Volume 1, Chapter 19: The Third Attack

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌⁠Now that this treasure, which had so long been the object of the abbé’s meditations, could insure the future happiness of him whom Faria really loved as a son, it had doubled its value in his eyes, and every day he expatiated on the amount, explaining to Dantès all the good which, with thirteen or fourteen millions of francs, a man could do in these days to his friends; and then Dantès’ countenanc