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 43
... tried her hand upon me , the other victim of her artless and embarrassing manoeuvres being a young woman friend of hers who came on a visit of several months to her . On the evening when Miss M's visit came to an end and she had left ...
... tried her hand upon me , the other victim of her artless and embarrassing manoeuvres being a young woman friend of hers who came on a visit of several months to her . On the evening when Miss M's visit came to an end and she had left ...
Page 131
... tried to bluster , but I had him turned out of my room and out of the kachcheri . The clerks told me later that he had returned and paid in cash for the licence . The rest of his story I heard much later . He had somehow or other got ...
... tried to bluster , but I had him turned out of my room and out of the kachcheri . The clerks told me later that he had returned and paid in cash for the licence . The rest of his story I heard much later . He had somehow or other got ...
Page 213
... tried again and again to creep and crawl 200-300 yards through the jungle , first in one place and then in another , but I could not strike the path . It is a golden rule in jungle , when you want to find your way back exactly to the ...
... tried again and again to creep and crawl 200-300 yards through the jungle , first in one place and then in another , but I could not strike the path . It is a golden rule in jungle , when you want to find your way back exactly to the ...
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