THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO - CHAPTERS 56-58

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO - CHAPTERS 56-58

We are over half way through!!!

Opening our reading for the week is the meeting together of the actors portraying Andrea Cavalcanti and Major Cavalcanti. We learn about how each of the actors was chosen. How interesting was that? Why in the world does the count need these two?

From there we have the encounter between Valentine and Maximilien. I love Maximilien's foreshadowing of thinking that the count will be "involved in everything good" that happens to him. He feels so strongly about this that his words are repeated twice in the chapter. Valentine isn't so quick to put her trust in the count due to his relationship with her parents. Can you blame her? Maximilien is so certain of the count's ever present knowing help he tells her the story of his horse. Could the count honestly have orchestrated all of that. I am absolutely believing he could have. And what about this dinner?

We wrap up with the Villeforts visit to Villefort's father. Oh wicked, wicked Villefort! I am trying not to be over vengeful, but I am waiting for him to reap all the horrible seeds he has sown! Poor skeletal unspeaking Noirtier. Thank goodness for Valentine and his servant who understand him. So a notary is what he wants? A notary he will get!