0:00 THE COUNT OF MONTECRISTO by Alexander Dumas. the count of monte-cristo by a. You, who are accustomed to the palaces
0:46 of Italy, can amuse yourself by calculating in how many square feet a young man, who is not the
0:52 worst lodged in Paris, can live. As we pass from one room to another, I will open the windows to
0:57 let you breathe. Monte Cristo had already seen the breakfast room and the salon on the ground floor.
1:03 Albert led him first to his atelier, which
1:06 was, as we have said, his favorite apartment. Monte Cristo quickly appreciated all that Albert
1:11 had collected here. Old cabinets, Japanese porcelain, oriental stuffs, Venetian glass,
1:17 arms from all parts of the world. Everything was familiar to him, and at the first glance he
1:23 recognized their date, their country, and their origin. Orsurf had expected he should be the guide. On the contrary, it was he who, under the
1:31 Count's guidance, followed a course of archaeology, mineralogy, and natural history. They descended to
1:38 the first floor. Albert led his guests into the salon. The salon was filled with works of modern artists. There was landscapes by Dupre,
1:47 with their long reeds and tall trees, their lowing oxen and marvelous skies, Delacroix's
1:53 Arabian cavaliers, with their long white burnouses, their shining belts, their damasked arms, their
1:59 horses who tore each other with their teeth while their riders contended fiercely with their
2:03 maces, Aquarelles
2:05 of Boulanger, representing Notre-Dame de Paris, with that vigor that makes the artist the rival
2:10 of the poet. There were paintings by Diaz, who makes his flowers more beautiful than flowers,
2:16 his suns more brilliant than the sun. Designs by de Camp, as vividly colored as those of Salvatore
2:21 Rosa, but more poetic. Pastels by Giraud and Moulet, representing
2:27 children like angels and women with the features of a virgin, sketches torn from the album of
2:33 Dauzette's, travels in the east. That had been made in a few seconds on the saddle of Camel,
2:39 or beneath the dome of a mosque. In a word, all that modern art can give in exchange and
2:44 as recompense for the art,
2:46 lost and gone with ages long since past. Albert expected to have something new this time to show
2:51 to the traveller, but to his great surprise the latter, without seeking for the signatures,
2:57 many of which indeed were only initials, named instantly the author of every picture in such a
3:02 manner that it was easy to see that each name was not only
3:06 known to him, but that each style associated with it had been appreciated and studied by him.
3:11 From the salon they passed into the bedchamber. It was a model of taste and simple elegance,
3:17 a single portrait signed by Leopold Robert, shown in its carved and gilded frame.
3:22 This portrait attracted the Count of Monte Cristo's attention, for he made three rapid steps in the chamber, and stopped suddenly before it. It was
3:31 the portrait of a young woman of five or six and twenty, with a dark complexion and light and
3:36 lustrous eyes, veiled beneath long lashes. She wore the picturesque costume of the Catalan
3:42 fisherman-woman, a red and black bodice and gold pins in
3:45 her hair. She was looking at the sea, and her form was outlined on the blue ocean and sky.
3:51 The light was so faint in the room that Albert did not perceive the pallor that spread itself
3:56 over the Count's visage, or the nervous heaving of his chest and shoulders.
4:01 Silence prevailed for an instant, during which Mont cristo gazed intently on the picture you have there a most charming mistress vicomte said the count in a perfectly calm tone and this costume a ball costume doubtless becomes her admirably
4:16 ah monsieur returned albert i would never forgive you this mistake if you had seen another picture beside this. You do not know my mother,
4:29 she it is whom you see here. She had her portrait painted thus six or eight years ago.
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