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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... Government Agent ( al- ways referred to as the G.A. ) , a senior civil servant of 20 years ' service or more . The Provincial government office or offices , the kachcheri , was always in the chief town of the Province , and there the ...
... Government Agent ( al- ways referred to as the G.A. ) , a senior civil servant of 20 years ' service or more . The Provincial government office or offices , the kachcheri , was always in the chief town of the Province , and there the ...
Page 62
... Government sent to take his place as O.A. a man called Leak . Normally he would never have been appointed an O.A. for he was a senior civil servant . But he was extremely ill with T.B. and the Government sent him to the dry climate of ...
... Government sent to take his place as O.A. a man called Leak . Normally he would never have been appointed an O.A. for he was a senior civil servant . But he was extremely ill with T.B. and the Government sent him to the dry climate of ...
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... Government's share , leaving the other heap to be gathered up by the divers and to be taken with a roar of shouting out of the koddu . Later in the evening the Government's oysters were auctioned by the G.A. When the first divers rushed ...
... Government's share , leaving the other heap to be gathered up by the divers and to be taken with a roar of shouting out of the koddu . Later in the evening the Government's oysters were auctioned by the G.A. When the first divers rushed ...
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