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The matter was mentioned to the Emperor, an exception made, and Boris transferred into the regiment of Semenov Guards with the rank of cornet. He received, however, no appointment to Kutuzov's staff despite all Anna Mikhaylovna's endeavors and entreaties.

As to D'Artagnan, who as yet knew nobody in the capital, he only found one chocolate breakfast at the house of a priest of his own province, and one dinner at the house of a cornet of the Guards.

Raoul hastened to give notice to the cornet, who took his post; he then dismounted, gave his horse to one of the dragoons, and with great delight seized the arm of M.

That evening after dinner they were entertained by the Emperor's Tin Cornet Band, which played for them several sweet melodies.

First came the Imperial Cornet Band of Oz, dressed in emerald velvet uniforms with slashes of pea-green satin and buttons of immense cut emeralds.

Next marched the Emerald City Cornet Band, clothed in green-and-gold uniforms and playing the "Ozma Two-Step." The Royal Army of Oz followed, consisting of twenty-seven officers, from the Captain-General down to the Lieutenants.

The rate at which the piano, cornet and violins were going, seemed to impart wildness to the half-drunken crowd.

He took Rebecca to task once or twice about the propriety of playing at backgammon with Sir Pitt, saying that it was a godless amusement, and that she would be much better engaged in reading "Thrump's Legacy," or "The Blind Washerwoman of Moorfields," or any work of a more serious nature; but Miss Sharp said her dear mother used often to play the same game with the old Count de Trictrac and the venerable Abbe du Cornet, and so found an excuse for this and other worldly amusements.

The cornet of a troop had in fact just raised the standard of the prince.

Wade's unbelieving surprise, dwelt at length upon his enjoyment of Fallon's band and his longing to blow a cornet. A little later, finding an excuse to leave, he drove into town on a mission so foreign to his iron-clad character that it seemed to cry against his every instinct, but which, for all that, he did with such simplicity as to indicate that it was the most natural step imaginable.

The other rideouts are: Wednesday, June 5: Queensberry Bay Rideout (Powfoot); Tuesday, June 11: The Firth Rideout (Newbie); Friday, June 21: Supports Rideout (Brydekirk); Wednesday, June 26: Cornets Lasses Rideout (Williamwood); Monday, July 1: Cornets Rideout (Town).

Joan Fogg, 55, had two silver Stirling cornets stolen from a car parked outside her home in Thornton.