A great deal was said about our friend Don Juan Bandini, and when he did appear, which was toward the close of the evening, he certainly gave us the most graceful dancing that I had ever seen.  He was dressed in white pantaloons, neatly made, a short jacket of dark silk, gayly figured, white stockings and thin morocco slippers upon his very small feet.  His slight and graceful figure was well adapted to dancing, and he moved about with the grace and daintiness of a young fawn.  An occasional touch of the toe to the ground seemed all that was necessary to give him a long interval of motion in the air.  At the same time he was not fantastic or flourishing, but appeared to be rather repressing a strong tendency to motion.  He was loudly applauded, and danced frequently toward the close of the evening.  After the supper, the waltzing began, which was confined to a very few of the ``gente de razon,’’ and was considered a high accomplishment, and a mark of aristocracy.  Here, too, Don Juan figured greatly, waltzing with the sister of the bride (Dona Angustias, a handsome woman and a general favorite) in a variety of beautiful figures, which lasted as much as half an hour, no one else taking the floor.  They were repeatedly and loudly applauded, the old men and women jumping out of their seats in admiration, and the young people waving their hats and handkerchiefs.  The great amusement of the evening—­ owing to its being the Carnival—­ was the breaking of eggs filled with cologne, or other essences, upon the heads of the company.  The women bring a great number of these secretly about them, and the amusement is to break one upon the head of a gentleman when his back is turned.  He is bound in gallantry to find out the lady and return the compliment, though it must not be done if the person sees you.  A tall, stately Don, with immense gray whiskers, and a look of great importance, was standing before me, when I felt a light hand on my shoulder, and, turning round, saw Dona Angustias (whom we all knew, as she had been up to Monterey, and down again, in the Alert), with her finger upon her lip, motioning me gently aside.  I stepped back a little, when she went up behind the Don, and with one hand knocked off his huge sombrero, and at the same instant, with the other, broke the egg upon his head, and, springing behind me, was out of sight in a moment.  The Don turned slowly round, the cologne running down his face and over his clothes, and a loud laugh breaking out from every quarter.  He looked round in vain for some time, until the direction of so many laughing eyes showed him the fair offender.  She was his niece, and a great favorite with him, so old Don Domingo had to join in the laugh.  A great many such tricks were played, and many a war of sharp manoeuvring was carried on between couples of the younger people, and at every successful exploit a general laugh was raised.