Henry Milner Rideout

Name: The Siamese Cat — Chapter 1
Author: Henry Milner Rideout

The Siamese Cat — Chapter 1 (1907)

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“The Siamese Cat — Chapter 1”, published in 1907, is a work by Henry Milner Rideout. It explores elements such as Scarlett, Holborow and Owen.

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Henry Milner Rideout, The Siamese Cat — Chapter 1 (1907)

“ Whatever hopes Owen might have had for that evening were disappointed; for Miss Holborow stayed in the stuffy saloon and played picquet dutifully with her aunt. Walking seven miles round the deck,—passing from the mystery of vast moonlit space and a witch-fire ocean of phosphorous, astern, into the swaying lantern-light amidships—he could see the two women through one porthole, and through the next, in the little hazy smoking-room, the big countenance of Borkman, presiding radiantly over a circle of yellow glasses.
"He has cheek enough," thought Scarlett. ”

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Henry Milner Rideout, The Siamese Cat — Chapter 1 (1907)

“ Malays knotted their bright sarongs for another day.
"All these will be scattering into Siam," said Miss Holborow. "Isn't it fun guessing where people come from and go to, out here? The East is a wonderful kaleidoscope in that way, I think—always changing, pictures, pictures, appearing, melting.... Do you know, sometimes I'm a little afraid of it."
"I know," said Scarlett, and was silent. Eight years of China had left him little fun in that sort of guessing. At Bangkok, all these particular sights would vanish: this girl and her aunt would, like the rest, depart into memories. ”

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Henry Milner Rideout, The Siamese Cat — Chapter 1 (1907)

“ The story was interesting if true, thought Scarlett; but the big man, for all that his eyes held at times an opal glow, appeared too frank and hearty for so grim a history. And later, the German innocently told a set of gross fictions, palpable Shanghai "bunders"; whereas the big man, when they reached Saigon, went out of his way to oblige Scarlett with some valuable information, and laughing all thanks jovially aside, disappeared down a wide and empty boulevard of red clay, into that artificial Paris of the Orient. ”

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Henry Milner Rideout, The Siamese Cat — Chapter 1 (1907)

“ Scarlett replied, in cold and feeble words for a heart aglow. Their faces might have shown how glad they were; and of this the girl was perhaps aware, for on a sudden she made the matter less personal, saying:
"It's good to see an American again, isn't it? You live out here in the East?"
"Not now, thank Heaven," said Owen. "Ship me somewhere west of Suez. I'm tired of it. I'm just going—" By a flash of genius he stopped before committing himself. "I'm just going about on a few errands, to and fro in the world. You're travelling, too, aren't you?" ”

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Henry Milner Rideout, The Siamese Cat — Chapter 1 (1907)

“ Before the morning had time to glare, Owen had rattled in a dark-shuttered gharri to the shipping-office; and two days later, sweltering in the muffled sunlight under the "Prapatom's" awning, he had the satisfaction of seeing large canvas trunks, marked "L. H.," slung upon the forward deck by the wild-haired Malays.
"Lucky I didn't toss heads," thought this young adventurer. Never before did clank of winch or chatter of coolies seem so joyful; never before the act of waiting so happy and so vexatious. ”

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Henry Milner Rideout, The Siamese Cat — Chapter 1 (1907)

“ On the evening of the same day, in the dining-room, a German antiquary going to Angkor looked up from his solitaire, caught Scarlett's eye across the table, and said guardedly:
"You are not a friendt to der larch man in der corner smoking, and who now hass gone top-side, no?" His glance took in the retreating figure of the man with the trimly parted beard. ”

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Henry Milner Rideout, The Siamese Cat — Chapter 1 (1907)

“ Do you, Aunt Julia?"
Mrs. Holborow, frowning over the fine print, tossed her chin impatiently.
"No," she said; then launched a thunderbolt. "All the men are bibulous, and the women devoid of ideas. Of course," she added, glancing off the page, "the scenery is extremely—er—picturesque."
She ducked again into the cool depths of Walden Pond. Scarlett discovered that a pretty face can twitch into odd curves.
"You see, her friend Mrs. Bolton decided to stay with relatives," the girl explained. "After that I had trouble persuading my aunt to come on ”

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Henry Milner Rideout, The Siamese Cat — Chapter 1 (1907)

“ After intellectual labour, the antiquary played a red Knave cautiously upon a black Queen. "And dere are many off dem ... You haf heardt, no, of der missionair' girl at der Boxers' troupple, who wass skinnedt alife? He safed his own skin zo. Oh, yess, it iss true." The antiquary leaned back and told a hideous story in detail, blowing pompous, contented clouds of cigar smoke, brushing the sparks from his Chefoo silk, and looking serenely out of the open door, where to the roll of the ship a large and lustrous star lowered and mounted in the pale moonlit blue. ”

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