1 A long silence followed; the peach, like the grapes, fell to the ground.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 71. Bread and Salt. 2 The countess left the arm of Monte Cristo, and gathered a bunch of Muscatel grapes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 71. Bread and Salt. 3 The countess dashed the grapes into the nearest thicket, with a gesture of despair.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 71. Bread and Salt. 4 Near the pan he also placed a pretty little basket of Villetri grapes and a flask of Orvieto.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 115. Luigi Vampa's Bill of Fare. 5 "Madame, I never eat Muscatel grapes," replied Monte Cristo, as if the subject had not been mentioned before.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 71. Bread and Salt. 6 He began gathering the grape-leaves which screened the sun from the grapes, and won the heart of the gardener.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 61. How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice ... 7 Suddenly he struck against something crouching behind a wheelbarrow filled with leaves; the something rose, uttering an exclamation of astonishment, and Monte Cristo found himself facing a man about fifty years old, who was plucking strawberries, which he was placing upon grape leaves.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 61. How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice ... 8 This child, for whom my poor sister would go to the town, five or six leagues off, to purchase the earliest fruits and the most tempting sweetmeats, preferred to Palma grapes or Genoese preserves, the chestnuts stolen from a neighbor's orchard, or the dried apples in his loft, when he could eat as well of the nuts and apples that grew in my garden.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.