THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 115 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 115 Luigi Vampa s Bill of Fare. We awake from every sleep except the one dreaded by Danglars. He awoke. To a Parisian accustomed to silken curtains walls hung with velvet drapery and the soft perfume of burning wood the white smoke of which diffuses itself in graceful curves around the room the appearance of the whitewashed cell which greeted his eyes on awakening seemed like the continuation of some disagreeable dream. But in such a situation a single moment suffices to change the strongest doubt into certainty. Yes yes he murmured I am in the hands of the brigands of whom Albert de Morcerf spoke. His first idea was to breathe that he might know whether he was wounded. He borrowed this from Don Quixote the only book he had ever read but which he still slightly remembered. No he cried they have not wounded but perhaps they have robbed me and he thrust his hands into his pockets. They were untouched the hundred louis he had reserved for his journey from Rome to Venice were in his trousers pocket and in that of his great-coat he found the little note-case containing his letter of credit for 5 050 000 francs. Singular bandits he exclaimed they have left me my purse and pocket-book. As I was saying last night they intend me to be ransomed. Hallo here is my watch Let me see what time it is. Danglars watch one of Breguet s repeaters which he had carefully wound up on the previous night struck half past five. Without this Danglars would have been quite ignorant of the time for daylight did not reach his cell. Should he demand an explanation from the bandits or should he wait patiently for them to propose it The last alternative seemed the most prudent so he waited until twelve o clock. During all this time a sentinel who had been relieved at eight o clock had been watching his door. Danglars suddenly felt a strong inclination to see the person who kept watch over him. He had noticed that a few rays not of daylight but from
