The Mysteries of the Court of London by Pauline Clarendon — page 282: what you’re looking at

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TERRIBLE AND STRANGE REVELATIONS 279 part of the whole affair is that even if the victim of that poison is at his last gasp, the antidote will be certain, and sure to bring him back to life. It will even go farther, for in afew weeks it will not fail to restore him to all his former health, and gaiety, and appetite, and good looks. This is what my father used to call ‘ the triumph of the chemical art.’ 7’ . “Triumph indeed!’ ejaculated Page; ‘it is almost incredible! ”’ “But it is nevertheless true,’’ returned his wife. ‘I have often and often seen him try the effects of both poison and antidote.” Juha — you — you— make my hair stand on end!” gasped the commercial traveller, suddenly becoming ashy pale. “You mistake me,’ she observed, smiling. ‘‘I meant upon rabbits, cats, and dogs — and not upon human beings. God forbid! ”’ | “Ah! now I am relieved,” said her husband, breathing freely once again. “ The experiment must be an interesting one — as an experiment, mind; and I should like to see it tried.” “T can gratify you at any time,” returned Julia; ‘“ for I have the receipts of both poison and antidote about me at this very moment.” ‘You have!”’ cried Page. “ What the deuce made you get possession of them? ”’ ‘My father was looking over his pocketbook the other day,’’ was the answer, “ and he let a paper fall upon the floor. He did not notice the circumstance, and I afterward picked it up. It contained the two receipts I speak of, together with another of quite a different character; and, thinking it just as well that.such a document should not be left in the old man’s possession, I sewed it inside the lining of my stays. He did not miss it, to my knowledge, up to the hour of his death.” “And what is the other receipt which you allude to as being of a different nature from the poison and the antidote?”’ asked Page. ‘It is more curious and ingenious than positively bad,”’ replied Julia; “although it assists evil-designing persons to carry on a safe correspondence by means of letters. In ECOMNICE OOO SS (EO)