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The Count of Monte-Cristo (Volume 1)

The Count of Monte-Cristo (Volume 1)

Dumas, Alexandre

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ISBN10: 1152008625
ISBN13: 9781152008625
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.42 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...any stairs with such windows? Luxury has everything.-- But shutters? Yes, but they are never used. That Count of Monte Cristo. is an original, who loves to look at the sky even at night. And where do the servants sleep?-- Oh, they have a house to themselves. Picture to yourself a pretty coach-house at the right-hand side where the ladders are kept. Well, over that coach-house are the servants' rooms, with bells corresponding with the different apartments. Ah, dinble--bells did you say?-- What do you mean?. Oh, nothing! I only say they cost a load of money to hang, and what is the use of them, I should like to know? There used to be a dog let loose in the yard at night, but it has been taken to the house at Auteuil, to that you went to, you know. Yes.--I was saying to him only yesterday, 'You are imprudent, Monsieur Count; for when you go to Auteuil and take your servants the house is left unprotected.' 'Well, ' said he, 'what next?' 'Well, next, some day you will be robbed.' -- What did he answer? He quietly said, 'What do I care if I am?' Andrea, he has some secretary with a spring. How do you know?-- Yes, which catches the thief in a trap and plays a tune. I was told there were such at the last exhibition. He has simply a mahogany secretary, in which the key is always kept.-- And he is not robbed? No; his servants are all devoted to him. There ought to be some money in that secretary? There may be. No one knows what there is. And where is it?-- On the first floor. Sketch me...

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