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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... young civil servants immediately under him who did the office work , checking the accounts , issuing licences , going through all the letters , preparing the files and submitting all important questions for decision by the G.A. with ...
... young civil servants immediately under him who did the office work , checking the accounts , issuing licences , going through all the letters , preparing the files and submitting all important questions for decision by the G.A. with ...
Page 68
... young girl " , I discovered , though the niece of one of my own very respectable clerks , was a notorious Jaffna character - a " loose liver " , as they said ; at the moment she was being kept by a Tamil lawyer . About three months ...
... young girl " , I discovered , though the niece of one of my own very respectable clerks , was a notorious Jaffna character - a " loose liver " , as they said ; at the moment she was being kept by a Tamil lawyer . About three months ...
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... young man and a crowd of relations of the small boy , together with headmen and the policeman . The story was this : the child had been last seen with a young man in a bullock cart driving towards the coast . The young man was known to ...
... young man and a crowd of relations of the small boy , together with headmen and the policeman . The story was this : the child had been last seen with a young man in a bullock cart driving towards the coast . The young man was known to ...
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