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Updated: May 4, 2025
"There is a poor fellow in the steerage, Sir George, to whom I have given a piece of canvas to repair a damage to his mainsail, who would say the same thing, did he know of your six-and-thirtys. Take a cigar, my dear sir, and smoke away sorrow." "Thankee, captain: I never smoke. We never smoke at our club, though some of us go, at times, to the divan to try a chibouk."
I observed that one of these, who had on a former visit been pointed out to me by my friend Dobri, sat not far from the colporteur smoking his chibouk with a grave critical expression of countenance. At last the colporteur turned to the 115th Psalm, and I now began to perceive that the man had a purpose, and was gradually leading the people on.
The tinkle of the traveller's bells, after growing louder, had faded away quickly, and the tumult of barking dogs in the village had calmed down at last. My uncle, lounging in the corner of a small couch, smoked his long Turkish chibouk in silence. "This is an extremely nice writing-table you have got for my room," I remarked.
There at his left was the smoky shelf of blind Moulay's café black-faced, white-eyed old Moulay. Moulay was dead now many years, but the men still sat in the same attitudes, holding the same cups, smoking the same chibouk with the same gulping of bubbles as in the happy days.
He led Lancey to the room in which they had first met, and, seating himself on a divan, lighted his chibouk. "Sit down," he said, pointing to a cushion that lay near him on the marble floor. Lancey, although unaccustomed to such a low seat, obeyed. "Smoke," said the Pasha, handing a cigarette to his guest.
"Truly," I thought to myself in my dejection and disillusionment, "I cannot be quite grown-up if I cannot smoke as other fellows do, and should be fated never to hold a chibouk between my first and second fingers, or to inhale and puff smoke through a flaxen moustache!" When Dimitri called for me at five o'clock, he found me in this unpleasant predicament.
The tinkle of the traveller's bels, after growing louder, had faded away quickly, and the tumult of barking dogs in the village had calmed down at last. My uncle, lounging in the corner of a small couch, smoked his long Turkish chibouk in silence. "This is an extremely nice writing-table you have got for my room," I remarked.
"The great lady" smoked a chibouk, but did not offer it to the others. Lady Montefiore made each of them a present of a neat gold ring set with mosaics, with which they were much pleased. They said it was the first visit they had ever paid; they were not even allowed to visit their own brothers, but the Agha was so pleased with Lady Montefiore, that he wished his wives to see her.
I chose the chibouk, and as the stem of mine was studded with precious stones of enormous value, I thought I should enjoy it the more; but the tobacco being highly flavored with some sort of herbs, my smoke fell far short of my anticipations.
Redbeard, as Lancey called him, mentally, reclined on a couch and smoked a chibouk. "Come here," he said gravely, in broken English. Lancey advanced into the middle of the apartment. "It vas you what blew'd up de monitor," he said sternly, sending a thick cloud of smoke from his lips. "No, your ." Lancey paused.
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