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Page 24
I had to spend the night at Anuradhapura , and I was asked to dinner by the
Government Agent , C . T . D . Vigors , at the Residency . Here I had my first
plunge into the social life of a Ceylon civil servant , a life in which I was to be
immersed for ...
I had to spend the night at Anuradhapura , and I was asked to dinner by the
Government Agent , C . T . D . Vigors , at the Residency . Here I had my first
plunge into the social life of a Ceylon civil servant , a life in which I was to be
immersed for ...
Page 34
In charge of the Province was a Government Agent ( always referred to as the G .
A . ) , a senior civil servant of 20 years ' service or more . The Provincial
government office or offices , the kachcheri , was always in the chief town of the
Province ...
In charge of the Province was a Government Agent ( always referred to as the G .
A . ) , a senior civil servant of 20 years ' service or more . The Provincial
government office or offices , the kachcheri , was always in the chief town of the
Province ...
Page 127
When the wire of Government came approving his proposal , he asked me (
damn him ) whether I was pleased ; the violence of my “ No , not at all ” absolutely
threw him out and it was only his wife ' s coming into the room which saved him
and ...
When the wire of Government came approving his proposal , he asked me (
damn him ) whether I was pleased ; the violence of my “ No , not at all ” absolutely
threw him out and it was only his wife ' s coming into the room which saved him
and ...
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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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