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As he bowed and grinned, showing his yellow, broken teeth, Carmichael thought that he had never seen a more evil face or one more clearly marked with the sign of the drug-fiend. "My chauffeur, Gaspard," said the Baron, "also my valet, my cook, my chambermaid, my man to do all, what you call factotum, is it not? But he speaks not English, so pardon me once more."
There was an air of finality about the last statement that made Kennedy rise and move toward the door with a hearty "Thank you, for your kindness," and a wish to be remembered to "poor old Thornton." As we climbed into the car he poked me in the ribs. "Just as good for the present as if we had seen him," he exclaimed. "Drug-fiend, friend of Mrs. Pitts, committed by Dr. Lord, no wounds."
She was sure Miss Mellins must have abominable things to tell about drug-fiends things she did not have the strength to hear. "Drug-fiend" the very word was Satanic; she could hear Miss Mellins roll it on her tongue. But Ann Eliza's own imagination, left to itself, had begun to people the long hours with evil visions.
I had reached that nervous state where I craved something doing, as a drug-fiend craves the dope that sets his brain on fire again. I did not ask where he was going, for I knew it intuitively, and it was not long before we were again in the part of the city where the gangster's garage was located. We stopped and Garrick beckoned to an urchin, a couple of blocks below the garage.
"Suppose, for instance, he could be made to believe that you were, let us say, a dipsomaniac." She shook her head. "He knows that already." "What!" "Yes; I told him I sometimes walked in my sleep." "I mean a secret drinker." "Nothing will induce me to pretend to be a secret drinker." "Then a drug-fiend?" I suggested, hopefully. "I hate medicine." "I have it!" I said. "A kleptomaniac."
He is the pallid, furtive-eyed man whom I observed the first day when the men were routed out of the forecastle to man the windlass the man I so instantly adjudged a drug-fiend. He certainly looks it. I asked Mr. Pike his estimate of the man. "White slaver," was his answer. "Had to skin outa New York to save his skin.
In his own life with that lovely consumptive Child-bride dying by his side Edgar Allen Poe lived as "morally," as rigidly, as any Monk. The popular talk about his being a "Drug-Fiend" is ridiculous nonsense. He was a laborious artist, chiselling and refining his "artificial" poems, day in and day out. Where his "immorality" lies is much deeper.
The syringe was marked 'K.W., and some impulse made me keep it, and after the inquest, when I learned cyanide of potassium had killed Spencer, I hardly let it out of my sight" Kathleen turned bewildered, grateful eyes on the spinster she was not a drug-fiend, but the most loyal of friends. Her hand tightened on the spinster's, and her pressure was returned twofold.
It was one thing and heaven knew it was bad enough! to learn that one's sister's husband was a drug-fiend; it was another, and much worse thing, to learn from that sister's pallid lips what vileness lay behind the word. Evelina, unconscious of any distress but her own, sat upright, shivering in Ann Eliza's hold, while she piled up, detail by detail, her dreary narrative.
"It can't be done like that. You can't take drugs away from a drug-fiend at one swoop. Let him down gently treat him as a friend until he has to go get him to see reason." "No," she said. "You don't understand. You 'ave not 'ad my experience. If I let 'im 'ang on 'e get much worse. If I push 'im off poof! an explosion!
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