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Chapter 10 The King's Closet at the Tuileries

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sing through two or three apartments, enter at the Tuileries the little room with the arched window, so

Louis XVIII., was carelessly listening to a man of fifty or fifty-two years of age, with gray hair, aristocratic bearing, and exceedingly gentlemanly attire, and meanwhile making a marg

sir--" sai

ceedingly dis

sion of the seven fat kine

enty and seven years of scarcity; and with a king as full of fo

scourge are you afra

n to believe that a storm

ed, and know positively that, on the contrary, it is very fine weather in th

will your majesty send into Languedoc, Provence, and Dauphiné, trusty men, who w

the king, continuing the

the quotation, "your majesty may be perfectly right in relying on the good feeling

wh

or, at least, b

king, "you with your alarm

ent me from sleeping

such a delightful note on the Pastor quum trah

ther note on the margin of his Horace, and then looking at the duke with the air of a man who

ear duke, go

ors destitute of foundation which thus disquiet me; but a serious-minded man, deserving all my confidence, and charged by me to watch over the south" (

" continued Louis XVI

ty wish me to dr

r duke; but just str

hi

u please-ther

e, s

there. You will find yesterday's report of the minister of police. But here is M.

latest news of M. de Bonaparte; do not conceal anything, however serious, -let us see, the Island of El

fully on the back of a chair

ty perused yest

d anything, what the report contains-give him the pa

nts of his majesty must approve of the latest intellige

even raise his head. "Bonaparte, " continued the baron, "is mortally wear

self for amusement

quired the duke, "what

reat man, this hero, this demigod, is attacked with a

nister of police, "we are almost assured that, i

san

s on the seashore, flinging stones in the water and when the flint makes 'duck-and-drake' five or six times, he appears as del

ghing; "the greatest captains of antiquity amused themselves by cas

efort, who did not choose to reveal the whole secret, lest another should reap all the ben

not yet convinced; let us proceed, therefore, to the

king at the king and Dandré, who spoke alternately

ly, my d

way con

es. Tell him all

a review, and as two or three of his old veterans expressed a desire to return to France, he gave them the

ed the king triumphantly, and pausing for a mo

as he has the guardianship of the safety and honor of your majesty, it is probable that I am in error. However, sire, if I mig

e, but you must not expect me to be too confiding. Baron, have you any report

xpecting one; it may have ar

ntinued Louis XVIII., "make one; that is the usual

umstantial denunciations, coming from hosts of people who hope for some return for services which they seek to rende

is XVIII., "and remember

turn, sire; I shall b

. de Blacas, "will go

armorial bearings; I will give you an eagle with outstretched wings, holding i

1

De Blacas, biting his

now it refers to a stag flying from a wolf. Are you not a sportsman and

stag you refer to, for he has posted two hund

hen we have a telegraph which transmits messages in three or fo

so much ardor, to give your majesty useful information. If only for the sake of M. de

x, my brother'

, si

at Mars

ites me

to you of thi

. de Villefort, and begs me to

the king, "is the messeng

, si

mes from M

pers

name at once?" replied the ki

is name was unknow

d elevated understanding, ambitious, too,

fat

Noir

irondin?-Noirti

hims

has employed the s

told you Villefort was ambitious, and to attain this ambit

e, may I p

nt, duke! W

elow, in m

him at

ten to

really sincere royalism made him youthful again. Louis XVIII. rema

enacem propo

ut, excited the susceptibility of M. de Brezé, who was all astonishment at finding that this young man had the audacity to enter before the king in such attire. The duke, however, overcame

ft him. On opening the door, Villefort found himself facing

llefort, " said th

a few steps, waited until the

he Duc de Blacas assures me you have some

d I believe your majesty wil

1

hing else, sir, is the news as bad in

nt, but I hope, by the speed I have

he emotion which had showed itself in Blacas's face and affected Villefort's vo

orgiveness if my anxiety leads to some obscurity in my language." A glance at the king after this di

but an actual conspiracy-a storm which menaces no less than your majesty's throne. Sire, the usurper is arming three ships, he meditates some project, which, however mad, is yet, perhaps, terrible. At this moment he will have left Elba, to go whithe

nformation that the Bonapartist clubs have had meetings in the Rue Sain

or, of turbulent character, and whom I suspected of Bonapartism, has been secretly to the Island of Elba. There he saw the grand-marshal, who charged him with an oral message to a Bon

re is th

ison,

ter seems se

the very day of my betrothal, I left my bride and friends, postponing everything, that I might ha

re not a marriage engagement between

your majesty's mos

us talk of this plo

ore than a plot; I fe

resent, and the future. For the last ten months my ministers have redoubled their vigilance, in order to watch the shore of the Mediterranean. If Bonaparte landed at Naples, the whole coalition would be on foot before he could even reach Piombino; if he land

lice appeared at the door, pale, trembling, and as if ready to faint. Villef

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Contents

Chapter 1 Marseilles-The Arrival Chapter 2 Father and Son Chapter 3 The Catalans Chapter 4 Conspiracy Chapter 5 The Marriage Feast Chapter 6 The Deputy Procureur du Roi Chapter 7 The Examination Chapter 8 The Chateau d'If Chapter 9 The Evening of the Betrothal Chapter 10 The King's Closet at the Tuileries Chapter 11 The Corsican Ogre
Chapter 12 Father and Son
Chapter 13 The Hundred Days
Chapter 14 The Two Prisoners
Chapter 15 Number 34 and Number 27
Chapter 16 A Learned Italian
Chapter 17 The Abbé's Chamber
Chapter 18 The Treasure
Chapter 19 The Third Attack
Chapter 20 The Cemetery of the Chateau d'If
Chapter 21 The Island of Tiboulen
Chapter 22 The Smugglers
Chapter 23 The Island of Monte Cristo
Chapter 24 The Secret Cave
Chapter 25 The Unknown
Chapter 26 The Pont du Gard Inn
Chapter 27 The Story
Chapter 28 The Prison Register
Chapter 29 The House of Morrel & Son
Chapter 30 The Fifth of September
Chapter 31 Italy Sinbad the Sailor
Chapter 32 The Waking
Chapter 33 Roman Bandits
Chapter 34 The Colosseum
Chapter 35 La Mazzolata
Chapter 36 The Carnival at Rome
Chapter 37 The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian
Chapter 38 The Rendezvous
Chapter 39 The Guests
Chapter 40 The Breakfast
Chapter 41 The Presentation
Chapter 42 Monsieur Bertuccio
Chapter 43 The House at Auteuil
Chapter 44 The Vendetta
Chapter 45 The Rain of Blood
Chapter 46 Unlimited Credit
Chapter 47 The Dappled Grays
Chapter 48 Ideology
Chapter 49 Haydée
Chapter 50 The Morrel Family
Chapter 51 Pyramus and Thisbe
Chapter 52 Toxicology
Chapter 53 Robert le Diable
Chapter 54 A Flurry in Stocks
Chapter 55 Major Cavalcanti
Chapter 56 Andrea Cavalcanti
Chapter 57 In the Lucern Patch
Chapter 58 M. Noirtier de Villefort
Chapter 59 The Will
Chapter 60 The Telegraph
Chapter 61 How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice that Eat His Peaches
Chapter 62 Ghosts
Chapter 63 The Dinner
Chapter 64 The Beggar
Chapter 65 A Conjugal Scene
Chapter 66 Matrimonial Projects
Chapter 67 The Office of the King's Attorney
Chapter 68 A Summer Ball
Chapter 69 The Inquiry
Chapter 70 The Ball
Chapter 71 Bread and Salt
Chapter 72 Madame de Saint-Méran
Chapter 73 The Promise
Chapter 74 The Villefort Family Vault
Chapter 75 A Signed Statement
Chapter 76 Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger
Chapter 77 Haydée
Chapter 78 We hear From Yanina
Chapter 79 The Lemonade
Chapter 80 The Accusation
Chapter 81 The Room of the Retired Baker
Chapter 82 The Burglary
Chapter 83 The Hand of God
Chapter 84 Beauchamp
Chapter 85 The Journey
Chapter 86 The Trial
Chapter 87 The Challenge
Chapter 88 The Insult
Chapter 89 The Night
Chapter 90 The Meeting
Chapter 91 Mother and Son
Chapter 92 The Suicide
Chapter 93 Valentine
Chapter 94 Maximilian's Avowal
Chapter 95 Father and Daughter
Chapter 96 The Contract
Chapter 97 The Departure for Belgium
Chapter 98 The Bell and Bottle Tavern
Chapter 99 The Law
Chapter 100 The Apparition
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