Jaedos t1_itotp2e wrote on October 25, 2022 at 5:34 AM

Reply to comment by ZeMastor in Just finished The Count of Monte Cristo by ComicsNBigBooks

I need to check the version I've read because either it's been so long since I've read it that I'm forgetting this all went on, or it wasnt in the version I read.

I have such a massive back log of books to read, I shouldn't be putting this back into it again. I've already read it like four times in the past 15 years. :)

ZeMastor t1_itp31hy wrote on October 25, 2022 at 7:39 AM

Fair enough.

In particular, look at:

Chapter 91: Albert and Mercedes leave Fernand's house, with no money, no job and no real plan until the Count's letter gifts them 3000 francs and a roof (old Dantes' house) in Marseilles.

104: Confirmation that Mercedes and Albert willed all their money and property to the poor.

106: Ultra-pitiful chapter of Albert and Mercedes sleeping in shabby, cheapo rooms, struggling to scrape up enough money to get transportation to Marseilles. <self-inflicted and a direct result of no planning.

112: The Count's last meeting with Mercedes. A depress-fest that confirms how much he wanted to help her, but she refused.