Both Uses of
apathy
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- All the rest of the year the city is in that state of dull apathy, between life and death, which renders it similar to a kind of station between this world and the next—a sublime spot, a resting-place full of poetry and character, and at which Franz had already halted five or six times, and at each time found it more marvellous and striking.†
Chpt 31-32
- Maximilian... listened to their conversation, or rather was present at it, plunged in his accustomed state of apathy.†
Chpt 111-112 *
Definition:
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(apathy) lack of interest and enthusiasm