THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 106 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 106 Dividing the Proceeds. The apartment on the second floor of the house in the Rue Saint-Germain-des-Pres where Albert de Morcerf had selected a home for his mother was let to a very mysterious person. This was a man whose face the concierge himself had never seen for in the winter his chin was buried in one of the large red handkerchiefs worn by gentlemen s coachmen on a cold night and in the summer he made a point of always blowing his nose just as he approached the door. Contrary to custom this gentleman had not been watched for as the report ran that he was a person of high rank and one who would allow no impertinent interference his incognito was strictly respected. His visits were tolerably regular though occasionally he appeared a little before or after his time but generally both in summer and winter he took possession of his apartment about four o clock though he never spent the night there. At half-past three in the winter the fire was lighted by the discreet servant who had the superintendence of the little apartment and in the summer ices were placed on the table at the same hour. At four o clock as we have already stated the mysterious personage arrived. Twenty minutes afterwards a carriage stopped at the house a lady alighted in a black or dark blue dress and always thickly veiled she passed like a shadow through the lodge and ran up-stairs without a sound escaping under the touch of her light foot. No one ever asked her where she was going. Her face therefore like that of the gentleman was perfectly unknown to the two concierges who were perhaps unequalled throughout the capital for discretion. We need not say she stopped at the second floor. Then she tapped in a peculiar manner at a door which after being opened to admit her was again fastened and curiosity penetrated no farther. They used the same precautions in leaving as in entering the house. The lady always left first and as soon as she had .
