The Count of Monte Cristo

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interested in Bertuccio's story.

"Gaspard Caderousse; he had married a woman from the village of
Carconte, and whom we did not know by any other name than that of her
village. She was suffering from malarial fever, and seemed dying by
inches. As for her husband, he was a strapping fellow of forty, or five
and forty, who had more than once, in time of danger, given ample proof
of his presence of mind and courage."

"And you say," interrupted Monte Cristo "that this took place towards
the year"--

"1829, your excellency."

"In what month?"

"June."