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for company [[strikethrough]] & she [[/strikethrough]] I like to see a child playing about. [[strikethrough]] When he [[/strikethrough]]  I was paying 850 fr a year. He looked about for a new studio & apartments & found this big studio with its two little rooms & kitchen to it for 800 fr.[[strikethrough]] but as he feared did but not like much less [[/strikethrough]] & to save the expense he asked me to [[strikethrough]] take [[/strikethrough]] give up my studio & come in with him & so I would pay but half 400 fr. & have no trouble about sweeping or keeping clean. This was very advantageous to me & I did it, & would have [[strikethrough]] sade [[/strikethrough]] saved 450
fr. a year. Now he has had constant work & made enough money to keep the big studio easily for his wife & child [[strikethrough]] who re is [[/strikethrough]] and so he is glad to get shut of us. As soon as he was sure we was going he got more polite than ever I saw him & got chairs for me to stand on to get at casts & brushed them off for me. I think he felt mean, for he still kept talking about things which were decided on & how his boy might step in our paints & so on. Bill & I went all over yesterday afternoon hunting studios & when almost despairing of our day's work [[strikethrough]] poppe [[/strikethrough]] found just what we wanted. It is not near so big as Crepon's but as we won't have much furniture to fill it up it will be big enough. It is in the big new St of Rennes not far from the Church ofSaint Germain des Pres. It is just the right place [[strikethrough]] between our dinner [[strikethrough]] for our hotel Bills School, my school, the dinner placeHarry Moore's studio etc etc & everything lies in a [[strikethrough]] circumfer [[/strikethrough]] comparitive small circumference around it. I would give you the address so you could send my letters there only [[strikethrough]] I have [[/strikethrough]] the place is not not numbered yet.
   
Crepon is no weak man & He is falling back always, for he lives all by himself & [[strikethrough]] has no [[/strikethrough]] being weak was improved by contact when he was with the French students who are above him as a class. He was the schoolmate of such men as Tony Robert Fleury & Bonnat & Lafebvree Deslonyna.
   
Crepon once deceived me very much. He had some studies hanging up [[strikethrough]] in his ro [[/strikethrough]] & he said he had done them. They were grand in color, better than Gerome ever could do insome of their qualities, though of course far behind in others. Now Crepon was very good in giving me advice & he did it as well as he knew how [[strikethrough]] but he did [[/strikethrough]] & he told me how he had done these things in the way he imagined they had been done, & of course I paid great attention to advice in my innocence which I would have only paid a just attention to if I had known he was ignorant. I possibly staid in Paris longer then he at first thought [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] When these fellows came back from Italy the studies went away & when I asked after them he