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...y of a battle, at least one murder, and several sudden deaths. For that reason it begins with a pink tea and among the mingled odors of many delicate perfumes and the hale, frank smell of Caroline Testout roses. There had been a great number of debutantes ?coming out? that season in San Francisco by means of afternoon teas, pink, lavender, and otherwise. This particular te...

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...was perceptibly warmer. On board, the two watches mingled forward, smoking opium and playing a game that looked like checkers. Three of them were wash... ...is glance wandered now to the sordid cabin of the “Bertha Millner” and the opium-drugged coolie sprawled on the “donkey’s break- fast,” and now to the... ...ver the mainmast. On the fo’c’sle head the Chinamen were asleep or smoking opium. It was Charlie’s watch. Kitchell dozed in his hammock in the shadow ... ...ights were set, the Chinamen foregathered in the fo’c’stle head, smok- ing opium, and by eight o’clock the routine of the day was at an end. So the ti... ... com- ing forth from the strong.” The schooner seemed to swim in a bath of perfumed air; the membrane of the nostrils fairly prinkled with the sensati... ...e tulle and whiter kid, odorous of delicate sachets and scarce-perceptible perfumes—was a figure unhandsome and unkempt beyond description. His hair w... ... were gray with grime; a strangling odor of oil and tar, of cooking and of opium, of Chinese punk and drying fish, pervaded all the air. In the waist,...

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... purple shrubs are shaded endlessly; in short, where blend all colors, all perfumes of a flora whose wonders are still ignored. Widen the boundaries o... ...emed a mere caprice of nature giving to stone the freshness, softness, and perfume of plants. “Why do you call it matchless? can it not reproduce it- ... ... stage curtain. Here we may breathe the thoughts of God, as it were like a perfume. See! the angry billows which engulf the ships laden with men seem ... ... men, thou wouldst fain be plunged for- ever in these spheres of light and perfume where now thou art, free of thy swooning body, and where thy though... ...orous which stimulates life and accelerates its propulsion; or again, like opium, which puts to sleep corporeal nature, disengages the spirit from eve... ...lower blooming in winter. “A mystery!” cried Wilfrid, intoxicated with its perfume. “The flower makes me giddy,” said Minna; “I fancy I still hear tha...

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...sdain upon the duenna, “if one cannot make you ca- pitulate, with a little opium one can make you sleep. We 36 The Girl with the Golden Eyes know myt... ...morning. Be walking there at that hour. One of the two flasks will contain opium to send your Argus to sleep; it will be sufficient to employ six drop... ...can describe. “Yes; but not to-night. T o-night Adolphe, I gave too little opium to La Concha. She might wake up, and I should be lost. At this moment... ...f litter, conveyed him across a garden. He could smell its flowers and the perfume peculiar to trees and grass. The silence which reigned there was so... ... through sev- eral apartments, and left him in a room whose atmosphere was perfumed, and the thick carpet of which he could feel beneath his feet. A w... ...u, profit by my momentary empire to say to you: ‘Take me as one tastes the perfume of a flower when one passes it in a king’s garden.’ Then, after hav... ...eal, feeling in souls who are not illuminated by that celestial light, nor perfumed with that holy essence from which the performance of sentiment spr... ...been a gentle rain, the earth was moist. At night-time certain veg- etable perfumes are far stronger than during the day; Henri could smell, therefore...

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...ied to excess, he hoped would in due time kill him, as Vendramin relied on opium. “And I am a prince!” As he spoke the words, Emilio Memmi tossed Marc... ...er as a woman, this sudden incursion of wealth had the effect of a dose of opium. When the Prince had drunk the whole of the bottle of port, eaten hal... ...rself at home—she has taken off her cloak! Have I, like Vendramin, inhaled opium, and am I in the midst of one of those dreams in which he sees Venice... ...man in Italy. T o me, seeing things as I do through the dazzling medium of opium, she seems the very highest expression of art; for nature, without kn... ...strange things in our country, monsieur,” she went on. “Vendramin lives on opium, as this one lives on love, and that one buries himself in learning; ... ...ing is addressed to the intellect; it communicates ideas directly , like a perfume. The singer’s voice impinges not on the mind, not on the memory of ... ...ead of exciting my passive flesh; the air seems red and sparkling, unknown perfumes of indescrib- able strength relax my sinews, roses wreathe my temp...

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...d have interfered with his chemical processes, had supplied its place with perfumed lamps, emitting flames of various hue, but all uniting in a soft, ... ...uch it.” “Nay, pluck it,” answered Aylmer,—”pluck it, and inhale its brief perfume while you may. The flower will wither in a few moments and leave no... ...and wherefore such and such flowers differed among them selves in hue and perfume. Nevertheless, in spite of this deep intelligence on his part, ther... ...ni, though he knew not why, think of deep hues of purple or crimson and of perfumes heavily delectable. “Are you in the garden?” “Yes, Beatrice,” answ... ...ask to nurse and serve thee; and thou shalt reward her with thy kisses and perfumed breath, which to her is as the breath of life.” Then, with all the... ...se teeth and an auburn wig; if he demanded peace of mind, they recommended opium or a brandy bottle. Tracts of land and golden mansions, situate in th... ...s if it were his native atmosphere. Again, they drugged their patient with opium and drenched him with intoxicating liquors, hoping that the snake mig... ...nd darting to and fro within his narrow limits, evidently enlivened by the opium or alcohol, and in cited to unusual feats of activity. Thenceforth t...

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...ED FOREST e drove off from the Springs Hotel about three in the afternoon. The sun warmed me to the heart. A broad, cool wind streamed pauselessly d... ...s. We gazed up the cleft into the bosom of the mountain. We sat by the margin of the dump and saw, far below us, the green treetops stand- ing still i... ...snowy white; but, alas! he had heard rumours of Silverado. He know it for a lone place on the mountain-side, with no friendly wash-house near by, wher... ...amages, and filled in some of the doors and windows with white cotton cloth, became a healthy and a pleasant dwell- ing-place, always airy and dry, an... ...It did not hold the attention, nor interrupt the thread of meditation, like a blackbird or a nightin- gale; it was mere woodland prattle, of which the... ...er, and the most of them came lower than my waist. For a prosperous forest tree, we must look below, where the glen was crowded with green spires. But...

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...g to her words the poetry of song by its peculiar intonation. Inhaling the perfume of violets that ac- companied her, I understood how the memory of t... ...ht of July and a glorious moon lent us their misty light. Gusts of mingled perfumes soothed the soul; the Countess was clinking in her hand the five g... ...’ said he, ‘I have at home, to enable me to wait till to-morrow, a dose of opium which Desplein pre- pared for me to send me to sleep without any risk... ... com- plete, I went to the Rue Payenne. Anxiety had conquered the power of opium. Octave was walking up and down his garden like a madman. “ ‘Answer t... ...n which I believed, that enchanted blossom with glorious colors, and whose perfume disgusts us with reality. I am a Saint-Theresa who has not been suf...

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... AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL.... ... AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM- EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL... ..., oil of spikenard, myrrh, balsams, attar of roses, and rose-water, as the perfumes usually contained in the Hebrew scent-pendants. Rose-water, which ... ...ew scent-pendants. Rose-water, which I am the first to mention as a Hebrew perfume, had, as I presume, a fore- most place on the toilette of a Hebrew ... ... case, there needs no more to be said on the subject of Hebrew combs.’ II. PERFUMES.—Before, however, the hair received its fi- nal arrangement from t... ...one- tenth of the income which the bride brings him, for the pur- chase of perfumes, essences, precious ointments, &c. All these articles were preserv... ...flowing loosely between the shoulders. According to the Oriental taste for perfumes, all the ribbons or fillets used in these helmets and turbans were...

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...ly the tattered blinds, sending from the woods opposite a faint and sickly perfume as of decaying flowers. Under Almayer’s heavy tread the boards of t... ...d see stretched on a pile of cool mats, a wooden pillow under his head, an opium pipe in his nerveless fingers. He did not seek, however, consolation ... ...um pipe in his nerveless fingers. He did not seek, however, consolation in opium—perhaps it was too ex- pensive—perhaps his white man’s pride saved hi... ...ted her with a friendly nod before climbing up indoors to seek his beloved opium pipe. The elder children clustered round her, daring from long acquai... ..., descrying Babalatchi far away, would shake off the stupor of an habitual opium smoker and, tottering on to the middle of the road, would await the a... ...ng his muddled brain with secrets of trade, and relapsed by the aid of his opium pipe into a state of stupefied bliss, letting Babalatchi pursue his w... ...at dew-sparkling petals that descended rotating slowly in a continuous and perfumed stream; and over them, under them, in the sleeping water; all arou... ... luxuriant vegetation bathed in the warm air charged with strong and harsh perfumes, the intense work of tropical nature went on: plants shooting upwa...

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...bout one o’clock in the morning, the wife of Mon- sieur Cesar Birotteau, a perfumer established near the Place Vendome, was startled from her sleep by... ...Birotteau!” she cried at last in a voice full of anguish. She then saw the perfumer in the middle of the next room, a yard-stick in his hand measuring... ...s a wolf. Do you hear me, Birotteau?” “Yes, wife, here I am,” answered the perfumer, coming into the bedroom. “Come and warm yourself, and tell me wha... ... if you think a citizen has paid his debt to his country by merely selling perfumery for twenty years to those who came to buy it. If the State demand... ... burn our sign, ‘The Queen of Roses’; I efface the name, ‘Cesar Birotteau, Perfumer, Successor to Ragon,’ and put simply, ‘Perfumery’ in big letters o... ... comes either by caravan, or by Havre.” According to Birotteau al- oes and opium were only to be found in the Rue des Lombards. Rosewater, said to be ...

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... Among the passengers were a number of officers, Government officials, and opium and indigo merchants, whose business called them to the eastern coast... ...Francis. “That was because they had intoxicated her with fumes of hemp and opium.” “But where are they taking her?” “To the pagoda of Pillaji, two mil... ... in the act of plung- ing themselves into the drunkenness caused by liquid opium mingled with hemp, and it might be possible to slip between them to t... ...atna, a large manufacturing and trading-place, where is held the principal opium market of India; or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as ... ...me; while nutmeg-trees in full foli- age filled the air with a penetrating perfume. Agile and grin- ning bands of monkeys skipped about in the trees, ... ...andy; smoking, the while, long red clay pipes stuffed with little balls of opium mingled with essence of rose. From time to time one of the smokers, o... ...ng themselves, with flowers which were giving forth their last colours and perfumes, not on bushes, but on trees, and within bamboo enclosures, cherry...

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...powerful that they give rise to phantasies as various as the dreams of the opium-eater. Lambert told me of mystical facts so extraordinary, he so acte... ... final cause of man is, after all, not more amazing than the production of perfume and color in a plant. Perfumes are ideas, perhaps! “When we conside... ... dies unseen in the heart of the virgin forest, where no one can enjoy its perfume or admire its splendor. Just as that blossom vainly sheds its fragr... ...4 Louis Lambert can conquer, and whose exercise is suspended by a grain of opium? How imagine that we shall be able to feel when we are bereft of the ... ...rbances, transcending the most fantastic results of taking tea, coffee, or opium, of dreams or of fever—mysteri- ous agents, whose terrible action oft...

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... ambassador. She filled the nipple with patchouli, cleaned the bochettino, perfumed the goose-quill, which she attached to the mouth- piece and used o... ...he T urk of the intellect made somnolent by meditation. Criti- cism is his opium; his harem of books to read disgusts him with real work. Indifferent ... ...woman, and she burst into tears. Filling her hookah with tobacco soaked in opium, she spent the greater part of the night in smoking, dulling thus the... ...to bathe in their light, to examine every detail of her dress, breathe its perfume, listen to the music of her voice, watch the grace- ful composition... ... nearly lost both his strength and his senses once more, as he inhaled the perfume, to him entrancing though venomous, of the poem composed by Beatrix... ... which rippled the rays of the foot-lights attracted by the shin- ing of a perfumed oil. Her white brow sparkled. She had applied an imperceptible tin... ...o memories, that of angels and that of devils) Beatrix was redolent of the perfume which she used at Les T ouches during her first acquaintance with C...

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... walls, and passed overhead, spreading everywhere the de- licious, mingled perfume of magnolia blossoms, of mignon- 111 Frank Norris ette, of moss, o... ...miles away, could catch the scent of this valley of flowers, this chaos of perfume. And into this life of flowers, this world of colour, this atmosphe... ...e sky encrusted with stars, the little Mission garden exhaling the mingled perfumes that all through the scorching day had been distilled un- der the ... ...the lapse of the over-passing breeze. And then, in the midst of the gentle perfumes of the garden, the perfumes of the magnolia flowers, of the mignon... ...uese, swarthy, with plastered hair and curled mustaches, redolent of cheap perfumes. Sarria arrived, his smooth, shiny face glistening with perspirati... ...hieves, murderers, men below the beasts, lost to all decency, drugged with opium, utter reprobates. T o this, Dyke had been brought, Dyke, than whom n...

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...cience or politics, even the bold- est of them, were born in that room, as perfumes emanate from flowers; there grew the mysterious plant that cast up... ...into the Indre. 32 The Lily of the Valley But having breathed the jasmine perfume of her skin and drunk the milk of that cup of love, my soul had acq... ...nt of his verse. Have you ever smelt in the fields in the month of May the perfume that commu- nicates to all created beings the intoxicating sense of... ... tear upon some petal more expanded than the rest. What do we give to God? perfumes, light, and song, the purest expression of our na- ture. Well, the... ...weeter than thy voice; lights more sparkling than the light of thine eyes, perfumes for which there are no words—yesterday thy soul was visible and pa... ...eave her to the doctor,” he said; “with Manette’s help he will wrap her in opium. Well, you have heard her now—if indeed it is she herself.” “No,” I s... ...pure. A soft light lit the bed on which my Henriette was lying, wrapped in opium. The body was, as it were, annihilated; the soul alone reigned on tha...

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...afterwards looking at the sunshine, enjoying the shade, breath- ing in the perfume of flowers in the small garden before his house. He fancied that no... ...e very nature of things, could dim the light of the sun, could destroy the perfume of the flowers, the submission of his wife, the smile of his child,... ...m by Hudig; then he reviewed the more important affairs: the quiet deal in opium; the illegal traffic in gunpowder; the great affair of smuggled firea... ...way till the boat is here.” “No, Mr. Hudig.” “And don’t forget about these opium cases. It’s for to-night. Use my own boatmen. Transship them from the... ...out of his heart. And he lay there, dream- ily contented, in the tepid and perfumed shelter, think- ing of Aissa’s eyes; recalling the sound of her vo... ...n soared suddenly, and flew, spinning and turning before the breath of the perfumed breeze, driven helplessly into the dark night that had closed over... ...ain is drowned in the flood of drowsy serenity that follows upon a dose of opium. He altered the position of his head by ever so little, and now could... ...Eng the next day, when the flag had been hauled down. He sent six cases of opium to me for safe keep- ing but has not left his house. I think he is sa... ...hat dazzles and withers; the sun beneficent and wicked—the giver of light, perfume, and pestilence. She had watched him—watched him close; fasci- nate...

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...d hear a tongue that are unfamiliar to the memory. The joss-stick burns, the opium pipe is smoked, the floors are strewn with slips of coloured paper ... ... Monterey, when the air does not smell salt from the one, it will be blowing perfumed from the resinous tree-tops of the other. For days together a ho... ...the town and up the slope, the night will be dry and warm and full of inland perfume. MEXICANS, AMERICANS, AND INDIANS THE HISTORY OF MONTEREY has yet... ...e youth of California, none indeed of their virtues, but the debasing use of opium. And chief among these influences is that of the Mexicans. The Mexi... ...ot the secret of the philtre. The place is sanative; the air, the light, the perfumes, and the shapes of things concord in happy harmony. The artist m...

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...d tangled gorges to the west of Ingouville, like a beggar in rags beside a perfumed and sump- tuously apparelled rich man. In 1829 one of the last hou... ...so many? This pa- per, filled with my soul,—can it be more to you than the perfumed letters which already beset you. I come to you with less grace tha... ...s for my daughters and a competence for myself. I have been engaged in the opium trade with the largest houses in Canton, all ten times richer than ev... ...at these rich East India merchants are. I went to Asia Minor and purchased opium at low prices, and from thence to Canton where I deliv- ered my cargo... ... trade. My last expedition was to the Philippine Islands where I exchanged opium for indigo of the first quality. In fact, I may have half a million m... ...ir bloom; See! for him each bud uncloses, Glows, and yields its rich perfume. Then arise! the lark is shaking Sunlit wings that heavenward... ... man were essentially Parisian; the ribbon, the gloves, the cane, the very perfume of his hair were not of Havre. So when La Briere turned about to ex... ...most an impossibility; for his ambitious mind had long forgotten the first perfumed phial that praise had broken over his head. “Ah, my soldier!” he s...

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...seemed to him as though the atmosphere again changed, and became balmy and perfumed. At length his feet touched on a thick and soft carpet, and his gu... ...izon, with all the blue of the ocean, all the spangles of the sun, all the perfumes of the summer breeze; then, in the midst of the songs of his sailo... ...hich may be supposed to reign around the grotto of Circe, formed from such perfumes as set the mind a dreaming, and such fires as burn the very senses... ...hose roots are mingled, whose branches intertwined, and whose intermingled perfume rises to the heavens. Only their wish to see each other had become ... ...turned Monte Cristo; “I make no secret of it. It is a mixture of excellent opium, which I fetched myself from Canton in order to have it pure, and the... ...emed to him as though her voice had altered. He could distinguish amid the perfumes of the roses and heliotropes in the flower-stands, the sharp and f... ...t all their physical sufferings, the other against all their enemies. With opium, belladonna, brucaea, snake-wood, and the cherry-laurel, they put to ...

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...rom Snowy Alp. Sleep hath forsook and giv’n me o’re To deaths benumming Opium as my only 630 Thence faintings, swounings of despair, And sen... ..., Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An Amber sent of odorous perfume 720 Her harbinger, a damsel train behind; Some rich Philistia...