My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke. J. M. Barrie

Chap. XXII. "How heroes smoke"

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       "Once, indeed, we do see Strathmore smoking a good cigar"

      189

       "A half-smoked cigar"

      190

       "The tall, scornful gentleman who leans lazily against the door"

      192

       Tailpiece Chap. XXII.

      193

       Headpiece Chap. XXIII.

      194

       "The ghost of Christmas eve"

      195

       "My pipe"

      199

       "My brier, which I found beneath my pillow"

      200

       Tailpiece Chap. XXIII.

      201

       Headpiece Chap. XXIV. "But the pipes were old friends"

      202

       "It had the paper in its mouth"

      205

       Tailpiece Chap. XXIV. "I was pleased that I had lost"

      208

       Headpiece Chap. XXV. "A face that haunted Marriot"

      209

       "There was the French girl at Algiers"

      212

       Tailpiece Chap. XXV.

      215

       Headpiece Chap. XXVI. "Arcadians at bay"

      216

       Pipes and tobacco-jar

      220

       Tailpiece Chap. XXVI. "Jimmy began as follows"

      222

       Headpiece Chap. XXVII. "Jimmy's dream"

      223

       Pipes

      226

       "Council for defence calls attention to the prisoner's high and unblemished character"

      229

       Tailpiece Chap. XXVII.

      230

       Headpiece Chap. XXVIII.

      231

       "These indefatigable amateurs began to dance a minuet"

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       A friendly favor

      237

       Tailpiece Chap. XXVIII.

      238

       Headpiece Chap. XXIX. "Pettigrew's dream"

      239

       "He went round the morning-room"

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       "His wife … filled his pipe for him"

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       "Mrs. Pettigrew sent one of the children to the study"

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       Tailpiece Chap. XXIX. "I awarded the tin of Arcadia to Pettigrew"

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       Headpiece Chap. XXX. "Sometimes I think it is all a dream"

      247

       Tailpiece Chap. XXX.

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       Headpiece Chap. XXXI. "They thought I had weakly yielded"

      252

       "They went one night in a body to Pettigrew's"

      254

       Tailpiece Chap. XXXI.

      259

       Headpiece Chap. XXXII.

      260

       "Then we began to smoke"

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       "I conjured up the face of a lady"

      265

       "Not even Scrymgeour knew what my pouch had been to me"

      267

       Tailpiece Chap. XXXII.

      268

       Headpiece Chap. XXXIII. "When my wife is asleep and all the house is still"

      269

       "The man through the wall"

      272

       Pipes

      275

       Tailpiece Chap. XXXIII.

      276

MY LADY NICOTINE.

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CHAPTER I.

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MATRIMONY AND SMOKING COMPARED.

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      The circumstances in which I gave up smoking were these:

      I was a mere bachelor, drifting toward what I now see to be a tragic middle age. I had become so accustomed to smoke issuing from my mouth that I felt incomplete without it; indeed, the time came when I could refrain from smoking if doing nothing else, but hardly during the hours of toil. To lay aside my pipe was to find myself soon afterward wandering restlessly round my table. No blind beggar was ever more abjectly led by his dog, or more loath to cut the string.

       I am much better without tobacco, and already have a difficulty in sympathizing with the man I used to be. Even to call him up, as it were, and regard him without prejudice is a difficult task, for we forget the old