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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
what is the overall mood of the passage?
a. the passage has an ominous mood throughout
b. the passage has a melancholy mood throughout
the former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back
drawing-room air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung
in all the rooms and the waste room behind the kitchen was
littered with old useless papers. among these i found a few
paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and
damp the abbot by walter scott, the devout communicant
and the memoirs of vidocq i liked the last best because its
leaves were yellow the wild garden behind the house
contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes,
under one of which i found the late tenant's rusty bicycle pump
he had been a very charitable priest, in his will he had left all his
money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister
c.
the passage moves from a cheerful to a sad mood
d.
the passage moves from a bleak to a foreboding mood
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when the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had
well eaten our dinners when we met in the street the houses
had grown sombre. the space of sky above us was the colour
of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street
lifted their feeble lanterns the cold air stung us and we played
till our bodies glowed our shouts echoed in the silent street
the career of our play brought us through the dark muddy lanes
behind the houses, where we ran the gauntlet of the rough
tribes from the cottages to the back doors of the dark dripping
gardens where odours arose from the ashpits to the dark
odorous stables where a coachman smoothed and combed the
horse or shook music from the buckled harness
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