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Page 16
There were on the boat three young civil servants, Millington and I going out to
Ceylon, and a young man called Scafe who had just passed into the Indian Civil
Service. There were also two or three Colombo business men, in particular a
large ...
There were on the boat three young civil servants, Millington and I going out to
Ceylon, and a young man called Scafe who had just passed into the Indian Civil
Service. There were also two or three Colombo business men, in particular a
large ...
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planters lived on their dreary tea estates and they enjoyed superficially complete
social equality with the civil servants. They belonged to the same clubs, played
tennis together, and occasionally intermarried. But there is no doubt that ...
planters lived on their dreary tea estates and they enjoyed superficially complete
social equality with the civil servants. They belonged to the same clubs, played
tennis together, and occasionally intermarried. But there is no doubt that ...
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It must be admitted that success, in this sense, did not depend entirely upon your
competence as a civil servant. A social analysis of the service in my time would, I
think, have revealed the curious fact that, if you were thought to be not much of ...
It must be admitted that success, in this sense, did not depend entirely upon your
competence as a civil servant. A social analysis of the service in my time would, I
think, have revealed the curious fact that, if you were thought to be not much of ...
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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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