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On Sunday last we had things quite lively in this old house. We had asked Michael Hughes & Sheila to supper, also Mary Mullins as a companion for Sheila. In the late afternoon Mother & I went out to Claremont to see Auntie Maria & to show her some extracts from your latest letters (14th & 24th April) as she is a great admirer of yours, & loves to hear of what you are doing. When we came back we found George Gilhooley & his five infants here. They are like steps of stairs, graded down to a small infant just able to march round on his own account. George has had a difference of opinion with his wife, who had walked off, leaving him to manage their family as best he could, with the aid of one domestic. Some days of this sort of thing had reduced George to temporary insantiy – aggravated by several violent rows with members of the McBride family – so as he could only travel from home if accompanied by the whole of his family he arrived here without warning, & with the whole D – lot of them!  Then John Hughes, whose wife was kept at home with sore feet, arrived to pay us a visit. We fed the assorted infants as well as we could, and they climbed all over the premises all the evening till about ten at night, when George was at length persuaded to take them home to

 

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