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Page 95
Four men waded out to the boat : the corpse was lifted out and placed on their
shoulders . Forty years ago , when the scene was still vividly in my memory , I
wrote down a description of it , and I think it is better to quote it here verbatim
rather ...
Four men waded out to the boat : the corpse was lifted out and placed on their
shoulders . Forty years ago , when the scene was still vividly in my memory , I
wrote down a description of it , and I think it is better to quote it here verbatim
rather ...
Page 135
The habitués were the four or five civil servants , Major Colquhoun , the Gunner
Captain , whose name I cannot remember , Lee , the solicitor ; every now and
then , particularly at week - ends , there would be an invasion of planters .
The habitués were the four or five civil servants , Major Colquhoun , the Gunner
Captain , whose name I cannot remember , Lee , the solicitor ; every now and
then , particularly at week - ends , there would be an invasion of planters .
Page 195
The scene round the hole was indeed terrible : in the water hole itself were the
carcasses of four wild buffaloes and a sambhur ; round the rock were four dead
wild buffaloes and two dead pigs . At first I did not think that I could stand a night ...
The scene round the hole was indeed terrible : in the water hole itself were the
carcasses of four wild buffaloes and a sambhur ; round the rock were four dead
wild buffaloes and two dead pigs . At first I did not think that I could stand a night ...
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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 Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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