There was an unspeakable radiance in his fair face.

The close, brown curls of his hair; his tall figure, supple and strong; his air of youth, and valor, and victory; the love-light in his eyes; the hopes in his heart, made him for the time really more than a mere mortal man.

He walked like the demi-gods he was thinking of.

The most glorious ideal of life, the brightest dream of love that he had ever had, found in this hour their complete realization.
The Senora did not come down; but Isabel and Luis and the doctor joined the breakfast party.

Luis had evidently been to see Lopez Navarro before he did so; for he wore a new suit of dark blue velvet and silver, a sash of crimson silk, the neatest of patent leather shoes, and the most beautifully embroidered linen.