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 93
... Arabs fascinated me , both in themselves and be- cause of the contrast between them and the Tamils . The Tamil crowd was low in tone , rather timid , depressed and complaining in adversity . The Arab superficially was the exact opposite ...
... Arabs fascinated me , both in themselves and be- cause of the contrast between them and the Tamils . The Tamil crowd was low in tone , rather timid , depressed and complaining in adversity . The Arab superficially was the exact opposite ...
Page 94
... Arabs were a certain number of Negroes , said to have been or even to be slaves . Every Arab seemed to have his own copper coffeepot . In one boat there was a gigantic Negro -he must have been six foot five inches or six foot six inches ...
... Arabs were a certain number of Negroes , said to have been or even to be slaves . Every Arab seemed to have his own copper coffeepot . In one boat there was a gigantic Negro -he must have been six foot five inches or six foot six inches ...
Page 95
... Arabs were vastly amused when I used my walking stick to clear a passage through them . I One scene in the koddu , connected with the Arabs , of a very different kind , tragic and beautiful , I shall never forget . I had been in the ...
... Arabs were vastly amused when I used my walking stick to clear a passage through them . I One scene in the koddu , connected with the Arabs , of a very different kind , tragic and beautiful , I shall never forget . I had been in the ...
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