Betrothed for a day
Betrothed for a day by Laura Jean Libbey is available here as the complete text, split into 697 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Betrothed for a day: Or, Queenie Trevalyn's love test by Laura Jean Libbey. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #68760.
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Betrothed for a day
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- Chapter I A Stranger’s Love
- Chapter II A Worshiper of Wealth
- Chapter III The Midnight Duel
- Chapter IV The Power of Gold
- Chapter V A Man’s Fickle Heart
- Chapter VI A Dread Alternative
- Chapter VII “A Little Rough Diamond.”
- Chapter VIII After Thirteen Years
- Chapter IX Rebuked by a Girl
- Chapter X “Who Is Jess?”
- Chapter XI Luck Smiles
- Chapter XII The Love That Is Sure to Come
- Chapter XIII Cold and Heartless
- Chapter XIV Was It the Decree of Fate?
- Chapter XV A Premonition of Coming Evil
- Chapter XVI “A Little Rough Diamond.”
- Chapter XVII How Easily Things Go Wrong
- Chapter XVIII The Rescue
- Chapter XIX Vain Regrets
- Chapter XX Only an Impulsive Child
- Chapter XXI Love
- Chapter XXII Decisions
- Chapter XXIII The Darkening Clouds
- Chapter XXIV “Leave My House.”
- Chapter XXV In His Power
- Chapter XXVI What Might Have Been
- Chapter XXVII To Wreck a Young Girl’s Life
- Chapter XXVIII Under the Mask of Friendship
- Chapter XXIX The Web of Fate
- Chapter XXX A Great Surprise
- Chapter XXXI At His Feet
- Chapter XXXII A Test of Love
- Chapter XXXIII The First Love
- Chapter XXXIV The Plot Thickens
- Chapter XXXV
- Chapter XXXVI The Ways of Providence
- Chapter XXXVII Naming the Day
- Chapter XXXVIII A Moment of Terror
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Project Gutenberg eBook #68760, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 290 minutes of reading across 697 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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- Silent--scarcely
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- Heart
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- Alone
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- Proclaimed
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