Faria’s Collapse
Dantès hastens to Faria’s dungeon and finds him standing in the middle of the room, pale as death, his forehead streaming with perspiration and his hands clenched tightly together—a figure racked by sudden, terrible suffering. The chapter closes on this alarming collapse of the abbé just as their long-sought escape is finally within reach.
第十七章 The Abbé’s Chamber
Chapter 17, “The Abbé’s Chamber,” depicts the catastrophic interruption of Dantès and Abbé Faria’s escape plan when the abbé is struck by a sudden, violent illness. The chapter traces the emergency response—Dantès’s administering of the prescribed remedy, the abbé’s grim revelation of permanent paralysis, Dantès’s solemn vow to remain with his friend, and the abbés order to conceal their excavation work.
Abbé Faria’s Sudden Violent Fit
Dantès is alarmed to find Abbé Faria in a state of sudden collapse, his face livid, eyes sunken, and lips white. The abbé, recognizing the onset of a violent paroxysmal attack he had previously experienced before his imprisonment, urgently tells Dantès to help him back to his chamber before the fit overtakes him.
Abbé’s Emergency Remedy Instructions
Once in his chamber, the shivering abbé instructs Dantès about a remedy concealed in a hollowed bed-post: a small phial of red liquid. He warns that the fit may either leave him rigid and corpse-like or throw him into violent convulsions with loud cries that must be muffled, and that Dantès should force open his teeth and administer eight to ten drops only when he is fully motionless and cold.
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