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I felt terribly sorry for them , but far more for her than for him . It became indeed so painful , this patter of expressed and unexpressed misery , that I made some excuse and went off to bed , promising to come and see them if I was ...
I felt terribly sorry for them , but far more for her than for him . It became indeed so painful , this patter of expressed and unexpressed misery , that I made some excuse and went off to bed , promising to come and see them if I was ...
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I hardly knew Shipton and I did not like to tell him that I felt ill , so I crawled out of bed and joined him at breakfast on the verandah . There is an eastern dish called hoppers , which is I believe a corruption of the Tamil “ appam ...
I hardly knew Shipton and I did not like to tell him that I felt ill , so I crawled out of bed and joined him at breakfast on the verandah . There is an eastern dish called hoppers , which is I believe a corruption of the Tamil “ appam ...
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For a moment I thought it was a dream , but when I realized its reality , I was so much amused by the words and the solemn spectacle that I felt that the crisis was past and that I should certainly recover .
For a moment I thought it was a dream , but when I realized its reality , I was so much amused by the words and the solemn spectacle that I felt that the crisis was past and that I should certainly recover .
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf Volume 2 of Woolf, Leonard: An autobiography of the years |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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