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How many rooms would you say were in the house?
Alice: The whole house?
Mamoo:	Well, I don't know. If you count the upstairs as you count
the bedrooms. Let's see, there was the library downstairs, with a sweeping wide hall.
Alice:	I would say about eight or nine rooms.
Mamoo: And there was a great big. . .
Alice: Don't count the attic.
Mamoo:	No, but there was this great big parlor, the drawing room
which went from the front of the house to the little hallway that led to the dining room you see and at the back of that was the curved stairway which went up. . .
Alice: A circular stairway.
Mamoo:	A circular stairway. And then of course when you got
upstairs that's a different matter, because they lived separately. But downstairs there was the library, and the hallway, and the library and the large parlor and then there was a dining room and of course the servants quarters, the kitchen, pantry, stuff like that.
Alice:	Well, I think the most important thing about downstairs
and going right straight through was when you'd get to the end of the hall, the french doors with the french windows and they, in each	window, had this	banana leaf of motif that	goes through, not
only	these two doors,	but the two doors on	the	other	side of the
stairway and on the stairway which was circular," halfway up the two windows, large windows, was the banana leaf motif.
Mamoo:	Stained gluyu.
Alice:	It was simply beautiful, looking at those windows.
I want you to tell me, what was your first impression, when you ?nlk*d. . . Now Alhort. Baldwin would ho nittinq in thp dining room when	you arrived? And	what did he look like.	He	would	be the only
on#	Bitting theru at	the ?*nd of tho tabl#?	Dsiicrihe	t h<? dining
room and also describe what he looked like and your impressions of him now looking back on it.
Mamoot W*il, of courae I don't remember going in there when he was by himself. I always remember him surrounded by people. Don't you?
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