12select the correct text in the passage. which phrase in this excerpt from james joyce's "araby" is a participial phrase? north richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the christian brothers' school set the boys free. an uninhabited houseof 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 withinthem, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces. 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 thewaste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. among these i found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curledand damp. the abbot, by walter scott, the devout communicant and the memoirs of vidocq. i liked the last best because its leaves were yellow. thewild 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. resetresetnextnext