THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO - CHAPTERS 65-67

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO - CHAPTERS 65-67

Wow! Wow! Wow! I never know what to expect when I pick my book up to read the next 3 chapters. I am positively squirming from the tension building!

Mademoiselle Danglars was definitely in the spotlight. She certainly gets around doesn't she? It's time for some accountability. The Danglars have more of a business relationship than a marriage. Every little dream or bit of info that led to a monetary gain, she got a cut, but this time (thanks to the count) it was a huge loss, and it's time she paid her share. Oh, and her husband isn't quite the fool I thought he was when it comes to her. He knows exactly who she is and what's in her past with regards to her first husband's suicide and an unplanned pregnancy on her part. I think he sums it up quite nicely with, "With me it is different: I saw and I have always seen." In fact her actions were a benefit to her husband. It gave him a power over the men who have been her lovers. She can make him hateful with her choices, but as he said he will not allow her to make him look ridiculous or ruin him.

Did you love the count's three classes of wealth? Where does Danglars fall in that lineup? At the bottom of course! Monte Cristo warns him how easily he can lose it all. Poor, proud Danglars, the count is going to dismantle you piece by piece, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Then there's Mademoiselle Danglars and remember Haydee? Danglars is ready to attach his daughter to whomever will gain him the greatest profit. After all Morcerf isn't the nobility he claims to be. Did you remember Haydee, the count's beautiful companion that was told to keep quiet about her past especially her father? Is Ali Tebelin tied to that past and what in the world did Fernand do to him?

Then it's to the meeting between Mme Danglars and Villefort. We learn the story about the infant, the stabbing, the recovery, and that later Villefort went back and DUG UP EVERYWHERE IN HIS BACKYARD searching for the little body. He knew the body was not there which meant the baby had been rescued and somehow the count knows their story. Now it's Villefort's turn to learn all he can about the count and why he is there "telling stories about children dug up from his garden."

2 quick things- Did you not tingle at the metaphors and similes in Villefort's retelling of going into the garden to begin the hunt for the little body?

And a quote- "My life has been worn away in the pursuit of difficult things and in breaking down those who voluntarily or otherwise, of their own free will or as a result of chance, stood in my way and raised such obstacles." Ahhh Villefort if you are hunting down the count's past you must not be worn away enough, yet.