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 43
... tried her hand upon me , the other victim of her artless and embarrassing manoeuvres being a young woman friend of hers who came on a visit of several months to her . On the evening when Miss M's visit came to an end and she had left ...
... tried her hand upon me , the other victim of her artless and embarrassing manoeuvres being a young woman friend of hers who came on a visit of several months to her . On the evening when Miss M's visit came to an end and she had left ...
Page 131
... tried to bluster , but I had him turned out of my room and out of the kachcheri . The clerks told me later that he had returned and paid in cash for the licence . The rest of his story I heard much later . He had somehow or other got ...
... tried to bluster , but I had him turned out of my room and out of the kachcheri . The clerks told me later that he had returned and paid in cash for the licence . The rest of his story I heard much later . He had somehow or other got ...
Page 193
... tried to convince him of the absurdity of such an idea . I might just as usefully have tried to prove to the President of the Royal Society that the earth is flat and the sun goes round it . He told me that at a female child's birth the ...
... tried to convince him of the absurdity of such an idea . I might just as usefully have tried to prove to the President of the Royal Society that the earth is flat and the sun goes round it . He told me that at a female child's birth the ...
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