Monte-Cristo's Daughter
By Flagg, Edmund
Classic work by Flagg, Edmund.
Table of Contents
MONTE-CRISTO AND THE PRIMA DONNA. The Count of Monte-Cristo was in Rome. He had hired one of the numerous private palaces, the Palazzo Costi, situated on a broad thoroughfare near...
A STRANGELY SENT EPISTLE. Zuleika, Monte-Cristo's daughter, had been for some months in the convent school conducted by the Sisterhood of the Sacred Heart. She was not a close stu...
THE INTRUDER IN THE CONVENT GARDEN. As the hour for the evening promenade drew near, Zuleika became painfully excited, and uneasy. She longed with all her heart to see Giovanni Ma...
A STORMY INTERVIEW. When Captain Joliette entered the dressing-room of Mlle. d' Armilly, after quitting the Count of Monte-Cristo at the Apollo Theatre on the sudden termination o...
ANNUNZIATA SOLARA. It was a bright, warm afternoon in spring, and the Piazza del Popolo, Rome's great promenade, was crowded with gay pleasure-seekers of both sexes, while the Cor...
THE POWER OF A NAME. The young Viscount, for it was, indeed, he whom the gigantic masked brigand had halted, was staggered for an instant by this unlooked for interruption of his ...
IN THE PEASANT'S HUT. For a moment the two young men stood silent and astounded. So sudden had been the change from imminent peril to safety that they could hardly comprehend it. ...
A SYLVAN IDYL. In the morning the Viscount Massetti's arm was found to be so much swollen and his wound so painful that it was deemed advisable to send for a physician, who reside...
THE ABDUCTION. The remainder of that day Esperance and Giovanni did not meet again; they purposely avoided each other, the former because he did not wish to have a further quarrel...
THE COUNTESS OF MONTE-CRISTO. Rome was agitated by a vague scandal, so vague, in fact, that nobody seemed to know the precise details. It had arisen from a newspaper account, give...
THE BEGGAR AND HIS MATES. A year had elapsed since the events already recorded. Zuleika, having finished her studies at the convent school of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Heart, t...
FATHER AND DAUGHTER. The Count of Monte-Cristo was in his study, pacing to and fro; he was plunged in thought, and an expression indicative of deep concern was upon his pale, but ...
MORCERF'S ADVENTURE. The Count of Monte-Cristo took no steps to have the miscreants who had invaded the sanctity of his home tracked and apprehended; he did not even instruct the ...
not deem it prudent to awaken the bitter recollections of the lurid and dreadful past. Mlle. d' Armilly also said nothing in reference to the reappearance of Danglars, but it was ...
ZULEIKA AND MME. MORREL. Quite a long time had elapsed since the sudden departure of the Viscount Massetti from Paris, but Zuleika was still in complete ignorance as to his wherea...
AN UNEXPECTED MEETING. One morning shortly after the departure of the Morrels for Rome, the Count of Monte-Cristo was driving along the Champs-Elysees in his elegant barouche draw...
AMID THE COLOSSEUM'S RUINS. One of the first things Maximilian Morrel did, after he and his wife were comfortably installed at the Hotel de France in Rome, was to make a formal ca...
PEPPINO'S STORY. At the appointed hour, of which he had been duly notified by the Procureur de la Republique, the Count of Monte-Cristo entered the room set apart for the use of t...
MORE OF PEPPINO'S STORY. Monte-Cristo was horrified by what he had heard. His whole soul revolted at the idea of a father who could deliberately and in cold blood sell his daughte...
THE MANIAC OF THE COLOSSEUM. After quitting their guides at the Colosseum Maximilian and Valentine advanced towards the centre of the gladiatorial arena where the demented Giovann...
THE ISLE OF MONTE-CRISTO. At the appointed time the Count of Monte-Cristo and Zuleika, accompanied by Ali, Peppino and Beppo, the two Italians attired in the traveling garb of Fre...
ZULEIKA LEARNS THE TRUTH. Nothing occurred to impede the progress of the Haydee and, after a rapid and pleasant voyage, the beautiful craft cast anchor in the harbor of Civita Vec...
THE WONDROUS PHYSICIAN. A brisk walk of half an hour brought the Count and his companion to one of the two gates in the wall of the Ghetto or Jews' quarter of Rome. Monte-Cristo k...
A MODERN MIRACLE. Monte-Cristo, whose power and influence seemed to be absolutely boundless, presented himself on the following morning at the insane asylum where the Viscount Mas...
A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER. When the Viscount Massetti quitted the insane asylum, Monte-Cristo provided quarters for him at the Hotel de France where he could be near both himself and ...
A VISIT TO THE REFUGE. Among the details of the Count of Monte-Cristo's plan for the rehabilitation of Giovanni Massetti was a visit to Annunziata Solara at the Refuge in Civita V...
VAMPA AND MONTE-CRISTO. After his fearful and exhausting duel with old Pasquale Solara in which he had been so nearly vanquished and so signally favored by Fate, the Viscount Mass...
THE BANDITS' REPRISALS. Monte-Cristo was astounded when he saw Luigi Vampa arrested by the Roman policeman and his squad; his first thought was that Peppino, unwilling to let slip...
THE RAID ON THE BANDITS. When Ali reached the Hotel de France and dragged himself to his master's apartment, which was not until quite late in the afternoon, his condition was tru...
VAMPA'S TRIAL. The successful result of the raid upon the bandits made Monte-Cristo and Captain Morrel the heroes of the hour in Rome. Everywhere they went crowds assembled to gaz...
JOY UNBOUNDED. The news of the result of Luigi Vampa's trial spread with the utmost rapidity throughout Rome and occasioned the wildest rejoicing, still further augmenting the pop...