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Page 70
Some months later Miss Beeching did marry Dutton . Oddly enough , I cannot
remember whether I was or was not at the wedding — I rather think I was not . At
any rate , just about that time I was moved to another post , to Kandy hundreds of
...
Some months later Miss Beeching did marry Dutton . Oddly enough , I cannot
remember whether I was or was not at the wedding — I rather think I was not . At
any rate , just about that time I was moved to another post , to Kandy hundreds of
...
Page 130
Quarter of an hour later the man and the peon reappeared and a sheaf of papers
was laid on my table . I glanced through them and signed my name in various
places and gave them back to the peon without looking at the white man or
saying ...
Quarter of an hour later the man and the peon reappeared and a sheaf of papers
was laid on my table . I glanced through them and signed my name in various
places and gave them back to the peon without looking at the white man or
saying ...
Page 131
The clerks told me later that he had returned and paid in cash for the licence .
The rest of his story I heard much later . He had somehow or other got himself
engaged to the rather plain daughter of a respectable and fairly flourishing
business ...
The clerks told me later that he had returned and paid in cash for the licence .
The rest of his story I heard much later . He had somehow or other got himself
engaged to the rather plain daughter of a respectable and fairly flourishing
business ...
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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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