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Updated: June 27, 2025
They sat round a table under an acetylene lamp, anxiously listening to a young professor from Christiania who claimed to be versed in the higher mathematics and was then occupied in calculating, by means of the binomial theorem, how long it would take for the whole town of Nepenthe to be submerged under ashes up to the roofs presuming all the buildings to be of equal height.
Work was his nepenthe, and the difference between poor, superficial work and the best, most absorbing, was simply that between a weaker and a stronger opiate. He prospered in his affairs, was promoted to a position of responsibility with a good salary, and, moreover, was able to dispose of a patent in gun-barrels at a handsome price.
So far as tobacco is concerned, Nepenthe can be nothing but a ship at anchor." "True," said the Count. "The moist sirocco is injurious to the finer growths." "This south wind!" exclaimed Mr. Heard. "This African pest! Is there no other wind hereabouts? Tell me, Count, does the sirocco always blow?" "So far as I have observed it blows constantly during the spring and summer.
Later on, at the University, he used the English language for the sake of convenience in order to make himself understood by Dons and Heads of Colleges. His thoughts, his dreams, were in Latin. Such a man, arriving almost penniless on Nepenthe, might have passed a torpid month or two, then drifted into the Club-set and gone to the dogs altogether. Latin saved him.
When I re-entered the bungalow next day it was my intention to leave it and Wales at once and for ever, and indeed to leave England at once perhaps for ever, in order to escape from the unmanning effect of the sorrowful brooding which I knew had become a habit. 'I will now, I said, 'try the nepenthe that all my friends in their letters are urging me to try I will travel. Yes, I will go to Japan.
Milton also alludes to a famous recipe for an invigorating draught, called Nepenthe, which the Egyptian queen gave to Helen: "Not that Nepenthes which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena, Is of such power to stir up joy as this, To life so friendly or so cool to thirst." Comus.
Keith's appearance he made no sign of recognition. Presently, however, his lips seemed to get out of control. They moved; they began to chatter and to mumble, in childish fashion, the inarticulate yearnings of eld. Keith said, as though displaying some museum curiosity: "Mine is the only house on Nepenthe which the Master still deigns to enter.
"Have you any particular reason ?" "I don't like his looks. There is something tragic about him lately." Mr. Heard was slightly nettled. After all, he was not on Nepenthe for the purpose of doling out consolations to melancholy undergraduates. "I should be sorry to think myself singled out for his distrust," he replied.
How much longer, he continued, with a fine Ciceronian gesture of eloquent indignation how much longer would the foreign colony on Nepenthe endure the presence in their midst of such a disgrace to womanhood? Thus spake the judge, well aware of what was expected from a man in his position.
Sir Joseph adds, in a postscript: 'It seems almost beyond a doubt, that the Nepenthe was a preparation of the Bang, known to the Ancients'
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