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?"

L.

Juan rejoined—"She was a Catholic,

And therefore fittest, as of his persuasion;

Since he was sure his mother would fall sick,