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 46
... court ( and off it ) there was the same incongruous mixture of public school toughness , sentimentality , and melancholy . When in the tropics the glaring , flaring day ends with the suddenness to which the northerner never becomes ...
... court ( and off it ) there was the same incongruous mixture of public school toughness , sentimentality , and melancholy . When in the tropics the glaring , flaring day ends with the suddenness to which the northerner never becomes ...
Page 69
... courts . Among the habitués or habituées were the two missionaries , Miss Case and Miss Beeching , who came to the courts solely , I think , because they wanted exercise . They obviously and with justification disapproved of the other ...
... courts . Among the habitués or habituées were the two missionaries , Miss Case and Miss Beeching , who came to the courts solely , I think , because they wanted exercise . They obviously and with justification disapproved of the other ...
Page 149
... Court and was in Kandy holding the Assizes ; he and Mrs. Middleton were pleasant people , but almost impossibly respectable . The Judge had rapped me on the knuckles for not having attended his Court officially , as Deputy Fiscal , at ...
... Court and was in Kandy holding the Assizes ; he and Mrs. Middleton were pleasant people , but almost impossibly respectable . The Judge had rapped me on the knuckles for not having attended his Court officially , as Deputy Fiscal , at ...
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