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First Aid 267 We drove back to London, and had tea on the way in a cottage where the people seemed to know our friends very well. It was kept by a little old man and his wife who had the air of being family retainers. The cottage stood well away from the road in grounds of its own. Two mighty yew trees stood one on either side of the gate. Lala told us that the place belonged to the Order of which King Lamus was the head, and that he occasionally sent people down here for certain parts of his training which could only be carried out in solitude…
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…without saying a word. I shivered at her side, filled with inexplicable qualms. The exaltation of the cocaine had completely left me. It seemed to increase my nervousness; and yet I resorted to it again and again during the short drive. When we got to the studio, Lala was sitting as usual at the desk, but Lamus was walking up and down the room with his hands behind his back; his head bowed in thought so deep that he seemed not to notice our arrival. Lou had not removed her furs. She was standing like a statue in the middle of the room. The only…
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…two or three tired happy fishermen strolling home from the wine-shop. We found the motor-boat at the quay, and lay lapsed in delight. It seemed hardly a minute later when we found ourselves in Sorrento couched in a huge roadster. Without a word spoken, we were off at top speed. The beauty of the drive is notorious; and yet :— “We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.” The world had been created afresh for our sakes. It was an ever-changing phantasmagoria of rapturous sounds and sights and scents; and it all seemed a mere ornament…
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…acing Sister Athena at the other. “There will be champagne,’ he said, “‘for lunch to-day.” The remark was received with a hilarity which seemed positively indecent, and altogether out of pro- portion to the good news announced. The whole Abbey seemed to have gone wild with delight. Following the example of the Big Lion, every one pointed a forefinger downwards to the left, swung it sharply across to the right. This gesture was repeated three times and accompanied by the words :— “ Evoe Ho! Evoe Ho! Evoe Ho!” They began to clap hands but checked…
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…nk we’re dependent for our drinks on Mr. King Lamus. Let’s go round to the Smoking Dog.”’ Everybody agreed with alacrity. The suggestion seemed to have relieved the unspoken tension. We found ourselves in taxis, which for some in- scrutable reason are still allowed to ply practically unchecked in the streets of London. While eating and breathing and going about are permitted, we shall never be a really righteous race!
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… is. That’s why I love him. “Oh, yes, heroin,’’ said Lamus; “cocaine. We regret exceedingly to be out of it for the moment.” _ The brute seemed unconscious of our distress. He gave an imitation of an apologetic shop-walker. “ But let me show you our latest lines on morphine.” Cockie and I looked at each other wanly. Morphine would no doubt be better than nothing. And then, if you please, the beast pulled a review with a blue cover out of a revolving bookcase and read aloud a long poem. His intonation was so dramatic, he gave so vivid a picture …
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…My own personal physio- logical sensations occupied the whole of my mind. I was taken before the Commissario as soon as he arrived. They seemed to recognise that the case was important. Lou was already in the office. The Commissario spoke no English, and no interpreter was immediately available. She looked absolutely wretched. There had been no conveniences for toilet, and in the daylight the disguise was a ridiculous travesty. | Her hair was tousled and dirty; her complexion was sallow, mottled with touches of unwholesome red. Her eyes were bl…
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…stic farrago. The courier had attended to business details with an efficiency worthy of the best traditions of the profession. The thing seemed to sink into Lou’s mind like a person seeing his way through a chess problem. Her face was absolutely white with cold and concentrated rage. ‘He must have watched us in Paris,’ she said. “He must have known that we had spent the money we were going to put into his swindle, and made up his mind that his best course was to get the jewellery and the rest of the cash. _ She sat down suddenly, collapsed; and…
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…potence in so divine a spot, where every voice of nature swelled the chorus that spurred us to physical activity. Our invalidism had not seemed so horribly unnatural in London as it did in this consecrated temple of beauty. Lamus himself seemed invigorated to an extraordinary degree by his home-coming. He gambolled like a young goat while we plodded gaspingly up the slope. And while we rested he told us the history of the monu- ments that crumbled on the crags. “ This place will help you to correct your ideas,” he said, “‘of what is permanent, …
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…a woman and all that ; but it sounds to me rather funny. | We went to tea with Mabel Black. Every one was talking about drugs. Every one seemed to want them ;. yet Lord Landsend had just come back from Germany and he said you could buy it quite easily there, but nobody seemed to want to. Then is the whole German people in a silent con- spiracy to destroy us? I never took much stock in all those stories about the infernal cunning of the Hun. We heard a“lot about the underground traffic, though, and I think we ought to be able to get it pretty ea…
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…ou’s eyes were fixed on him with an expression of delighted curiosity. I felt as though somehow or other she had divined the secret. She seemed intensely amused at my perplexity, and stroked my hair in her most patronising manner. “You poor brainless creature,” she seemed to be saying with her finger-tips Well, we all had heroin with our second cup of coffee, and my spirits rose immediately. Lamus produced two little note books which he had bought in the village, so that we might record our doses while we were-out and copy them on our charts wh…
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…lt of this will be that you will find quite a small quantity do you as much good as a big one did last week, and more.” - Well, all that seemed pretty sensible tome. We took his advice. We did not go to sleep at once. I felt my thoughts too varied. They wandered from one thing to another without reasonable sequence. There seemed to be gaps of unconsciousness between two sets of thoughts ; but eventually the irritation subsided, and I knew no more till the morning. We woke very late, completely exhausted. But as Lamus had prophesied, the heroin …
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…your True Will, you won’t find you have any time to get bored.’ ” She threw away her cigarette after lighting another from the butt. She seemed to be brooding, as if much deeper thoughts were passing through her mind than even those to which she was giving such airy expres- sion. : We watched her intently. The heroin had calmed and intensified our thought, which was intensely stimulated by her explanation. We had no wish to interrupt. We wished she could have gone on talking for ever. Her self-absorption became still more marked. After a very l…
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…ten enough, at the hospital ; but this was quite a different thing. It was set off by its environment as a diamond is by its setting. It seemed alive. It sparkled intensely. It was like nothing else in Nature, unless it be those feathery crystals, wind-blown, that glisten on the lips of crevasses. What followed sticks in my memory as if it were a conjurer’s trick. I don’t know by what gesture she constrained me. But her hand slowly rose not quite to the level of the table; and my face, hot, flushed, angry and eager, had bent down towards it. It…
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…s hand, and he brightened up again. “To what end?” he repeated boldly. “ That I may accomplish the Great Work,” replied Athena. Dionysus seemed to have got |on to his game. He retorted without the slightest hesitation. . “ Love is the law, under will.” , “ Love is the law, love under will,’’ corrected Cypris ; and the baby repeated it solemnly. : | “ Fall to,” cried Athena cheerfully, and sat down,
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… room. The clerk indicated that we were to wait there—no doubt, for the arrival of the consul. It was not more than half an hour; but it seemed an eternity. Lou and I had nothing to say to each other. What we felt was a blind ache to get away from these wretched people, to get back to the Caligula ; to have a bath and a meal; and above all, to ease our nerves with a good stiff dose of heroin and a few hearty sniffs of cocaine.
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… a dose with a queer cunning questioning smile in his eyes. , My breath was coming quickly and shallowly. I gave a hurried little nod. I seemed to hear myself saying, “A little bit more.” At least, he added to the heap. “A little mild stimulant is indicated,” he said, with an imitation of his bedside manner. He was kneeling in front of my chair, and held up his hand like a priest making an offering to his goddess. The next thing I remember is that I was walking feverishly, almost running, up Sloane Street. I hada feeling of being pursued. Was i…
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…We did so without greed, hurry or even desire. The sensation was of infinite power which could afford infinite deliberation. Will itself seemed to have been abolished. We were going nowhere in particular, simply because it was our nature so to do. Our beatitude became more absolute every moment. With cocaine, one is indeed master of everything; but everything matters intensely. With heroin, the feeling of mastery increases to such a point that nothing matters at all. There is not even the disinclination to do what one happens to be doing which …
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…space, An abyss, unmeasured, unplumbed— The haunt of a face!” September 12 Peter came in just as I had finished writing this account. He seemed much more cheerful, and his arms were full of books. “ There,” he said, throwing them on the bed, “ that will refresh my memory, in case we have any trouble in stopping. I'll show Mr. King Lamus what it means to be a Pendragon.” I told him about Mabel. And now a strange thing happened. Instead of being depressed, we felt a current of mysterious excitement, rippling at first, then raging and roaring in e…
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…e South, streamed up from the Seine. Paris itself was a blur of misty blue; the Pantheon and the Eiffel Tower leapt from its folds. They seemed like symbols of the history of mankind; the noble, solid past and the mechanical efficient future. I leant upon the parapet entranced. Lou's arm was around my neck. We were so still that I could feel her pulses softly beating. “Great Scott, Pendragon ! ”’ For all its suggestion of surprise, the voice was low and winsome. I looked around. Had I been asked, I should have said, no doubt, that I should have…