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Page 67
Being on a horse I could see over the blinds on to the verandahs . As I passed
one of the houses , I happened to look into the verandah and a Burgher girl
sitting there smiled at me and I smiled at her . A little further on I was crossing an
open ...
Being on a horse I could see over the blinds on to the verandahs . As I passed
one of the houses , I happened to look into the verandah and a Burgher girl
sitting there smiled at me and I smiled at her . A little further on I was crossing an
open ...
Page 71
The Duttons and I dined together , and after dinner we sat on the verandah with
the Indian Ocean a few yards from our toes and talked . The conversation was
curious , uneasy , and I felt - I could not say why — that every now and then it ...
The Duttons and I dined together , and after dinner we sat on the verandah with
the Indian Ocean a few yards from our toes and talked . The conversation was
curious , uneasy , and I felt - I could not say why — that every now and then it ...
Page 111
The first case arose from an order which I had posted in the verandah of the
kachcheri . The amount of spitting which went on in the verandah was extremely
unpleasant . The notice said that spitting on the verandah was forbidden and the
...
The first case arose from an order which I had posted in the verandah of the
kachcheri . The amount of spitting which went on in the verandah was extremely
unpleasant . The notice said that spitting on the verandah was forbidden and the
...
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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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