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As the Duttons and I talked , we were embedded in , overwhelmed by this starry magnificence . Dutton and Miss Beeching had , I think , both changed . He seemed to have shrunk and she to have swollen . They reminded me of those pairs of ...
As the Duttons and I talked , we were embedded in , overwhelmed by this starry magnificence . Dutton and Miss Beeching had , I think , both changed . He seemed to have shrunk and she to have swollen . They reminded me of those pairs of ...
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Stevenson was an amusing Irishman and talked incessantly like an Irishman in a novel ; he was also extremely able and became Sir Malcolm Stevenson , K.C.M.G. , Governor of Cyprus . A curious incident happened to us one night .
Stevenson was an amusing Irishman and talked incessantly like an Irishman in a novel ; he was also extremely able and became Sir Malcolm Stevenson , K.C.M.G. , Governor of Cyprus . A curious incident happened to us one night .
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I went into the temple , where in 1910 I had often gone to talk about arrangements for the procession with the priest , in order to see what things were like in 1960 . I took the usual offering of fruit and flowers , but was advised ...
I went into the temple , where in 1910 I had often gone to talk about arrangements for the procession with the priest , in order to see what things were like in 1960 . I took the usual offering of fruit and flowers , but was advised ...
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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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