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Or if you want to wake up in the morning with the world looking right." Again Monte saw the impulsive movement of the man's hand to his eyes. He said quickly: "I did n't mean to refer to that." "I forget it for a while. Then suddenly I remember it." "You wanted something too hard," said Monte gently. "I wanted something with all there was in me. I still want it." "You're not sorry, then?"
And as you cannot yet reach Woodthorpe and your father's fortune, except by marrying Louise which you don't intend to do what are you going to do now?" "First, I intend that this woman they call 'Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo, the lucky woman who is a decoy of the Administration of the Bains de Mer, shall tell me the true circumstance of my father's death.
Further than that I meant nothing except that I was serious in what I said about repaying the man who should bring about my marriage." They had long since passed through the Porta San Giovanni and had arrived at the Coliseum. Scorpa gave Sansevero little chance to answer, but with a friendly good-by, he turned toward the Monte Quirinal. Sansevero pursued his way along the foot of the Palatine.
"Where are you come from, sir? You do not appear to be in the possession of your senses." "Provided I understand your perfidy, sir, and succeed in making you understand that I will be revenged, I shall be reasonable enough," said Albert furiously. "I do not understand you, sir," replied Monte Cristo; "and if I did, your tone is too high.
When the stage gets along an hour later, this Slim Jim's made himse'f a mask with a handkerchief, an' is a full-fledged hold-up which any express company could be proud to down. Old Monte relates what happens in the canyon, 'cause from where he's stuck up on the box he gets a better view. "'Yere's how this happens, says Old Monte, while renooin' his yooth with Red Light licker after he's got in.
Train saw things in the large in their cosmic relations; from us he was going forth to make a fortune compared with which that of Monte Cristo would be a trifle. He did make fortunes, I believe; but there seems to have been in his blood a little too much of the elixir of life more than he could thoroughly digest.
I had some thoughts of staying thirteen days longer, to rival the count, but concluded to go on the next morning, over Monte Pian and the Cat's Ladder to Landro. The view from Monte Pian is far less extensive than that from Nuvolau; but it has the advantage of being very near the wild jumble of the Sexten Dolomites.
He was radically different to the mental picture she had formed of the financier. He continued: "The lady you saw in the train was my sister-in-law. As you already know, she expects me to join her at Monte Carlo. I don't want to be drawn into that kind of life. I want to remain quiet. I have important work to do." "Scientific work, isn't it?" "Yes. And there's a big stretch of it in front of me.
I came straight here because I wanted your advice. Granting that the man is out of his mind, is it possible that he may be trying some experiment that entails a sacrifice of human life? 'Nothing is more probable, said Dr Porhoët gravely. Susie shuddered. She remembered the rumour that had reached her ears in Monte Carlo.
It was noon, and Monte Cristo had set apart one hour to be passed in the apartments of Haidee, as though his oppressed spirit could not all at once admit the feeling of pure and unmixed joy, but required a gradual succession of calm and gentle emotions to prepare his mind to receive full and perfect happiness, in the same manner as ordinary natures demand to be inured by degrees to the reception of strong or violent sensations.
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