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All this was delivered in a high voice, to the accompaniment of drums and cymbals; he concluded with the last flourish of the bandmaster's baton, and the applause of the public followed. Certainly dramatic effect could go no further.
She was the daughter of the bandmaster of a regiment which had been quartered there a Corfiote by birth, and a fine musician who met his future wife during her trip thither with her father the captain, a man of good family. The marriage was scarcely in accord with the old man's wishes, for the bandmaster's pockets were as light as his occupation.
"And then," continued Brumpton, "Wilkins began to blink over his music-stand, looking as red in the face as his uniform. `Who was that? he says `who was it that dared to make that noise?" "And then no one spoke," sneered Jerry. "Hissed! I'd ha' punched his head. Bandmaster, indeed! I'd ha' been the bandmaster's master that time!" "Wrong, Jerry Brigley!" cried Brumpton.
She was the daughter of the bandmaster of a regiment which had been quartered there a Corfiote by birth, and a fine musician who met his future wife during her trip thither with her father the captain, a man of good family. The marriage was scarcely in accord with the old man's wishes, for the bandmaster's pockets were as light as his occupation.
"Macpherson," he said as he entered the bandmaster's quarters, where a number of men and a few lads were practicing, "I have brought you two lads who have entered as buglers." The bandmaster was a Scotchman a stiff-looking, elderly man. "Weel, Captain Manley, I'm wanting boys, but they look vera young, and I misdoubt they had better have been at school than here.
He started, and had just got outside the door of the band-room, when he ran against Wilkins, who turned upon him sharply "Now, sir! don't run away; I am going to try over that grand march." "Back directly, sir!" cried Dick; and, to the bandmaster's indignation, he was off as hard as he could go towards the barrack gates. "I shall be in trouble again," thought Dick; "but I can't help it!
Personally, I have a suspicion that he poured his month's savings at the bandmaster's feet, and begged him to do this thing for the most wonderful lady in the world; or perhaps the bandmaster was really a musician, and his musician's heart was touched lonely there amid the beef to think that there was really some one, invisible though she were to him, some shrouded silver presence, up there among the beefeaters, who really loved to hear great music.
"It really looks," said the bandmaster, "as though we might fight, after all." "You, too?" "Perhaps." "Then could you come into the house just a moment? My sister asked me to find you." A bright blush crept over the bandmaster's sun-tanned cheeks. "With pleasure," he said, dismounting, and leading his horse through the gateway and across the shrubbery to the trees. "Celia!
Daylight would have shown most of the houses boarded up, with diamond-shaped vents, like leering eyes, cut in the painted planking of the windows and doors; but now it was night time eleven o'clock of a wet, hot, humid night of the late summer and the street was buttoned down its length in the double-breasted fashion of a bandmaster's coat with twin rows of gas lamps evenly spaced.
That is why I, of my own accord, came to this house, where one belongs to everybody, and have become almost more vicious than any of the other girls, and why I have told you this unentertaining story. "I say, you fellows, who will pay ten francs for the bandmaster's sister? Upon my honor, you will not regret your money!" His comrades got Parisel out of the house.
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