With his elbows on the table he sat between the two empty bottles, while spectres danced in the light of the unsnuffed candle--spectres such as Hoffmann strews over his punch-drenched pages, like black, fantastic dust.
Danglars alone was content and joyous--he had got rid of an enemy and made his own situation on the Pharaon secure.

Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart.
Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction.

The life of a man was to him of far less value than a numeral, especially when, by taking it away, he could increase the sum total of his own desires.

He went to bed at his usual hour, and slept in peace.
Villefort, after having received M.de Salvieux' letter, embraced Renee, kissed the marquise's hand, and shaken that of the marquis, started for Paris along the Aix road.
Old Dantes was dying with anxiety to know what had become of Edmond.

But we know very well what had become of Edmond..