Your health is weak, your nerves unstrung.

That elixir is a powerful vivifying tonic, acting with great rapidity on the entire system, and rushing through the veins with the swiftness of ELECTRICITY.

I am accustomed to it; it is my daily medicine.

But I was brought to it by slow, and almost imperceptible degrees.

A single teaspoonful of that fluid, mademoiselle, administered to anyone not prepared to receive it, would be instant death, though its actual use is to vivify and strengthen human life.