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

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MY LADY NICOTINE.

CHAPTER I.

MATRIMONY AND SMOKING COMPARED.

The circumstances in which I gave up smoking were these:

I was a mere bachelor, drifting toward what I now see to be a tragic
middle age. I had become s