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 104
... Twynam , K.C.M.G. When I knew him he was 79 years old , living in a house not far from our bungalow on the seashore , a straight - backed , lean , scraggy old man , with a skimpy beard , with that slightly wild , worried look in the eye ...
... Twynam , K.C.M.G. When I knew him he was 79 years old , living in a house not far from our bungalow on the seashore , a straight - backed , lean , scraggy old man , with a skimpy beard , with that slightly wild , worried look in the eye ...
Page 105
... Twynam's plight and thinking that he had been harshly treated , offered him a place in the Civil Service in the Northern Province . Twynam accepted and spent the remainder of his life in Jaffna . In my day every new civil servant when ...
... Twynam's plight and thinking that he had been harshly treated , offered him a place in the Civil Service in the Northern Province . Twynam accepted and spent the remainder of his life in Jaffna . In my day every new civil servant when ...
Page 247
... Twynam had im- mersed themselves in Jaffna , I might welcome it as a final withdrawal , a final solitude , in which , married to a Sin- halese , I would make my District or Province the most efficient , the most prosperous place in Asia ...
... Twynam had im- mersed themselves in Jaffna , I might welcome it as a final withdrawal , a final solitude , in which , married to a Sin- halese , I would make my District or Province the most efficient , the most prosperous place in Asia ...
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