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I remembered the long straight street in the glare and dust , the white houses and verandahs , and women's heads peering through blinds or round doors to see what the white men were stopping for . I remembered that my horse had been ...
I remembered the long straight street in the glare and dust , the white houses and verandahs , and women's heads peering through blinds or round doors to see what the white men were stopping for . I remembered that my horse had been ...
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He told me that he was much attracted by Ethel and that almost every evening he rode with the two young ladies round the hills above Kandy . The difficulty for him was that he always had to take Rachel as well as Ethel and he therefore ...
He told me that he was much attracted by Ethel and that almost every evening he rode with the two young ladies round the hills above Kandy . The difficulty for him was that he always had to take Rachel as well as Ethel and he therefore ...
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It was the dry season and there would be no water for miles round except in this water hole . The Arachchi asked me to come and have a look at it . It would be the night of the full moon , so I told him that I would and that I would ...
It was the dry season and there would be no water for miles round except in this water hole . The Arachchi asked me to come and have a look at it . It would be the night of the full moon , so I told him that I would and that I would ...
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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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