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 63
... Police Magistrate , Dutton . Dutton's character and career were odd and I propose to interrupt the narrative of my own life in order to pursue that of Dutton's in so far as I was able to observe it . Dutton was not a pukka Sahib and was ...
... Police Magistrate , Dutton . Dutton's character and career were odd and I propose to interrupt the narrative of my own life in order to pursue that of Dutton's in so far as I was able to observe it . Dutton was not a pukka Sahib and was ...
Page 79
... Police Magistrate and only acted occasionally as Superintendent of Police , and one soon found , as I said above , that it was extremely difficult to prevent effectively the primitive and illegal methods of the police and headmen in ...
... Police Magistrate and only acted occasionally as Superintendent of Police , and one soon found , as I said above , that it was extremely difficult to prevent effectively the primitive and illegal methods of the police and headmen in ...
Page 90
... Police Magistrate , and was Koddu Superintendent ; I was Assistant Koddu Super- intendent ; Stevenson was Superintendent of Police . Stevenson and I shared a bungalow . I was also Addi- tional Police Magistrate , and when I had time ...
... Police Magistrate , and was Koddu Superintendent ; I was Assistant Koddu Super- intendent ; Stevenson was Superintendent of Police . Stevenson and I shared a bungalow . I was also Addi- tional Police Magistrate , and when I had time ...
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