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She would she knows not what, and spends she cares not what, she spoils she sees not what, and doth she thinks not what. She is youth's plague and age's purgatory, time's abuse and reason's trouble. In sum, she is a spice of madness, a spark of mischief, a touch of poison, and a fear of destruction. A quiet woman is like a still wind, which neither chills the body nor blows dust in the face.
Well, suppose he got inside, Kitty would be asleep, and he could put the poison into the water carafe, or he could put it in a glass of water and leave it standing; the risk would be, would she drink it or not- -he would have to run that risk; if he failed this time, he would not the next.
Instead of the signed confession, necessary above everything else, which seemed almost in his fingers, the man had left a little poison vial.
Either the scheme would work and every democrat be satisfied, or the theory would be reduced to a practical absurdity, and the poison would be expelled for ever from the world's system.
Next morning the doctor declared that Valentine was dead. In the glass he discovered poison, and as the same poison was found in madame's laboratory, there was no doubt of her guilt. She admitted all, and confessed that her object had been to make her own son sole heir to Villefort's fortune. Madame de Villefort fell at her husband's feet.
He won't even have her sit to himself since she was married." "Of course not," rejoined Edith, emphatically. "Poor Grant! He can't be very happy with Ninitta. She never can get the taint of Bohemia out of her blood." Arthur laughed and flung his cigar end into the fire. "You speak," he said, "as if that were a hopeless poison." He stood smiling to himself an instant.
Yes, yes, it's sad undoubtedly that poor Toussaint should be reduced to that state at his age, not knowing even if he will have food to eat on the morrow. But I know sorrows that are just as crushing, abominations which poison one's life in a still greater degree.... Ah! yes, food indeed! To think that happiness will reign in the world when everybody has food to eat! What an idiotic hope!"
They can never lay that to me! Afterwards she began to wring her hands, with a cry of 'Fie, poison, poison, poison! looking at Richard all the time. 'This poor lady, he told himself, 'is possessed by a devil, therefore no wife for me, who have devil enough and to spare. 'What ails you, Madame? he asked her. 'Tell me your grief, and upon my life I will amend it if I can.
"Gennadius," whispered a cynical courtier to his neighbour, "I hope thou admirest the magnanimity of our sovereign, who deems he is performing a most generous action in presenting Manuel with his cast-off mistress, who has tried to poison him, and with whom he has been at his wits' end what to do, and in dowering her at the expense of another."
"When you speak of drinking-cups," said David to our Portuguese friend, who had given us this account, "I have heard that they are believed to possess the virtue of detecting poison. It is said that if wine is poured into them it forthwith rises and bubbles up as if it were boiling; and if poison is mixed with it, immediately the cup splits.
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