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 70
... later Miss Beeching did marry Dutton . Oddly enough , I cannot remember whether I was or was not at the wedding - I rather think I was not . At any rate , just about that time I was moved to another post , to Kandy hundreds of miles ...
... later Miss Beeching did marry Dutton . Oddly enough , I cannot remember whether I was or was not at the wedding - I rather think I was not . At any rate , just about that time I was moved to another post , to Kandy hundreds of miles ...
Page 131
... later that he had returned and paid in cash for the licence . The rest of his story I heard much later . He had somehow or other got himself engaged to the rather plain daughter of a respec- table and fairly flourishing business man in ...
... later that he had returned and paid in cash for the licence . The rest of his story I heard much later . He had somehow or other got himself engaged to the rather plain daughter of a respec- table and fairly flourishing business man in ...
Page 220
... later . Baron Axel Blixen was a middle - aged man with mutton - chop whiskers , watery eyes , and a distant resemblance to the Prince Consort . He was extremely nervous , and , holding my hand in his two hands , besought me not to leave ...
... later . Baron Axel Blixen was a middle - aged man with mutton - chop whiskers , watery eyes , and a distant resemblance to the Prince Consort . He was extremely nervous , and , holding my hand in his two hands , besought me not to leave ...
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