THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (CHAP 54) A FLURRY IN STOCKS
1001 Adventure and Mystery Stories For The Road
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The Count's plans for vengeance are moving more swiftly. Now that the Count has gotten to know the families of Fernand, Danglars, and Villefort, he can begin the long-term chess-match that will result in the revelation of their crimes. The house in Auteuil is an important setting for these revelations, since the Count now owns it, and Villefort and his mistress, as-yet unnamed, committed their crimes there.
Albert also reports that Franz, who is to marry Valentine de Villefort, is bored in Italy and will soon be returning to Paris. The Count's servant Baptistin arrives in the room to announce that a man named Cavalcanti, the descendent of an old and wealthy Italian family and a friend of the Count's from Italy, will soon be visiting Paris. Albert leaves, but not before asking the Count if he will dine with him and his mother. The Count does not agree, saying that he is busy with other matters, and Albert asks himself why the Count is so hesitant to make his mother's acquaintance more thoroughly.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back everyone everyone to 1001 Stories for the Road. |
| 0:27.1 | This is your host and storyteller, John Haggardorn. |
| 0:30.3 | Today, Chapter 54, from the Count of Monte Cristo, a flurry in stocks. |
| 0:39.0 | Some days after this meeting, Albert de Morseur visited the Count of Monte Cristo in his house |
| 0:44.6 | at Champs de Lisztel, which had already assumed that palace-like appearance which the Count's |
| 0:49.4 | princely fortune enabled him to give even to his most temporary residences. |
| 0:58.8 | He came to renew the thanks of Madame Danglars, which had already been conveyed to the Count through the medium of a letter, signed Baron Danglars. |
| 1:02.5 | De Hermine de Servier. |
| 1:05.5 | Albert was accompanied by Lucien de Bray, who, joining in his friend's conversation, adding some passing compliments, |
| 1:12.6 | the source of which the Count's talent for finesse easily enabled him to guess. |
| 1:17.2 | He was convinced that Lucian's visit was due to a double feeling of curiosity, the larger half |
| 1:22.6 | of which sentiment emanated from the Rue de la Chose d'Antine. In short, Madame Danglars, not to being able personally |
| 1:30.3 | to examine in detail the domestic economy and household arrangements of a man who gave away |
| 1:35.7 | horses worth 30,000 francs, and who went to the upper with a Greek slave wearing diamonds to the amount |
| 1:41.1 | of a million of money, had deputed those eyes by which she was so |
| 1:45.3 | accustomed to see, to give her a faithful account of the mode of life of this incomprehensible |
| 1:50.6 | person. But the count did not appear to suspect that there could be the slightest connection |
| 1:55.6 | between Lucian's visit and the curiosity of the Baroness. |
| 2:00.5 | "'You are in constant communication with the Baron Danglars? |
| 2:03.7 | The Count inquired of Albert de Morse-erf. |
| 2:06.8 | Yes, Count. |
| 2:08.1 | You know what I told you? |
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