Don Juan 01-026
Canto the First

XXVI

Don Jose and the Donna Inez led
     For some time an unhappy sort of life,
Wishing each other, not divorced, but dead;
     They lived respectably as man and wife,
Their conduct was exceedingly well-bred,
     And gave no outward signs of inward strife,
Until at length the smother'd fire broke out,
And put the business past all kind of doubt.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) ByronLong