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.
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In what am I benefited by accompanying my son so far, and allowing him to depart alone to the baneful climate of Africa?'
"'Oh, have I been base!
Cowardly, I tell you!
I have abjured my affections, and like all renegades, I am of evil omen to those who surround me.'
"'No, Mercedes,' said Monte Cristo, "'no.
You judge yourself with too much severity.
You are a noble-minded woman, and it was your grief that disarmed me.
Still, I was but an agent.'
led on by an invisible and offended deity, who chose not to withhold the fatal blow that I was destined to hurl.
I take that God to witness, at whose feet I have prostrated myself daily for the last ten years, that I would have sacrificed my life to you, and with my life projects that were indissolubly linked with it.
But—and I say it with some pride, Mercedes—
God needed me, and I lived.
Examine the past and the present, and endeavor to dive into futurity, and then say whether I am not a divine instrument.
The most dreadful misfortunes, the most frightful sufferings, the abandonment of all those who love me, the persecution of those who do not know me, formed the trials of my youth.
WHEN SUDDENLY, FROM CAPTIVITY, SOLITUDE, MISERY, I WAS RESTORED TO LIGHT AND LIBERTY, AND BECAME THE POSSESSOR OF A FORTUNE SO BRILLIANT, SO UNBOUNDED, SO UNHEARD OF, THAT I MUST HAVE BEEN BLIND NOT TO BE CONSCIOUS THAT GOD HAD ENDOWED ME WITH IT TO WORK OUT HIS OWN GREAT DESIGNS.
FROM THAT TIME I LOOKED UPON THIS FORTUNE AS SOMETHING CONFIDED TO ME FOR A SPECIAL PURPOSE.
Not a thought was given to a life which you once, Mercedes, had the power to render blissful.
Not one hour of peaceful calm was mine.
But I felt myself driven on like an exterminated angel.
Like adventurous captains about to embark on some enterprise full of danger, I laid in my provisions.
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