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Rh  "Spectres of course are rich, and so
 * Can buy them from the Elves:

But we prefer to keep below— They're stupid company, you know,
 * For any but themselves.

"For, though they claim to be exempt
 * From pride, they treat a Phantom

As something quite beneath contempt, (Just as no turkey ever dreamt
 * Of noticing a bantam)."

"They seem too proud," said I, "to go
 * To houses such as mine—

Pray how did they contrive to know So quickly that 'the place was low'
 * And that I 'kept bad wine'?"