the count of monte cristo illustrated by alexandre dumas

He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow of eighteen or twenty, with black eyes, and hair as dark as a raven's wing and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger.Īh, is it you, Dantes? cried the man in the skiff.

When the young man on board saw this person approach, he left his station by the pilot, and, hat in hand, leaned over the ship's bulwarks. The vague disquietude which prevailed among the spectators had so much affected one of the crowd that he did not await the arrival of the vessel in harbor, but jumping into a small skiff, desired to be pulled alongside the Pharaon, which he reached as she rounded into La Reserve basin. However, those experienced in navigation saw plainly that if any accident had occurred, it was not to the vessel herself, for she bore down with all the evidence of being skilfully handled, the anchor a-cockbill, the jib-boom guys already eased off, and standing by the side of the pilot, who was steering the Pharaon towards the narrow entrance of the inner port, was a young man, who, with activity and vigilant eye, watched every motion of the ship, and repeated each direction of the pilot.

The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanic shock has made between the Calasareigne and Jaros islands had doubled Pomegue, and approached the harbor under topsails, jib, and spanker, but so slowly and sedately that the idlers, with that instinct which is the forerunner of evil, asked one another what misfortune could have happened on board. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint-Jean were covered with spectators it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon, has been built, rigged, and laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs to an owner of the city. On the 24th of February, 1815, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.Īs usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d'If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. The Room of the Retired Baker.Ĭhapter 105. Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger.Ĭhapter 81. At the Office of the King's Attorney.Ĭhapter 76. How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice that Eat His Peaches.Ĭhapter 67. The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian.Ĭhapter 61. The Cemetery of the Chateau D'If.Ĭhapter 37. The King's Closet at the Tuileries.Ĭhapter 20.

The count of monte cristo illustrated by alexandre dumas