Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904 to 1911Woolf's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. "He has a seemingly effortless way with words which is beautiful and spellbinding" (J. M. Edelstein, New Republic). Index; photographs. |
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Page 34
... kachcheri , was always in the chief town of the Province , and there the Government Agent had his Residence . Districts were in the charge of an Assistant Government Agent ( the A.G.A. ) , a civil servant of anything from six to twenty ...
... kachcheri , was always in the chief town of the Province , and there the Government Agent had his Residence . Districts were in the charge of an Assistant Government Agent ( the A.G.A. ) , a civil servant of anything from six to twenty ...
Page 108
... kachcheri examining the table of every clerk to see exactly what he was doing , what letters he had on his table unanswered and on what date they were received . This was a formidable undertaking , par- ticularly in a kachcheri like ...
... kachcheri examining the table of every clerk to see exactly what he was doing , what letters he had on his table unanswered and on what date they were received . This was a formidable undertaking , par- ticularly in a kachcheri like ...
Page 110
... kachcheri on the platform , I asked him to come in my carriage and have a chat . We talked about old times and then suddenly he said to me that when I first came to the kachcheri and said that everything must be brought up to date and ...
... kachcheri on the platform , I asked him to come in my carriage and have a chat . We talked about old times and then suddenly he said to me that when I first came to the kachcheri and said that everything must be brought up to date and ...
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