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Rh poetry, and are reducible to figures, like an algebraic equation; but go on, I pray of you; what you say interests me to the greatest degree."

"Well," replied Monte-Cristo, "suppose, then, that this poison was brucine, and you were to take a milligramme the first day, two milligrammes the second day, and so on, Well! at the end of ten days you

would have taken a centigramme; at the end of twenty days, increasing another milligramme, you would have taken three hundred centigram-t mes; that is to say, a dose which you would support without inconvenience, and which would be very dangerous for any other person who