The Count of Monte Cristo

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grains. This quantity, which is perfectly safe to administer to the
paralyzed frame of M. Noirtier, which has become gradually accustomed to
it, would be sufficient to kill another person."

"My dear doctor, there is no communication between M. Noirtier's
apartment and that of Madame de Saint-Meran, and Barrois never entered
my mother-in-law's room. In short, doctor although I know you to be the
most conscientious man in the world, and although I place the utmost
reliance in you, I want, notwithstanding my conviction, to believe this
axiom, errare humanum est."

"Is there one of my brethren in whom you have equal confidence with
myself?"

"Why do you ask me that?--what do you wish?"

"Send for him; I will tell him what I have seen, and we will consult