Count of Monte Cristo: Chapter 97
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osprey_archerTHE MOMENT WE HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR HAS ARRIVED!!!
By which naturally I mean that we've gotten to the RUNAWAY LESBIANS, Eugenie Danglars and her friend Louise d'Armilly. Eugenie has just providentially escaped signing a marriage contract! (Don't worry, she planned to run away before the wedding in any case, but the uproar after it turned out her intended fiance was actually an escaped convict will make it even easier.) She has cut off her hair and dressed as a boy, and she and Louise are making for Italy by way of Belgium.
The Danglars being the totally indifferent parents that they are, I suspect they won't even notice their daughter is missing until she's in Brussels.
Will we get another update on the life of the Runaway Lesbians in the future? Or have they run away from our narrative for good? I think we can trust Dumas to at least mention them again; he's good about not leaving loose ends.
In other news! Valentine is in MORTAL PERIL. In fact, she would probably already be dead if her grandfather, the most badass quadriplegic in all of literature, hadn't been encouraging her to take some of his medicine to build up an immunity to the poison that her evil stepmother is giving her. Will the Count (who has been apprised of her fate by her desperate lover Morrel) find a way to save her in time?
I think the answer is 99% likely to be "Yes," but WE SHALL SEE.
I'm also curious to see if this teaches the Count anything about the law of unintended consequences. The percentages may be somewhat lower on that one.
Oh, and Fernand shot himself. He was disgraced in front of all his peers in parliament; his wife and his son have learned of his treachery to Dantes and left him, refusing even to take any of his money with them; he had nothing left to live for.
We are racing swiftly toward the end! It's been so hard to limit myself to one chapter a day this week, what with the whole story coming together the way it is.
By which naturally I mean that we've gotten to the RUNAWAY LESBIANS, Eugenie Danglars and her friend Louise d'Armilly. Eugenie has just providentially escaped signing a marriage contract! (Don't worry, she planned to run away before the wedding in any case, but the uproar after it turned out her intended fiance was actually an escaped convict will make it even easier.) She has cut off her hair and dressed as a boy, and she and Louise are making for Italy by way of Belgium.
The Danglars being the totally indifferent parents that they are, I suspect they won't even notice their daughter is missing until she's in Brussels.
Will we get another update on the life of the Runaway Lesbians in the future? Or have they run away from our narrative for good? I think we can trust Dumas to at least mention them again; he's good about not leaving loose ends.
In other news! Valentine is in MORTAL PERIL. In fact, she would probably already be dead if her grandfather, the most badass quadriplegic in all of literature, hadn't been encouraging her to take some of his medicine to build up an immunity to the poison that her evil stepmother is giving her. Will the Count (who has been apprised of her fate by her desperate lover Morrel) find a way to save her in time?
I think the answer is 99% likely to be "Yes," but WE SHALL SEE.
I'm also curious to see if this teaches the Count anything about the law of unintended consequences. The percentages may be somewhat lower on that one.
Oh, and Fernand shot himself. He was disgraced in front of all his peers in parliament; his wife and his son have learned of his treachery to Dantes and left him, refusing even to take any of his money with them; he had nothing left to live for.
We are racing swiftly toward the end! It's been so hard to limit myself to one chapter a day this week, what with the whole story coming together the way it is.
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Date: 2016-12-22 02:49 pm (UTC)"I am looking at you; indeed, you are adorable like that! One would say you were carrying me off."
"And they would be right, pardieu!"
They're going to make it! I hope! I love that Eugenie was planning to run away whatever happened.
Danglars is probably too busy worrying about his finances to notice anything. SERVES HIM RIGHT >:(
It's very, very likely that Valentine will live. I'd be shocked if she didn't. What the Count will do in the remaining chapters, and what he'll think or learn or not, is still up in the air. I honestly don't know!
I'm going to venture a guess that I don't think Danglars will shoot himself. He doesn't seem like the type. Of course there's no "type" in real life, but this is a book.
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Date: 2016-12-23 01:13 am (UTC)Also that would keep these hints at Monte Cristo/Haydee from coming to anything. He's raised her as his daughter! Let's leave it on that plain!
I would lay good money that Danglars is a sociopath, and sociopaths almost never commit suicide, so probably he won't. Probably he'll end up becoming a convict and learning how to game the system of convict-hood for his own enrichment.
Villefort, now. If Villefort isn't poisoned by his wife, he might commit suicide in confused despair.
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Date: 2016-12-24 03:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-24 08:44 pm (UTC)