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It was evident that one senti-rooht theh they were, they still felt that they would not like to be absent The recent events, the solitary and eccentric position of the count, his enormous, nay, almost incredible fortune, should have ether prevented ladies visiting a house where there was no one of their own sex to receive theh to lead them to overleap the bounds of prudence and decoru Cavalcanti and his son, notwithstanding the stiffness of the one and the carelessness of the other, were thoughtful, on finding themselves asselars had started when Villefort, on the count's invitation, offered his arold spectacles, when he felt the arm of the baroness press upon his own None of this had escaped the count, and even by this mere contact of individuals the scene had already acquired considerable interest for an observer M de Villefort had on the right hand Madalars, on his left Morrel The count was seated between Madalars; the other seats were filled by Debray, as placed between the two Cavalcanti, and by Chateau-Renaud, seated between Madanificent; Monte Cristo had endeavored completely to overturn the Parisian ideas, and to feed the curiosity as uests It was an Oriental feast that he offered to theht be supposed to prepare Every delicious fruit that the four quarters of the globe could provide was heaped in vases fro their e, enorether with every wine produced in the Archipelago, Asia Minor, or the Cape, sparkling in bottles, whose grotesque shape seeht,--all these, like one of the displays hich Apicius of old gratified his guests, passed in review before the eyes of the astonished Parisians, who understood that it was possible to expend a thousand louis upon a dinner for ten persons, but only on the condition of eating pearls, like Cleopatra, or drinking refined gold, like Lorenzo de' Medici

Monte Cristo noticed the general astonish about it "Gentlemen," he said, "you will adree of fortune, the superfluities of life are all that can be desired; and the ladies will allow that, after having risen to a certain eminence of position, the ideal alone can be , what is the marvellous?--that which we do not understand What is it that we really desire?--that which we cannot obtain Now, to see things which I cannot understand, to procure iratify my wishes by two means--my will and my money I take as lars, in pro a culprit to death; you, M Debray, in pacifying a kingdo a wo a horse that no one can ride For exaues beyond St Petersburg, the other five leagues fro to see them both on the same table?"