Hi there,
another question on Count of Montecristo. There's a passage I cannot figure out.
In the Chapter 33 (Roman Bandits) at the end of the story of Luigi Vampa he met Simbad the Sailor (we know who he is).
Then Dumas wrote:
"'What is your name?' inquired the traveller.--'Luigi Vampa,' replied
the shepherd, with the same air as he would have replied, Alexander,
King of Macedon.--'And yours?'--'I,' said the traveller, 'am called
Sinbad the Sailor.'" Franz d'Epinay started with surprise.
"Sinbad the Sailor." he said.
"Yes," replied the narrator; "that was the name which the traveller gave
to Vampa as his own."
"Well, and what may you have to say against this name?" inquired Albert;
"it is a very pretty name, and the adventures of the gentleman of that
name amused me very much in my youth, I must confess."--Franz said no
more. The name of Sinbad the Sailor, as may well be supposed, awakened
in him a world of recollections, as had the name of the Count of Monte
Cristo on the previous evening"
But reading back on this passage I found no evidence that Franz heard the name "Count of Monte Cristo" before. So how is it possible he reffer to the previous evening?
Is this an error from Dumas?