"
"It might be," said Sabina; but she spoke without conviction.
"As to the exact method that you ought to pursue," said Meldon, "I
don't lay down any hard and fast rules; but I should suggest that
paraffin oil is a thing that has a most penetrating kind of taste, and
I don't know that I ever met any one who liked it. I remember once a
servant we had at home cleaned the inside of the coffee-pot with
paraffin oil. I tasted the stuff for weeks afterwards, and I couldn't
make out for a long time where the flavour came from."
"Would there be any fear," said Sabina, "but I might poison him?"
"Not a bit," said Meldon. "You'll do him good if he eats the things.
You may not know it, but vaseline is made from paraffin oil, and it's
well known that vaseline is an extraordinarily wholesome sort of stuff,
good for almost anything in the way of a cut or a burn. Then there's a
kind of emulsion made from petroleum--that's the same as
paraffin--which cures consumption. For all we know this judge may be
suffering from consumption, and a little paraffin may be the best thing
in the world for him."
"I wouldn't like if he was to die on us.
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