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Signing the Contract, and What It Cost

Signing the Contract, and What It Cost by Martha Finley is available here as the complete text, split into 833 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Signing the Contract, and What It Cost by Martha Finley. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #48249.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary
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Signing the Contract, and What It Cost

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  1. Chapter I 1 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X 6 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII 5 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX 8 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL 28 readings five lines each Open chapter

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