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Page 53
But gradually these feelings , when I was left by myself in the kachcheri to deal
with the people and their business , began to evaporate and in the end , I think ,
they died out of me altogether . I liked unobserved to observe the perpetual ...
But gradually these feelings , when I was left by myself in the kachcheri to deal
with the people and their business , began to evaporate and in the end , I think ,
they died out of me altogether . I liked unobserved to observe the perpetual ...
Page 132
I had again on me that delicious feeling of setting out alone on a voyage into the
unknown . The feeling was intensified by Polgahawela . What a soft liquid gentle
Sinhalese word this — Field of Coconutswas when one compared it with Tamil ...
I had again on me that delicious feeling of setting out alone on a voyage into the
unknown . The feeling was intensified by Polgahawela . What a soft liquid gentle
Sinhalese word this — Field of Coconutswas when one compared it with Tamil ...
Page 244
... of yesterday amicably . No one had been seriously hurt . There has also never
been any religious feeling in the town and there is no doubt that , if cases with
proctors on each side had been engaged on , such feeling would be engendered
.
... of yesterday amicably . No one had been seriously hurt . There has also never
been any religious feeling in the town and there is no doubt that , if cases with
proctors on each side had been engaged on , such feeling would be engendered
.
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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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