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As the Duttons and I talked, we were embedded in, overwhelmed by this starry
magnificence. Dutton and Miss Beeching had, I think, both changed. He seemed
to have shrunk and she to have swollen. They reminded me of those pairs of ...
As the Duttons and I talked, we were embedded in, overwhelmed by this starry
magnificence. Dutton and Miss Beeching had, I think, both changed. He seemed
to have shrunk and she to have swollen. They reminded me of those pairs of ...
Page 97
Scott, the A.G.A., who had been a scholar of King's, I had known for some time
and liked. Stevenson was an amusing Irishman and talked incessantly like an
Irishman in a novel ; he was also extremely able and became Sir Malcolm
Stevenson, ...
Scott, the A.G.A., who had been a scholar of King's, I had known for some time
and liked. Stevenson was an amusing Irishman and talked incessantly like an
Irishman in a novel ; he was also extremely able and became Sir Malcolm
Stevenson, ...
Page 162
He talked and talked, and laughed, and watched me with his cunning beady eyes
, and the villagers put in a word now and then, laughed respectfully when we
laughed, and looked at one another, I noticed, occasionally out of the corner of
their ...
He talked and talked, and laughed, and watched me with his cunning beady eyes
, and the villagers put in a word now and then, laughed respectfully when we
laughed, and looked at one another, I noticed, occasionally out of the corner of
their ...
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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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