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 46
... court ( and off it ) there was the same incongruous mixture of public school toughness , sentimentality , and melancholy . When in the tropics the glaring , flaring day ends with the suddenness . to which the northerner never becomes ...
... court ( and off it ) there was the same incongruous mixture of public school toughness , sentimentality , and melancholy . When in the tropics the glaring , flaring day ends with the suddenness . to which the northerner never becomes ...
Page 69
... courts . Among the habitués or habituées were the two missionaries , Miss Case and Miss Beeching , who came to the courts solely , I think , because they wanted exercise . They obviously and with justification disapproved of the other ...
... courts . Among the habitués or habituées were the two missionaries , Miss Case and Miss Beeching , who came to the courts solely , I think , because they wanted exercise . They obviously and with justification disapproved of the other ...
Page 202
... Court to try cases in the afternoon when I was in Hambantota town . One afternoon when I got to the Court I found half the male population of the town packed into the Court , on the verandah , and all round the building . There was one ...
... Court to try cases in the afternoon when I was in Hambantota town . One afternoon when I got to the Court I found half the male population of the town packed into the Court , on the verandah , and all round the building . There was one ...
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