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It looked so cool and green and dark up there; surely the birds, the squirrels, the very tree-toads,—those polished bits of malachite,—must be happy and fond in their storeyed palace.

Near the group of bungalows belonging to the officials and to the prison guards, stood the prison building itself, a large, rambling, one storeyed structure, with many windows fitted with iron bars.

Its cottages were but one storeyed for the most part, and contained some three thousand inhabitants.

The extremities of each wing take the shape of square, three storeyed towers, surmounted by cupolas 20 feet high.

Fortunately for her, she lived in a storeyed building—in local vernacular, a land—or in all probability her house would have been set on fire in order to burn her.