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1. One evening after dark a young man prowled among the crumbling red mansions, ringing their bells. R. At the twelfth house he rested his lean hand-baggage upon the step and wiped the dust from his hat-band and forehead. S. He rang the bell which sounded faint and far away in some remote, hollow depths. P. To the door came a housekeeper who made him think of an unwholesome, surfeited worm that had eaten its nut to a hollow shell and now sought to fill the vacancy with edible lodgers. Q. He asked if there was a room to let. 6. 'Come in,' said the housekeeper.
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