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 71
... once a month I drove or rode to Tangalla and stayed a night or two there in the Government Rest House . One evening on my arrival I found the Duttons in the Rest House ; he had been ordered to come and try a case which , for some reason ...
... once a month I drove or rode to Tangalla and stayed a night or two there in the Government Rest House . One evening on my arrival I found the Duttons in the Rest House ; he had been ordered to come and try a case which , for some reason ...
Page 110
... once the revolution was made and delays got rid of in the office , the more the work the more effective is ... once , there had very nearly been an open revolt against me . Nobody in the office , including himself , had believed the ...
... once the revolution was made and delays got rid of in the office , the more the work the more effective is ... once , there had very nearly been an open revolt against me . Nobody in the office , including himself , had believed the ...
Page 143
... once for the Perahera , once at my request for the Empress , and once at the Diwa Nilame's request for Reginald Farrer , the Himalayan botanist , who had become a Buddhist . At the Perahera the Tooth was taken out of the Temple , placed ...
... once for the Perahera , once at my request for the Empress , and once at the Diwa Nilame's request for Reginald Farrer , the Himalayan botanist , who had become a Buddhist . At the Perahera the Tooth was taken out of the Temple , placed ...
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