Both Uses of
cabal
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- What? private secretary to a minister, plunged at once into European cabals and Parisian intrigues; having kings, and, better still, queens, to protect, parties to unite, elections to direct; making more use of your cabinet with your pen and your telegraph than Napoleon did of his battle-fields with his sword and his victories; possessing five and twenty thousand francs a year, besides your place; a horse, for which Chateau-Renaud offered you four hundred louis, and which you would not…†
Chpt 39-40
- Now, it never occurred to me to wish for a nearer inspection of these large insects, with their long black claws, for I always feared to find under their stone wings some little human genius fagged to death with cabals, factions, and government intrigues.†
Chpt 59-60 *
Definition:
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(cabal) a small group of people who plot in secret and exercise power -- especially political power
or (more rarely): a plot by such a group