CHAPTER VIII. DUMAS.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Thompson, C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel)
“‘To me? You are mad, master!’
“‘Mad? And why?’ asked the old man, perfectly unmoved at this charge, and licking with the utmost delight a drop of the fluid which had escaped from the cork of the phial and was trickling down the side.
“‘Why, for that purpose you must kill the child.’
“‘Of course we must kill him; and the handsomer he is the better.’”
But in the end the old man falls a victim to his own infatuation, and at length dies incontinently without discovering the long-looked-for arcana.