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 61
... sitting in sheer ignorance up there in the hum of the Court , writing down the evidence , listening to the proctors ... sit up there in the stifling heat and look out over the glaring waste to the Fort and the sea , and listen to an ...
... sitting in sheer ignorance up there in the hum of the Court , writing down the evidence , listening to the proctors ... sit up there in the stifling heat and look out over the glaring waste to the Fort and the sea , and listen to an ...
Page 64
... sitting at a small table typing out incompetently on a decrepit typewriter the poetry which he had written the ... sit hour after hour , day after day , writing poetry about fairies or , as he called them , fays ? When not writing poetry ...
... sitting at a small table typing out incompetently on a decrepit typewriter the poetry which he had written the ... sit hour after hour , day after day , writing poetry about fairies or , as he called them , fays ? When not writing poetry ...
Page 98
... sitting in front of their huts . Very often a pearl dealer or merchant would invite one to sit down with him and have a small cup of Turkish coffee . As the Fishery went on and they got to know me , they would show me some of the pearls ...
... sitting in front of their huts . Very often a pearl dealer or merchant would invite one to sit down with him and have a small cup of Turkish coffee . As the Fishery went on and they got to know me , they would show me some of the pearls ...
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