"It must be very tedious to stay thus standing just there," remarked
Ruez, pointing to Captain Bezan, and speaking to Isabella.
"I should think so," was the reply of his sister, who had often
turned that way, to the no small annoyance of the observant General
Harero.
"A soldier's duty," replied the general, "should content him with
his post."
It was nearly the middle of the evening's entertainment, when
turning his eyes towards the box occupied by Don Gonzales and his
party, Captain Bezan caught the eye of Isabella Gonzales, and at the
same time observed distinctly the peculiar wave of the fan, with
which a Spanish lady invites in a friendly manner the approach of a
friend of the opposite sex. He could not be mistaken, and yet was it
possible that the belle of all that proud assemblage deigned openly
to notice and compliment him thus in public? Impelled by the ardor
of his love, and the hope that he had rightly construed the signal,
he approached the box from the rear, and stepping to its back, gave
some indication to one of his orderlies sufficiently loud in tone to
cause Isabella and her father to turn their heads, as they at once
recognized the voice of the young officer.
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