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 128
... told him that I had discovered his attempt to swindle the Government , but luckily he had forgotten or overlooked the snag ( which I had deliber- ately created ) . I refused therefore to proceed with the transaction and told him that ...
... told him that I had discovered his attempt to swindle the Government , but luckily he had forgotten or overlooked the snag ( which I had deliber- ately created ) . I refused therefore to proceed with the transaction and told him that ...
Page 190
... told me a curious story about buffaloes . I had several times during the out- break been told that buffaloes which got the disease would often break out madly and travel long distances to die in the place where they had been born ...
... told me a curious story about buffaloes . I had several times during the out- break been told that buffaloes which got the disease would often break out madly and travel long distances to die in the place where they had been born ...
Page 240
... told that as many as 2,400 women work off and on- a number which seemed to me quite incredible . When I went to see the diving , the women told me that they never got malaria . One day when I was passing near the village , a large ...
... told that as many as 2,400 women work off and on- a number which seemed to me quite incredible . When I went to see the diving , the women told me that they never got malaria . One day when I was passing near the village , a large ...
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