Pipes and Perdition (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Pipes and Perdition Scene. - A private Salon in the Hotel Violette, Paris. The furniture and decorations should indicate that the suite is specially appropriated to bridal parties. Double doors at the back opening upon a passage with a practical window. A door, R., leading to the room set apart for Miss Moloch. Door, L., opening upon the chamber occupied by Captain Valentine and his bride. A sofa, chairs, and several tables loaded with flowers in various stages of fadedness furnish the stage. As the curtain rises the doors are all carefully closed, and the Captain is discovered in a rich dressing-gown and cap, lying upon the sofa, smoking a German pipe. He affects an insouciant air, but is evidently nervous. Captain (ejecting wreaths of smoke). "Sublime tobacco! which, from east to west, cheers the tar´s labor and the Turkman´s rest." Let me see - how does the apostrophe run? Ah, yes! "Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, when tipped with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; like other charmers, wooing the caress more - more -" Confound my memory! how treacherous it is, to be sure! Who would have believed that I, Vane Valentine, could have forgotten a single word that was ever written, spoken or thought in praise of that which was once my pet dissipation! Ah, well! half a blissful honeymoon, total abstinence from the alluring weed, and a general condition of much-marriedness have wrought this startling change in me. This is actually the first opportunity I have had in two weeks of paying my respects to the darling pipes, which, during my happy bachelor days, stood by me in good stead of lady-loves and sweethearts. Alas, how real, how human those dear pipes seemed to me in my solitude, named, as they all were, after the most seductive heroines of romance, and always spoken of in the feminine gender. An odd fancy, surely, but then they were my sole companions. Well, well, those days of innocent folly are passed and gone - vanished like the blue wreaths that were wont to waft my soul to the very gates of Paradise. (Smokes.) It is not that I have cause to regret my term of single-blessedness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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