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Page 69
After I had lived some months with Dutton, I began to urge him to mix with other
people and suggested that he should come with me one evening to the tennis
courts. At first he refused, but I saw that he was rather anxious to do so, and that
fear ...
After I had lived some months with Dutton, I began to urge him to mix with other
people and suggested that he should come with me one evening to the tennis
courts. At first he refused, but I saw that he was rather anxious to do so, and that
fear ...
Page 149
He was a Judge of the Supreme Court and was in Kandy holding the Assizes; he
and Mrs. Middleton were pleasant people, but almost impossibly respectable.
The Judge had rapped me on the knuckles for not having attended his Court ...
He was a Judge of the Supreme Court and was in Kandy holding the Assizes; he
and Mrs. Middleton were pleasant people, but almost impossibly respectable.
The Judge had rapped me on the knuckles for not having attended his Court ...
Page 202
Being Police Magistrate as well as A.G.A. I used to walk over from the kachcheri
to the Police Court to try cases in the afternoon when I was in Hambantota town.
One afternoon when I got to the Court I found half the male population of the town
...
Being Police Magistrate as well as A.G.A. I used to walk over from the kachcheri
to the Police Court to try cases in the afternoon when I was in Hambantota town.
One afternoon when I got to the Court I found half the male population of the town
...
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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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