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Updated: May 29, 2025
As these things swept, disordered and aimless, through his mind, he wondered if a nightmare were upon him; he, the darling of Belgravia, the Guards' champion, the lover of Lady Guenevere, to be here outlawed and friendless; wearily racking his brains to solve whether he had seamanship enough to be taken before the mast, or could stand before the tambour-major of a French regiment, with a chance to serve the same flag!
"The Fifth, mon officier," said he, "Voltigeurs of the Line." "Have you a certain François, a maître d'armes, still among you?" "Yes, that we have. There he is yonder, beating time to the roulade." I looked in the direction he pointed, and there stood my old friend. He was advanced in front of a company, and with the air of a tambour-major he seemed as if he was giving time to the melody.
There are now sufficient resident operatic singers of the third class to perform opera without assistance from European stars; but by themselves these purely colonial companies do not draw well, except in pieces of the 'Patience, or 'Tambour-Major' type. The Byron comedies are popular throughout Australia.
The sun shone brightly on their gay uniforms and glancing arms, and the tall and showily-dressed tambour-major stepped in advance with the proud bearing of a conqueror. "Form, men, and to the front!" said the major of the voltigeurs, who knew that his place was in the advance, and felt a noble pride that he had won it bravely.
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