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Norine's protests at leaving Esteban went unheeded, and Leslie Branch escorted her in place of the bridegroom, who lay blissfully dreaming in his hammock. Her amazement passed all bounds when, from the hidden recess behind the palm-leaves, came not the music of mandolins and guitars, but the strains of a balanced orchestra under the leadership of Cuba's most eminent bandmaster.
"Will you attend to me, and take off your cap, sir?" came sharply from behind Dick, who started, coloured, and snatched off his cap, conscious now that the bandmaster was speaking to him, and the words had been heard by Mark Frayne and his partner, to whom Mark made some playful remark, at which she smiled, as they both gazed at the young bandsman.
A trumpet spoke briskly; the bandmaster turned to the boy's sister, looked straight into her eyes, and took her hand. "I think we're going," he said; "I am trying to thank you I don't know how. Good-by." "Is it a charge?" cried the boy. "Good-by," said the bandmaster, smiling, holding the boy's hand tightly.
They played us in at Sandy River and they got into it, too, and was cut all to pieces!" She motioned assent wearily; then, with an effort: "You don't know, perhaps, where he where their bandmaster was buried?" "Sir?" "The bandmaster of the Fourth Missouri?
And so they sang together, but their voices did not blend, for the real Nightingale sang in her way and the clockwork bird sang waltzes. 'It is not its fault! said the bandmaster; 'it keeps very good time and is quite after my style! Then the artificial bird had to sing alone.
And the Admiral light his pipe and say: 'Bully for us, we are not kill! Who is to make the organ play Make it say zoon-kazoon? You with the corunet come this way You are the man, Magillel Piff! poum! kazoon, kazoon!" Now, this is the story of McGilveray the bandmaster of Anstruther's regiment: It was at the time of the taking of Quebec, the summer of 1759.
But I entered into a veritable Eden when, as sometimes happened in winter, the bandmaster of the town and his colleagues, supported by a few other moderate dilettante players, gave a concert, and I, owing to the strict time I always kept, was permitted to play the kettledrum in the symphony. It was not until later that I perceived how ridiculous and extravagant these concerts were.
"I heard him tell the colonel's wife. Play 'Just Because She Made Them Goo-goo Eyes." "Like hell!" cried the bandmaster, indignantly, breaking in on the tune with his baton. "I know my business! Now, then, men," he commanded, "'I'll Leave My Happy Home for You." As Mrs. Bolland dragged Miss Cahill into view of the assembled troopers Ranson pulled his father-in-law into a far corner of the room.
In 1868 he was appointed bandmaster of the 18th Royal Irish. There were some good voices in the band, and in rendering programmes there would generally be a chorus which we enjoyed. The only drill during the winter was route marching; we also had gymnastics and an occasional lecture from adjutant, sergeant-major or musketry instructor.
A few skeletons have been preserved intact, including one said to have been an Austrian bandmaster, a giant eight feet tall. The nationality of some of the skulls can be determined by bullets, French or Austrian, found in the head and now attached by a string. I stepped forth from this well-ordered tomb into the outer sunshine with a sense of personal oppression and of human ineffectiveness.
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