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In the stories and in the conversations on the Jaffna tennis court ( and off it ) there was the same incongruous mixture of public school toughness , sentimentality , and melancholy . When in the tropics the glaring , flaring day ends ...
In the stories and in the conversations on the Jaffna tennis court ( and off it ) there was the same incongruous mixture of public school toughness , sentimentality , and melancholy . When in the tropics the glaring , flaring day ends ...
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a After I had lived some months with Dutton , I began to urge him to mix with other people and suggested that he should come with me one evening to the tennis courts . At first he refused , but I saw that he was rather anxious to do so ...
a After I had lived some months with Dutton , I began to urge him to mix with other people and suggested that he should come with me one evening to the tennis courts . At first he refused , but I saw that he was rather anxious to do so ...
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He was a Judge of the Supreme Court and was in Kandy holding the Assizes ; he and Mrs. Middleton were pleasant people , but almost impossibly respectable . The Judge had rapped me on the knuckles for not having attended his Court ...
He was a Judge of the Supreme Court and was in Kandy holding the Assizes ; he and Mrs. Middleton were pleasant people , but almost impossibly respectable . The Judge had rapped me on the knuckles for not having attended his Court ...
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User Review - Jenney - LibraryThingIn the feudal society of Ceylon "I felt that there was some depth of happiness rather than pleasure, of satisfaction, . . . which the western world is losing or has lost." (p 158) Judgments such as ... Read full review
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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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