opium-benumbing

Updated: August 24, 2026

These opium-benumbing performances seem, In their sad wild unresting irregular flow Just expressly concocted for William Barlow. Oh! dear Raggedy, oh! Why, they ravish the heart, sir, of Billy Barlow." Du Maurier's stay on the Continent had come to a close some time before mine, and to that circumstance I owe several letters in which he speaks of his first experiences in London.

Felix Moscheles - In Bohemia with Du Maurier: The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences