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You might think it your duty to spoil Rachel's fun, and she and I are both enjoying it so much." "Can you guess what she means, Duffer?" Biddy appealed to me. "You know I wrote you that Monny and Miss Guest had a secret. I thought afterward it might have been only their plan to see the hasheesh den; but since then I've realized it was something else."
He was taken upstairs, passed through the door "Forbidden to the Public"; and the first person he saw in the long room as he entered, was Bedr smoking a gozeh, one of those cocoanut, cane-stemmed pipes in which hasheesh is mingled with the Persian tobacco called tumbak. Bedr was accused of treachery, and defended himself. The ladies had insisted. It was his place to obey.
Bear a little longer with my roundabout way of telling. It is Christmastide anyway; why should we hurry ourselves through this happy season? Just as Charley went into the door of the clubhouse you remember the Hasheesh clubhouse was in Madison Avenue then just as Charley entered he met the burly form and genial face of the eminent Dr.
No trees, and no herbage for the camels. The hasheesh which the camels ate this evening was brought us from the encampment of yesterday. The poor slaves knocked up to-day; rested many times on the road, and another very ill. In all probability she will follow her companions lately dead. Others, however, sang and danced, and tried to forget their slavery and hardships.
The second kind of sophistication to which the world of common sense has been subjected is derived from the psychologists and physiologists. The physiologists point out that what we see depends upon the eye, that what we hear depends upon the ear, and that all our senses are liable to be affected by anything which affects the brain, like alcohol or hasheesh.
The writer shrugged his shoulders: "Ah! yes, I know hasheesh, opium, green tea artificial paradises. I have read Baudelaire, and I even tasted the famous drug, which made me very sick." But the doctor, without stirring from his seat, said: "No; ether, nothing but ether; and I would suggest that you literary men should use it sometimes." The three rich bachelors drew closer to the doctor.
"Anyhow, that Eg-Anteouen with his hasheesh is a fine rascal." "Ceghéir-ben-Cheikh," I corrected. I rubbed my hand over my forehead. "Where are we?" "My dear boy," Morhange replied, "since I awakened from the extraordinary nightmare which is mixed up with the smoky cave and the lamp-lit stairway of the Arabian Nights, I have been going from surprise to surprise, from confusion to confusion.
Besides, has not my friend Bayard Taylor given to the world his wonderful experiences of the Hasheesh of Damascus; his varied and extraordinary hallucinations of intellect during the progress of its operations? And why should not I my humble experiences of the tchai of Moscow? Reader. Slightly sprinkled with vodka, or "the little water."
"Not for Sabine! and then, that is a drop of the absinthe, a little of the hasheesh of which I spoke to you. One sees only concessions in Paris, and even when one is dead, one needs a further concession, but in perpetuity. One only becomes one's self" and Guy's jesting tone became serious, "when a worthy fellow like you puts one a question that seems terribly like asking advice.
When the boys entered and closed the door again, it was four o'clock and they decided not to go back to bed again that night. "How'd you know there was some one there?" Sandy asked of Will. "I heard the window sash rattle, then a strong perfume something like opium or hasheesh was forced into the room, then the fellow on the outside began to work his hypnotic spell."
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