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1 The street was dark and empty, swept by the rain.
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2 A cold grey sky threatened rain, and a high wind drove the dust in wild spirals up and down the streets.
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3 As she reached Fiftieth Street the clouds broke abruptly, and a rush of cold rain slanted into her face.
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4 The street-lamps were lit, but the rain had ceased, and there was a momentary revival of light in the upper sky.
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5 Outside, the sky was gusty and overcast, and as Lily and Selden moved toward the deserted gardens below the restaurant, spurts of warm rain blew fitfully against their faces.
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6 When she emerged on the pavement, the day was still high, but a threat of rain darkened the sky and cold gusts shook the signs projecting from the basement shops along the street.
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7 Every form of prudence and suspicion had been grafted on a nature originally reluctant and cautious, with the result that it would have seemed hardly needful for Mrs. Gryce to extract his promise about the overshoes, so little likely was he to hazard himself abroad in the rain.
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