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Page 27
Many people dislike the arid sterility of this kind of Asiatic low country . But I lived
in it for many years , indeed for most of my time in Ceylon , and it got into my heart
and my bones , its austere beauty , its immobility and unchangeableness ...
Many people dislike the arid sterility of this kind of Asiatic low country . But I lived
in it for many years , indeed for most of my time in Ceylon , and it got into my heart
and my bones , its austere beauty , its immobility and unchangeableness ...
Page 116
He suffered too from being a kind of aristocrat and a schoolboy who had never
grown up into the world of reality and 1906 . He had an instinctive grasp of a “
situation ” and of the person with whom he was “ dealing ” . I got on well with him
...
He suffered too from being a kind of aristocrat and a schoolboy who had never
grown up into the world of reality and 1906 . He had an instinctive grasp of a “
situation ” and of the person with whom he was “ dealing ” . I got on well with him
...
Page 181
I set out to make the Hambantota District the best administered in the island , and
I do not think that I deceive or flatter myself when I say that I succeeded . I will
give an example or two which will , I think , prove this and will also show the kind
of ...
I set out to make the Hambantota District the best administered in the island , and
I do not think that I deceive or flatter myself when I say that I succeeded . I will
give an example or two which will , I think , prove this and will also show the kind
of ...
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