XXVIII.

When Adeline, in all her growing sense

Of Juan's merits and his situation,

Felt on the whole an interest intense,—

Partly perhaps because a fresh sensation,

Or that he had an air of innocence,

Which is for Innocence a sad temptation,—

As Women hate half measures, on the whole,[NS]She 'gan to ponder how to save his soul.

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