I have to admit I don’t have a lot of discussion ideas. We only have four chapters left. Fernand is dead, Villefort has gone mad (and is likely to face jail time), Danglars has gone bankrupt and fled Paris, but he still has over five million francs, enough to live quite comfortably in Vienna. The count is on his way to Rome, and Danglars is the only one he hasn’t revealed himself to.

I was a little surprised to see that the bandits take tips directly from a clerk at the bank. But it is most certainly a real bank (I was beginning to wonder if the count had made it up).

I rather enjoyed the moment at the end when Danglars remembered what happened to Albert and considered himself a good deal more important than Albert, so he assumed his ransom would be for twice as much.

This chapter feels like it’s just a setup for what’s to come, so I say on to the next chapter and let's finish this story, but if there’s anything anyone wants to bring up, leave a comment below.

last line:

So, feeling more or less sure that he would survive the adventure, especially since there as no case in which a man had ever been held for a ransom of 5,050,000 livres, Danglars lay down on his bed and, after turning around two or three times, fell asleep, as easy in his mind as the hero whose story Luigi Vampa was reading.

The next discussion will be up on Monday.

Link to the last discussion