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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... arrival . It was a rule of the P. & O. not to take dogs on their boats and I therefore had to send out my dog , Charles , on a Bibby Line vessel . The day after my arrival I went down to the harbour to meet the Bibby boat . Charles ...
... arrival . It was a rule of the P. & O. not to take dogs on their boats and I therefore had to send out my dog , Charles , on a Bibby Line vessel . The day after my arrival I went down to the harbour to meet the Bibby boat . Charles ...
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... arrived and their leader Count Frijs called on me , accompanied by his daughter . The Count was a tall , very | good - looking Swede ; the Countess made my heart , chaste and chastened by two years in Hambantota , turn over in my breast ...
... arrived and their leader Count Frijs called on me , accompanied by his daughter . The Count was a tall , very | good - looking Swede ; the Countess made my heart , chaste and chastened by two years in Hambantota , turn over in my breast ...
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... arrived in a motor - car two or three days later . Baron Axel Blixen was a middle - aged man with mutton - chop whiskers , watery eyes , and a distant resemblance to the Prince Consort . He was extremely nervous , and , holding my hand ...
... arrived in a motor - car two or three days later . Baron Axel Blixen was a middle - aged man with mutton - chop whiskers , watery eyes , and a distant resemblance to the Prince Consort . He was extremely nervous , and , holding my hand ...
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