The supplicator being an amateur;

But others, who were left with scarce a third,

Were angry—as they well might, to be sure,

They wondered how a young man so absurd

Lord Henry at his table should endure;

And this, and his not knowing how much oats

Had fallen last market, cost his host three votes.

XC.

They little knew, or might have sympathized,

That he the night before had seen a ghost,