poison-man

Updated: May 13, 2025

Rushing down-stairs, I burst open the door of that person's room with one kick, and there, in the middle of the floor, half-dressed and bending over a censer of red-hot charcoal, knelt Mr. Desole Arcubus, the poison-man of Mrs. Silvernails boarding-house.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860