The Fortunes of the Colville Family
The Fortunes of the Colville Family by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley is available here as the complete text, split into 246 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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- Chapter I The Two Pictures
- Chapter II The Brothers
- Chapter III A Romantic Adventure
- Chapter IV Shuffling, Dealing, and Turning Up a Knave and a Trump
- Chapter V A Fast Specimen of “Young England.”
- Chapter VI The Conspiracy
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII Norman’s Revenge
- Chapter IX The Discovery
- Chapter X The Tribunal of Justice
- Chapter XI Loss and Gain
- Chapter XII The Rosebud Sketches from Memory
- Chapter XIII AN ‘ELEGANT EXTRACT’ FROM BLAIR’s SERMONS
- Chapter XIV Contains Much Doctor’s Stuff, and Other Rubbish
- Chapter XV Settles Three of the Dramatis Personæ
- Chapter XVI
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