my advised me to refuse the admission and by doing so i found that i had again put myself in the wrong the ceiling was put up at my expense after a long interval during which i dined in the drawing room my s correspondence with the company did not procure me any special terms the merely repeated an offer they had previously made which was to buy up the end of my lease for j loo a very inadequate compensation it seemed to me for the annoyance i had endured but as i felt that my could not cope with the company i came gradually to the conclusion that i had better accept the � it pay for the removal of all my furniture and pictures to leaving something over for the house which i would have to hire and at once for the offer of the company was subject to my giving up possession at the end of the month i ordered my trunk to be packed that evening and next morning was at the house agent s office in street and while the clerk made out a long list of houses for me i told him my the houses in square were too hail and farewell large for a single man of limited income i had lived with my mother in one when brought me back from france the houses in s green are as fine but even if one could have been gotten at a reasonable s green did not tempt me my imagination turning rather to a quiet old fashioned house with a garden situated in some half forgotten street in which old ladies live � pious women who would pass my window every sunday morning along the pavement on their way to church the house � did not think he had exactly the house street and the inhabitants i described upon his books but there was a house he thought would suit me in upper mount street i remembered the street dimly a chilly street with an uninteresting church at the end of it a relation had taken a house in upper mount street in the and had given parties with a view to himself of two uninteresting sisters in law but the experiment had failed so i knew what the houses in upper mount street were like � ugly common expensive why trouble to visit them all the same i visited two or three and from the of one i caught sight of mount street bending prettily about a church � about a church but there were no bills in any window and the was asked why he didn t take me to lower mount street because he said all the houses there are lodging houses and he turned his horse s head and drove me into a delightful end of the town i remembered on the i j evening sky for i had never failed to admire street when i visited there is always something strangely attractive in a declining neighbourhood and thinking of the powdered that must have stood on steps that now a poor i began to dream the house that i had been directed to was no doubt a fine one but its is for it lives in my memory not by marble nor but by the bite of the most ferocious that i ever met caught from the no doubt at the last moment for i was on the car before he me in the middle of the back exactly i said where i can t scratch and from there he jumped down upon my l � ns and me again and again until i arrived at the where i had to strip naked to discover him if the creator of had not endowed them with a passion for whiteness humanity would perish i muttered descending the stairs are you after catching him sir y the asked yes and for he was drunk with my blood as you might be upon john on saturday night and we drove away to square the houses there are large and clean but the rents were higher than i wished to pay and it did not seem to me that i should occupy an important enough position in the square something a little more personal i said to myself and drove away to street a repetition of street houses that had once sheltered an aristocracy now falling into the hands of and it was abandoned for � hail and farewell f street the as they pass up that street and despite the attraction of some magnificent and lamp posts with old i decided that i would not life in street and returned to the agent who had already begun to think of me as a difficult he produced another list and next day i visited road and admired the great flights of granite steps that lead to the down which a man might break his leg if nothing else the of the century were sober men i said the houses seemed to a wife and family so emphatically that i drove to road it seemed too and for me a society of and does any other trade prosper in ireland i asked myself as the car stopped somewhere in the road a long monotonous road but with some pretty houses and gardens connecting road with upper street but it seemed to me with my mission to ireland and again we drove away and visited some shabby genteel in avenue after that we turned up road and into where there were some pleasant houses but none to let after that it seemed to me that i discovered myself in a desolate region which the told me was and we followed a lonely road that seemed to lead me away from all human habitation right into the heart of the country but you see i said to the driver i m looking for a 