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She lowered her nosegay by way of saluting, and my glasses were at once turned to the direction in which she was darting her glances. On the third floor of the colonel's house I could see a splendid drum-major in full uniform, with large epaulets, his chest bedizened with broad gold braid and his hand resting upon his heart.
Manly did not venture to ask again about Atwater, what he had already said of him having gone so heavily to the poor wife's heart. But she could inquire about the old drum-major, who, she had heard, was wounded. "Old Sinjin? Wal! I'm in jest the same dilemmy consarning him as Atwater. They've both been sick and at the pint of death ever sence the fight. Now one of 'em's dead, and t'other's alive.
Comyn settled it by coming in his cabriolet, proposed that we should get the air in the park, dine at the Cocoa Tree, and go afterwards to Lady Tankerville's drum-major, where Dolly would undoubtedly be. "Now you are here, Richard," said his Lordship, with his accustomed bluntness, "and your sea-captain has relieved your Quixotic conscience, what the deuce do you intend to do?
Haven't you any more idea of the honor of wearing a United States sword the noblest weapon on earth, sir than to make yourself look like the drum-major of a band of nigger minstrels, sir! A United States officer ought to be ashamed to make a damned harlequin of himself, sir. I'd have you to understand that most distinctly, sir!"
His characters and anecdotes are sufficiently highly flavoured to defy the action of time. Goethe If a militia of genius should be formed on Parnassus, Goethe would be the drum-major. He is so great, so majestic, so serene, so full of talent, so abounding in virtue, and yet, so antipathetic! Chateaubriand A skin of Lacrymae Christi that has turned sour.
Arrived at the depot, they found it thronged with soldiers, and surrounded by crowds of citizens. "O, mother!" said Frank, "you must see our drum-major, old Mr. Sinjin my teacher, you know. There he is; I'll run and fetch him!" He returned immediately, dragging after him the grizzled veteran, who seemed reluctant, and looked unusually stern. "It's my mother and father, you know," said Frank.
Yvette cried: "Ah, Monsieur de Belvigne." Then turning toward Saval, she introduced him. "My last adorer big, fat, rich, and stupid. Those are the kind I like. A veritable drum-major but of the table d'hote. But see, you are still bigger than he. How shall I nickname you? Good! I have it. I shall call you 'M. Colossus of Rhodes, Junior, from the Colossus who certainly was your father.
"I bought it from our drum-major," added M'Intyre, "who came into our regiment from the Bengal army when it came down the Red Sea. It was cut on the banks of the Indus, I assure you." "Upon my word, 'tis a fine ratan, and well replaces that which the ph Bah! what was I going to say?"
Therefore they drank their thimbleful with warm hearts and cool heads; the riotous roared out wild songs and vied with one another in wrestling matches or boxing encounters; the more sedate played cards or dominoes close in to the light of the flaring fire, or listened with ever fresh interest to the great stories often told by the gray-headed drum-major who had served under the Duke of Cumberland in foreign lands, and promptly smote upon the mouth any man who spoke of his royal highness as "Billy the Butcher"; for there were Scotchmen in the garrison intolerant of the title of "Hero of Culloden," having more or less remote associations with an experience delicately mentioned in Scotland as "being out in the Forty-five."
It was absurd to remember that he might never see her, conscious, again his own little Caddy. He sat awkwardly on the side of the bed. "Well, little woman, how goes it?" "Queen's taste, Will!" "Good for you! I'm proud of the Beldens, Caddy Billy acts like a drum-major." Her eyes softened. "The dear boy," she murmured. Their eyes met. "Look after him," hers said, and his, "As long as I live!"
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