And this omission, like that of the bust

Of Brutus at the pageant of Tiberius,[750]Made Juan wonder, as no doubt he must.

This he expressed half smiling and half serious;

When Adeline replied with some disgust,

And with an air, to say the least, imperious,

She marvelled "what he saw in such a baby

As that prim, silent, cold Aurora Raby?"