Word: ibbetson
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...Keef" (by T. W. Coakley; published by Charles E. Brown and Co.) suggests DuMaurier's "Peter Ibbetson" and Kipling's "The Brushwood Boy." It is the story of an artist who gives himself up to the charms of smoking a king of Indian hemp called keef, and meets in his dreams a charming authoress. Although he sees that their dream companionship is bringing her to an untimely end, he smokes on until she dies. A death struggle between his faithful servant and her husband then ensues, and the keef-smoker leaves the country...
...Copeland then spoke of du Maurier's earlier work, Peter Ibbetson, which, he said, is a far more delicate book, in an artistic sense, than "Tribly." And it has the added advantage of keeping up the interest...