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Page 111
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, and before it
had ...
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, and before it
had ...
Page 128
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 ...
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 ...
Page 129
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. I was therefore ...
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. I was therefore ...
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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 |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, Incorporated, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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