Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing
Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing by Gertrude Page is available here as the complete text, split into 1269 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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- Chapter I Concerning Paddy’s Blouse
- Chapter II The Misses O’Hara
- Chapter III Eileen the Dreamer
- Chapter IV Paddy’s Adventure
- Chapter V Lawrence Blake
- Chapter VI Lawrence Finds Eileen on the Shingles
- Chapter VII Paddy’s Pigs
- Chapter VIII Concerning a Supper-Dance
- Chapter IX A Letter from Calcutta
- Chapter X The Scrimmage Party
- Chapter XI Paddy’s Views on Sentimentality
- Chapter XII The Conservatory and the Den
- Chapter XIII Dread and Wrath
- Chapter XIV The First Awakening
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XVI The Angel of Death
- Chapter XVII In Which the Worst Came
- Chapter XVIII Two Love Stories
- Chapter XIX Good-Bye
- Chapter XX Gwendoline Carew
- Chapter XXI Lawrence Hears Some News
- Chapter XXII A Curious Engagement
- Chapter XXIII Paddy Makes Her Cousin’s Acquaintance
- Chapter XXIV Paddy has a Visitor
- Chapter XXV A Strange Coincidence
- Chapter XXVI An Encounter
- Chapter XXVII Paddy Makes a New Friend
- Chapter XXVIII Paddy Learns Her Mistake
- Chapter XXIX Patricia the Great
- Chapter XXX Robert Morony on Church Restoration
- Chapter XXXI The Picnic
- Chapter XXXII “Stay here with me.”
- Chapter XXXIII Gwen’s Views on Matrimony
- Chapter XXXIV A Christmas Surprise
- Chapter XXXV A Budget of News
- Chapter XXXVI In Lawrence’s Den
- Chapter XXXVII “What would an Irish Fusilier do?”
- Chapter XXXVIII “I Cannot Come.”
- Chapter XXXIX The Invalid
- Chapter XL The Solution
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- Paddy
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- Adair
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- Next-best-thing
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- Calling
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