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Ships that pass in the night

Ships that pass in the night by Beatrice Harraden is available here as the complete text, split into 558 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Ships that pass in the night by Beatrice Harraden. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #12476.

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