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Page 151
... strange place ? Can I take the woman and the child with me ? I have no house there , and no money to buy in the bazaar . Among strangers and in strange places evil comes . Here my father lived , and his father before him , in this house ...
... strange place ? Can I take the woman and the child with me ? I have no house there , and no money to buy in the bazaar . Among strangers and in strange places evil comes . Here my father lived , and his father before him , in this house ...
Page 258
... Strange men , and they do strange things . Thieving , stab- bing , killing , cultivating paddy . I do not cultivate paddy , nor do I thieve or kill . I am mad perhaps . But very often it is they who seem to me to want but a little to be ...
... Strange men , and they do strange things . Thieving , stab- bing , killing , cultivating paddy . I do not cultivate paddy , nor do I thieve or kill . I am mad perhaps . But very often it is they who seem to me to want but a little to be ...
Page 298
... strange place . " It might be a still bitterer thing to live in a strange place . She was alone in the world ; the only thing left to her was the compound and the jungle which she knew . She clung to it passionately , blindly . The love ...
... strange place . " It might be a still bitterer thing to live in a strange place . She was alone in the world ; the only thing left to her was the compound and the jungle which she knew . She clung to it passionately , blindly . The love ...
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afraid Agent Hamadoru aiya Aiyo anger angry Appochchi Arachchi asked Babehami Babun Beddagama began Beragama brother Buddha called charm chena crop child cloth Colombo compound dagobas daughter deer devil elephant evil eyes father fear felt Fernando fever fool girl give grain hami hand hang headman hear heard Hinni Hinnihami hunter judge jungle Kamburupitiya kapurala Karlinahami kill knew Korala Mahatmaya kunji kurakkan kurunies laughed leave Leonard Woolf listened live looked magistrate months morning Mudalali Nanchohami never night path peon pilgrims prison Punchi Menika Punchirala rain Ratemahatmaya rice Rodiya round sanyasi side silence Silindu Sinhalese slowly squatted stood strange talk Tamils tank tell temple thing thought tired told took track trees trouble understand veddas vederala village walked watched wife wild woman women words yakka Yakkini yakko