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Updated: June 27, 2025
On our side there are three dead, including the Chinese officer, and more than twelve wounded, four of them seriously, the rest slightly, so that they can continue their journey to Pekin. Popof escaped without a scratch, Caterna with a slight graze which his wife insists on bathing. The major has the wounded brought into the cars and does the best for them under the circumstances.
If that explains the attitudes, and mobile physiognomy, and demonstrative gestures of Caterna, it does not explain his maritime allusions. "And do you know what line these players are in?" "The husband is comic lead." "And the wife?" "She is leading lady." "And where are these lyrical people going?" "To Shanghai, where they have an engagement at the French theater." That is capital.
And it was thus in the eastern part of Turkestan, four hundred kilometres from the Pamir plateau, at dessert after our excellent dinner served in a saloon of the Grand Transasiatic, that the Obsession was given with remarkable talent by Monsieur Caterna, grand premier comique, engaged at Shanghai theater for the approaching season. "Monsieur," said Pan Chao, "my sincere compliments.
The drama does not run well, the action languishes. We want something startling to bring all the actors on what Caterna would call "a good fourth act."
But here is Baron Weissschnitzerdörfer, wearing a traveling cap, coming out of the dining car, where I imagine he has not spent his time consulting the time-table. "The good man of the hat trick!" said Caterna, after the baron went back into the car without favoring us with a salute. "He is quite German enough!" said Madame Caterna.
He assumed the attitude of a criminal endeavoring to mollify a magistrate, he made the sheepiest of eyes, and smiled the most deprecating of smiles, and seemed to implore a grace or rather a favor, and yet the most obdurate of the Chinamen had not a word to say to him. "Correct," said the interpreter. "Thank you, my prince!" replied Caterna, with the accent of a Paris street boy.
"It is only too true," I replied, without any false modesty, "that I was taken in by the grand manners of the abominable rascal." "Monsieur Claudius," said Caterna, "put that into a romance, and see if anybody believes it likely." Caterna was right; but unlikely as it may seem, it was. And, besides, I alone knew Kinko's secret.
But with what an extraordinary combination of gestures, with what attitudes in the management of the long-stringed guitar, with what acrobatic swingings of the body do they accompany their singing of their legends and poetry which could not be more profane. The instinct of the old actor was awakened in Caterna. He could not keep still; it was too much for him.
Know that Madame Caterna, who is incontestably the first leading lady of the provinces, and there is not one to beat her as a waiting maid or in a man's part, cannot stand the sea. And when I heard of the Grand Transasiatic, I said to her, 'Be easy, Caroline! Do not worry yourself about the perfidious element.
The Reverend Nathaniel Morse, in announcing that the marriage will take place at nine o'clock, presents the compliments of Mr. Ephrinell and Miss Bluett. Major Noltitz and I, Caterna and Pan-Chao are under arms at the time stated. Caterna did not think it his duty to resume his costume, nor did his wife.
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