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My third asset was that I could play a competent game of tennis and a good game
of bridge . Dowbiggin , now Sir Herbert Dowbiggin , was not at all meek and mild
either in word or deed . He was a bad bridge player , but had bullied the other ...
My third asset was that I could play a competent game of tennis and a good game
of bridge . Dowbiggin , now Sir Herbert Dowbiggin , was not at all meek and mild
either in word or deed . He was a bad bridge player , but had bullied the other ...
Page 69
Eventually he decided to come with me and play tennis , and so one evening ,
fitted out with tennis shoes and a racket , Dutton appeared , to the astonishment
of the habitués , on the courts . Among the habitués or habituées were the two ...
Eventually he decided to come with me and play tennis , and so one evening ,
fitted out with tennis shoes and a racket , Dutton appeared , to the astonishment
of the habitués , on the courts . Among the habitués or habituées were the two ...
Page 119
He was only a very moderately good player and so was I . As I have already said
, I like all games and I like to play them seriously if I play them at all . But I would
never put golf very high in the hierarchy of good games ; it is too slowly long ...
He was only a very moderately good player and so was I . As I have already said
, I like all games and I like to play them seriously if I play them at all . But I would
never put golf very high in the hierarchy of good games ; it is too slowly long ...
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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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