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 135
... 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 atmosphere was ...
... 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 atmosphere was ...
Page 190
... Four years before a man in Talawa sold a she - buffalo to a man at Alutwewa , a village about 8 miles away . For four years this buffalo never came back to Talawa . But , he said , a week or so ago she got the disease at Alutwewa ...
... Four years before a man in Talawa sold a she - buffalo to a man at Alutwewa , a village about 8 miles away . For four years this buffalo never came back to Talawa . But , he said , a week or so ago she got the disease at Alutwewa ...
Page 195
... 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 there . But I wanted to see whether animals would come to drink and what would ...
... 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 there . But I wanted to see whether animals would come to drink and what would ...
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