Yes, despite the flowers in the myrtle borders it was a place of sadness, and of a mournful silence until the musicians brought their instruments into the curious bandstand formed of growing trees.
In the flower-decked bandstand an orchestra of stringed instruments was playing very softly--fairy-music that seemed to fill the world with magic to the brim.
There was to be a water-side fête that night at Valrosa, and the promenade and bandstand were wreathed with flowers and fairy-lights.
The bandstand was still there, and a military band, in sky- blue Saxon uniform, was executing the first item in the forenoon programme of music.
Yeovil turned his steps homeward, passing on his way the bandstand with its surrounding acreage of tables.
Phil, instead of proceeding directly to the dressing tent, had waited by the bandstand to watch the new act of his companion, and he, with others of the performers, was laughing heartily as he leaned against the bandstand.
As had been the case with the afternoon show Sully remained over by the bandstand while Phil went through his act.
Someone had slipped in under the tent down at the other end, directly across the arena from where the bandstandwas located.
One of these he cut in halves, secreting the pieces in a pocket of his clown costume; then when the time came he stationed himself in front of the bandstand where he stood until he had gained the attention of several of the musicians.
That afternoon, during the performance, Teddy began his getting-even process by standing in front of the bandstand between his acts, and making faces at the musicians.
Everything on the bandstand came to a standstill, and the performers in the ring glanced sharply down that way, wondering what could have happened.
And it was too dark to see him properly, because it was under that bandstand affair.
In the grey distance the big bandstandof a watering-place stood up like a giant mushroom with six legs.
How the old man did roll his eyes with ecstasy and raise his hands with unutterable joy as he listened for the first time to the wonderful mellow music of the British Grenadier Guards' band as it played in the bandstand in the square.
The crowd of soldiers about the bandstand grew, and little French children playing about in their best Sunday clothes, stopped in curious wonderment to hear "Les Anglais" sing.
Many interesting little affairs happened in the Bandstand in the Grand Place beneath our laboratory windows.
They passed the Bandstand ringed by nurse-girls and perambulators.
And presently the municipal music of Castrovillari, specially hired for the occasion, ascends an improvised bandstand and pours brisk strains into the night.
It was, at once, static and mobile, a place of countless moods that merged at the turning of a corner, the shifting of a glance from La Punta to the circular bandstand at the foot of the Prado.
As if in derision of this, a loud unexpected music rose from the bandstand in the Plaza, and I saw that a flood of people, seated or moving along the pavements and through the lanes of chairs, had gathered.
As they approached the Park the bandstand came into sight over the railway cutting, and they could hear the music of 'The Emperor's Hymn.
At length, Mynors having encountered many acquaintances, they got past the bandstand and stood on the highest terrace, which was almost deserted.
They drifted over to the bandstand where the crowd was thickest and the noise loudest and, wriggling through the press, approached an ice cream stand.
They did not know where to look, but first tried all the seats around the bandstand and the settees on the great porches behind the pillars of the Administration and Fine Arts Building.
The bandstand had nearly fallen to pieces, but it was large enough.
There’s a rough old bandstandin Shepherd’s Grove where once, long ago, the German band used to give evening concerts.
I was resting on the bottom step of the bandstand between tunes, when Mis’ Timothy Toplady come by.
Over by the bandstand I come on them I’d been looking for--Eddie Newhaven and Arthur Mills and Lily Dorron and Sarah and Mollie and the Cartwrights and Lifty and six-eight more.
Just as he was passing the bandstand the educated mule, with Teddy Tucker on its back, bolted through the curtains like a projectile.
On they plunged past the bandstand again, the mule pausing at the paddock entrance long enough to kick the silk curtains into ribbons.
Philip's bandstand still occupied the middle, but the rest, save for a few outlying dusty beds, was as barren as a gravel playground.
Philip Lacey pored over a dozen sketch-drafts of his Floral Valley, a project for converting a coombe or dean that clove one portion of the Trwyn into an ornamental arrangement of flower-beds with a bandstand in the centre.
In a large park in one of the Eastern cities there are seats about the bandstand with this notice posted on them: "The seats in the vicinity of the bandstand are for the use of ladies.
At the bandstand in the center of the park concerts are presented, usually each week, during the summer months.
In front of the bandstand are millstones from the first flour mill in the Red River Valley, which was built on the site of the city waterworks plant in 1877.
Martin and I will take ours with a bandstand and a few trolley-cars and a chop-house thrown in, eh, Collingwood?
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