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Updated: May 2, 2025
He broke the seal, and reading several directions of letters, notes, and small parcels, among the rest one addressed to the queen, he came to one endorsed as important, and bearing his own name, Lorenzo Bezan.
The surgeon started back in amazement, while Don Gonzales uncovered out of respect to the emblem. Springing to the side of the couch, General Bezan turned the half averted face towards him, while he seized the hand of the sufferer, and then exclaimed: "Is this a miracle-is this a dream-or is this really the Countess Moranza?"
Whether by accident or purposely, the lady herself only knew, but when the volante, in the circular drive of the Paseo, again came opposite to the spot where Lieutenant Bezan was, the Senorita Isabella dropped her fan upon the carriage-road. As the young officer sprang to pick it up and return it, she bade the calesaro to halt.
"He seems very fond of Isabella," continued the boy, after a brief silence. "Fond of her!" "Yes, and she of him," said Ruez. "Lorenzo Bezan fond of my daughter, and she of him?" "Why, yes, father; I don't see anything so very strange, do you?" "Do I? Lorenzo Bezan is but a nameless adventurer a a " "Stop, father a lieutenant-governor, and the queen's favorite."
"Has our father seen the governor-general, Ruez?" asked his sister, earnestly. "Yes." "And to no effect?" "None. Tacon, you know, is most strict in his administration of justice, and he says that if he were to pardon one such breach of military discipline as Captain Bezan as been guilty of, the whole army would at once be impregnated with insubordination."
What that thought was, the reader can easily guess, it was the last link that bound him to happiness. Lorenzo Bezan had no fear of death, and perhaps estimated his life quite as lightly as any other person who made a soldier's calling his profession; but since his heart had known the tender promptings of love, life had discovered new charms for him; he lived and breathed in a new atmosphere.
"It seems a mystery to me that General Bezan, honored by the queen, with a purse well filled with gold, and promoted beyond all precedent in his profession, should not rather smile than frown; but perhaps there is some reason for grief in your heart, and possibly I am careless, and probing to the quick a wound that may yet be fresh." The soldier breathed an involuntary sigh, but said nothing.
The result of the matter was, that before ten o'clock that morning the note conveying the challenge was answered by an aid-de-camp and a file of soldiers, who arrested Captain Bezan for insubordination, and quietly conducted him to the damp underground cells of the military prison, where he was left to consider the new position in which he found himself, solitary and alone, with a straw bed, and no convenience or comfort about him.
But when I come to the stairs I considered the Bezan would not go till the next ebb, and it was best to lie in a good bed and, it may be, get myself into a better humour by being with my wife.
"I will never leave those I love so dearly." "You refuse these terms?" continued the general, in a hoarse tone of voice. "I do, most unhesitatingly. Life would be nothing to me if robbed of its brightest hope." "You will not consider this for a moment? it is your only chance." "I am resolved," said Lorenzo Bezan; "for more than one reason I am determined."
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