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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... whole impact of Colombo , the G.O.H. , and Ceylon in those first hours and days , and this curious mixture of intense reality and unreality applied to all my seven years in Ceylon . If one lives where one was born and bred , the ...
... whole impact of Colombo , the G.O.H. , and Ceylon in those first hours and days , and this curious mixture of intense reality and unreality applied to all my seven years in Ceylon . If one lives where one was born and bred , the ...
Page 125
... whole thing concerned me intimately , completely fas- cinated , with a grim objectivity I watched him " dealing with ” the situation . I think perhaps that I can best show what happened by quoting the account of it which I wrote to ...
... whole thing concerned me intimately , completely fas- cinated , with a grim objectivity I watched him " dealing with ” the situation . I think perhaps that I can best show what happened by quoting the account of it which I wrote to ...
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... whole line waited for a few minutes , each beast swaying , fidgeting , lifting up one foot after another in that pattern of eternal restlessness from which no elephant for a single moment seems able to escape . The whole line swayed and ...
... whole line waited for a few minutes , each beast swaying , fidgeting , lifting up one foot after another in that pattern of eternal restlessness from which no elephant for a single moment seems able to escape . The whole line swayed and ...
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