I FOUND A POEM
(The Continental Op has been offered a cigarette by a witchy lady)
She laughed. She had a pleasant laugh, with a sort of coo in it.
"I am so very sorry. So many people do not like them. I have a Hindu
incense mixed with the tobacco."
I didn't say anything to that. It was what you would expect of a woman who
would dye her dog purple.
-- Dashiell Hammett via Robin Hamilton
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