Halfway House: A Comedy of Degrees
Halfway House: A Comedy of Degrees by Maurice Hewlett is available here as the complete text, split into 1649 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #59963, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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Vocabulary met early in Halfway House: A Comedy of Degrees
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- Germain
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- Gentleman
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- Fifty
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- Landed
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