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4 "No plea," said I, "can well excuse
 * Such cowardice in you:

For Ghosts can visit when they choose, Whereas we Humans ca'n't refuse
 * To grant the interview."

He said "A flutter of alarm
 * Is not unnatural, is it?

I really feared you meant some harm: But, now I see that you are calm,
 * Let me explain my visit.

"Houses are classed, I beg to state,
 * According to the number

Of Ghosts that they accommodate: (The Tenant merely counts as weight,
 * With Coals and other lumber).

"This is a 'one-ghost' house, and you
 * When you arrived last summer,

May have remarked a Spectre who Was doing all that Ghosts can do
 * To welcome the new-comer.