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Millbank

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Millbank by Mary Jane Holmes. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #70163.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

Academic course · 40 chapters

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Millbank

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  1. Chapter I 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II Roger’s Story 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III The Morning of the Funeral 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV The Funeral 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V Millbank After the Day of the Funeral 7 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI The Stranger in Belvidere 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII Frank at Millbank 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII Roger’s Letters and the Result 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX Alice Grey 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X In the Evening 6 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI Roger and Frank 46 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII 49 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV What Magdalen Found in the Garret 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV Frank and the Will 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI 42 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII Hester and the Will 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII Magdalen and Roger 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX Jessie’s Letter 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX The World and the Will 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI Poor Magda 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII The Home in Schodick 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII Magdalen’s Decision 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV Alice and Magdalen 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI Life at Beechwood 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII The Mystery at Beechwood 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII Magdalen and the Mystery 40 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX In Cincinnati 39 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI Father and Daughter 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII At Beechwood 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII Bell Burleigh 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV The Wedding, and Hester Floyd’s Account of It 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV How They Lived at Millbank 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI Magdalen Is Coming Home 8 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII Millbank Is Sold at Auction 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII Roger and Magdalen 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX Millbank Is Clear of Its Old Tenants 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL Christmas-Tide 15 readings five lines each Open chapter

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