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Page 69
They were bad players and usually played singles together , and I handed Dutton over to them ; for the next few months Dutton used to come and play nearly every evening a hopelessly incompetent game of tennis with Miss Case and Miss ...
They were bad players and usually played singles together , and I handed Dutton over to them ; for the next few months Dutton used to come and play nearly every evening a hopelessly incompetent game of tennis with Miss Case and Miss ...
Page 117
As the rainfall for day after day between the monsoons was always nil , the routine was nearly always crazy I should like here to leave Price for a moment at his lunch and say something about rain . We do not know what rain is when we ...
As the rainfall for day after day between the monsoons was always nil , the routine was nearly always crazy I should like here to leave Price for a moment at his lunch and say something about rain . We do not know what rain is when we ...
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The lecture took place ; it was interesting and nearly all the Moors and Malays attended , but I noted at the time that I rather doubted whether they understood much of it . But , to my surprise , shortly after it the leaders of the two ...
The lecture took place ; it was interesting and nearly all the Moors and Malays attended , but I noted at the time that I rather doubted whether they understood much of it . But , to my surprise , shortly after it the leaders of the two ...
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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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