THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (CHAPS 91-92) MOTHER & SON and THE SUICIDE
1001 Adventure and Mystery Stories For The Road
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Chapter 91: The Meeting
Monte Cristo confides to Maximilian and Emmanuel that he plans to let himself be killed. He then demonstrates his almost superhuman skill with the pistol so that there will be no doubt as to whether he lost the duel on purpose. Albert finally arrives at the site of the duel, but rather than pick up his pistol he apologizes to Monte Cristo, telling him that he was right to avenge Fernand for wronging him. Monte Cristo realizes that Mercédès has told her son the entire story.
Chapter 92: The Mother and Son
Albert and Mercédès both plan to leave all their worldly possessions behind and create a new life away from the sins of Fernand. As they are about to depart their home forever, a letter from Monte Cristo arrives. Monte Cristo instructs Mercédès to travel to Marseilles, to the house in which Louis Dantès once lived. Buried under a tree in front of that house is the money that Dantès once planned to use to start a family with Mercédès. He writes that this money, though a pittance, is rightfully hers and should be enough to support her comfortably for the rest of her life. Mercédès accepts the gift and declares that she will use it as a dowry to gain entrance to a convent.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everyone to 1001 Stories for the Road. |
| 0:27.3 | This is your host and storyteller, John Haggardorn. |
| 0:30.8 | Today, chapters 91 and 92 from the Count of Monte Cristo, beginning with Chapter 91, Mother and Son. |
| 0:44.1 | The Count of Monte Cristo bowed to the five young men with a melancholy and dignified smile, |
| 0:49.5 | and got into his carriage with Maximilian and Emanuel. Albert, Bochamp, and Chateau Renaud remained alone. |
| 0:57.6 | Albert looked at his two friends, not timidly, but in a way that appeared to ask their opinion |
| 1:02.1 | of what he had just done. |
| 1:05.1 | Indeed, my dear friend, said Beauchamp, first, who had either the most feeling or the least dissimulation. |
| 1:12.8 | Allow me to congratulate you. This is a very unhoped for a conclusion of a very disagreeable affair. |
| 1:20.5 | Albert remained silent and wrapped in thought. Chateau Renaud contented himself |
| 1:25.5 | for tapping his boot with his flexible cane. |
| 1:27.5 | "'Are we not going?' said he, after this embarrassing silence. |
| 1:33.6 | "'When you please,' replied Beauchamp, |
| 1:36.5 | "'allow me only to compliment Monsieur de Morseur, |
| 1:39.2 | who has given proof today of rare chivalric generosity.' |
| 1:43.8 | "'Oh, yes,' said Chateau Renaud. |
| 1:47.4 | "'It is magnificent,' continued Beauchamp, |
| 1:50.8 | "'to be able to exercise so much self-control.' |
| 1:55.6 | "'Assuredly, as for me, I should have been incapable of it,' said Chateau Renaud, with most significant coolness. |
| 2:04.6 | Gentlemen, interrupted Albert, I think you did not understand that something very serious had |
| 2:10.7 | passed between Monsieur de Monte Cristo and myself. Possibly, possibly,' said Beauchamp immediately. |
| 2:19.3 | "'But every simpleton would not be able to understand your heroism, |
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