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第1章 没有船长的船

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

By Alexandre Dumas

Chapter One The Ship Without a Captain

A little boy first sighted the masts of the ship Pharaon.

She was coming home to Marseilles, France, with a cargo of cloth and dyes.

As usual, a crowd gathered to watch the docking, an exciting event in 1815, for the handling of big sailing ships was an art.

But the Pharaon proceeded toward port so slowly that the onlookers felt something must be wrong on board.

Monsieur Morrel, the owner, was overjoyed to hear that his ship was home.

Now he saw that a tall sailor stood beside the wheel where old Captain Leclere should have been.

Morrel ordered a rowboat.

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