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The Count of Monte Cristo

By Alexandre Dumas.

Translated by Chapman and Hall.

Table of Contents Titlepage Imprint I: Marseilles—The Arrival II: Father and Son III: The Catalans IV: Conspiracy V: The Marriage Feast VI: The Deputy Procureur du Roi VII: The Examination VIII: The Château d’If IX: The Evening of the Betrothal X: The King’s Closet at the Tuileries XI: The Corsican Ogre XII: Father and Son XIII: The Hundred Days XIV: The Two Prisoners XV: Number 34 and Number 27 XVI: A Learned Italian XVII: The Abbé’s Chamber XVIII: The Treasure XIX: The Third Attack XX: The Cemetery of the Château d’If XXI: The Island of Tiboulen XXII: The Smugglers XXIII: The Island of Monte Cristo XXIV: The Secret Cave XXV: The Unknown XXVI: The Pont du Gard Inn XXVII: The Story XXVIII: The Prison Register XXIX: The House of Morrel & Son XXX: The Fifth of September XXXI: Italy: Sinbad the Sailor XXXII: The Waking XXXIII: Roman Bandits XXXIV: The Colosseum XXXV: La Mazzolata XXXVI: The Carnival at Rome XXXVII: The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian XXXVIII: The Rendezvous XXXIX: The Guests XL: The Breakfast XLI: The Presentation XLII: Monsieur Bertuccio XLIII: The House at Auteuil XLIV: The Vendetta XLV: The Rain of Blood XLVI: Unlimited Credit XLVII: The Dappled Grays XLVIII: Ideology XLIX: Haydée L: The Morrel Family LI: Pyramus and Thisbe LII: Toxicology LIII: Robert le Diable LIV: A Flurry in Stocks LV: Major Cavalcanti LVI: Andrea Cavalcanti LVII: In the Lucern Patch LVIII: M. Noirtier de Villefort LIX: The Will LX: The Telegraph LXI: How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice That Eat His Peaches LXII: Ghosts LXIII: The Dinner LXIV: The Beggar LXV: A Conjugal Scene LXVI: Matrimonial Projects LXVII: The Office of the King’s Attorney LXVIII: A Summer Ball LXIX: The Inquiry LXX: The Ball LXXI: Bread and Salt LXXII: Madame de Saint-Méran LXXIII: The Promise LXXIV: The Villefort Family Vault LXXV: A Signed Statement LXXVI: Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger LXXVII: Haydée LXXVIII: We Hear from Yanina LXXIX: The Lemonade LXXX: The Accusation LXXXI: The Room of the Retired Baker LXXXII: The Burglary LXXXIII: The Hand of God LXXXIV: Beauchamp LXXXV: The Journey LXXXVI: The Trial LXXXVII: The Challenge LXXXVIII: The Insult LXXXIX: The Night XC: The Meeting XCI: Mother and Son XCII: The Suicide XCIII: Valentine XCIV: Maximilian’s Avowal XCV: Father and Daughter XCVI: The Contract XCVII: The Departure for Belgium XCVIII: The Bell and Bottle Tavern XCIX: The Law C: The Apparition CI: Locusta CII: Valentine CIII: Maximilian CIV: Danglars’ Signature CV: The Cemetery of Père-Lachaise CVI: Dividing the Proceeds CVII: The Lions’ Den CVIII: The Judge CIX: The Assizes CX: The Indictment CXI: Expiation CXII: The Departure CXIII: The Past CXIV: Peppino CXV: Luigi Vampa’s Bill of Fare CXVI: The Pardon CXVII: The Fifth of October Endnotes Colophon Uncopyright Imprint

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I Marseilles⁠—The Arrival

On the 24th of February, 1815, the lookout at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.

As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Château d’If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgiou and Rion island.

Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint-Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon, has been built, rigged, and laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs to an owner of the city.

The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanic shock has made between the Calasareigne and Jaros islands; had doubled Pomègue, and approached the harbor under topsails, jib, and spanker, but so slowly and sedately that the idlers, with that instinct which is the forerunner of evil, asked one another what misfortune could have happened on board. However, those experienced in navigation saw plainly that if any accident had occurred, it was not to the vessel herself, for she bore down with all the evidence of being skilfully handled, the anchor a-cockbill, the jib-boom guys already eased off, and standing by the side of the pilot, who was steering the Pharaon towards the narrow entrance of the inner port, was a young man, who, with activity and vigilant eye, watched every motion of the ship, and repeated each direction