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The “ young girl ” , I discovered , though the niece of one of my own very respectable clerks , was a notorious Jaffna character — a " loose liver ” , as they said ; at the moment she was being kept by a Tamil lawyer .
The “ young girl ” , I discovered , though the niece of one of my own very respectable clerks , was a notorious Jaffna character — a " loose liver ” , as they said ; at the moment she was being kept by a Tamil lawyer .
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There we found a young man and a crowd of relations of the small boy , together with headmen and the policeman . The story was this : the child had been last seen with a young man in a bullock cart driving towards the coast .
There we found a young man and a crowd of relations of the small boy , together with headmen and the policeman . The story was this : the child had been last seen with a young man in a bullock cart driving towards the coast .
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On the sandy shore in front of our bungalow there was practically no rise and fall of tide and rarely a wave . There was always a strong smell of sea and seaweed . Not very from us at that time lived two young English girls with their ...
On the sandy shore in front of our bungalow there was practically no rise and fall of tide and rarely a wave . There was always a strong smell of sea and seaweed . Not very from us at that time lived two young English girls with their ...
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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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