John Hagedorn
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 29 Mar
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This is your host and storyteller, John Hagedorn.
Today, two chapters from The Count of Monte Cristo, beginning with Chapter 113, The Past.
And now, our story.
The Count departed with a sad heart from the house in which he had left Mercedes, probably never to behold her again.
Since the death of little Edward, a great change had taken place in Monte Cristo.
Having reached the summit of his vengeance by a long and tortuous path, he saw an abyss of doubt yawning before him.
More than this, the conversation which had just taken place between Mercedes and himself had awakened so many recollections in his heart that he felt it necessary to combat with them.
A man of a count's temperament could not long indulge in that melancholy which can exist in common minds, but which destroys superior ones.
He thought he must have made an error in his calculations if he now found cause to blame himself.
"'I cannot have deceived myself,' he said.
"'I must look upon the past in a false light.'
"'What?'
he continued.
"'Can I have been following a false path?'
"'Can the end which I proposed be a mistaken end?'
Can one hour have sufficed to prove to an architect that the work upon which he founded all his hopes was an impossible, if not a sacrilegious, undertaking?
I cannot reconcile myself to this idea.
It would drive me mad.
The reason why I am now dissatisfied is that I have not a clear appreciation of the past.
The past, like the country through which we walk, becomes indistinct as we advance.
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