Brownie's triumph
Brownie's triumph by Georgie, Mrs. Sheldon is available here as the complete text, split into 924 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Brownie’s Thoughts
- Chapter III The Aunt’s Story
- Chapter IV The Legacy of Jewels
- Chapter V Staked and Lost
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII Earning Her Own Living
- Chapter VIII Change of Occupation
- Chapter IX Brownie at the Coolidge Mansion
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI Dressing for the Opera
- Chapter XII A Scene
- Chapter XIII Isabel’s Discovery
- Chapter XIV A Terrible Accusation
- Chapter XV Declaration of Love
- Chapter XVI Jealousy
- Chapter XVII An Unsuccessful Search
- Chapter XVIII A Startling Recognition
- Chapter XIX That Voice
- Chapter XX “Chickens Come Home to Roost!”
- Chapter XXI Taken by Storm
- Chapter XXII Retrospective
- Chapter XXIII
- Chapter XXIV “And You Will Be My Wife!”
- Chapter XXV “She Is Not Beneath Me.”
- Chapter XXVI “How Came You Here?”
- Chapter XXVII Entrapped
- Chapter XXVIII “I Will Dare Do Anything”
- Chapter XXIX Brownie’s Strange Visitor
- Chapter XXX
- Chapter XXXI Brownie Liberated
- Chapter XXXII Consternation of the Coolidges
- Chapter XXXIII Lady Dunforth’s Visit
- Chapter XXXIV Brownie’s Little Charge
- Chapter XXXV The Cynosure of All Eyes
- Chapter XXXVI Burying the Hatchet
- Chapter XXXVII The Impending Storm
- Chapter XXXVIII “Where Is My Brother?”
- Chapter XXXIX Would He Forgive Her?
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