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Page 73
I felt terribly sorry for them, but far more for her than for him. It became indeed so
painful, this patter of expressed and unexpressed misery, that I made some
excuse and went off to bed, promising to come and see them if I was ever in
Matara.
I felt terribly sorry for them, but far more for her than for him. It became indeed so
painful, this patter of expressed and unexpressed misery, that I made some
excuse and went off to bed, promising to come and see them if I was ever in
Matara.
Page 81
I hardly knew Shipton and I did not like to tell him that I felt ill, so I crawled out of
bed and joined him at breakfast on the verandah. There is an eastern dish called
hoppers, which is I believe a corruption of the Tamil "appam"; it is a kind of thick ...
I hardly knew Shipton and I did not like to tell him that I felt ill, so I crawled out of
bed and joined him at breakfast on the verandah. There is an eastern dish called
hoppers, which is I believe a corruption of the Tamil "appam"; it is a kind of thick ...
Page 136
I can still feel what I felt the first evening that Tyrrell took me down to the Club. I
was the new boy again, nervous and uncomfortable. Freud says in one of his
books that civilization consists in the renunciation of instinctive desires and that
the ...
I can still feel what I felt the first evening that Tyrrell took me down to the Club. I
was the new boy again, nervous and uncomfortable. Freud says in one of his
books that civilization consists in the renunciation of instinctive desires and that
the ...
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| Title | Growing, an autobiography of the years 1904-1911 |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Authors, English Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Sri Lanka |
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