Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 |
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At first it is a mere whirl : sitting in sheer a ignorance up there in the hum of the Court , writing down the evidence , listening to the proctors and witnesses , thinking of questions to ask , trying to make up your mind — all at the ...
At first it is a mere whirl : sitting in sheer a ignorance up there in the hum of the Court , writing down the evidence , listening to the proctors and witnesses , thinking of questions to ask , trying to make up your mind — all at the ...
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I found him sitting at a small table typing out incompetently on a decrepit typewriter the poetry which he had written the previous evening . Every evening Dutton wrote poetry , poetry incredibly feeble and of ...
I found him sitting at a small table typing out incompetently on a decrepit typewriter the poetry which he had written the previous evening . Every evening Dutton wrote poetry , poetry incredibly feeble and of ...
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late it was , there were always people walking about or sitting in front of their huts . Very often a pearl dealer or merchant would invite one to sit down with him and have a small cup of Turkish coffee . As the Fishery went on and ...
late it was , there were always people walking about or sitting in front of their huts . Very often a pearl dealer or merchant would invite one to sit down with him and have a small cup of Turkish coffee . As the Fishery went on and ...
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User Review - Tom.Wilson - LibraryThingPlaying tennis with starched whites with the other English administrators and then chatting over G and Ts in the tropical warm of the evening in an old Dutch fort on the north-east coast of Sri Lanka ... Read full review
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User Review - Jenney - LibraryThingIn the feudal society of Ceylon "I felt that there was some depth of happiness rather than pleasure, of satisfaction, . . . which the western world is losing or has lost." (p 158) Judgments such as ... Read full review
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