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After I had lived some months with Dutton , I began to urge him to mix with other people and suggested that he should come with me one evening to the tennis courts . At first he refused , but I saw that he was rather anxious to do so ...
After I had lived some months with Dutton , I began to urge him to mix with other people and suggested that he should come with me one evening to the tennis courts . At first he refused , but I saw that he was rather anxious to do so ...
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The fact that she had ceased to be Empress of the French 37 years ago appeared to make no difference to the etiquette of her Court in King's Pavilion , Kandy . It seemed to me not inappropriate that the old lady in her make - believe ...
The fact that she had ceased to be Empress of the French 37 years ago appeared to make no difference to the etiquette of her Court in King's Pavilion , Kandy . It seemed to me not inappropriate that the old lady in her make - believe ...
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Being Police Magistrate as well as A.G.A. I used to walk over from the kachcheri to the Police Court to try cases in the afternoon when I was in Hambantota town . One afternoon when I got to the Court I found half the male population of ...
Being Police Magistrate as well as A.G.A. I used to walk over from the kachcheri to the Police Court to try cases in the afternoon when I was in Hambantota town . One afternoon when I got to the Court I found half the male population of ...
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User Review - Jenney - LibraryThingIn the feudal society of Ceylon "I felt that there was some depth of happiness rather than pleasure, of satisfaction, . . . which the western world is losing or has lost." (p 158) Judgments such as ... Read full review
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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 Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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