THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 110 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 110 The Indictment. The judges took their places in the midst of the most profound silence the jury took their seats M. de Villefort the object of unusual attention and we had almost said of general admiration sat in the arm-chair and cast a tranquil glance around him. Every one looked with astonishment on that grave and severe face whose calm expression personal griefs had been unable to disturb and the aspect of a man who was a stranger to all human emotions excited something very like terror. Gendarmes said the president lead in the accused. At these words the public attention became more intense and all eyes were turned towards the door through which Benedetto was to enter. The door soon opened and the accused appeared. The same impression was experienced by all present and no one was deceived by the expression of his countenance. His features bore no sign of that deep emotion which stops the beating of the heart and blanches the cheek. His hands gracefully placed one upon his hat the other in the opening of his white waistcoat were not at all tremulous his eye was calm and even brilliant. Scarcely had he entered the hall when he glanced at the whole body of magistrates and assistants his eye rested longer on the president and still more so on the king s attorney. By the side of Andrea was stationed the lawyer who was to conduct his defence and who had been appointed by the court for Andrea disdained to pay any attention to those details to which he appeared to attach no importance. The lawyer was a young man with light hair whose face expressed a hundred times more emotion than that which characterized the prisoner. The president called for the indictment revised as we know by the clever and implacable pen of Villefort. During the reading of this which was long the public attention was continually drawn towards Andrea who bore the inspection with Spartan unconcern. Villefort had never been so concise and .
