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 85
... course , the awkwardness is only felt by myself . I have definitely promised to stay next week with two of them on their estates about 10 miles away : I shall have to but I dread it . . . . An American whom I met at Hatton gave me | the ...
... course , the awkwardness is only felt by myself . I have definitely promised to stay next week with two of them on their estates about 10 miles away : I shall have to but I dread it . . . . An American whom I met at Hatton gave me | the ...
Page 112
... course they take the paying line that we are anti - native . In my case they have pitched on things which are of course not anti - native but in the main true . ' " " In their second complaint the Jaffna Association pitched on something ...
... course they take the paying line that we are anti - native . In my case they have pitched on things which are of course not anti - native but in the main true . ' " " In their second complaint the Jaffna Association pitched on something ...
Page 244
... course , was not quite the story told to me in the witness - box by the strangers , who were themselves Buddhists and Sinhalese . But as they had no time to get together with their co - religionists and prepare their evidence - which ...
... course , was not quite the story told to me in the witness - box by the strangers , who were themselves Buddhists and Sinhalese . But as they had no time to get together with their co - religionists and prepare their evidence - which ...
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