[My Lady Nicotine by J. M. Barrie]@TWC D-Link bookMy Lady Nicotine CHAPTER I 17/17
He has left word that his visitors are to be sent on to me.
The room fills.
My hand feels along the mantelpiece for a brown jar.
The jar is between my knees; I fill my pipe.... After a time the music ceases, and my wife puts her hand on my shoulder. Perhaps I start a little, and then she says I have been asleep.
This is the book of my dreams. [Illustration].
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