My Lady Nicotine

My Lady Nicotine, by J. M.
Barrie

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Title: My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke
Author: J. M. Barrie
Illustrator: M. B. Prendergast
Release Date: July 29, 2006 [EBook #18934]
Language: English
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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
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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

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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