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... grow self - centred . Their bodies , their immediate surroundings , acquire an importance which is unreasonable ... grows ever more complete a man . But suffering depresses the vitality . It coarsens the moral fibre rather than refines ...
... grow self - centred . Their bodies , their immediate surroundings , acquire an importance which is unreasonable ... grows ever more complete a man . But suffering depresses the vitality . It coarsens the moral fibre rather than refines ...
Page 225
... grows a tangle of trees and shrubs ; but only these massive walls of great grey stones remain , and the quadrangle is a jungle of tropical vegetation . Opposite the fort is a large open space reaching down to the sea where huge trees grow ...
... grows a tangle of trees and shrubs ; but only these massive walls of great grey stones remain , and the quadrangle is a jungle of tropical vegetation . Opposite the fort is a large open space reaching down to the sea where huge trees grow ...
Page 297
... grow coco- nuts , and thatched houses with mud roofs stand at the water's edge , each surrounded by its little compound in which grow bananas , papaya and sometimes a jack tree . Children [ 297 ] A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK.
... grow coco- nuts , and thatched houses with mud roofs stand at the water's edge , each surrounded by its little compound in which grow bananas , papaya and sometimes a jack tree . Children [ 297 ] A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK.
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