Monte Cristo releases Danglars from the captivity of the bandit Vampa:<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you repent?\u201d asked a deep, solemn voice, which caused Danglars\u2019 hair to stand on end. His feeble eyes endeavoured to distinguish objects, and behind the bandit he saw a man enveloped in a cloack, half lost in the shadow of a stone column.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOf what must I repent?\u201d stammered Danglars.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOf the evil you have done,\u201d said the voice.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOh, yes! Oh, yes! I do indeed repent.\u201d And he struck his breast with his emaciated fist.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThen I forgive you,\u201d said the man, dropping his cloak, and advancing to the light.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe Count of Monte Cristo!\u201d said Danglars, more pale from terror than he had been just before from hunger and misery.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou are mistaken,\u2014I am not the Count of Monte Cristo!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThen who are you?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI am he whom you sold and dishonoured,\u2014I am he whose betrothed you prostituted,\u2014I am he upon whom you trampled that you might raise yourself to fortune,\u2014I am he whose father you condemned to die of hunger,\u2014I am he whom you also condemned to starvation, and who yet forgives you, because he hopes to be forgiven,\u2014I am Edmond <\/em>Dant<\/em>\u00e8<\/em>s!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Danglars uttered a cry and fell prostrate.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cRise,\u201d said the count, \u201cyour life is safe; the same good fortune has not happened to your accomplices: one is mad, the other dead. Keep the 50,000 francs you have left, I give them to you. The 5,000,000 you robbed from the hospitals has been restored to them by an unknown hand. And now eat and drink; I will entertain you to-night. Vampa, when this man is satisfied, let him be free.\u201d<\/em> (The Count of Monte Cristo<\/a> pages 1446-1447)<\/p>\n Somehow I just don\u2019t buy this.\u00a0 Even though Monte Cristo releases Danglars, his proclamation that he forgives him just doesn\u2019t ring true to me.\u00a0 He has spent about 1,200 pages seeking and taking revenge, and now, 15 pages before the book ends, he forgives?\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t seem like very significant forgiveness to me.<\/p>\n I would really like to hear the thoughts of other people who have read this book.<\/p>\n Mary Jo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monte Cristo releases Danglars from the captivity of the bandit Vampa: \u201cDo you repent?\u201d asked a deep, solemn voice, which caused Danglars\u2019 hair to stand on end. His feeble eyes endeavoured to distinguish objects, and behind the bandit he saw a man enveloped in a cloack, half lost in the shadow of a stone column. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}