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back side of the building. This space is not 

 always either uniform or regular. Sometimes 

 and indeed usually if the house has more 

 than one story, it contains a stairway ; and 

 sometimes it includes a closet, or a room for 

 other purposes. Doors also in the sides of this 

 hall connect it with other apartments. 



Now the house I live in is constructed very 

 much on the same general plan, except that, as 

 I told you in reference to the frame, there is no 

 square work about it. The beauty of the inter- 

 nal parts of a common dwelling house depends 

 very much on its straight lines, upright walls, and 

 horizontal floors and ceilings ; but the beauty 

 of the habitation of the human soul consists, on 

 the contrary, in curved lines. Not an apart- 

 ment can be found, in good order, in which 

 you can trace a single straight line. 



But there is another difference which is still 

 more essential. Tl]e same kind of covering 

 which is applied to the house I live in, is also 

 applied to form the covering or perhaps 

 you would say the lining of the sides of the 

 space or hall I have spoken of, as well as of 

 all its apartments ; except that it is thinner, 

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