Or separate maintenance, in case 't was doomed—

As on the whole it is an even chance

That bridegrooms, after they are fairly groomed,

May retrograde a little in the Dance

Of Marriage—(which might form a painter's fame,

Like Holbein's "Dance of Death"[749]—but 't is the same)—

XL.

But Adeline determined Juan's wedding

In her own mind, and that's enough for Woman:

But then, with whom? There was the sage Miss Reading,