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in the attempt, so after some reflection I declined the proposition of my kind friend and began my preparation to move over to the Latin Quarter. Pomeroy concluded that rather than be alone he would go back home. Consequently on the morning of December 10th 1873 I took him up to the Gare St Lazare and saw him on the train that was the beginning of his homeward voyage. Took the cab back to the Hotel de Normandie, gathered up my trunk and bag and crossed the river to the Paradise of student life -
George de Forest Brush, my companion in the Academy schools of New York, and I had found a big furnished room on the third or fourth (at all events it was in the mansard) floor of the Hotel de Saxe No 12 rue Jacob. It