Romances: The count of Monte CristoEstes and Lauriat, 1894 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
abbe Abbe Faria answered asked believe beneath Blacas Bonapartist brow Cæsar Captain Leclere Carconte Catalan Chateau d'If Cocles Corsica Danglars dear death door dungeon Edmond Dantes Englishman escape exclaimed eyes Faria father fear Fernand fortune francs gazed gendarme governor hand happy head heard heart honor hope hour inquired inspector Isle of Elba Jacopo jailer Jeune Amelie king letter listened looked Louis XVIII majesty marquis Marseilles Mercedes mind Monsieur Monte-Cristo Morrel murmured never night Noirtier ousse pale passed Penelon person Pharaoh Pianosa piastres pickaxe Pont du Gard poor prisoner procureur Quesnel raoh remained Renee replied Caderousse replied Dantes returned rock rousse sailor seemed seilles sire smile Spada speak supercargo tell thing Thomson & French thought thousand francs tion treasure turned uttered vessel Villefort voice wait whilst wish words young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 271 - I will swim on until I am worn out, or the cramp seizes me, and then I shall sink; " and he struck out with the energy of despair. Suddenly the sky seemed to him to become still darker and more dense, and compact clouds lowered towards him; at the same time he felt a violent pain in his knee. His imagination told him a ball had struck him, and that in a moment he would hear the report; but he heard nothing. Dantes put out his hand and felt resistance; he then...
Página 278 - We shall see," returned the other, smiling. " Where are you going to ? " asked Dantes. "To Leghorn." " Then why, instead of tacking so frequently, do you not sail nearer to the wind ? " " Because we should run straight on to the Island of Rion." "You shall pass it by twenty fathoms." < "Take the helm, and let us see what you know.
Página 272 - ... of the elements and the dazzling brightness of the lightning. It seemed to him that the island trembled to its base, and that it would, like a vessel at anchor, break her moorings, and bear him off into the centre of the storm.
Página 274 - Dantes (his eyes turned in the direction of the Chateau d'lf) uttered this prayer, he saw appear at the extremity of the Isle of Pomegue, like a bird skimming over the sea, a small bark, that the eye of a sailor alone could recognize as a Genoese tartane. She was coming out of Marseilles harbor, and was standing out to sea rapidly, her sharp prow cleaving through the waves. " Oh ! " cried Edmond, " to think that in half an hour I could join her, did I not fear being questioned, detected, and conveyed...