Growing, an Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911The author's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. |
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Page 69
... courts . Among the habitués or habituées were the two missionaries , Miss Case and Miss Beeching , who came to the courts solely , I think , because they wanted exercise . They obviously and with justification disapproved of the other ...
... courts . Among the habitués or habituées were the two missionaries , Miss Case and Miss Beeching , who came to the courts solely , I think , because they wanted exercise . They obviously and with justification disapproved of the other ...
Page 149
... 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 officially , as Deputy Fiscal , at ...
... 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 officially , as Deputy Fiscal , at ...
Page 202
... 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 packed into the Court , on the verandah , and all round the building . There was one ...
... 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 packed into the Court , on the verandah , and all round the building . There was one ...
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