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The S.S. Rainbow Sunset at Malacca A Night at Sea The Residency at Klang Our "Next-of-Kin" The Decay of Klang A Remarkable Chinaman Theatrical Magnificence Misdeed of a "Rogue Elephant" "A Cobra! A Cobra!" S.S. "RAINBOW," MALACCA ROADS, February 1, 5 P.M. I am once again on board this quaint little Chinese steamer, which is rolling on a lazy ground-swell on the heated, shallow sea.
'I should doubt if that were a legal will, said I. 'It doesn't need to be, replied the young man with a smile. 'I am next-of-kin, and heir to everything he possessed, although, of course, he might have given his money elsewhere if he had chosen to do so. Why he did not bequeath it to some institution, I do not know.
In the time of the Empire, when men paid considerable attention to their hair, one of the first coiffeurs of the day came out of a house where he had just been dressing a pretty woman's head. This artist in question enjoyed the custom of all the lower floor inmates of the house; and among these, there flourished an elderly bachelor guarded by a housekeeper who detested her master's next-of-kin.
She felt wounded, weighed down with a perverse sense of injury at his treatment, of injustice at his coldness, even in the face of the incongruous circumstances under which they had met. But she went on speaking, resolutely, as though to purge her soul, for all time, of explanation and excuse. "That next-of-kin agency was a dingy little office up two dingy stairs in Chancery Lane.
He put me off and put me off, until I was glad to snatch at a position in a next-of-kin agency. But in a fortnight or two I was even more glad to leave it. Then I went back to Lord Boxspur, who this time sent me helter-skelter back to Paris, to bribe a blackmailing newspaper woman from giving the details of his wife's misfortunes to the Continental correspondent of a London weekly.
The wrath and the lamentation of the chorus of the Greek singer, the intoning voices of the next-of-kin, the pathetic responses of voices far in the depths of ante-natal night, these the modern novelist, playing on an inferior instrument, may suggest, but cannot give: but here the suggestion is so perfect that we cease to yearn for the real music, as, reading from a score, we are satisfied with the flute and bassoons that play so faultlessly in soundless dots.
This will went to keep the greater part of a large property from the use of the natural heirs and next-of-kin for a length of time, and to let it accumulate at compound interest in such a way and so long, that it would at last mount up in value to the purchase-money of a whole county.
"Listen," he began, "do you know what you ought to do in this business?" "I haf ein mann of pizness!" "Very good, come to terms at once with the next-of-kin; make them pay you a lump sum of money down and an annuity, and you can live in peace " "I ask noding more." "Very well. Let me arrange it for you," said Gaudissart.
Lorna told me, with the sweetest smile, that if I were minded to take her at all, I must take her without anything; inasmuch as she meant, upon coming of age, to make over the residue of her estates to the next-of-kin, as being unfit for a farmer's wife.
This tragedy reminds me, Ernest," he said, "that I haven't made my own will yet, and as you be my next-of-kin, if your poor uncle have gone home, that means you'll inherit Furze Hill also in course of time and be able to run a ring fence round both places.
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