Dumas ought to have tightened up his premises instead of darkening the atmosphere. Then, finally, they trustingly sewed a dead man up in a bag without burning his flesh with a red-hot iron in the morgue and without running him through with a bayonet at the guardhouse. They even left a metal bowl in the cell, with which Dantès could dig through the floor. Alexandre Dumas Study Guide Full Text Flashcards PLUS Quotes Caderousse You forgot at that time a little debt to our neighbor Caderousse. They didn't even have any peepholes, so d'If wasn't a prison at all, it was a seaside resort. At the Château d'If they didn't enter the cells and look around for days at a time. And then they never changed the guard detail, whereas experience tells us that guards should be changed every two hours so one can check on the other. For years no one searched the cell, whereas cells are supposed to be searched every week. You can figure out why Dantès could escape. For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence. Not to mention his missing such nice details as the carrying of the latrine bucket from the cell daily, about which Dumas with the ignorance of a free person says nothing. ‘You understand, then, that if it were so,’ said Villefort, rising in his turn, and approaching the baroness, to speak to her in a lower tone, ‘we are lost this child lives, and someone knows it lives someone is in possession of our secret and since Monte Cristo speaks before us of a child disinterred, when the child. I observed that while Dumas tries to create a feeling of horror, he portrays the Château d'If as a rather benevolent prison. DuBois, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, The Count of Monte Cristo by. The Corsican Brothers (1844) and The Count of Monte Cristo (18441845). Welcometo Google Play Books Choose from millions of best-selling ebooks. In politics, you don’t kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that’s all. Enjoy 15 of the best Alexandre Dumas quotes and read an alternative bio about. Good Captain LeClère is dead, father, and it is probable that, with the aid of M. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas no feelings, only interests. ‘God forgive me,’ said the young man, ‘for rejoicing at happiness derived from the misery of others but Heaven knows I did not seek this good fortune it has happened, and I really cannot pretend to be sorry. “I had a chance to read Monte Christo in prison once, too, but not to the end. The king I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics.
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