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 53
... walked into their office in the morning there was below the surface of their minds , when they passed through the crowd on the verandah , a feeling of irritation and contempt . I too , like everyone else , was at first irritated and con ...
... walked into their office in the morning there was below the surface of their minds , when they passed through the crowd on the verandah , a feeling of irritation and contempt . I too , like everyone else , was at first irritated and con ...
Page 59
... the magistrate's work ) when he was summoned to the hospital to take the dying deposition of a man who had had his head cracked in a brawl . I walked over with him . The hos- pital consists of two long rooms bare and whitewashed , 59 ...
... the magistrate's work ) when he was summoned to the hospital to take the dying deposition of a man who had had his head cracked in a brawl . I walked over with him . The hos- pital consists of two long rooms bare and whitewashed , 59 ...
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... walked to the trap they had less understanding of my ways , my intentions , my affection for them than the half - bred bitch walking at my heels . They were the nicest of people and I was very fond of them , but they would have thrown ...
... walked to the trap they had less understanding of my ways , my intentions , my affection for them than the half - bred bitch walking at my heels . They were the nicest of people and I was very fond of them , but they would have thrown ...
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