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Updated: May 8, 2025
For a long while he stood there trembling gently in unison with the ship, thought linking itself to thought, and image to image, his fancies growing ever more bizarre yet ever more distinct, as though he were inhaling, instead of the faint perfume of her hair, the smoke of hasheesh. But she had forgotten him.
He took the last car uptown, and he who had been two hours before in that brilliant company at the Hasheesh was now one of ten people riding in a street car.
Then quick to Jarvis Pasha and get him to raid the House of the Crocodile. Question of hasheesh. We must be smuggled out when arrests are made also Bedr, to save scandal. Not a word as to whether all were safe, or in danger! But I realized that, for some reason, each instant had been of value. And each instant was of value now.
He rang for his servant, had the fire replenished, opened his desk and began to write letters. First he resigned the presidency of the Hasheesh Club. Next he begged that Mrs. Rear-Admiral Albatross would excuse him from her Christmas dinner. Unforeseen circumstances, and the death of an intimate friend, were his apologies.
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.
Two or three palms within the town cast a grateful shadow, and make an angle of the streets picturesque, but no other trees are seen. On the south, without the walls, is a suburb of some fifty mud and stone houses. There are also scattered over the sand, on the west, a hundred or more of hasheesh huts, made of straw and palm-branches.
The fellow gives a list of seventy-one specific diseases for which his Hasheesh Candy is a sure cure, and he adds that it is also a sure cure for all diseases of the liver, brain, throat, stomach, ear, and other internal disorders; also for "all long standing diseases" whatever that means! and for insanity! In this monstrous list are jumbled together the most incongruous troubles.
She received an impression of deliberate, yet somnolent, sensuous enjoyment; and she recalled having seen long ago, in a doorway in Tunis, this same expression on the face of a beggar who had just been smoking hasheesh. He gave a start, and looked like a man who in his sleep has fallen off a roof.
I felt at once that it was opium, of which I had before made experiment, but mixed with some other substance, which was, I imagine, hasheesh, a preparation of hemp. A few puffs, and I felt a drowsiness creeping over me. I saw, as through a mist, the fakir swaying himself backwards and forwards, his arms waving and his face distorted.
He was president of the Hasheesh Club. He took his seat at the head of the table on Christmas Eve. The reader will remember that this was written in 1872. I do not know how far the uptown centers of fashion will be in twenty years more. Now, patient reader, we draw near to the time when Charley uttered the exclamation set down at the head of this story.
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