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 40
... 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 bad bridge play- ers into ...
... 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 bad bridge play- ers into ...
Page 63
... play tennis and he did not play bridge and did not mix at all in the white society of " the station " , living alone in a largish bungalow with a piano , so it was said , and a vast number of books . The policemen , Dowbiggin and Bowes ...
... play tennis and he did not play bridge and did not mix at all in the white society of " the station " , living alone in a largish bungalow with a piano , so it was said , and a vast number of books . The policemen , Dowbiggin and Bowes ...
Page 69
... play was over . They were bad players and usually played singles together , and I handed Dutton over to them ; for the next few months Dutton used to come and play nearly every evening a hopelessly incompetent game of tennis with Miss ...
... play was over . They were bad players and usually played singles together , and I handed Dutton over to them ; for the next few months Dutton used to come and play nearly every evening a hopelessly incompetent game of tennis with Miss ...
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