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But now, as for that
circumstance of poison being administered in bread, how improbable, how unusual, how strange a
thing it is. Was it easier than administering it in a cup? Could it be hid more secretly in
some part of the bread than if it had been all liquefied and amalgamated with a potion? Could
it pass more rapidly into the veins and into every separate part of the body if it were eaten
than if it were drunk? Could it escape notice (if that was thought of) more easily in bread,
than in a cup, when it might then have been so mixed up as to be wholly impossible to be
separated?
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