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 70
... later Miss Beeching did marry Dutton . Oddly enough , I cannot remember whether I was or was not at the wedding - I rather think I was not . At any rate , just about that time I was moved to another post , to Kandy hundreds of miles ...
... later Miss Beeching did marry Dutton . Oddly enough , I cannot remember whether I was or was not at the wedding - I rather think I was not . At any rate , just about that time I was moved to another post , to Kandy hundreds of miles ...
Page 131
... later that he had returned and paid in cash for the licence . The rest of his story I heard much later . He had somehow or other got himself engaged to the rather plain daughter of a respec- table and fairly flourishing business man in ...
... later that he had returned and paid in cash for the licence . The rest of his story I heard much later . He had somehow or other got himself engaged to the rather plain daughter of a respec- table and fairly flourishing business man in ...
Page 144
... later kings , with the forms of some of the Hindu deities , amongst whom Vishnu and Kali are occasionally depicted with similarly projecting canines . " But I think one can find a likeness to the Tooth nearer home than the Hindu deities ...
... later kings , with the forms of some of the Hindu deities , amongst whom Vishnu and Kali are occasionally depicted with similarly projecting canines . " But I think one can find a likeness to the Tooth nearer home than the Hindu deities ...
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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 dhows District Dutton Elephant Pass Empress Empress Eugénie Engelbrecht enquiry 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 UNIV Uva Province verandah village Walasmulla walked water hole Woolf