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Page 82
In the end I always took and recorded my temperature on the chart and it was my
Tamil servant Appukutty who nursed me patiently and efficiently for the three
weeks . It was a strange three weeks . I lived in a kind of twilight world , physically
...
In the end I always took and recorded my temperature on the chart and it was my
Tamil servant Appukutty who nursed me patiently and efficiently for the three
weeks . It was a strange three weeks . I lived in a kind of twilight world , physically
...
Page 83
always had an infinite capacity of sleeping when I want to sleep and I slept
almost the whole three weeks away . Somewhere , too , deep down in me I had
an iron determination not to die . One day after I had been there a week or ten
days , I ...
always had an infinite capacity of sleeping when I want to sleep and I slept
almost the whole three weeks away . Somewhere , too , deep down in me I had
an iron determination not to die . One day after I had been there a week or ten
days , I ...
Page 172
But gradually our letters thinned out and sometimes weeks or months passed
without our writing . If two people are separated for years and by thousands of
miles , they can write to each other either every week or only at long intervals .
But gradually our letters thinned out and sometimes weeks or months passed
without our writing . If two people are separated for years and by thousands of
miles , they can write to each other either every week or only at long intervals .
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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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