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 114
... Price and Mrs. Price . They made me lunch with them every day when the kachcheri was open . Mrs. Price was the exact opposite of Mrs. Lewis . She was a real Victorian lady , daughter of the head of the Natural History Museum , far away ...
... Price and Mrs. Price . They made me lunch with them every day when the kachcheri was open . Mrs. Price was the exact opposite of Mrs. Lewis . She was a real Victorian lady , daughter of the head of the Natural History Museum , far away ...
Page 116
... Price thought that a gentleman should drink for lunch in whatever climate he might live , a wine which I think is uninteresting and which no one , whether a gentleman or no gentleman - for there was one of each at Price's table or ...
... Price thought that a gentleman should drink for lunch in whatever climate he might live , a wine which I think is uninteresting and which no one , whether a gentleman or no gentleman - for there was one of each at Price's table or ...
Page 118
... Price , after lunch I returned to the kach- cheri . At half - past four or five , I went and had tea with the Prices , and then rode to the esplanade . On the esplan- ade we had made a primitive and not very interesting golf course . Price ...
... Price , after lunch I returned to the kach- cheri . At half - past four or five , I went and had tea with the Prices , and then rode to the esplanade . On the esplan- ade we had made a primitive and not very interesting golf course . Price ...
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