John Hagedorn
speaker
1,833 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 29 Mar
John Hagedorn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 5 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 2.
Appearances
He knew better than anyone else how to open that weather-beaten door with the large-headed nail which served to raise the latch within.
He entered without knocking, or giving any other intimation of his presence, as if he had been a friend or the master of the place.
At the end of a passage paved with bricks was a little garden, bathed in sunshine, and rich in warmth and light.
In this garden Mercedes had found, at the place indicated by the Count, the sum of money which he, through a sense of delicacy, had described as having been placed there twenty-four years previously.
The trees at the garden were easily seen from the steps of the street door.
Monte Cristo, on stepping into the house, heard a sigh that was almost a deep sob.
He looked in the direction once it came, and there, under an arbor of Virginia jasmine, with its thick foliage and beautiful long purple flowers, he saw Mercedes seated, with her head bowed, and weeping bitterly.
She had raised her veil, and with her face hidden by her hands, was giving free scope to the sighs and tears which had been so long restrained by the presence of her son.
Bonnie Christo advanced a few steps, which were heard in the gravel.
Mercedes raised her head, and uttered a cry of terror on beholding a man before her.
"'Badham,' said the Count, "'it is no longer in my power to restore you to happiness.
But I offer you consolation.
Will you deign to accept it as coming from a friend?'
I am indeed most wretched, replied Mercedes, alone in the world.
I had but my son, and he has left me.
He possesses a noble heart, madam, replied the Count, and he has acted rightly.
He feels that every man owes a tribute to his country.
Some contribute their talents, others their industry.
These devote their blood—
those their nightly labors, to the same cause.
Showing 1341–1360 of 1,833 · page 68 of 92
← Previous
Next →