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"
Were
objects
of
art
,
madame
,
and
nothing
more
,
"
replied
the
count
.
"
Do
you
suppose
that
the
real
savant
addresses
himself
stupidly
to
the
mere
individual
?
By
no
means
.
Science
loves
eccentricities
,
leaps
and
bounds
,
trials
of
strength
,
fancies
,
if
I
may
be
allowed
so
to
term
them
.
Thus
,
for
instance
,
the
excellent
Abbe
Adelmonte
,
of
whom
I
spoke
just
now
,
made
in
this
way
some
marvellous
experiments
.
"
"
Really
?
"
"
Yes
;
I
will
mention
one
to
you
.
He
had
a
remarkably
fine
garden
,
full
of
vegetables
,
flowers
,
and
fruit
.
From
amongst
these
vegetables
he
selected
the
most
simple
--
a
cabbage
,
for
instance
.
For
three
days
he
watered
this
cabbage
with
a
distillation
of
arsenic
;
on
the
third
,
the
cabbage
began
to
droop
and
turn
yellow
.
At
that
moment
he
cut
it
.
In
the
eyes
of
everybody
it
seemed
fit
for
table
,
and
preserved
its
wholesome
appearance
.
It
was
only
poisoned
to
the
Abbe
Adelmonte
.
He
then
took
the
cabbage
to
the
room
where
he
had
rabbits
--
for
the
Abbe
Adelmonte
had
a
collection
of
rabbits
,
cats
,
and
guinea-pigs
,
fully
as
fine
as
his
collection
of
vegetables
,
flowers
,
and
fruit
.
Well
,
the
Abbe
Adelmonte
took
a
rabbit
,
and
made
it
eat
a
leaf
of
the
cabbage
.
The
rabbit
died
.
What
magistrate
would
find
,
or
even
venture
to
insinuate
,
anything
against
this
?
What
procureur
has
ever
ventured
to
draw
up
an
accusation
against
M.
Magendie
or
M.
Flourens
,
in
consequence
of
the
rabbits
,
cats
,
and
guinea-pigs
they
have
killed
?
--
not
one
.
So
,
then
,
the
rabbit
dies
,
and
justice
takes
no
notice
.
This
rabbit
dead
,
the
Abbe
Adelmonte
has
its
entrails
taken
out
by
his
cook
and
thrown
on
the
dunghill
;
on
this
dunghill
is
a
hen
,
who
,
pecking
these
intestines
,
is
in
her
turn
taken
ill
,
and
dies
next
day
.
At
the
moment
when
she
is
struggling
in
the
convulsions
of
death
,
a
vulture
is
flying
by
(
there
are
a
good
many
vultures
in
Adelmonte
's
country
)
;
this
bird
darts
on
the
dead
fowl
,
and
carries
it
away
to
a
rock
,
where
it
dines
off
its
prey
.
Three
days
afterwards
,
this
poor
vulture
,
which
has
been
very
much
indisposed
since
that
dinner
,
suddenly
feels
very
giddy
while
flying
aloft
in
the
clouds
,
and
falls
heavily
into
a
fish-pond
.
The
pike
,
eels
,
and
carp
eat
greedily
always
,
as
everybody
knows
--
well
,
they
feast
on
the
vulture
.
Now
suppose
that
next
day
,
one
of
these
eels
,
or
pike
,
or
carp
,
poisoned
at
the
fourth
remove
,
is
served
up
at
your
table
.
Well
,
then
,
your
guest
will
be
poisoned
at
the
fifth
remove
,
and
die
,
at
the
end
of
eight
or
ten
days
,
of
pains
in
the
intestines
,
sickness
,
or
abscess
of
the
pylorus
.
The
doctors
open
the
body
and
say
with
an
air
of
profound
learning
,
'
The
subject
has
died
of
a
tumor
on
the
liver
,
or
of
typhoid
fever
!
'
"
"
But
,
"
remarked
Madame
de
Villefort
,
"
all
these
circumstances
which
you
link
thus
to
one
another
may
be
broken
by
the
least
accident
;
the
vulture
may
not
see
the
fowl
,
or
may
fall
a
hundred
yards
from
the
fish-pond
.
"
"
Ah
,
that
is
where
the
art
comes
in
.
To
be
a
great
chemist
in
the
East
,
one
must
direct
chance
;
and
this
is
to
be
achieved
.
"
--
Madame
de
Villefort
was
in
deep
thought
,
yet
listened
attentively
.
"
But
,
"
she
exclaimed
,
suddenly
,
"
arsenic
is
indelible
,
indestructible
;
in
whatsoever
way
it
is
absorbed
,
it
will
be
found
again
in
the
body
of
the
victim
from
the
moment
when
it
has
been
taken
in
sufficient
quantity
to
cause
death
.
"
"
Precisely
so
,
"
cried
Monte
Cristo
--
"
precisely
so
;
and
this
is
what
I
said
to
my
worthy
Adelmonte
.
He
reflected
,
smiled
,
and
replied
to
me
by
a
Sicilian
proverb
,
which
I
believe
is
also
a
French
proverb
,
'
My
son
,
the
world
was
not
made
in
a
day
--
but
in
seven
.
Return
on
Sunday
.
'
On
the
Sunday
following
I
did
return
to
him
.
Instead
of
having
watered
his
cabbage
with
arsenic
,
he
had
watered
it
this
time
with
a
solution
of
salts
,
having
their
basis
in
strychnine
,
strychnos
colubrina
,
as
the
learned
term
it
.
Now
,
the
cabbage
had
not
the
slightest
appearance
of
disease
in
the
world
,
and
the
rabbit
had
not
the
smallest
distrust
;
yet
,
five
minutes
afterwards
,
the
rabbit
was
dead
.
The
fowl
pecked
at
the
rabbit
,
and
the
next
day
was
a
dead
hen
.
This
time
we
were
the
vultures
;
so
we
opened
the
bird
,
and
this
time
all
special
symptoms
had
disappeared
,
there
were
only
general
symptoms
.
There
was
no
peculiar
indication
in
any
organ
--
an
excitement
of
the
nervous
system
--
that
was
it
;
a
case
of
cerebral
congestion
--
nothing
more
.
The
fowl
had
not
been
poisoned
--
she
had
died
of
apoplexy
.
Apoplexy
is
a
rare
disease
among
fowls
,
I
believe
,
but
very
common
among
men
.
"
Madame
de
Villefort
appeared
more
and
more
thoughtful
.
"
It
is
very
fortunate
,
"
she
observed
,
"
that
such
substances
could
only
be
prepared
by
chemists
;
otherwise
,
all
the
world
would
be
poisoning
each
other
.
"
