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by James Joyce
North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when
the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two
storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square
ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them,
gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.
The former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room.
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