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Page 30
But at night we lay on the postbags , the District Engineer on one side and I on
the other with the dog between us . Each time that the rolling of the cart flung the
D . E . towards my side and therefore on to Charles , there was a menacing growl
...
But at night we lay on the postbags , the District Engineer on one side and I on
the other with the dog between us . Each time that the rolling of the cart flung the
D . E . towards my side and therefore on to Charles , there was a menacing growl
...
Page 178
I disliked the European side of it , the white sahib side of it , the kind of second -
rate ( as it appeared to me ) pomp and circumstance which surrounded one in
Kandy and Colombo . I am deep down within myself an extremely ambitious
person ...
I disliked the European side of it , the white sahib side of it , the kind of second -
rate ( as it appeared to me ) pomp and circumstance which surrounded one in
Kandy and Colombo . I am deep down within myself an extremely ambitious
person ...
Page 244
Next morning the leading Moslems and Buddhists came to see me , and the
following entry in my official diary shows what happened : The leaders on both
sides wished to settle the matter of yesterday amicably . No one had been
seriously ...
Next morning the leading Moslems and Buddhists came to see me , and the
following entry in my official diary shows what happened : The leaders on both
sides wished to settle the matter of yesterday amicably . No one had been
seriously ...
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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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