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The only piece of embroidery entirely in crewel-stitch which I could find for illustration is worked, as it happens, in silk; nor was the worker aware that in so working she was doing anything out of the common. CHAIN and TAMBOUR STITCH are in effect practically the same, and present the same rather granular surface.
Gay wools and gayer handkerchiefs there, amid the joyous, cheering crowd of thrice-changed nationality. "Vive les Bostonnais! Vive les Americains! Vive Monsieur le Colonel Clark! Vive le petit tambour!" "Vive le petit tambour!" That was the drummer boy, stepping proudly behind the Colonel himself, with a soul lifted high above mire and puddle into the blue above.
Needlework was far more than an interest, it was an occupation. The varieties of tambour work and open stitchery of various ornamental kinds were possible for all capacities.
A little before twelve o'clock, all the regiments of horse and foot, amounting to about 7000 men, had formed the line, when the consular regiment entered, preceded by their fine band, and the tambour major, who was dressed in great magnificence. This man is remarked in Paris for his symmetry and manly beauty.
The eyes looked up at Harry Warrington, who stood at an ancestral portrait under the great fireplace. "Why did you refuse to go with our aunt, cousin?" asked the lady of the tambour frame. "Because your ladyship bade me stay," answered the lad. "I bid you stay! La! child! What one says in fun, you take in earnest!
Nay, what thousands and tens of thousands have been flung into the arms of their only bridegroom, Consumption, leaving nothing to record their existence but an accumulation of trifles, which cost them only their health, their tempers, their time, their charms, and their usefulness! But the age of knitting and tambour passed away. The spinning-jenny was its mortal enemy.
The platitude brought him, by some process of inversion, the vision of a drawing-room in Addison Gardens, occupied by his mother and sisters, engaged with whatever may be Kensington's substitutes at the moment for the spinet and the tambour frame; and he had a disturbed sense that they might characterise such a statement differently, if, indeed, they would consent to characterise it at all.
"A hussar without beard, as well without spurs or sabretasche;" a tambour major without his staff, a cavalry charger without a tail, couldn't be more ridiculous: and there was that old sergeant of the riding-school, "Tronchon," with a beard that might have made a mattress!
I called upon the priest to read my production; but as he was out I had to wait for his return, and during that time I fell in love with his niece, Angela. She was busy upon some tambour work; I sat down close by her, and telling me that she had long desired to make my acquaintance, she begged me to relate the history of the locks of hair sheared by her venerable uncle.
She made the breakfast; sat close at her tambour frame, or more frequently close at her book; read aloud to her aunt; went out and made calls; and attended minutely to all the ordinary occupations of her life. Her aunt never once caught her with a tear in her eye, never saw her sitting thoughtful, unoccupied, with her head leaning on her arm.
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