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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... Twynam , K.C.M.G. When I knew him he was 79 years old , living in a house not far from our bungalow on the seashore , a straight - backed , lean , scraggy old man , with a skimpy beard , with that slightly wild , worried look in the eye ...
... Twynam , K.C.M.G. When I knew him he was 79 years old , living in a house not far from our bungalow on the seashore , a straight - backed , lean , scraggy old man , with a skimpy beard , with that slightly wild , worried look in the eye ...
Page 105
... Twynam's plight and thinking that he had been harshly treated , offered him a place in the Civil Service in the Northern Province . Twynam accepted and spent the remainder of his life in Jaffna . In my day every new civil servant when ...
... Twynam's plight and thinking that he had been harshly treated , offered him a place in the Civil Service in the Northern Province . Twynam accepted and spent the remainder of his life in Jaffna . In my day every new civil servant when ...
Page 255
... Twynam , Sir William , 104- 105 Tyrrell , Sir , F. G. , 134 ; 136 Vaithianathan , Sir K. , 163 Vigors , C. T. D. , 24–25 Voltaire , 12 ; 23 ; 37 ; 65 Waterhole , 195-198 White Society , 16–18 Woolf , Bella , 34 ; 134 ; 154– 155 ; 245 ...
... Twynam , Sir William , 104- 105 Tyrrell , Sir , F. G. , 134 ; 136 Vaithianathan , Sir K. , 163 Vigors , C. T. D. , 24–25 Voltaire , 12 ; 23 ; 37 ; 65 Waterhole , 195-198 White Society , 16–18 Woolf , Bella , 34 ; 134 ; 154– 155 ; 245 ...
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