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 107
... head clerk or the kachcheri Mudlayar , who was a kind of A.D.C. to the G.A. and head of all the headmen - even these officers if they wanted to say anything to him had to put it in writing . Price was not one of those people who lay ...
... head clerk or the kachcheri Mudlayar , who was a kind of A.D.C. to the G.A. and head of all the headmen - even these officers if they wanted to say anything to him had to put it in writing . Price was not one of those people who lay ...
Page 108
... head clerk and said to him : " Every letter received in this kachcheri after this week must be answered on the day of its receipt unless it is waiting for an order from me or from the G.A. " The answer of the head clerk was always that ...
... head clerk and said to him : " Every letter received in this kachcheri after this week must be answered on the day of its receipt unless it is waiting for an order from me or from the G.A. " The answer of the head clerk was always that ...
Page 203
... head . They stood quite still , expectant , their eyes fixed first on the woman , then on Engelbrecht , then on me . I knew them well enough by now to know exactly what was passing through their heads . " He is a white man , this swine ...
... head . They stood quite still , expectant , their eyes fixed first on the woman , then on Engelbrecht , then on me . I knew them well enough by now to know exactly what was passing through their heads . " He is a white man , this swine ...
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