The Black Baronet
The Black Baronet by William Carleton is available here as the complete text, split into 2204 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Black Baronet by William Carleton. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #16003.
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The Black Baronet
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- Chapter I A Mail-coach by Night, and a Bit of Moonshine
- Chapter II The Town and its Inhabitants
- Chapter III Pauden Gair's Receipt how to make a Bad Dinner a Good One
- Chapter IV An Anonymous Letter
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI Extraordinary Scene between Fenton and the Stranger
- Chapter VII The Baronet attempts by Falsehood
- Chapter VIII The Fortune-Teller--An Equivocal Prediction
- Chapter IX Candor and Dissimulation
- Chapter X A Family Dialogue--and a Secret nearly Discovered
- Chapter XI The Stranger's Visit to Father MacMalum
- Chapter XII Crackenfudge Outwitted by Fenton
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV Crackenfudge put upon a Wrong Scent
- Chapter XV Interview between Lady Gourlay and the Stranger
- Chapter XVI
- Chapter XVII A Scene in Jemmy Trailcudgel's
- Chapter XVIII
- Chapter XIX
- Chapter XX Interview between Lords Cullamore, Dunroe, and Lady Emily
- Chapter XXI A Spy Rewarded
- Chapter XXII A Lunch in Summerfield Cottage
- Chapter XXIII An Irish Watchhouse in the time of the “Charlies.”
- Chapter XXIV The Police Office
- Chapter XXV The Priest Returns Sir Thomas's Money and Pistols
- Chapter XXVI Lucy calls upon Lady Gourlay, where she meets her Lover
- Chapter XXVII
- Chapter XXVIII Lord Dunroe's Affection for his Father
- Chapter XXIX A Courtship on Novel Principles
- Chapter XXX The Priest goes into Corbet's House very like a Thief
- Chapter XXXI
- Chapter XXXII The Priest asks for a Loan of Fifty Guineas
- Chapter XXXIII Young Gourlay's Affectionate Interview with His Father
- Chapter XXXIV Lucy's Vain but Affecting Expostulation with her Father
- Chapter XXXV
- Chapter XXXVI Dandy's Visit to Summerfield Cottage
- Chapter XXXVII An Unpleasant Disclosure to Dunroe
- Chapter XXXVIII Fenton Recovered--The Mad-House
- Chapter XXXIX Lady Gourlay sees her Son
- Chapter XL Denouement
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- Every
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