He is rescued by a passing ship which gives him a position on the boat. Jailers threw the sack into the sea which allowed Dantes to escape. Edmond seized the opportunity of escaping and replaced Faria’s corpse with himself. When Faria finally did die, his body was placed in a burial sack. The wise elder told Edmond where to find a massive buried fortune. In Edmond’s fourteenth year, Faria became mortally ill. The old man taught Edmond history, mathematics, and languages. The two meet daily and an incredible relationship flourished. While in prison, he was determined to escape and began digging a tunnel in hopes that it would lead to freedom.ĭuring this exercise, he met an elderly inmate named Abbe Faria whose attempt to dig his way to his salvation had led him only to Edmond’s cell.
Dantes suffered for fourteen grueling years. There Dantes’ incarceration was secured by the plotting of his enemies outside the prison, particularly towards Villefort, who wished to cover up his own father’s connections with the Bonapartists. On his wedding day, Edmond was arrested and taken before a deputy named Villefort, a political apostate, who, to protect himself, had Edmond secretly imprisoned in the deepest dungeons of the Chateau D’If. Danglars and Ferdinand wrote a letter accusing Edmond of carrying a letter from Elba to the Bonapartist committee in Paris.Ĭaderousse, a neighbor, learned of the plot but kept silent.
Ferdinand Mondego wished to wed Mercedes, who was affianced to Edmond.
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