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I have definitely promised to stay next week with two of them on their estates about 10 miles away : I shall have to but I dread it . ... I stayed with the planters some days and , of course , it was much better than I expected .
I have definitely promised to stay next week with two of them on their estates about 10 miles away : I shall have to but I dread it . ... I stayed with the planters some days and , of course , it was much better than I expected .
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He said that I had caught a cold in a nerve at the back of my neck and that if I stayed in bed for a day , I should be perfectly all right . For the next 24 hours I stayed in bed , doing my kachcheri work there , and as the giddiness ...
He said that I had caught a cold in a nerve at the back of my neck and that if I stayed in bed for a day , I should be perfectly all right . For the next 24 hours I stayed in bed , doing my kachcheri work there , and as the giddiness ...
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I saw a great deal of them all and went to the Russian Ballet and the Ring with them , and dined with Vanessa and Clive and with Virginia and Adrian , and stayed with Virginia in a house which she rented in Firle near Lewes .
I saw a great deal of them all and went to the Russian Ballet and the Ring with them , and dined with Vanessa and Clive and with Virginia and Adrian , and stayed with Virginia in a house which she rented in Firle near Lewes .
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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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