Barrington. Volume 1 (of 2)
Barrington. Volume 1 (of 2) by Charles Lever is available here as the complete text, split into 985 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Barrington. Volume 1 (of 2)
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II A Wet Morning at Home
- Chapter III Our Next Neighbors
- Chapter IV Fred Conyers
- Chapter V Dill as a Diplomatist
- Chapter VI The Doctor's Daughter
- Chapter VII Tom Dill's First Patient
- Chapter VIII Fine Acquaintances
- Chapter IX A Country Doctor
- Chapter X Being “Bored”
- Chapter XI A Note to Be Answered
- Chapter XII The Answer
- Chapter XIII A Few Leaves from a Blue-Book
- Chapter XIV Barrington's Ford
- Chapter XV An Exploring Expedition
- Chapter XVI Coming Home
- Chapter XVII A Shock
- Chapter XVIII Cobham
- Chapter XIX The Hour of Luncheon
- Chapter XX An Interior at the Doctor's
- Chapter XXI Dark Tidings
- Chapter XXII Leaving Home
- Chapter XXIII The Colonel's Counsels
- Chapter XXIV Conyers Makes a Morning Call
- Chapter XXV Dublin Revisited
- Chapter XXVI A Very Sad Good-Bye
- Chapter XXVII The Convent on the Meuse
- Chapter XXVIII George's Daughter
- Chapter XXIX The Ramble
- Chapter XXX Under the Linden
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Project Gutenberg eBook #34882, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 410 minutes of reading across 985 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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