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Weighed and Wanting

Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald is available here as the complete text, split into 1518 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #9096.

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