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 39
... Southorn , who introduced me to Dowbiggin , the Superintendent of Police , and Jimmy Bowes , the Assistant Superintendent of Police . The four of us , accompanied by Charles , walked into the vast ancient Portuguese Fort , where I was ...
... Southorn , who introduced me to Dowbiggin , the Superintendent of Police , and Jimmy Bowes , the Assistant Superintendent of Police . The four of us , accompanied by Charles , walked into the vast ancient Portuguese Fort , where I was ...
Page 40
... Southorn to call on Mrs. Lewis , the Government Agent's wife , and found myself with her as my partner playing bridge against Dowbiggin and Southorn . In the third or fourth hand Dowbiggin revoked and , when the last card had been ...
... Southorn to call on Mrs. Lewis , the Government Agent's wife , and found myself with her as my partner playing bridge against Dowbiggin and Southorn . In the third or fourth hand Dowbiggin revoked and , when the last card had been ...
Page 56
... Southorn that I would not go on doing this , that I was just as good as he was , and that I must be given some of the interesting work . Southorn was an unusually good - tempered person ; any other O.A. would have told me to go to hell ...
... Southorn that I would not go on doing this , that I was just as good as he was , and that I must be given some of the interesting work . Southorn was an unusually good - tempered person ; any other O.A. would have told me to go to hell ...
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