Chapter I: Front Matter

MY LADY NICOTINE

=A Study in Smoke=

BY J. M. BARRIE

AUTHOR OF "SENTIMENTAL TOMMY," ETC.

_ILLUSTRATED BY_
M. B. PRENDERGAST

BOSTON
KNIGHT AND MILLET
PUBLISHERS

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. MATRIMONY AND SMOKING COMPARED 1
II. MY FIRST CIGAR 11
III. THE ARCADIA MIXTURE 18
IV. MY PIPES 27
V. MY TOBACCO-POUCH 38
VI. MY SMOKING-TABLE 45
VII. GILRAY 52
VIII. MARRIOT 60
IX. JIMMY 70
X. SCRYMGEOUR 78
XI. HIS WIFE'S CIGARS 87
XII. GILRAY'S FLOWER-POT 94
XIII. THE GRANDEST SCENE IN HISTORY 103
XIV. MY BROTHER HENRY 116
XV. HOUSE-BOAT "ARCADIA" 124
XVI. THE ARCADIA MIXTURE AGAIN 133
XVII. THE ROMANCE OF A PIPE-CLEANER 143
XXVIII. WHAT COULD HE DO? 151
XIX. PRIMUS 159
XX. PRIMUS TO HIS UNCLE 168
XXI. ENGLISH-GROWN TOBACCO 177
XXII. HOW HEROES SMOKE 186
XXIII. THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS EVE 194
XXIV. NOT THE ARCADIA 202
XXV. A FACE THAT HAUNTED MARRIOT 209
XXVI. ARCADIANS AT BAY 216
XXVII. JIMMY'S DREAM 223
XXVIII. GILRAY'S DREAM 231
XXIX. PETTIGREW'S DREAM 239
XXX. THE MURDER IN THE INN 247
XXXI. THE PERILS OF NOT SMOKING 252
XXXII. MY LAST PIPE 260
XXXIII. WHEN MY WIFE IS ASLEEP AND ALL THE HOUSE IS STILL 269

Illustrations

PAGE

Half-Title i
Frontispiece iv
Title-Page v
Headpiece to Table of Contents vii
Tailpiece to Table of Contents viii
Headpiece to List of Illustrations ix
Tailpiece to List of Illustrations xiii
Headpiece to Chap. I. 1
"As well as a spring bonnet and a nice dress" 6
"There are the Japanese fans on the wall" 7
Tailpiece Chap. I. "My wife puts her hand on my shoulder" 10
Headpiece Chap. II. 11
"At last he jumped up" 14
Box of cigars 15
Tailpiece Chap. II. "I firmly lighted my first cigar" 17
Headpiece Chap. III. "Jimmy pins a notice on his door" 18
"We are only to be distinguished by our pipes" 20
The Arcadia Mixture 21
Tailpiece Chap. III. 26
Headpiece Chap. IV. "Oh, see what I have done" 27
"I fell in love with two little meerschaums" 33
Pipes and pouch 36
Tailpiece Chap. IV. 37
Headpiece Chap. V. "They ... made tongs of their
knitting-needles to lift it" 38
"I ... cast my old pouch out at the window" 40, 41
"It never quite recovered from its night in the rain" 43
Tailpiece Chap. V. 44
Headpiece Chap VI. "My Smoking-Table" 45
"Sometimes I had knocked it over accidentally" 48
Tailpiece Chap. VI. 51
Headpiece Chap. VII. "We met first in the Merediths' house-boat" 52
"He 'strode away blowing great clouds into the air,'" 57
Tailpiece Chap. VII. "The Arcadia had him for its own" 59
Headpiece Chap. VIII. "I let him talk on" 60
Pipes and jar of spills 62, 63
Tray of pipes and cigars 64
"I would ... light him to his sleeping-chamber with a spill" 68
Tailpiece Chap. VIII. 69
Headpiece Chap. IX. "The stem was a long cherry-wood" 70
"In time ... the Arcadia Mixture made him more and more
like the rest of us" 71
"A score of smaller letters were tumbling about my feet" 74
Tailpiece Chap. IX. "Mothers' pets" 77
Headpiece Chap. X. "Scrymgeour was an artist" 78
"With shadowy reptiles crawling across the panels" 81
"Scrymgeour sprang like an acrobat into a Japanese
dressing-gown" 84
Tailpiece Chap. X. 86
Headpiece Chap. XI. "His wife's cigars" 87
"A packet of Celebros alighted on my head" 88
"I told her the cigars were excellent" 90
Tailpiece Chap. XI. 93
Headpiece Chap. XII. "Gilray's flower-pot" 94
"Then Arcadians would drop in" 97
"I wrote to him" 99
Tailpiece Chap. XII. "The can nearly fell from my hand" 102
Headpiece Chap. XIII. 103
"Raleigh ... introduced tobacco into this country" 105
The Arcadia Mixture 111
"Ned Alleyn goes from tavern to tavern picking out his men" 113
Tailpiece Chap. XIII. 115
Headpiece Chap. XIV. "I was testing some new Cabanas" 116
"A few weeks later some one tapped me on the shoulder" 118
"Naturally in the circumstances you did not want to
talk about Henry" 120
Tailpiece Chap. XIV. 123
Headpiece Chap. XV. "House-boat Arcadia" 124
"I caught my straw hat disappearing on the wings of the wind" 126
"It was the boy come back with the vegetables" 129
Tailpiece Chap. XV. "There was a row all round,
which resulted in our division into five parties" 132
Headpiece Chap. XVI. "The Arcadia Mixture again" 133
"On the open window ... stood a round tin of tobacco" 135
"A pipe of the Mixture" 138
"The lady was making pretty faces with a cigarette in
her mouth" 139
Tailpiece Chap. XVI. 142
Headpiece Chap. XVII. "He was in love again" 143
"I heard him walking up and down the deck" 145
Tailpiece Chap. XVII. "He took the wire off me and used it
to clean his pipe" 150
Headpiece Chap. XVIII. "I had walked from Spondinig
to Franzenshohe" 151
"On the middle of the plank she had turned to kiss her hand" 152
"Then she burst into tears" 157
Tailpiece Chap. XVIII. "A wall has risen up between us" 158
Headpiece Chap. XIX. "Primus" 159
"Many tall hats struck, to topple in the dust" 161
"Running after sheep, from which ladies were flying" 163
"I should like to write you a line" 165
Tailpiece Chap. XIX. "I am, respected sir, your diligent pupil" 167
Headpiece Chap. XX. 168
"Reading Primus's letters" 171
Tailpiece Chap. XX. 176
Headpiece Chap. XXI. "English-grown tobacco" 177
"I smoked my third cigar very slowly" 182
Tailpiece Chap. XXI. 185
Headpiece Chap. XXII. "How heroes smoke" 186
"Once, indeed, we do see Strathmore smoking a good cigar" 189
"A half-smoked cigar" 190
"The tall, scornful gentleman who leans lazily against the door" 192
Tailpiece Chap. XXII. 193
Headpiece Chap. XXIII. 194
"The ghost of Christmas eve" 195
"My pipe" 199
"My brier, which I found beneath my pillow" 200
Tailpiece Chap. XXIII. 201
Headpiece Chap. XXIV. "But the pipes were old friends" 202
"It had the paper in its mouth" 205
Tailpiece Chap. XXIV. "I was pleased that I had lost" 208
Headpiece Chap. XXV. "A face that haunted Marriot" 209
"There was the French girl at Algiers" 212
Tailpiece Chap. XXV. 215
Headpiece Chap. XXVI. "Arcadians at bay" 216
Pipes and tobacco-jar 220
Tailpiece Chap. XXVI. "Jimmy began as follows" 222
Headpiece Chap. XXVII. "Jimmy's dream" 223
Pipes 226
"Council for defence calls attention to the prisoner's
high and unblemished character" 229
Tailpiece Chap. XXVII. 230
Headpiece Chap. XXVIII. 231
"These indefatigable amateurs began to dance a minuet" 235
A friendly favor 237
Tailpiece Chap. XXVIII. 238
Headpiece Chap. XXIX. "Pettigrew's dream" 239
"He went round the morning-room" 241
"His wife ... filled his pipe for him" 243
"Mrs. Pettigrew sent one of the children to the study" 244
Tailpiece Chap. XXIX. "I awarded the tin of Arcadia to Pettigrew" 246
Headpiece Chap. XXX. "Sometimes I think it is all a dream" 247
Tailpiece Chap. XXX. 251
Headpiece Chap. XXXI. "They thought I had weakly yielded" 252
"They went one night in a body to Pettigrew's" 254
Tailpiece Chap. XXXI. 259
Headpiece Chap. XXXII. 260
"Then we began to smoke" 262
"I conjured up the face of a lady" 265
"Not even Scrymgeour knew what my pouch had been to me" 267
Tailpiece Chap. XXXII. 268
Headpiece Chap. XXXIII. "When my wife is asleep and all
the house is still" 269
"The man through the wall" 272
Pipes 275
Tailpiece Chap. XXXIII. 276

MY LADY NICOTINE.