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From a little after two o'clock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that-a dim hot airless room with the blinds all closed and fastened for forty-three summers because when she was a girl someone had believed that light and moving air carried heat and that dark was always cooler, and which (as the sun shone fuller and fuller on that side of the house) became latticed with yellow slashes full of dust motes which Quentin thought of as being flecks of the dead old dried paint itself blown inward from the scaling blinds as wind might have blown them. Read the first page
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These are the most frequently used words in this book.
again
almost
already
another
aunt
away
between
bon
came
child
clytie
coldfield
come
day
dont
door
down
either
ellen
enough
even
ever
face
father
first
found
four
get
go
going
got
grandfather
hand
heard
henry
himself
home
house
judith
knew
know
last
least
little
looked
love
man
maybe
men
might
miss
mother
mr
must
name
need
new
niggers
night
nor
nothing
now
old
once
own
perhaps
probably
quentin
right
rosa
saw
say
see
seen
shreve
since
sister
something
still
sutpen
take
tell
thinking
though
thought
three
time
told
town
two
upon
went
white
whom
without
woman
years
yes
yet
young
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