Edward Gorey Poem: The Doubtful Guest
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When they answered the bell almost wild winter night, there was no one expected and no one inside. Then they saw something standing on top of an urn whose peculiar appearance gave them quite a turn. All that once it leapt down and ran into the hall, where it chose to remain with snows to the world. It was seemingly deaf to whatever they said. So at last they stopped screaming and went off to bed. It joins them at breakfast and presently ate all the syrup and toast and part of the plate. It wrenched off the horn from the new gramophone and could not be persuaded to leave it alone. It betrayed a great liking, preparing up flues and preparing the souls of its white canvas shoes. At times, it would tear at whole chapters from books or put roomfuls of pictures askew on their hooks. Every Sunday it brooded and lay on the floor and conveniently close to the drawing room door. Now and then, it would vanish for hours from the scene, but, alas, discovered inside a Tareen. It was subject to fits bewildering wrath, during which would hide all the towels from bath in the night through the house, it would aimlessly creep. In spite of the fact of its being asleep, it would carry off objects of which grew fond and protect them by dropping them into the pond. It came 17 years ago, and to this day it has shown no intention of going away.