"It was shortly before sundown, and there were lights in the flats giving on the airshaft where the walls, for a short distance below the black cornice, were reddened by the sky."
I figured out "airshaft" wasn't what I originally thought it meant. It's a form of architecture similar to a courtyard. But I still have no idea how something "gives on"
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It just means that the the flats (apartments) were arranged round the airshaft. The windows 'giving on' to the airshaft would only let in a very little light, and one could only actually see the changing light on the wall opposite.
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