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Page 14
The captain had another characteristic , shared by me : he had a passion for
every kind of game . During the day we played the usual deck games , chess ,
draughts , and even noughts and crosses , and very late at night when the two
candles ...
The captain had another characteristic , shared by me : he had a passion for
every kind of game . During the day we played the usual deck games , chess ,
draughts , and even noughts and crosses , and very late at night when the two
candles ...
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Many people dislike the arid sterility of this kind of Asiatic low country . But I lived
in it for many years , indeed for most of my time in Ceylon , and it got into my heart
and my bones , its austere beauty , its immobility and unchangeableness ...
Many people dislike the arid sterility of this kind of Asiatic low country . But I lived
in it for many years , indeed for most of my time in Ceylon , and it got into my heart
and my bones , its austere beauty , its immobility and unchangeableness ...
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Whenever I went he was holding a kind of small durbar of chief headmen , for he
was still a kind of underground power in the peninsula . He was a formidable old
man though quite friendly to me . I never had the courage to ask him whether it ...
Whenever I went he was holding a kind of small durbar of chief headmen , for he
was still a kind of underground power in the peninsula . He was a formidable old
man though quite friendly to me . I never had the courage to ask him whether it ...
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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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