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 195
... water hole . The Arachchi asked me to come and have a look at it . It would be the night of the full moon , so I told him that I would and that I would spend my night at the water hole . I was very fond of sitting up over a water hole ...
... water hole . The Arachchi asked me to come and have a look at it . It would be the night of the full moon , so I told him that I would and that I would spend my night at the water hole . I was very fond of sitting up over a water hole ...
Page 197
... water hole and about 5 or 6 yards from it rose a great rock or gigantic boulder , 12 or 15 feet high and quite smooth and flat on the top . One could lie on it all night and get a fine view of the water hole and , raised up there , of ...
... water hole and about 5 or 6 yards from it rose a great rock or gigantic boulder , 12 or 15 feet high and quite smooth and flat on the top . One could lie on it all night and get a fine view of the water hole and , raised up there , of ...
Page 198
... water , but he did not drink— it was too foul to drink ; he stood still for a moment , flapping his ears , and then , raising his trunk and trumpet- ing , he turned away from the water hole and lumbered off . Orderly , one after another ...
... water , but he did not drink— it was too foul to drink ; he stood still for a moment , flapping his ears , and then , raising his trunk and trumpet- ing , he turned away from the water hole and lumbered off . Orderly , one after another ...
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