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 44
... never got to know well , because he was soon transferred to another station . Dutton , the P.M. , was a strange character ; a strange fate , partly due to me , befell him , but I will deal with him and his fate in greater detail later ...
... never got to know well , because he was soon transferred to another station . Dutton , the P.M. , was a strange character ; a strange fate , partly due to me , befell him , but I will deal with him and his fate in greater detail later ...
Page 173
... never quite reached it , perhaps because I knew that it would never be the time until you did . Sometimes too I thought of that astonishing letter of Ainsworth , do you remember it ? the one I mean which dropped on you after an interval ...
... never quite reached it , perhaps because I knew that it would never be the time until you did . Sometimes too I thought of that astonishing letter of Ainsworth , do you remember it ? the one I mean which dropped on you after an interval ...
Page 210
... never felt that I had any idea of what an elephant would do : he might pay no attention to you at all or dash off in ... never heard it before and I asked the Watcher what it was ; he said that he did not know , he too had never heard ...
... never felt that I had any idea of what an elephant would do : he might pay no attention to you at all or dash off in ... never heard it before and I asked the Watcher what it was ; he said that he did not know , he too had never heard ...
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