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In Calcutta and Simla , in Colombo and Nuwara Eliya , the social structure and relations between Europeans rested on the same kind of snobbery , pretentiousness , and false pretensions as they did in Putney or Peckham .
In Calcutta and Simla , in Colombo and Nuwara Eliya , the social structure and relations between Europeans rested on the same kind of snobbery , pretentiousness , and false pretensions as they did in Putney or Peckham .
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a that I had returned to Colombo en route back to London and his home . So he set off back again by the way we had come , down the railway line to Colombo . At any rate , two Church Missionary Society lady missionaries , Miss Beeching ...
a that I had returned to Colombo en route back to London and his home . So he set off back again by the way we had come , down the railway line to Colombo . At any rate , two Church Missionary Society lady missionaries , Miss Beeching ...
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One day I received from the Government in Colombo a telegram informing me that Baron Blixen , a Danish cousin of Queen Alexandra , was coming to shoot in my District , and I was to help him in every way possible .
One day I received from the Government in Colombo a telegram informing me that Baron Blixen , a Danish cousin of Queen Alexandra , was coming to shoot in my District , and I was to help him in every way possible .
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf Volume 2 of Woolf, Leonard: An autobiography of the years |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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