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Rh "You'll sometimes find that one or two
 * Are all you really need

To let the wind come whistling through— But here there'll be a lot to do!"
 * I faintly gasped "Indeed!

"If I'd been rather later, I'll
 * Be bound," I added, trying

(Most unsuccessfully) to smile, "You'd have been busy all this while,
 * Trimming and beautifying?"

"Why, no," said he; "perhaps I should
 * Have stayed another minute—

But still no Ghost, that's any good, Without an introduction would
 * Have ventured to begin it.

"The proper thing, as you were late,
 * Was certainly to go:

But, with the roads in such a state, I got the Knight-Mayor's leave to wait
 * For half an hour or so."