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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... asked me to come and have a look at it . It would be the night of the full moon , so I told him that I would and that I would spend my night at the water hole . I was very fond of sitting up over a water hole in this way and just ...
... asked me to come and have a look at it . It would be the night of the full moon , so I told him that I would and that I would spend my night at the water hole . I was very fond of sitting up over a water hole in this way and just ...
Page 238
... asked him to try to get the rival factions to agree over an appointment . He said that he would do so , but that if they could not agree , the right procedure was for them to remit the dispute to Constan- tinople for settlement . The ...
... asked him to try to get the rival factions to agree over an appointment . He said that he would do so , but that if they could not agree , the right procedure was for them to remit the dispute to Constan- tinople for settlement . The ...
Page 239
... asked him what was the matter with him . He said he was suffering from " yak leda " , which means devil sickness . How , I asked him , did he catch devil sickness . Well , he said , one night he went to look at the wells , which he was ...
... asked him what was the matter with him . He said he was suffering from " yak leda " , which means devil sickness . How , I asked him , did he catch devil sickness . Well , he said , one night he went to look at the wells , which he was ...
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