The Count of Monte Cristo

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on the shield. Around the schooner lay a number of small fishing-boats
belonging to the fishermen of the neighboring village, like humble
subjects awaiting orders from their queen. There, as in every spot where
Monte Cristo stopped, if but for two days, luxury abounded and life went
on with the utmost ease.

Albert found in his anteroom two guns, with all the accoutrements for
hunting; a lofty room on the ground-floor containing all the ingenious
instruments the English--eminent in piscatory pursuits, since they
are patient and sluggish--have invented for fishing. The day passed in
pursuing those exercises in which Monte Cristo excelled. They killed
a dozen pheasants in the park, as many trout in the stream, dined in a
summer-house overlooking the ocean, and took tea in the library.

Towards the evening of the third day. Albert, completely exhausted
with the exercise which invigorated Monte Cristo, was sleeping in
an arm-chair near the window, while the count was designing with his