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I suppose the higher executives, as they would now be called, the tycoons, if
there were any in those days, in Colombo were members of the Colombo Club
and moved in the "highest" society. But all in subordinate posts in banks and ...
I suppose the higher executives, as they would now be called, the tycoons, if
there were any in those days, in Colombo were members of the Colombo Club
and moved in the "highest" society. But all in subordinate posts in banks and ...
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that I had returned to Colombo en route back to London and his home. So he set
off back again by the way we had come, down the railway line to Colombo. At any
rate, two Church Missionary Society lady missionaries, Miss Beeching and ...
that I had returned to Colombo en route back to London and his home. So he set
off back again by the way we had come, down the railway line to Colombo. At any
rate, two Church Missionary Society lady missionaries, Miss Beeching and ...
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The fourth contained a bevy | of ladies who seemed to me most unsuitable for the
jungles of Magampattu; their normal place of domicile was, I guessed, a Colombo
brothel. One day I received from the Government in Colombo » a telegram ...
The fourth contained a bevy | of ladies who seemed to me most unsuitable for the
jungles of Magampattu; their normal place of domicile was, I guessed, a Colombo
brothel. One day I received from the Government in Colombo » a telegram ...
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| Title | Growing, an autobiography of the years 1904-1911 |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Authors, English Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Sri Lanka |
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