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Rh "But if the host's a man like you—
 * I mean a man of sense;

And if the house is not too new—" "Why, what has that" said I, "to do
 * With ghosts' convenience?"

"A new house does not suit, you know—
 * It's such a job to trim it:

But, after twenty years or so, The wainscotings begin to go,
 * So twenty is the limit"

'To trim' was not a phrase I could
 * Remember having heard:

"Perhaps," I said, "you'll be so good As tell me what is understood
 * Exactly by that word?"