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Page 68
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 . About three months
after I ...
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 . About three months
after I ...
Page 75
A Police Constable came to my bungalow early in the morning and told me that a
small boy had disappeared and that it was thought that he had been taken away
by a young man in a bullock cart to the coast at Kangesanturai , 15 to 20 miles ...
A Police Constable came to my bungalow early in the morning and told me that a
small boy had disappeared and that it was thought that he had been taken away
by a young man in a bullock cart to the coast at Kangesanturai , 15 to 20 miles ...
Page 102
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 far from us at that time lived two young English girls with their widowed ...
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 far from us at that time lived two young English girls with their widowed ...
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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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