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Updated: June 5, 2025
Through the partially open window came the lulling sound of a little trickling fountain in the garden, and the air was redolent of jasmine and orange-blossoms. On the pier-table was a little sleeping Cupid, from whose torch rose the fragrant incense of a nearly extinguished pastille.
Her heart was moved towards him. He could not go into the poky den, evil-smelling and airless, of the concierge. But with her help Margaret raised him to his feet, and together they brought him to the studio. He sank painfully into a chair. 'Shall I fetch you some water? asked Margaret. 'Can you get a pastille out of my pocket?
They were the marks of sandals; and they went across the floor to a thing that glittered in the middle of the room a vague shape like a draped coffin, with something high and pointed on top: crossed to a glittering table on which a ray from the lantern revealed offerings to the dead: a loaf; a roasted duck, its wings neatly tied with string: cakes and fruit, all dried and blackened, but perfect in form: and a saucer of incense, from which a little ash had fallen from a ghostly pastille onto the table.
The habitual acceptors of hospitality have no objection to crossing the road through the thickest mud. "By their rooms ye shall know them," might well, if profanely, be written large over any college gate. Arthur Agar's rooms were worthy of the man. There was, even on the little stone staircase, a faint odour of pastille or scent spray, or something of feminine suggestion.
The crew were shut up below, the officer lighted a sort of pastille which made a great smoke, everybody pretended to sneeze at once ... and we were disinfected! The farce was over! There was a great dinner too, which the board gave itself at Saint Roch, at the expense of the persons in quarantine, which put the finishing touch to the scandal.
Shame I had none in overseeing this revelation; and my fear had gone with the smoke of the pastille. "That's it," I murmured. "That's how it's blocked out. Go on! Ink it in, man. Ink it in!" Mr. Shaynor returned to broken verse wherein "loveliness" was made to rhyme with a desire to look upon "her empty dress."
There were two great syringa-bushes on each hand close to the portal, which were in full flower, and which flung their sweetness through the doorway and the windows; but when we found ourselves in the dim old-fashioned parlor, we were aware of this odor meeting and mixing with another which descended from the floor above the smell of some medicated pastille.
Soiled handkerchief: medicinebottle. Pastille that was fell. What is she?... There must be a new moon out, she said. He's always bad then. Do you know what he did last night? Her hand ceased to rummage. Her eyes fixed themselves on him, wide in alarm, yet smiling. What? Mr Bloom asked. Let her speak. Look straight in her eyes. I believe you. Trust me. Woke me up in the night, she said.
By the time I reached him he had secured it a long, slender metal tube, cleverly weighted so as to fall straight. "Not a hundred per cent. of hits, evidently," he muttered. "Still, one was enough." "What is it?" asked MacLeod. "An incendiary pastille. On contact, the nose burns away anything it hits, goes right through corrugated iron.
She was asked to brush his hair and beard, and wrap his shoulders in an ivory-white shawl, thick with silk embroideries, which had been his mother's. In a little green bronze tripod a black pastille was set burning, which sent up, slow, thin, and wavering, a gray spiral of perfume. Keenly as he was waiting, he yet did not know when the ladies arrived.
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