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The carriage drew up before Vidyasagar's house. It is a two-storey building in the English taste, standing in the middle of its grounds, with a wall all round. The main entrance and the gate face west, the gate lying south of the doorway. In the space between the west wall and the house, flowering plants grow here and there. One goes up by a staircase from a room on the ground floor on the west; Vidyasagar lives upstairs. At the head of the stairs, to the north, is a room, and east of it a hall. Vidyasagar sleeps in the room to the south-east of the hall, and directly south there is another room. These rooms are full of costly books: rows of bookcases stand along the walls, with the books set out in them, all handsomely bound. At the east end of the hall are a table and chairs, and when Vidyasagar sits there to work he faces west. Those who come to see him also sit on chairs round the table. On the table one sees writing things, paper, pens, an inkstand and blotting paper, a good many letters, bound account books and a few of Vidyasagar's own textbooks. In the room just south of this seat of his there is a bedstead with a bed; that is where he sleeps.