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office I always sent for the head clerk and said to him : “ Every letter received in
this kachcheri after this week must be answered on the day of its receipt unless it
is waiting for an order from me or from the G . A . ” The answer of the head clerk ...
office I always sent for the head clerk and said to him : “ Every letter received in
this kachcheri after this week must be answered on the day of its receipt unless it
is waiting for an order from me or from the G . A . ” The answer of the head clerk ...
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I remember one year riding in the morning from my bungalow on the seashore to
the kachcheri through a dead brown world . Everything was completely dried up ,
not a sign or sound of life anywhere , not a drop of water , not a speck of mud in ...
I remember one year riding in the morning from my bungalow on the seashore to
the kachcheri through a dead brown world . Everything was completely dried up ,
not a sign or sound of life anywhere , not a drop of water , not a speck of mud in ...
Page 128
I was sitting in the kachcheri late one afternoon holding a most exasperating
enquiry — it was , I think , connected with a Kandyan divorce case . The
Ratemahatmaya , the interpreter , the three parties to the case ( the two husbands
and wife ) ...
I was sitting in the kachcheri late one afternoon holding a most exasperating
enquiry — it was , I think , connected with a Kandyan divorce case . The
Ratemahatmaya , the interpreter , the three parties to the case ( the two husbands
and wife ) ...
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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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