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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?"