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everyone's work became easier . Five minutes after this , to me , eminently satisfactory testimonial , I literally saved the head clerk's life . Half - way to Kandy the train was drawing into a station , I suppose it was Ambepussa ...
everyone's work became easier . Five minutes after this , to me , eminently satisfactory testimonial , I literally saved the head clerk's life . Half - way to Kandy the train was drawing into a station , I suppose it was Ambepussa ...
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The enquiry had dragged on all the afternoon , because the witnesses and indeed the principals came from some remote mountain village and were so overawed by the Kandy kachcheri that they became practically speechless and what they had ...
The enquiry had dragged on all the afternoon , because the witnesses and indeed the principals came from some remote mountain village and were so overawed by the Kandy kachcheri that they became practically speechless and what they had ...
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my mind Kandy kachcheri always became more and more hectic with an unending stream of people , clerks , peons , and headmen , bringing in documents and letters which required my signature or asking me to settle some difficulty .
my mind Kandy kachcheri always became more and more hectic with an unending stream of people , clerks , peons , and headmen , bringing in documents and letters which required my signature or asking me to settle some difficulty .
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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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