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Page 92
... or less comfortable — and I had been in acute discomfort for days — and when
I left the koddu about midnight, I was recovered. There was a great deal to be
said against our rule of Ceylon, which, of course, was bleak "imperialism" or what
...
... or less comfortable — and I had been in acute discomfort for days — and when
I left the koddu about midnight, I was recovered. There was a great deal to be
said against our rule of Ceylon, which, of course, was bleak "imperialism" or what
...
Page 156
One was continually having to deal with the planters and their estates and labour,
and there was much business connected with the sale and settlement of Crown
Land. All this I found dull and irritating. On the other hand everything to do with ...
One was continually having to deal with the planters and their estates and labour,
and there was much business connected with the sale and settlement of Crown
Land. All this I found dull and irritating. On the other hand everything to do with ...
Page 223
I refused to go in to help him, and eventually, having swallowed a great deal of
sea-water, exhausted and angry, he struggled ashore. I too was angry, especially
when I heard that it was being widely said that I had behaved in a cowardly and ...
I refused to go in to help him, and eventually, having swallowed a great deal of
sea-water, exhausted and angry, he struggled ashore. I too was angry, especially
when I heard that it was being widely said that I had behaved in a cowardly and ...
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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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