The Count of Monte Cristo

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"And you really believe the result would be still more sure with us
than in the East, and in the midst of our fogs and rains a man
would habituate himself more easily than in a warm latitude to this
progressive absorption of poison?"

"Certainly; it being at the same time perfectly understood that he
should have been duly fortified against the poison to which he had not
been accustomed."

"Yes, I understand that; and how would you habituate yourself, for
instance, or rather, how did you habituate yourself to it?"

"Oh, very easily. Suppose you knew beforehand the poison that would
be made use of against you; suppose the poison was, for instance,
brucine"--

"Brucine is extracted from the false angostura [*] is it not?" inquired