Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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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 128
... kachcheri late one afternoon holding a most exasperating enquiry - it was , I think , connected with a Kandyan divorce case . The Ratemahat- maya , the interpreter , the three parties to the case ( the two husbands and wife ) , several ...
... kachcheri late one afternoon holding a most exasperating enquiry - it was , I think , connected with a Kandyan divorce case . The Ratemahat- maya , the interpreter , the three parties to the case ( the two husbands and wife ) , several ...
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