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It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned the way the red light, breaking at the close from under a low sombre sky, reached out in a long shaft and played over old wainscots, old tapestry, old gold, old colour.

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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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Literary Critic
Novelist
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New York City
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Henricus James
Window
Autumn
Looked
Breaking
Gold
Reached
Close
Colour
Waned
High
Red
Sombre
Light
Lows
Shaft
Long
Sky
Tapestry
Way
Played
Windows

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