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"The house is raised on a plinth 6 or 7 feet above the level of the street. It is three storeys high, of brick faced with richly carved timber and is built around a court about 18 feet square. Passing through a dark and untidy entrance and up steep and narrow wooden stairs in the front part of the first floor is a sitting room about 12 feet square. The ceiling is closely hung with European metal lamps and glass chandeliers and the windows have, inside of their regular frames, English made plates of stained glass decorated with verses of Quran. The floor is richly carpeted; cushions are set around the walls and in the middle are tables covered with ornaments. Between the front and the back rooms, the walls of the passage are bright with groups of brass plates…

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