After awhile he'll come to understand that, and then he'll be extremely pleased with you, and most probably he'll raise your wages." "He'll not do that," said Sabina confidently.
"In any case," said Meldon, "whatever view he ultimately takes of your action, you will have the feeling that you are securing the greatest good of the greatest number, and that's a reward in itself--a much better reward than a few shillings extra wages." "It might be," said Sabina; but she spoke without conviction.
"As to the exact method that you ought to pursue," said Meldon, "I don't lay down any hard and fast rules; but I should suggest that paraffin oil is a thing that has a most penetrating kind of taste, and I don't know that I ever met any one who liked it.

I remember once a servant we had at home cleaned the inside of the coffee-pot with paraffin oil.

I tasted the stuff for weeks afterwards, and I couldn't make out for a long time where the flavour came from." "Would there be any fear," said Sabina, "but I might poison him ?" "Not a bit," said Meldon.

"You'll do him good if he eats the things.
You may not know it, but vaseline is made from paraffin oil, and it's well known that vaseline is an extraordinarily wholesome sort of stuff, good for almost anything in the way of a cut or a burn.

Then there's a kind of emulsion made from petroleum--that's the same as paraffin--which cures consumption.