Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 5, 2025
"Oh, how beautiful you are," muttered Mercedes, looking at the young wife admiringly. "Madame," stammered Haydee, blushing, "I give you my most valuable possessions, my husband and my son." "Your son?" repeated Mercedes, with emotion. "Spero come this way," said the count. The boy sprang toward him Mercedes looked at him and sobbed bitterly. "Papa, why is she crying?" whispered Spero.
Madame Caraman carried Spero into the house. Monte-Cristo examined the patient carefully, and breathed more lightly. "A few days' rest will set him all right again," he said, turning to Fanfaro, "and if we can make use of your friendship " "Count, what I possess is yours. But let me introduce you to the colony," said Fanfaro.
I turned to say good-bye, but Spero had vanished. A deep drowsiness fell upon me, and just as I got off the parapet and found a safer position I fell asleep. IV. The Eternal Progress I was sitting under a strange tree covered with gigantic red flowers. In the sky above me were two moons that shed a dim brightness on the lovely and fantastic scenery.
The count did so and staggered back, for the sight he saw confirmed the poor girl's words; four men, with uncovered heads, carried a bier on which lay a motionless body. It was the Marquis Aslitta, and Monte-Cristo's heart swelled as he recognized him. "How could this calamity have happened?" whispered Spero, clinging anxiously to Luciola.
By one of those curious coincidences that sometimes flash the fact upon us through the dust of old libraries, the copy of this violent invective preserved at Lambeth is inscribed on its fly-leaf with the clear, bold "Dum spiro spero, C.R." of the King himself.
"Spero meliora," retorted Selwyn, laughing; but there remained the obstinate squareness of jaw, and his amused eyes were clear and steady.
"I must depart, and Spero has to accompany me; but if I do not consent, my dear Haydee, for you to accompany us, it is for the reason that you have a mission to fulfil here." Haydee remained on her knees, but her tears ceased. Oh, what mastery did not this man exercise over her! The heart was ready to break, and yet she could not do otherwise; she was obliged to obey him.
The painter looked suspiciously at him, but the vicomte laughingly said that he had knocked against a stone, and so the painter continued: "The young lady has captivated me " "Of which lady are you speaking?" asked the vicomte, uneasily. "Of the pretty blonde, Mademoiselle de Larsagny!" "Ah! she is certainly very handsome," cried Spero, breathing more freely.
Spero took the long fingers and pressed his lips as respectfully upon them as if Jane Zild were a queen and he her subject. The diva, with the drapery still about her shoulders, looked really like a queen, and all eyes were turned admiringly toward her. A man dressed in plain dark clothes hurried through the crowd, and looking anxiously at Jane he cried in a vibrating voice: "Are you injured?"
"Spero," he said, solemnly placing his hand on the boy's head, "in less than two hours you will set foot in a new world. Great dangers await you. Will you have the courage to brave them?" "Oh, papa, when you are near me, I have no fear." "Do not speak thus; circumstances may happen which may separate us.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking