On the twenty-first floor they roast chestnuts and cook sweetmeats in large copper bowls.

On the thirty-fifth floor the toilets are made of thin steel enameled in green, in white, in purple....

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On the thirty-sixth floor the urinal troughs are wrought copper, exquisitely verdigrised.

On the fifty-sixth floor there are only beams: of cedar, of oak, of teak, of a million little scraps of wood laminated together, iron and strong.