Monte-Cristos Daughter

Monte-Cristo's Daughter, by Edmund Flagg

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Title: Monte-Cristo's Daughter
Author: Edmund Flagg
Release Date: October 24, 2007 [EBook #23184]
Language: English
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MONTE-CRISTO'S DAUGHTER.
SEQUEL TO
ALEXANDER DUMAS'
GREAT NOVEL, THE "COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO," AND CONCLUSION OF "EDMOND DANT��S."
BY
EDMUND FLAGG
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"MONTE-CRISTO'S DAUGHTER," a wonderfully brilliant, original, exciting and absorbing novel, is the Sequel to "The Count of Monte-Cristo," Alexander Dumas' masterwork, and the continuation and conclusion of that great romance, "Edmond Dant��s." It possesses rare power, unflagging interest and an intricate plot that for constructive skill and efficient development stands unrivalled. Zuleika, the beautiful daughter of Monte-Cristo and Hayd��e, is the heroine, and her suitor, the Viscount Giovanni Massetti, an ardent, impetuous young Roman, the hero. The latter, through a flirtation with a pretty flower-girl, Annunziata Solara, becomes involved in a maze of suspicion that points to him as an abductor and an assassin, causes his separation from Zuleika and converts him into a maniac. The straightening out of these tangled complications constitutes the main theme of the thrilling book. The novel abounds in ardent love scenes and stirring adventures. The Count of Monte-Cristo figures largely in it, and numerous Monte-Cristo characters are introduced. "MONTE-CRISTO'S DAUGHTER" is the latest addition to Petersons' famous series, consisting of "The Count of Monte-Cristo," "Edmond Dant��s," "The Countess of Monte-Cristo," "The Wife of Monte-Cristo," and "The Son of Monte-Cristo."
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NEW YORK:
WM. L. ALLISON COMPANY
PUBLISHERS.

CONTENTS
Chapter. Page. I. MONTE-CRISTO AND THE PRIMA DONNA 21
II. A STRANGELY SENT EPISTLE 33
III. THE INTRUDER IN THE CONVENT GARDEN 45
IV. A STORMY INTERVIEW 57
V. ANNUNZIATA SOLARA 69
VI. THE POWER OF A NAME 81
VII. IN THE PEASANT'S HUT 91
VIII. A SYLVAN IDYL 101
IX. THE ABDUCTION 112
X. THE COUNTESS OF MONTE-CRISTO 130
XI. THE BEGGAR AND HIS MATES 142
XII. FATHER AND DAUGHTER 156
XIII. MORCERF'S ADVENTURE 166
XIV. ZULEIKA AND MME. MORREL 183
XV. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING 195
XVI. AMID THE COLOSSEUM'S RUINS 206
XVII. PEPPINO'S STORY 218
XVIII. MORE OF PEPPINO'S STORY 228
XIX. THE MANIAC OF THE COLOSSEUM 238
XX. THE ISLE OF MONTE-CRISTO 248
XXI. ZULEIKA LEARNS THE TRUTH 264
XXII. THE WONDROUS PHYSICIAN 274
XXIII. A MODERN MIRACLE 285
XXIV. A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER 296
XXV. A VISIT TO THE REFUGE 306
XXVI. VAMPA AND MONTE-CRISTO 316
XXVII. THE BANDITS' REPRISALS 326
XXVIII. THE RAID ON THE BANDITS 336
XXIX. VAMPA'S TRIAL 346
XXX. JOY UNBOUNDED 363

MONTE-CRISTO'S DAUGHTER.
SEQUEL TO ALEXANDER DUMAS' GREAT NOVEL, "THE COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO," AND CONTINUATION AND CONCLUSION OF "EDMOND DANT��S."
CHAPTER I.
MONTE-CRISTO AND THE PRIMA DONNA.
The Count of Monte-Cristo was in Rome. He had hired one of the numerous private palaces, the Palazzo Costi, situated on a broad thoroughfare near the point where the Ponte St. Angelo connects Rome proper with that transtiberine suburb known as the Leonine City or Trastavere. The impecunious Roman nobility were ever ready to let their palaces to titled foreigners of wealth, and Ali, acting for the Count, had experienced no difficulty in procuring for his master an abode that even a potentate might have envied him. It was a lofty, commodious edifice, built of white marble in antique architectural design, and commanded from its ample balconies a fine view of the Tiber and its western shore, upon which loomed up that vast prison and citadel, the Castle of St. Angelo, and the largest palace in the world, the Vatican.
The Count of Monte-Cristo had always liked Rome because of its picturesque, mysterious antiquity, but his present mission there had nothing whatever to do with his individual tastes. He had fixed himself for a time in the Eternal City that his daughter Zuleika, Hayd��e's[1] child, might finish her education at a famous convent school conducted under the auspices of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Heart.
Zuleika was fifteen years of age, but looked much older, having the early maturity of the Greeks, whose ardent blood, on her dead mother's side, flowed in her youthful veins. She had attained her full height, and was tall and well-developed. She strongly resembled her mother, possessing brilliant beauty of the dreamy, voluptuous oriental type. Her hair was abundant and black as night. She had dark, flashing eyes, pearly teeth, full ruby lips and feet and hands that were of fairylike diminutiveness, as well as miracles of grace and dainty shapeliness. In temperament she was more like Hayd��e than the Count, though she possessed her father's quick decision and firmness, with the addition of much of his enthusiasm.
The Palazzo Costi was magnificently furnished, so the Count had made no