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Which four phrases best describe the setting in this excerpt from James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?
When the 1. short days of winter. came dusk fell 2.before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre.
3.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. 4.The cold air
stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent streets. The career of our play brought us through 5.the dark
muddy lanes behind the houses where 6.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 ashplts, 7.to the dark odorous stables 8.where a coachman smoothed and combed the horse or shook music
from the buckled harness.