0:00 CHAPTER 64. September 2006. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas.
0:29 Chapter 64. The Beggar.
0:32 The evening passed on. Madame de Villefort expressed a desire to return to Paris,
0:38 which Madame d'Anglard had not dared to do, notwithstanding the uneasiness she experienced.
0:44 On his wife's request, M. de Villefort was the first to give the signal of departure.
0:51 He offered his seat in his land-out to Madame d'Anglard, that she might be under the care
0:55 of his wife.
0:57 As for M. d'Anglard, absorbed in an interesting conversation with M. Cavalcanti, he paid no
1:02 attention to anything that was passing. While Monte Cristo
1:07 had begged the smelling-bottle from Madame de Villefort, he had noticed the approach of
1:11 Villefort to Madame d'Anglard, and he soon guessed all that had passed between them,
1:16 though the words had been uttered in so low a voice as to hardly be heard by Madame d'Anglard.
1:23 Without opposing their arrangements, he allowed Morel, Chateau
1:27 Renaud, and Debray to leave on horseback, and the ladies in M. de Villefort's carriage.
1:33 Danglare, more and more delighted with Major Cavalcanti, had offered him a seat in his
1:39 carriage. Andrea Cavalcanti found his Tilbury waiting at the door the groom in every respect a caricature of the english fashion was standing on tiptoe to hold a large iron-gray horse
1:54 andrea had spoken very little during dinner he was an intelligent lad and he feared to utter some absurdity before so many grand people, amongst whom, with dilating eyes,
2:07 he saw the king's attorney. Then he had been seized upon by Danglar, who, with a rapid glance
2:14 at the stiff-necked old major and his modest son, and taking into consideration the hospitality of
2:20 the count, made up his mind that he was in the society of some nabob come to Paris
2:26 to finish the worldly education of his heir.
2:30 He contemplated with unspeakable delight the large diamond which shone on the Major's little
2:36 finger, for the Major, like a prudent man, in case of any accident happening to his bank-notes,
2:42 had immediately converted them into an available asset.
2:47 Then, after dinner, on the pretext of business, he questioned the father and son upon their mode
2:53 of living, and the father and son, previously informed that it was through Danglar the one
2:59 was to receive his forty-eight thousand francs, and the other fifty thousand livres annually, were so full
3:05 of affability that they would have shaken hands even with the banker's servants.
3:11 So much did their gratitude need an object to expend itself upon.
3:16 One thing above all the rest heightened the respect, nay, almost the veneration, of Danglar
3:22 for Cavalcanti. The latter, faithful to the principle of Horace
3:27 nil admirari, had contented himself with showing his knowledge by declaring in what lake the best
3:35 lampreys were caught. Then he had eaten some without saying a word more. Danglar, therefore,
3:42 concluded that such luxuries were common at the table of the illustrious
3:47 descendant of the Cavalcanti, who, most likely in Lucca, fed upon trout brought from Switzerland,
3:54 and lobsters sent from England, by the same means used by the Count to bring the lampreys
4:01 from Lake Fusaro and the sterlet from the Volga.
4:11 Thus it was with much politeness of manner that he heard Cavalcanti pronounce these words,
4:16 Tomorrow, sir, I shall have the honor of waiting upon you on business.
4:22 And I, sir, said Danglar, shall be most happy to receive you.
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