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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... side and I on the other with the dog between us . Each time that the rolling of the cart flung the D.E. towards my side and therefore on to Charles , there was a men- acing growl and once or twice , I think , a not too gentle nip . I ...
... side and I on the other with the dog between us . Each time that the rolling of the cart flung the D.E. towards my side and therefore on to Charles , there was a men- acing growl and once or twice , I think , a not too gentle nip . I ...
Page 178
... side my work . I disliked the European side of it , the white sahib side of it , the kind of second - rate ( as it appeared to me ) pomp and circumstance which surrounded one in Kandy and Colombo . I am deep down within myself an ...
... side my work . I disliked the European side of it , the white sahib side of it , the kind of second - rate ( as it appeared to me ) pomp and circumstance which surrounded one in Kandy and Colombo . I am deep down within myself an ...
Page 244
... side had been engaged on , such feeling would be engendered . I therefore said that if the persons responsible on each side would plead guilty to charges which I would frame against them I would allow the cases of hurt & c . to be ...
... side had been engaged on , such feeling would be engendered . I therefore said that if the persons responsible on each side would plead guilty to charges which I would frame against them I would allow the cases of hurt & c . to be ...
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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 District Dutton Elephant Pass Empress Empress Eugénie Engelbrecht extremely 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 Uva Province verandah village Walasmulla walked water hole Woolf