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 63
... Dutton . Dutton's character and career were odd and I propose to interrupt the narrative of my own life in order to pursue that of Dutton's in so far as I was able to observe it . Dutton was not a pukka Sahib and was not accepted as ...
... Dutton . Dutton's character and career were odd and I propose to interrupt the narrative of my own life in order to pursue that of Dutton's in so far as I was able to observe it . Dutton was not a pukka Sahib and was not accepted as ...
Page 69
... Dutton over to them ; for the next few months Dutton used to come and play nearly every evening a hopelessly incompetent game of tennis with Miss Case and Miss Beeching . And I think I noticed , without really paying any attention to it ...
... Dutton over to them ; for the next few months Dutton used to come and play nearly every evening a hopelessly incompetent game of tennis with Miss Case and Miss Beeching . And I think I noticed , without really paying any attention to it ...
Page 70
... Dutton . I like , as I have said before , the beauty , solitude , melancholy of great empty sandy plains , but just as when you see two human beings outlined against their flaming sunset , they contrive to make you see the human beings ...
... Dutton . I like , as I have said before , the beauty , solitude , melancholy of great empty sandy plains , but just as when you see two human beings outlined against their flaming sunset , they contrive to make you see the human beings ...
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