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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... young civil servants immediately under him who did the office work , checking the accounts , issuing licences , going through all the letters , preparing the files and submitting all important questions for decision by the G.A. with ...
... young civil servants immediately under him who did the office work , checking the accounts , issuing licences , going through all the letters , preparing the files and submitting all important questions for decision by the G.A. with ...
Page 68
... young girl " , I discovered , though the niece of one of my own very respectable clerks , was a notorious Jaffna character - a " loose liver " , as they said ; at the moment she was being kept by a Tamil lawyer . About three months ...
... young girl " , I discovered , though the niece of one of my own very respectable clerks , was a notorious Jaffna character - a " loose liver " , as they said ; at the moment she was being kept by a Tamil lawyer . About three months ...
Page 75
... young man and a crowd of relations of the small boy , together with headmen and the policeman . The story was this : the child had been last seen with a young man in a bullock cart driving towards the coast . The young man was known to ...
... young man and a crowd of relations of the small boy , together with headmen and the policeman . The story was this : the child had been last seen with a young man in a bullock cart driving towards the coast . The young man was known to ...
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