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I have definitely promised to stay next week with two of them on their estates
about 10 miles away : I shall have to but I dread it . ... I stayed with the planters
some days and , of course , it was much better than I expected . One was a wild
maniac ...
I have definitely promised to stay next week with two of them on their estates
about 10 miles away : I shall have to but I dread it . ... I stayed with the planters
some days and , of course , it was much better than I expected . One was a wild
maniac ...
Page 148
He said that I had caught a cold in a nerve at the back of my neck and that if I
stayed in bed for a day , I should be perfectly all right . For the next 24 hours I
stayed in bed , doing my kachcheri work there , and as the giddiness had
completely ...
He said that I had caught a cold in a nerve at the back of my neck and that if I
stayed in bed for a day , I should be perfectly all right . For the next 24 hours I
stayed in bed , doing my kachcheri work there , and as the giddiness had
completely ...
Page 247
And I went up to Cambridge , and stayed with Moore and Lytton on Dartmoor . In
the autumn Virginia and Adrian took a large house in Brunswick Square . They let
the ground floor to Maynard Keynes and they offered to let the top floor to me .
And I went up to Cambridge , and stayed with Moore and Lytton on Dartmoor . In
the autumn Virginia and Adrian took a large house in Brunswick Square . They let
the ground floor to Maynard Keynes and they offered to let the top floor to me .
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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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