Calico Illustrated Classics: The Count of Monte Cristo

Calico Illustrated Classics: The Count of Monte Cristo — page 9
3 The Marriage Feast A feast had been prepared at the hotel La Reserve to celebrate the engagement of Edmond and Mercedes The balcony was filled with impatient guests dressed in their finest to honor the day The couple arrived with Dantes’s father and Mondego who was wearing his usual menacing smile Monsieur Morrel came forward to meet them He escorted Mercedes up the wooden steps to the chamber where the feast was waiting Father said Mercedes to old Dantes sit on my right On my left I will place he who has been like a brother to me She pointed to 12