Chapter IV: Part II

"I sit still by his arm-chair and tell him what is happening to his Grizel." They told Aaron something. "But my friends still call me Mrs. Jerry," she said softly. "I woke up," she said. He heard their seductive voices, they danced around him in numbers.

MY LADY NICOTINE A STUDY IN SMOKE By J. M. Barrie Illustrated By M. B. Prendergast

CONTENTS chap. page I. Matrimony and Smoking compared 1 II. My First Cigar 11 III. The Arcadia Mixture 18 IV. My Pipes 27 V. My Tobacco-Pouch 38 VI. My Smoking-Table 45 VII. Gilray 52 VIII. Marriot 60 IX. Jimmy 70 [pg viii] X. Scrymgeour 78 XI. His Wife's Cigars 87 XII. Gilray's Flower-Pot 94 XIII. The Grandest Scene in History 103 XIV. My Brother Henry 116 XV. House-Boat "Arcadia" 124 XVI. The Arcadia Mixture Again 133 XVII. The Romance of a Pipe-Cleaner 143 XXVIII. What could he do? 151 XIX. Primus 159 XX. Primus to his Uncle 168 XXI. English-grown Tobacco 177 XXII. How Heroes smoke 186 XXIII. The Ghost of Christmas Eve 194 XXIV. Not the Arcadia 202 XXV. A Face that haunted Marriot 209 XXVI. Arcadians at Bay 216 XXVII. Jimmy's Dream 223 XXVIII. Gilray's Dream 231 XXIX. Pettigrew's Dream 239 XXX. The Murder in the Inn 247 XXXI. The Perils of not Smoking 252 XXXII. My Last Pipe 260 XXXIII. When my Wife is Asleep and all the House is Still 269 ILLUSTRATIONS Half-Title i Frontispiece iv Title-Page v Headpiece to Table of Contents vii Tailpiece to Table of Contents viii Headpiece to List of Illustrations ix Tailpiece to List of Illustrations xiii Headpiece to Chap. I. 1 "As well as a spring bonnet and a nice dress" 6 "There are the Japanese fans on the wall" 7 Tailpiece Chap. I. "My wife puts her hand on my shoulder" 10 Headpiece Chap. II. 11 "At last he jumped up" 14 Box of cigars 15 Tailpiece Chap. II. "I firmly lighted my first cigar" 17 Headpiece Chap. III. "Jimmy pins a notice on his door" 18 "We are only to be distinguished by our pipes" 20 The Arcadia Mixture 21 Tailpiece Chap. III. 26 Headpiece Chap. IV. "Oh, see what I have done" 27 "I fell in love with two little meerschaums" 33 Pipes and pouch 36 Tailpiece Chap. IV. 37 Headpiece Chap. V. "They ... made tongs of their knitting-needles to lift it" 38 "I ... cast my old pouch out at the window" 40, 41 "It never quite recovered from its night in the rain" 43 Tailpiece Chap. V. 44 Headpiece Chap VI. "My Smoking-Table" 45 "Sometimes I had knocked it over accidentally" 48 Tailpiece Chap. VI. 51 Headpiece Chap. VII. "We met first in the Merediths' house-boat" 52 "He 'strode away blowing great clouds into the air,'" 57 Tailpiece Chap. VII. "The Arcadia had him for its own" 59 Headpiece Chap. VIII. "I let him talk on" 60 Pipes and jar of spills 62, 63 Tray of pipes and cigars 64 "I would ... light him to his sleeping-chamber with a spill" 68 Tailpiece Chap. VIII. 69 Headpiece Chap. IX. "The stem was a long cherry-wood" 70 "In time ... the Arcadia Mixture made him more and more like the rest of us" 71 "A score of smaller letters were tumbling about my feet" 74 Tailpiece Chap. IX. "Mothers' pets" 77 Headpiece Chap. X. "Scrymgeour was an artist" 78 "With shadowy reptiles crawling across the panels" 81 "Scrymgeour sprang like an acrobat into a Japanese dressing-gown" 84 Tailpiece Chap. X. 86 Headpiece Chap. XI. "His wife's cigars" 87 "A packet of Celebros alighted on my head" 88 "I told her the cigars were excellent" 90 Tailpiece Chap. XI. 93 Headpiece Chap. XII. "Gilray's flower-pot" 94 "Then Arcadians would drop in" 97 "I wrote to him" 99 Tailpiece Chap. XII. "The can nearly fell from my hand" 102 Headpiece Chap. XIII. 103 "Raleigh ... introduced tobacco into this country" 105 The Arcadia Mixture 111 "Ned Alleyn goes from tavern to tavern picking out his men" 113 Tailpiece Chap. XIII. 115 Headpiece Chap. XIV. "I was testing some new Cabanas" 116 "A few weeks later some one tapped me on the shoulder" 118 "Naturally in the circumstances you did not want to talk about Henry" 120 Tailpiece Chap. XIV. 123 Headpiece Chap. XV. "House-boat Arcadia" 124 "I caught my straw hat disappearing on the wings of the wind" 126 "It was the boy come back with the vegetables" 129 Tailpiece Chap. XV. "There was a row all round, which resulted in our division into five parties" 132 Headpiece Chap. XVI. "The Arcadia Mixture again" 133 "On the open window ... stood a round tin of tobacco" 135 "A pipe of the Mixture" 138 "The lady was making pretty faces with a cigarette in her mouth" 139 Tailpiece Chap. XVI. 142 Headpiece Chap. XVII. "He was in love again" 143 "I heard him walking up and down the deck" 145 Tailpiece Chap. XVII. "He took the wire off me and used it to clean his pipe" 150 Headpiece Chap. XVIII. "I had walked from Spondinig to Franzenshohe" 151 "On the middle of the plank she had turned to kiss her hand" 152 "Then she burst into tears" 157 Tailpiece Chap. XVIII. "A wall has risen up between us" 158 Headpiece Chap. XIX. "Primus" 159 "Many tall hats struck, to topple in the dust" 161 "Running after sheep, from which ladies were flying" 163 "I should like to write you a line" 165 Tailpiece Chap. XIX. "I am, respected sir, your diligent pupil" 167 Headpiece Chap. XX. 168 "Reading Primus's letters" 171 Tailpiece Chap. XX. 176 Headpiece Chap. XXI. "English-grown tobacco" 177 "I smoked my third cigar very slowly" 182 Tailpiece Chap. XXI. 185 Headpiece Chap. XXII. "How heroes smoke" 186 "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" 235 A friendly favor 237 Tailpiece Chap. XXVIII. 238 Headpiece Chap. XXIX. "Pettigrew's dream" 239 "He went round the morning-room" 241 "His wife ... filled his pipe for him" 243 "Mrs. Pettigrew sent one of the children to the study" 244 Tailpiece Chap. XXIX. "I awarded the tin of Arcadia to Pettigrew" 246 Headpiece Chap. XXX. "Sometimes I think it is all a dream" 247 Tailpiece Chap. XXX. 251 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" 262 "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

THE NOVELS, TALES AND SKETCHES OF J. M. BARRIE BETTER DEAD

CONTENTS

I. ENGAGED? II. THE S. D. W. S. P.? III. THE GREAT SOCIAL QUESTION? IV. WOMAN'S RIGHTS? V. DYNAMITERS? VI. A CELEBRITY AT HOME? VII. EXPERIMENTING? VIII. A LOST OPPORTUNITY? IX. THE ROOT OF THE MATTER? X. THE OLD OLD STORY?

A WINDOW IN THRUMS By J. M. Barrie

CONTENTS I THE HOUSE ON THE BRAE II ON THE TRACK OF THE MINISTER III PREPARING TO RECEIVE COMPANY IV WAITING FOR THE DOCTOR V A HUMORIST ON HIS CALLING VI DEAD THIS TWENTY YEARS VII THE STATEMENT OF TIBBIE BIRSE VIII A CLOAK WITH BEADS IX THE POWER OF BEAUTY X A MAGNUM OPUS XI THE GHOST CRADLE XII THE TRAGEDY OF A WIFE XIII MAKING THE BEST OF IT XIV VISITORS AT THE MANSE XV HOW GAVIN BIRSE PUT IT TO MAG LOWNIE XVI THE SON FROM LONDON XVII A HOME FOR GENIUSES XVIII LEEBY AND JAMIE XIX A TALE OF A GLOVE XX THE LAST NIGHT XXI JESS LEFT ALONE XXII JAMIE'S HOME-COMING ILLUSTRATIONS J. M. BARRIE . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece The square foot of glass where Jess sat in her chair and looked down the brae

THE PLAYS OF J. M. BARRIE QUALITY STREET A COMEDY