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 53
... feeling of irritation and contempt . I too , like everyone else , was at first irritated and con- temptuous . But gradually these feelings , when I was left by myself in the kachcheri to deal with the people and their business , began ...
... feeling of irritation and contempt . I too , like everyone else , was at first irritated and con- temptuous . But gradually these feelings , when I was left by myself in the kachcheri to deal with the people and their business , began ...
Page 237
... feeling had arisen among them , when the Hakim died , over the selection of a successor . Some of them wanted Mr. Doole , a chief headman , to be appointed , others wanted a Mr. Bahar who was the Government Salt Superintendent . I was ...
... feeling had arisen among them , when the Hakim died , over the selection of a successor . Some of them wanted Mr. Doole , a chief headman , to be appointed , others wanted a Mr. Bahar who was the Government Salt Superintendent . I was ...
Page 244
... feeling in the town and there is no doubt that , if cases with proctors on each side had been engaged on , such feeling would be engendered . I therefore said that if the persons responsible on each side would plead guilty to charges ...
... feeling in the town and there is no doubt that , if cases with proctors on each side had been engaged on , such feeling would be engendered . I therefore said that if the persons responsible on each side would plead guilty to charges ...
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