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 49
... feeling that you are in an enormous village rather than in a town is the stronger because the population of Tamils is so thick on the ground in the Jaffna peninsula that in many places one village has joined up to another and to what is ...
... feeling that you are in an enormous village rather than in a town is the stronger because the population of Tamils is so thick on the ground in the Jaffna peninsula that in many places one village has joined up to another and to what is ...
Page 53
... feeling of irritation and contempt . I too , like everyone else , was at first irritated and con- temptuous . But gradually these feelings , when I was left by myself in the kachcheri to deal with the people and their business , began ...
... feeling of irritation and contempt . I too , like everyone else , was at first irritated and con- temptuous . But gradually these feelings , when I was left by myself in the kachcheri to deal with the people and their business , began ...
Page 244
... feeling in the town and there is no doubt that , if cases with proctors on each side had been engaged on , such feeling would be engendered . I therefore said that if the persons responsible on each side would plead guilty to charges ...
... feeling in the town and there is no doubt that , if cases with proctors on each side had been engaged on , such feeling would be engendered . I therefore said that if the persons responsible on each side would plead guilty to charges ...
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1817 LIBRARIES afternoon Anuradhapura Arabs Arachchi asked Assistant Government Agent Baron Blixen became boat Buddhist buffaloes bullock cart bungalow cattle Ceylon Civil Service CHIGAN civil servant Colombo Court curious deal deer District Dutton Elephant Pass Empress Empress Eugénie Engelbrecht extremely face felt Game Sanctuary Giruwa Pattu Governor Hambantota Hambantota District head headmen Jaffna kachcheri Kandy Kandyan Kataragama kind knew koddu lagoon Leonard Woolf leopard letter to Lytton lewaya licences lived looked Magampattu Mannar ment MICHIGAN miles mind months morning never night Office Assistant one's oysters Pearl Fishery planters play Police Magistrate Province remember Rest House riding rinderpest road round salt sand seemed shooting side Sinhalese Southorn strange suddenly Superintendent of Police talked Tamil Tangalla temple tennis thing Tissa Tissamaharama told took town trees Twynam Uva Province verandah village Walasmulla walked water hole Woolf