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 106
... practically no one else in Ceylon was a gentleman . He had three passions : regularity in his everyday life , horses , and golf . He was reputed in the Service to be very slightly mad , and I think that perhaps he was . As a young man ...
... practically no one else in Ceylon was a gentleman . He had three passions : regularity in his everyday life , horses , and golf . He was reputed in the Service to be very slightly mad , and I think that perhaps he was . As a young man ...
Page 126
... practically bound to go or he would have practically to go back on his word . I went to bed on Thursday wondering how he would manage it but certain that he would prevent me going . He took his own way , quite wonderfully , for it ...
... practically bound to go or he would have practically to go back on his word . I went to bed on Thursday wondering how he would manage it but certain that he would prevent me going . He took his own way , quite wonderfully , for it ...
Page 225
... practically inaccessible to the G.A. of that Province . It was about ten miles from Tissa- maharama and the A.G.A. Hambantota always had to look after it . It was a very curious experience . The pil- grimage , which took place every ...
... practically inaccessible to the G.A. of that Province . It was about ten miles from Tissa- maharama and the A.G.A. Hambantota always had to look after it . It was a very curious experience . The pil- grimage , which took place every ...
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