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Her syllabus of education was of a more feminine sort than that which was followed at the Madras Academy; for, as announced in the prospectus, it included 'Reading and Writing, the English language and Arithmetic; Music, French, Drawing and Dancing; with Lace, Tambour, and Embroidery, all sorts of Plain and Flowered needle-work. The two syllabuses are interesting reminders as to what were the usual subjects of education for European boys and girls a century and a half ago.
A richly dressed drum-major generally marched at the head of these displays, and his gaudy uniform, bearskin shako with its plume, glittering baton, with its incessant twirling and rhythmical movement, excited the greatest enthusiasm and admiration among the throngs of observing negroes. To them the tambour major was by far the greatest soldier of the day.
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.
Ulysses had been long gone, and we were courting his wife, who did not say point blank that she would not marry, nor yet bring matters to an end, for she meant to compass our destruction: this, then, was the trick she played us. She set up a great tambour frame in her room and began to work on an enormous piece of fine needlework.
It was a queer experience, this paddling through the long communication trenches, which wound in and out like the Hampton Court maze toward the front line, and the mine craters which made a salient to our right, by a place called the "Tambour."
In the room behind her, a knight was talking to a lady sitting at a tambour frame; a lad of seventeen was standing at another window stroking a hawk that sat on his wrist, while a boy of nine was seated at a table examining the pages of an illuminated missal. "What will come of it, Eleanor?" the lady at the window said, turning suddenly and impatiently from it.
Tambour! He knows it well, 'The Brabançon! Now make it tell; Let your elbows now with a spirit wag In the outside roll and the double drag." I'm but a soldier of fortune, you see: Huzza! Glory and love, they are nothing to me: Ha, ha! Glory's soon faded, and love is soon cold: Give me the solid, reliable gold: Hurrah for the gold! Country or king I have none, I am free: Huzza!
Dufour made use of a portable building, which was specially adapted to his purposes, and his table was spread as if for a banquet, except that the edibles were such as his performance demanded. He employed a trumpeter and a tambour player to furnish music for his repast as well as to attract public attention.
"'Halloo, comrades! shouted the tambour; 'don't leave me behind you. And in an instant two grenadiers stooped down and hoisted him on their shoulders, and then rushed forward through the smoke and flame. Crashing and smashing went the shot through the leading files; but on they went, leaping over the dead and dying." "With the tambour still?" asked Pioche.
"Oh, I remember you," said Bébée, lifting her frank eyes. "But you know I speak to so many people, and they are all nothing to me." "Who is anything to you?" It was softly and insidiously spoken, but it awoke no echo. "Varnhart's children," she answered him, instantly. "And old Annémie by the wharfside and Tambour and Antoine's grave and the starling and, of course, above all, the flowers."
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