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Eames who ventured to remark, in a seemly whisper, that he attended the funeral not so much out of respect for the lamented lady every cloud, he fancied, had a silver lining as because he hoped to gather, from among so representative a concourse of natives and foreigners, the "popular impression" of yesterday's eruption, with a view to utilizing it in this appendix on RECENT VOLCANIC PHENOMENA OF NEPENTHE.
Never nepenthe, never abandonne, always wide-awake, and watching for saliences, I had gone abroad like a falcon, and roamed at home like a hungry jackal.
It might well be that Muhlen had heard somehow or other of her presence on Nepenthe, and gone there for the purpose of renewing acquaintance with her. But this foul crime! For it cannot have been a sudden impulse on her part. She had been playing with him leading him on. His visits to the Old Town, at that quiet hour of the day. . . . No.
Heard was both shocked and amused to reflect that but for the co-operation of certain coarse organic impulses to which these Nepenthe legends testified, the millionaire might never have been able to acquire the proud title of "Saviour of his Country." "That's queer," he mused. "It never struck me before. Shows how careful one must be. Dear me!
They seemed to merge together to glide into each other, and then to separate again. Mr. Heard was vastly pleased and puzzled by the phenomenon so pleased that he gave utterance to one of the longest speeches he had made since his arrival on Nepenthe. He said: "I have seen many funny things here, Denis. But this is the funniest of all.
In all ages of the world there has been a search for some herb or flower that would stimulate lethargy and compose grief. Among the ancient Greeks and Egyptians they found something they called nepenthe, and the Theban women knew how to compound it. If a person should chew a few of those leaves his grief would be immediately whelmed with hilarity.
As for me, I like a little movement of the boat. You know our proverb? Weeds don't spoil. I'm alluding to myself, of course!" Weeds don't spoil. . . . Yes, he was a weed. Mr. Heard had not taken kindly to him; he hoped they would not see too much of each other on Nepenthe, which he understood to be rather a small place.
I certainly should have seen those feet. However did you get 'em into the bar?" Give us our rest, O Father, in thine own appointed time and of thy gracious olden fashion. Lay thy annulling seal upon the o'erlabored heart: drop thy healing nepenthe into the weary brain. Teach us not to fear that which brings us nearer to Thee.
For the bells did the work of arousing curiosity; they tolled plangently into the night. Stranger pageant never trod Nepenthe. Some thoughtful person had discovered that umbrellas might be used with advantage.
Milk or tea, cocoa or coffee, poor commonplace liquids, are they not transmuted in the alembic of a bedroom fire, till they become nepenthe for a heartache or a philtre for romance? Ah, the romance of it, when youth forestalls to-morrow's conquest, when middle life forgets that yesterday is past for ever, when even querulous old age thinks it may still have its "honour and its toil"!
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