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CHAPTER IV

AFTER PARIS—CLAYTON AND BELL—
DUBLIN

1853–1859

I RETURNED from Paris in the middle of June 1852, having- studied less than five months there, but made good use of that short time and was fairly industrious. Meanwhile my father had emi- grated to Aus- tralia in the hope of retrieving his fallen fortunes. I found my mother and three brothers living in the upper

part of a house in John Street, Bedford Row.

vol. i.
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