The Count of Monte Cristo

Haydée Is Sold to Sultan Mahmoud

Haydée is taken to the slave market, where she is purchased by a wealthy Armenian man who provides her with education and private tutors. When she turns 13, he sells her to Sultan Mahmoud.

Monte Cristo Purchases Haydée

The Count of Monte Cristo purchases Haydée from Sultan Mahmoud, using an emerald that matched the one he used to craft a box for his hashish pills, as he later explains to Albert de Morcerf.

Haydée’s Story Is Concluded

Haydée finishes her account, expressing gratitude to Monte Cristo for his kindness and noting she finds solace in recounting her misfortunes because they remind her of his goodness. Albert is left bewildered by her story, and Monte Cristo suggests they finish their coffee, noting her history is now complete.

第七十八章 We hear From Yanina

The chapter centers on the aftermath of Noirtier de Villefort’s revelation of General d’Épinay’s true cause of death, which ends the engagement between his granddaughter Valentine and Franz d’Épinay, alongside parallel plot developments including Maximilian Morrel and Valentine confirming their saved union, Noirtier revising his will to leave his full fortune to Valentine, and Count Morcerf’s failed attempt to secure a marriage between his son and Eugénie Danglars. Chapter 78, “We hear From Yanina,” opens after Danglars’s evening gathering and centers on the fallout from a newspaper article published in Beauchamp’s journal. The article reports that a French officer named Fernand betrayed the castle of Yanina to the Turks, and Albert de Morcerf recognizes this as an attack on his father’s honor. The chapter traces Albert’s urgent search for Monte Cristo, their meeting at a shooting gallery, their extended counsel in the count’s study, and Albert’s subsequent demand for a retraction at Beauchamp’s office. Throughout, Monte Cristo advises restraint and suggests Albert consult Haydée for the truth, foreshadowing a deeper revelation about the past. Albert de Morcerf visits Beauchamp to demand the retraction of a newspaper article that implicates his father, General Fernand Mondego, Count of Morcerf, in treachery during his past military service, but Beauchamp refuses to issue a retraction without first investigating whether the accusations are true, leading the two men to arrange a duel to take place in three weeks’ time on the twenty-first of September. When Albert storms out of the newspaper office in a rage, he happens to spot Maximilian Morrel, a man whom he considers enviably happy, walking briskly with a bright eye in the direction of the Madeleine.