THE end of the year of the Maid was at hand. She had often said that she would last but a year, or little more, counting from May 1429.
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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, 5/5
This calm tone and perfect ease made Andrea feel that he was, for the moment, restrained by a more muscular hand than his own, and that the restraint could not be easily broken through.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, 4/5
“I am alone,” said the abbé, “and I will again have pity on you, and will let you escape, at the risk of the fresh miseries my weakness may lead to, if you tell me the truth.”