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 Is not at all a proper toy for children. We're not exactly in the nursery now, I know—though I may soon be there myself. Unless your living dead man comes to life, Or is less indiscriminately dead, I shall go home."

"No, you will not go home," Said Avon; "or I beg that you will not." So saying, he went slowly to the door And turned the key. "Forgive me and my manners, But I would be alone with you this evening. The key, as you observe, is in the lock; And you may sit between me and the door, Or where you will. And if that thing annoys you, Take it, and hide it. I'm not using it.