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 128
... enquiry - it was , I think , connected with a Kandyan divorce case . The Ratemahat- maya , the interpreter , the three parties to the case ( the two husbands and wife ) , several witnesses were in the room in a circle round my table ...
... enquiry - it was , I think , connected with a Kandyan divorce case . The Ratemahat- maya , the interpreter , the three parties to the case ( the two husbands and wife ) , several witnesses were in the room in a circle round my table ...
Page 130
... enquiry had just reached a catastrophic climax and I was listening intently to the hesitating but crucial evidence in Sinhalese of a villager . I glanced at the paper which the peon had put before me , its image registering only on the ...
... enquiry had just reached a catastrophic climax and I was listening intently to the hesitating but crucial evidence in Sinhalese of a villager . I glanced at the paper which the peon had put before me , its image registering only on the ...
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Leonard Woolf. leave the district . After enquiry it was clear that one of them had shot a deer in the bed of the river . I told him what I thought of him as a " sportsman " and said that , quite apart from that , I considered that the ...
Leonard Woolf. leave the district . After enquiry it was clear that one of them had shot a deer in the bed of the river . I told him what I thought of him as a " sportsman " and said that , quite apart from that , I considered that the ...
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