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Page 51
If you walked to the edge of the bastion and looked down upon the esplanade
you saw below you a small erection which looked like a hen coop ; in this there
lived another devil or God whose power or reputation was considerable, for many
...
If you walked to the edge of the bastion and looked down upon the esplanade
you saw below you a small erection which looked like a hen coop ; in this there
lived another devil or God whose power or reputation was considerable, for many
...
Page 73
And in the feeble light of the oil lamp on the verandah I saw that the Red Indian
face was puckered with worry and she looked as if she might at any moment
burst into tears. I felt terribly sorry for them, but far more for her than for him. It
became ...
And in the feeble light of the oil lamp on the verandah I saw that the Red Indian
face was puckered with worry and she looked as if she might at any moment
burst into tears. I felt terribly sorry for them, but far more for her than for him. It
became ...
Page 176
... north the long purple line of the great mountains, from which I looked down that
evening with Rachel. One's memory in connection with places is curiously erratic.
There are two things about my house in Hambantota which I remember vividly.
... north the long purple line of the great mountains, from which I looked down that
evening with Rachel. One's memory in connection with places is curiously erratic.
There are two things about my house in Hambantota which I remember vividly.
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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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