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The Upas Tree ==A Christmas Story for All the Year== ==With Frontispiece in Color. $1.00 net. By mail, $1.10== A story of rare charm, powerful in conception, compelling in narrative, and wholesome in effect. New York G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS London The White Shield By the Author of "Lavender and Old Lace," "The Master's Violin," etc.
They lived under the deadly shadow of the upas tree, and suffered the consequences of its stunting their development in all directions, as the ague-smitten inhabitant of the Roman Campana finds every sense and every muscle clogged by the filtering in of the insidious miasma. They did not compose songs and music, because they did not have the intellectual energy for that work.
Within the last six years we employed as editors upon the unhappy journal which it was intended that this article should redeem, no less than sixteen pickpockets, hoping they would steal him; but with an acute intelligence of which their writing conveyed but an imperfect idea, they shunned the glittering bait, as one walks to windward of the deadly upas tree.
She dropped asleep again, but only to be aroused by a soft tread that stole through her room, and the breath of some person bending downward, which made her shudder, as if it had been the poison of a upas tree floating across her mouth. "Are you better, Lina? are you awake?" "Who speaks?" cried the girl, starting wildly up. "Where am I and who calls me Lina?"
They chew hasheesh; cut themselves with poisoned creases, swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas, taste every poison, buy every secret; at Naples, they put St.
You knew the bloom would be taken off the coming joy, so you preferred to let me go. Oh, Helen, is not this true?" She bent her head and kissed his hand. She was weeping silently. She could not say it was not true. "It was the Upas tree indeed," said Ronnie. "Darling," she whispered, "it was my fault too " "Hush," he said. "There are faults too noble to be accounted faults.
However, to go to the roots of this Upas tree of scandal, he resolved to pay an immediate visit to Mrs. Simmons. This lady could deny nothing; but she declared that she had not given the rumour as a fact, and that she had never spoken of it except to Mr. Query.
At last he said, smiling frankly, "You great London practitioners have so many new medicines: may I ask what Rhus toxico toxico " "Dendron." "Is?" "The juice of the upas, vulgarly called the poison-tree." Dr. Dosewell started. "Upas poison-tree little birds that come under the shade fall down dead! You give upas juice in these desperate cases: what's the dose?" Dr.
But to the strained senses of the men upon whom, as yet, had hardly fallen the upas languor of accepted defeat, before whose eyes, whether shut or open, yet passed insistent visions of last night's events, like an echo, like a shade, old presences made themselves felt. Swinging lanterns dimly lit the cabin of the Mere Honour, and in ranks the shadows rose and fell along its swaying walls.
If torture were indeed the true method of science, then would the vaunted tree of knowledge be no other than the upas tree of oriental legend, beneath whose fatal shadow lie hecatombs of miserable victims slain by its poisonous exhalations, the odour of which is fraught with agony and death! My poodle remained with me many days.
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