled—do not complain.", "pos": 2583251}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Count, listen to me, as to a man whose thoughts are raised to heaven, though he remains on earth; I come to die in the arms of a friend. Certainly, there are people whom I love. I love my sister Julie,—I love her husband Emmanuel; but I require a strong mind to smile on my last moments. My sister would be bathed in tears and fainting; I could not bear to see her suffer. Emmanuel would tear the weapon from my hand, and alarm the house with his cries. You, count, who are more than mortal, will, I am sure, lead me to death by a pleasant path, will you not?", "pos": 2584154}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My friend,", "pos": 2584781}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have still one doubt,—are you weak enough to pride yourself upon your sufferings?", "pos": 2584810}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "No, indeed,—I am calm, my pulse does not beat slower or faster than usual. No, I feel that I have reached the goal, and I will go no farther. You told me to wait and hope; do you know what you did, unfortunate adviser? I waited a month, or rather I suffered for a month! I did hope (man is a poor wretched creature), I did hope. What I cannot tell,—something wonderful, an absurdity, a miracle,—of what nature he alone can tell who has mingled with our reason that folly we call hope. Yes, I did wait—yes, I did hope, count, and during this quarter of an hour we have been talking together, you have unconsciously wounded, tortured my heart, for every word you have uttered proved that there was no hope for me. Oh, count, I shall sleep calmly, deliciously in the arms of death. My friend, you named the fifth of October as the end of the period of waiting,—today is the fifth of October, it is now nine o’clock,—I have yet three hours to live.", "pos": 2584896}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Be it so,", "pos": 2586007}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "come.", "pos": 2586035}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why should we not spend the last three hours remaining to us of life, like those ancient Romans, who when condemned by Nero, their emperor and heir, sat down at a table covered with flowers, and gently glided into death, amid the perfume of heliotropes and roses?", "pos": 2586367}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "As you please, death is always death,—that is forgetfulness, repose, exclusion from life, and therefore from grief. Let us talk like men,", "pos": 2586648}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Go on!", "pos": 2587107}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Count, you are the epitome of all human knowledge, and you seem like a being descended from a wiser and more advanced world than ours.", "pos": 2587116}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There is something true in what you say,", "pos": 2587268}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have descended from a planet called grief.", "pos": 2587371}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I believe all you tell me without questioning its meaning; for instance, you told me to live, and I did live; you told me to hope, and I almost did so. I am almost inclined to ask you, as though you had experienced death, ‘is it painful to die?’", "pos": 2587425}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 2587736}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "yes, doubtless it is painful, if you violently break the outer covering which obstinately begs for life. If you plunge a dagger into your flesh, if you insinuate a bullet into your brain, which the least shock disorders,—then certainly, you will suffer pain, and you will repent quitting a life for a repose you have bought at so dear a price.", "pos": 2587752}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Yes; I know that there is a secret of luxury and pain in death, as well as in life; the only thing is to understand it.", "pos": 2588098}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have spoken truly, Maximilian; according to the care we bestow upon it, death is either a friend who rocks us gently as a nurse, or an enemy who violently drags the soul from the body. Some day, when the world is much older, and when mankind will be masters of all the destructive powers in nature, to serve for the general good of humanity; when mankind, as you were just saying, have discovered the secrets of death, then that death will become as sweet and voluptuous as a slumber in the arms of your beloved.", "pos": 2588220}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "And if you wished to die, you would choose this death, count?", "pos": 2588739}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 2588803}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Now I understand, why you had me brought here to this desolate spot, in the midst of the ocean, to this subterranean palace; it was because you loved me, was it not, count? It was because you loved me well enough to give me one of those sweet means of death of which we were speaking; a death without agony, a death which allows me to fade away while pronouncing Valentine’s name and pressing your hand.", "pos": 2588836}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, you have guessed rightly, Morrel,", "pos": 2589253}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that is what I intended.", "pos": 2589310}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Thanks; the idea that tomorrow I shall no longer suffer, is sweet to my heart.", "pos": 2589337}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you then regret nothing?", "pos": 2589418}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "No,", "pos": 2589448}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not even me?", "pos": 2589470}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "What, do you still regret anything in the world, and yet die? Oh, I entreat you, do not speak another word, count; do not prolong my punishment.", "pos": 2589642}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Listen, Morrel, I see your grief is great, but still you do not like to risk your soul.", "pos": 2590327}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Count. I swear to you my soul is no longer my own.", "pos": 2590438}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Maximilian, you know I have no relation in the world. I have accustomed myself to regard you as my son: well, then, to save my son, I will sacrifice my life, nay, even my fortune.", "pos": 2590502}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "What do you mean?", "pos": 2590684}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I mean, that you wish to quit life because you do not understand all the enjoyments which are the fruits of a large fortune. Morrel, I possess nearly a hundred millions and I give them to you; with such a fortune you can attain every wish. Are you ambitious? Every career is open to you. Overturn the world, change its character, yield to mad ideas, be even criminal—but live.", "pos": 2590704}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Count, I have your word. It is half-past eleven.", "pos": 2591082}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Morrel, can you intend it in my house, under my very eyes?", "pos": 2591192}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Then let me go, or I shall think you did not love me for my own sake, but for yours;", "pos": 2591253}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "It is well, you wish it—you are inflexible. Yes, as you said, you are indeed wretched and a miracle alone can cure you. Sit down, Morrel, and wait.", "pos": 2591373}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "This is what you asked for, and what I promised to give you.", "pos": 2592474}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "I thank you from the depths of my heart. What are you going to do, my friend?", "pos": 2592548}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, the fact is, Morrel, I was thinking that I too am weary of life, and since an opportunity presents itself——", "pos": 2592804}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Stay! You who love, and are beloved; you, who have faith and hope,—oh, do not follow my example. In your case it would be a crime. Adieu, my noble and generous friend, adieu; I will go and tell Valentine what you have done for me.", "pos": 2592920}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Friend. I feel that I am dying; thanks!", "pos": 2593943}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Is it heaven that opens before me? that angel resembles the one I have lost.", "pos": 2595613}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "He is calling you, he to whom you have confided your destiny—he from whom death would have separated you, calls you to him. Happily, I vanquished death. Henceforth, Valentine, you will never again be separated on earth, since he has rushed into death to find you. Without me, you would both have died. May God accept my atonement in the preservation of these two existences! Oh, thank me again! tell me till you are weary, that I have restored you to happiness; you do not know how much I require this assurance.", "pos": 2596072}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, yes, yes, I thank you with all my heart, and if you doubt the sincerity of my gratitude, oh, then, ask Haydée! ask my beloved sister Haydée, who ever since our departure from France, has caused me to wait patiently for this happy day, while talking to me of you.", "pos": 2596730}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You then love Haydée?", "pos": 2597017}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, yes, with all my soul.", "pos": 2597114}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Well, then, listen, Valentine. I have a favor to ask of you.", "pos": 2597143}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Of me? Oh, am I happy enough for that?", "pos": 2597224}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Yes; you have called Haydée your sister,—let her become so indeed, Valentine; render her all the gratitude you fancy that you owe to me; protect her, for henceforth she will be alone in the world.", "pos": 2597265}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Alone in the world! and why?", "pos": 2597509}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Because tomorrow, Haydée, you will be free; you will then assume your proper position in society, for I will not allow my destiny to overshadow yours. Daughter of a prince, I restore to you the riches and name of your father.", "pos": 2597705}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Then you leave me, my lord?", "pos": 2598039}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Haydée, Haydée, you are young and beautiful; forget even my name, and be happy.", "pos": 2598069}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "It is well, your order shall be executed, my lord; I will forget even your name, and be happy.", "pos": 2598151}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Oh, heavens, do you not see how pale she is? Do you not see how she suffers?", "pos": 2598295}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Why should he understand this, my sister? He is my master, and I am his slave; he has the right to notice nothing.", "pos": 2598500}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Oh, heavens, can my suspicions be correct? Haydée, would it please you not to leave me?", "pos": 2598789}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "I am young. I love the life you have made so sweet to me, and I should be sorry to die.", "pos": 2598905}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "You mean, then, that if I leave you, Haydée——", "pos": 2599020}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "I should die; yes, my lord.", "pos": 2599068}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Do you then love me?", "pos": 2599098}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Oh, Valentine, he asks if I love him. Valentine, tell him if you love Maximilian. Oh, yes. I do love you! I love you as one loves a father, brother, husband! I love you as my life, for you are the best, the noblest of created beings!", "pos": 2599121}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Let it be, then, as you wish, sweet angel; God has sustained me in my struggle with my enemies, and has given me this reward; he will not let me end my triumph in suffering; I wished to punish myself, but he has pardoned me. Love me then, Haydée! Who knows? perhaps your love will make me forget all that I do not wish to remember.", "pos": 2599488}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "What do you mean, my lord?", "pos": 2599822}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "I mean that one word from you has enlightened me more than twenty years of slow experience; I have but you in the world, Haydée; through you I again take hold on life, through you I shall suffer, through you rejoice.", "pos": 2599851}
{"speaker": "Haydée", "text": "Do you hear him, Valentine? he says that through me he will suffer—through me, who would yield my life for his.", "pos": 2600070}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "Have I discovered the truth? but whether it be for recompense or punishment, I accept my fate. Come, Haydée, come!", "pos": 2600237}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Oh, the count has deceived me; I am yet living;", "pos": 2600873}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Dearest, awake, and look at me!", "pos": 2601021}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Ah, it is Jacopo, the captain of the yacht;", "pos": 2601764}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Do you wish to speak to us?", "pos": 2601857}
{"speaker": "Jacopo", "text": "I have a letter to give you from the count.", "pos": 2601901}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "From the count!", "pos": 2601947}
{"speaker": "Jacopo", "text": "Yes; read it.", "pos": 2601996}
{"speaker": "Monte Cristo", "text": "My Dear Maximilian. There is a felucca for you at anchor. Jacopo will carry you to Leghorn, where Monsieur Noirtier awaits his granddaughter, whom he wishes to bless before you lead her to the altar. All that is in this grotto, my friend, my house in the Champs-Élysées, and my château at Tréport, are the marriage gifts bestowed by Edmond Dantès upon the son of his old master, Morrel. Mademoiselle de Villefort will share them with you; for I entreat her to give to the poor the immense fortune reverting to her from her father, now a madman, and her brother who died last September with his mother. Tell the angel who will watch over your future destiny, Morrel, to pray sometimes for a man, who, like Satan, thought himself for an instant equal to God, but who now acknowledges with Christian humility that God alone possesses supreme power and infinite wisdom. Perhaps those prayers may soften the remorse he feels in his heart. As for you, Morrel, this is the secret of my conduct towards you. There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—‘Wait and hope.’—Your friend,", "pos": 2602055}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "But, the count’s generosity is too overwhelming; Valentine will be satisfied with my humble fortune. Where is the count, friend? Lead me to him.", "pos": 2603959}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "What do you mean? Where is the count?—where is Haydée?", "pos": 2604153}
{"speaker": "Jacopo", "text": "Look!", "pos": 2604229}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Gone, gone!—adieu, my friend—adieu, my father!", "pos": 2604420}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Gone, adieu, my sweet Haydée—adieu, my sister!", "pos": 2604484}
{"speaker": "Maximilian Morrel", "text": "Who can say whether we shall ever see them again?", "pos": 2604555}
{"speaker": "Valentine", "text": "Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words: Wait and hope (Fac et spera)!", "pos": 2604638}