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- George Herbert

The harbingers are come. See, see their mark;

White is their colour, and behold my head.

But must they have my brain? must they dispark

Those sparkling notions, which therein were bred?

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A fight involving three or more individuals, teams, or factions; fought until one person, team, or faction is left standing.

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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

Wrongly imprisoned Edmond Dantès escapes and uses a vast hidden fortune to exact elaborate revenge on those who betrayed him.

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Contents

1Chapter 1: Marseilles—The Arrival14m2Chapter 2: Father and Son11m3Chapter 3: The Catalans17m4Chapter 4: Conspiracy10m5Chapter 5: The Marriage Feast24m6Chapter 6: The Deputy Procureur du Roi19m7Chapter 7: The Examination16m8Chapter 8: The Château d’If14m9Chapter 9: The Evening of the Betrothal8m10Chapter 10: The King’s Closet at the Tuileries13m11Chapter 11: The Corsican Ogre13m12Chapter 12: Father and Son12m13Chapter 13: The Hundred Days11m14Chapter 14: The Two Prisoners14m15Chapter 15: Number 34 and Number 2724m16Chapter 16: A Learned Italian19m17Chapter 17: The Abbé’s Chamber34m18Chapter 18: The Treasure20m19Chapter 19: The Third Attack17m20Chapter 20: The Cemetery of the Château d’If9m21Chapter 21: The Island of Tiboulen17m22Chapter 22: The Smugglers13m23Chapter 23: The Island of Monte Cristo14m24Chapter 24: The Secret Cave14m25Chapter 25: The Unknown14m26Chapter 26: The Pont du Gard Inn25m27Chapter 27: The Story23m28Chapter 28: The Prison Register11m29Chapter 29: The House of Morrel & Son19m30Chapter 30: The Fifth of September25m31Chapter 31: Italy: Sinbad the Sailor38m32Chapter 32: The Waking10m33Chapter 33: Roman Bandits48m34Chapter 34: The Colosseum47m35Chapter 35: La Mazzolata23m36Chapter 36: The Carnival at Rome28m37Chapter 37: The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian26m38Chapter 38: The Rendezvous14m39Chapter 39: The Guests12m40Chapter 40: The Breakfast36m41Chapter 41: The Presentation22m42Chapter 42: Monsieur Bertuccio7m43Chapter 43: The House at Auteuil11m44Chapter 44: The Vendetta37m45Chapter 45: The Rain of Blood24m46Chapter 46: Unlimited Credit22m47Chapter 47: The Dappled Grays23m48Chapter 48: Ideology20m49Chapter 49: Haydée9m50Chapter 50: The Morrel Family15m51Chapter 51: Pyramus and Thisbe22m52Chapter 52: Toxicology28m53Chapter 53: Robert le Diable27m54Chapter 54: A Flurry in Stocks18m55Chapter 55: Major Cavalcanti16m56Chapter 56: Andrea Cavalcanti19m57Chapter 57: In the Lucern Patch20m58Chapter 58: M. Noirtier de Villefort15m59Chapter 59: The Will14m60Chapter 60: The Telegraph16m61Chapter 61: How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice that Eat His14m62Chapter 62: Ghosts13m63Chapter 63: The Dinner15m64Chapter 64: The Beggar14m65Chapter 65: A Conjugal Scene16m66Chapter 66: Matrimonial Projects15m67Chapter 67: The Office of the King’s Attorney19m68Chapter 68: A Summer Ball10m69Chapter 69: The Inquiry14m70Chapter 70: The Ball14m71Chapter 71: Bread and Salt6m72Chapter 72: Madame de Saint-Méran19m73Chapter 73: The Promise41m74Chapter 74: The Villefort Family Vault14m75Chapter 75: A Signed Statement17m76Chapter 76: Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger15m77Chapter 77: Haydée36m78Chapter 78: We hear From Yanina32m79Chapter 79: The Lemonade18m80Chapter 80: The Accusation9m81Chapter 81: The Room of the Retired Baker25m82Chapter 82: The Burglary20m83Chapter 83: The Hand of God9m84Chapter 84: Beauchamp10m85Chapter 85: The Journey15m86Chapter 86: The Trial20m87Chapter 87: The Challenge10m88Chapter 88: The Insult15m89Chapter 89: The Night13m90Chapter 90: The Meeting18m91Chapter 91: Mother and Son10m92Chapter 92: The Suicide14m93Chapter 93: Valentine12m94Chapter 94: Maximilian’s Avowal17m95Chapter 95: Father and Daughter15m96Chapter 96: The Contract17m97Chapter 97: The Departure for Belgium10m98Chapter 98: The Bell and Bottle Tavern20m99Chapter 99: The Law15m100Chapter 100: The Apparition11m101Chapter 101: Locusta9m102Chapter 102: Valentine9m103Chapter 103: Maximilian13m104Chapter 104: Danglars’ Signature16m105Chapter 105: The Cemetery of Père-Lachaise20m106Chapter 106: Dividing the Proceeds23m107Chapter 107: The Lions’ Den12m108Chapter 108: The Judge15m109Chapter 109: The Assizes9m110Chapter 110: The Indictment12m111Chapter 111: Expiation14m112Chapter 112: The Departure23m113Chapter 113: The Past19m114Chapter 114: Peppino17m115Chapter 115: Luigi Vampa’s Bill of Fare10m116Chapter 116: The Pardon8m117Chapter 117: The Fifth of October37m