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"
No
,
madame
,
contrary
to
most
history
,
it
is
true
;
but
what
you
tell
me
,
madame
,
what
you
inquire
of
me
,
is
not
the
result
of
a
chance
query
,
for
two
years
ago
you
asked
me
the
same
questions
,
and
said
then
,
that
for
a
very
long
time
this
history
of
Mithridates
had
occupied
your
mind
.
"
"
True
,
sir
.
The
two
favorite
studies
of
my
youth
were
botany
and
mineralogy
,
and
subsequently
,
when
I
learned
that
the
use
of
simples
frequently
explained
the
whole
history
of
a
people
,
and
the
entire
life
of
individuals
in
the
East
,
as
flowers
betoken
and
symbolize
a
love
affair
,
I
have
regretted
that
I
was
not
a
man
,
that
I
might
have
been
a
Flamel
,
a
Fontana
,
or
a
Cabanis
.
"
"
And
the
more
,
madame
,
"
said
Monte
Cristo
,
"
as
the
Orientals
do
not
confine
themselves
,
as
did
Mithridates
,
to
make
a
cuirass
of
his
poisons
,
but
they
also
made
them
a
dagger
.
Science
becomes
,
in
their
hands
,
not
only
a
defensive
weapon
,
but
still
more
frequently
an
offensive
one
;
the
one
serves
against
all
their
physical
sufferings
,
the
other
against
all
their
enemies
.
With
opium
,
belladonna
,
brucaea
,
snake-wood
,
and
the
cherry-laurel
,
they
put
to
sleep
all
who
stand
in
their
way
.
There
is
not
one
of
those
women
,
Egyptian
,
Turkish
,
or
Greek
,
whom
here
you
call
'
good
women
,
'
who
do
not
know
how
,
by
means
of
chemistry
,
to
stupefy
a
doctor
,
and
in
psychology
to
amaze
a
confessor
.
"
"
Really
,
"
said
Madame
de
Villefort
,
whose
eyes
sparkled
with
strange
fire
at
this
conversation
.
"
Oh
,
yes
,
indeed
,
madame
,
"
continued
Monte
Cristo
,
"
the
secret
dramas
of
the
East
begin
with
a
love
philtre
and
end
with
a
death
potion
--
begin
with
paradise
and
end
with
--
hell
.
There
are
as
many
elixirs
of
every
kind
as
there
are
caprices
and
peculiarities
in
the
physical
and
moral
nature
of
humanity
;
and
I
will
say
further
--
the
art
of
these
chemists
is
capable
with
the
utmost
precision
to
accommodate
and
proportion
the
remedy
and
the
bane
to
yearnings
for
love
or
desires
for
vengeance
.
"
"
But
,
sir
,
"
remarked
the
young
woman
,
"
these
Eastern
societies
,
in
the
midst
of
which
you
have
passed
a
portion
of
your
existence
,
are
as
fantastic
as
the
tales
that
come
from
their
strange
land
.
A
man
can
easily
be
put
out
of
the
way
there
,
then
;
it
is
,
indeed
,
the
Bagdad
and
Bassora
of
the
'
Thousand
and
One
Nights
.
'
The
sultans
and
viziers
who
rule
over
society
there
,
and
who
constitute
what
in
France
we
call
the
government
,
are
really
Haroun-alRaschids
and
Giaffars
,
who
not
only
pardon
a
poisoner
,
but
even
make
him
a
prime
minister
,
if
his
crime
has
been
an
ingenious
one
,
and
who
,
under
such
circumstances
,
have
the
whole
story
written
in
letters
of
gold
,
to
divert
their
hours
of
idleness
and
ennui
.
"
"
By
no
means
,
madame
;
the
fanciful
exists
no
longer
in
the
East
.
There
,
disguised
under
other
names
,
and
concealed
under
other
costumes
,
are
police
agents
,
magistrates
,
attorneys-general
,
and
bailiffs
.
They
hang
,
behead
,
and
impale
their
criminals
in
the
most
agreeable
possible
manner
;
but
some
of
these
,
like
clever
rogues
,
have
contrived
to
escape
human
justice
,
and
succeed
in
their
fraudulent
enterprises
by
cunning
stratagems
.
Amongst
us
a
simpleton
,
possessed
by
the
demon
of
hate
or
cupidity
,
who
has
an
enemy
to
destroy
,
or
some
near
relation
to
dispose
of
,
goes
straight
to
the
grocer
's
or
druggist
's
,
gives
a
false
name
,
which
leads
more
easily
to
his
detection
than
his
real
one
,
and
under
the
pretext
that
the
rats
prevent
him
from
sleeping
,
purchases
five
or
six
grammes
of
arsenic
--
if
he
is
really
a
cunning
fellow
,
he
goes
to
five
or
six
different
druggists
or
grocers
,
and
thereby
becomes
only
five
or
six
times
more
easily
traced
;
--
then
,
when
he
has
acquired
his
specific
,
he
administers
duly
to
his
enemy
,
or
near
kinsman
,
a
dose
of
arsenic
which
would
make
a
mammoth
or
mastodon
burst
,
and
which
,
without
rhyme
or
reason
,
makes
his
victim
utter
groans
which
alarm
the
entire
neighborhood
.
Then
arrive
a
crowd
of
policemen
and
constables
.
They
fetch
a
doctor
,
who
opens
the
dead
body
,
and
collects
from
the
entrails
and
stomach
a
quantity
of
arsenic
in
a
spoon
.
Next
day
a
hundred
newspapers
relate
the
fact
,
with
the
names
of
the
victim
and
the
murderer
.
The
same
evening
the
grocer
or
grocers
,
druggist
or
druggists
,
come
and
say
,
'
It
was
I
who
sold
the
arsenic
to
the
gentleman
;
'
and
rather
than
not
recognize
the
guilty
purchaser
,
they
will
recognize
twenty
.
Then
the
foolish
criminal
is
taken
,
imprisoned
,
interrogated
,
confronted
,
confounded
,
condemned
,
and
cut
off
by
hemp
or
steel
;
or
if
she
be
a
woman
of
any
consideration
,
they
lock
her
up
for
life
.
This
is
the
way
in
which
you
Northerns
understand
chemistry
,
madame
.
Desrues
was
,
however
,
I
must
confess
,
more
skilful
.
