Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904 to 1911Woolf's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. "He has a seemingly effortless way with words which is beautiful and spellbinding" (J. M. Edelstein, New Republic). Index; photographs. |
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Page 63
... Dutton . Dutton's character and career were odd and I propose to interrupt the narrative of my own life in order to pursue that of Dutton's in so far as I was able to observe it . Dutton was not a pukka Sahib and was not accepted as ...
... Dutton . Dutton's character and career were odd and I propose to interrupt the narrative of my own life in order to pursue that of Dutton's in so far as I was able to observe it . Dutton was not a pukka Sahib and was not accepted as ...
Page 69
... Dutton , I began to urge him to mix with other people and suggested that he should come with me one evening to the tennis courts . At first he refused , but I saw that he was rather anxious to do so , and that fear alone prevented him ...
... Dutton , I began to urge him to mix with other people and suggested that he should come with me one evening to the tennis courts . At first he refused , but I saw that he was rather anxious to do so , and that fear alone prevented him ...
Page 70
... Dutton . I like , as I have said before , the beauty , solitude , melancholy of great empty sandy plains , but just as when you see two human beings outlined against their flaming sunset , they contrive to make you see the human beings ...
... Dutton . I like , as I have said before , the beauty , solitude , melancholy of great empty sandy plains , but just as when you see two human beings outlined against their flaming sunset , they contrive to make you see the human beings ...
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