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Updated: May 17, 2025
Claude met, in poppyland, this vision? And in your fancy you are now confirmed?" "It is singular, at least." "It is more than that, Sir Brian! Can it be that some intelligence presides over that establishment and exercises shall I call it a hypnotic influence upon the inmates?" M. Max put the question with sincere interest. "One does not ALWAYS meet her," murmured Sir Brian.
"I will creep to you in the poppyland where you go... and you shall twine your fingers in my hair and pull my red mouth down to you, kissing me... kissing me, until you stifle and you die of my love.... Oh! my beautiful mummy-baby... my baby."... The witch-crooning died away into a murmur; and the Frenchman became conscious of the withdrawal of that presence from the room.
At 8 p. m. the next train starts For the poppyland afar. The summons clear falls on the ear, "All aboard for the sleeping car!" But "What is the fare to poppyland? I hope it is not too dear." The fare is this a hug and a kiss, And it's paid to the engineer. So I ask of Him who children took On His knee in kindness great: "Take charge, I pray, of the trains each day That leave at six and eight.
Kashán, a vision of golden domes and dim, picturesque caravanserais; Ispahán, with its stately Madrassa and blue Zandarood, winding lazily through miles on miles of white and scarlet poppyland; Shiráz, a dream of fair women, poetry, and roses, in its setting of emerald plain, sweet-scented gardens, and cypress trees.
In catering for the true devotees for those who, unlike De Quincey, plunge and do not dabble for those who seek to explore the ultimate regions of poppyland, for those who have learnt the mystery from the real masters in Asia and not in Europe the enterprise conducted by Madame Jean supplied a want long and bitterly experienced. I rejoice to know that London has not been neglected"...
Suzanne, however, to whom life had given so much, was resting in a kind of still ease, like that which might fill a drowsy poppyland of joy where all the pleasures had been attained and were being tasted at leisure. Life at its worst to her was not so bad. Witness this storm which had been quelled in part by Eugene and was like to blow over as nothing at all.
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