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One day the professor was lecturing on poisons, and he showed his students some alkaloid, as he called it, which he had extracted from some South American arrow poison, and which was so powerful that the least grain meant instant death.
"There has been a bad business during the night at 3, Lauriston Gardens, off the Brixton Road.
"Hush, dears," said Mrs. Honeychurch, who found it impossible to remain shocked.
But in the south-west there had appeared a dull haze of yellow, which might mean better weather if it did not mean worse.
