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 69
... tennis courts . At first he refused , but I saw that he was rather anxious to do so , and that fear alone prevented him . Eventually he decided to come with me and play tennis , and so one evening , fitted out with tennis shoes and a ...
... tennis courts . At first he refused , but I saw that he was rather anxious to do so , and that fear alone prevented him . Eventually he decided to come with me and play tennis , and so one evening , fitted out with tennis shoes and a ...
Page 135
... tennis . Night after night we all went up to the head of the Lake to the tennis courts , a grander and more social ritual than that of Jaffna with a continual flutter of females including a fluctuating stream of visitors , planters ...
... tennis . Night after night we all went up to the head of the Lake to the tennis courts , a grander and more social ritual than that of Jaffna with a continual flutter of females including a fluctuating stream of visitors , planters ...
Page 255
... Tennis , Sacrament of , 44-47 ; 135 Tissamaharama , 175 ; 199 Tooth , Buddha's , 142–145 ; 159 ; 162 Twynam , Sir William , 104- 105 Tyrrell , Sir , F. G. , 134 ; 136 Vaithianathan , Sir K. , 163 Vigors , C. T. D. , 24–25 Voltaire , 12 ...
... Tennis , Sacrament of , 44-47 ; 135 Tissamaharama , 175 ; 199 Tooth , Buddha's , 142–145 ; 159 ; 162 Twynam , Sir William , 104- 105 Tyrrell , Sir , F. G. , 134 ; 136 Vaithianathan , Sir K. , 163 Vigors , C. T. D. , 24–25 Voltaire , 12 ...
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