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Updated: June 26, 2025
"'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 Haidee, 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.
Albert had often heard not from his father, for he never spoke on the subject, but from strangers the description of the last moments of the vizier of Yanina; he had read different accounts of his death, but the story seemed to acquire fresh meaning from the voice and expression of the young girl, and her sympathetic accent and the melancholy expression of her countenance at once charmed and horrified him.
He hastily tore off the cover, opened the journal with nervous precipitation, passed contemptuously over the Paris jottings, and arriving at the miscellaneous intelligence, stopped with a malicious smile, at a paragraph headed "We hear from Yanina."
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," said Monte Cristo, "what do you see in that to annoy you?" "What do I see in it?" "Yes; what does it signify to you if the castle of Yanina was given up by a French officer?"
'M. de Morcerf, said the president, 'do you recognize this lady as the daughter of Ali Tepelini, pasha of Yanina? 'No, said Morcerf, attempting to rise, 'it is a base plot, contrived by my enemies. Haidee, whose eyes had been fixed on the door, as if expecting some one, turned hastily, and, seeing the count standing, shrieked, 'You do not know me? said she.
"I should think so." "At Yanina?" "Everywhere." "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." "You are right," exclaimed Danglars, rising quickly, "I will write to-day." "Do so." "I will." "And if you should hear of anything very scandalous" "I will communicate it to you."
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!
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." Beauchamp understood that nothing remained but to submit, and left the office to despatch a courier to Morcerf.
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! It was, indeed, a flight which my father was trying to effect. I have been told since that the garrison of the castle of Yanina, fatigued with long service"
"Meanwhile, the president carelessly opened the letter which had been brought to him; but the first lines aroused his attention; he read them again and again, and fixing his eyes on M. de Morcerf, 'Count, said he, 'you have said that the Vizier of Yanina confided his wife and daughter to your care? 'Yes, sir, replied Morcerf; 'but in that, like all the rest, misfortune pursued me.
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