My Bonny Light Horseman: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War (Bloody Jack Adventures) (Bloody Jack Adventures (Audio)) by L A. Meyer

Author:L A. Meyer
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781593164461
Publisher: Listen & Live Audio, Inc.
Published: 2009-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

The place fills up quickly. I peek out through the curtain, excited. Though both myself and my virtue may be in deep trouble, still I do love a show, I do love to perform. There are both men and women in the crowd and all are very finely dressed. There are also many men in uniform, and splendid uniforms they are—Grenadiers, Lancers, Hussars, Light Cavalry, Dragoons, Cuirassiers—all plumes and cockades and tight trousers and boots and epaulets and bright turnbacks and snowy lapels . . . and that is just the men, the women are—

“Come back from there, Jacqui,” orders Zoé, taking me by the shoulder and pulling me back from the curtain. “Time for mixing with them later. Tell us another story of America, while we wait for the opening number.” It hadn’t taken them long to figure out that my English name is the same as the French so they shorten it almost immediately to Jacqui. They pronounce it “Jacky” so it sounds right familiar to me.

There is an orchestra out there, too, and they are tuning up. They have two fiddles, a viola, cello, oboe, trumpet, and bassoon. I have never worked with such an ensemble! Joy!

I go back into the dressing room. We are all in costume and ready to go. The orchestra runs through the squeaks and squawks of tuning up and getting ready. I’m in the middle of telling the girls about the House of the Rising Sun in New Orleans while they interrupt with questions, when everybody falls silent.

“All right, girls, places!” announces Madame Pelletier. And we all hit our marks. The curtain rises and the music swells.

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