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Chapter XVII
TAKING COUNSEL. Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table. It was early in the forenoon, and she still wore a simple muslin cap and a morning gown of gray cashmere. Her mouth looked very rigid and her eyes gloomy. To her enters her brother, fresh and bright, a smile on his lips and a flower in his button-hole.
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an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Her mouth looked very rigid and her eyes gloomy.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “It was early in the forenoon, and she still wore a simple muslin cap and a morning gown of gray cashmere.”
above and across; more than
From this reading “Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.”
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading “Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “It was early in the forenoon, and she still wore a simple muslin cap and a morning gown of gray cashmere.”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading It was early in the forenoon, and she still wore a simple muslin cap and a morning gown of gray cashmere.
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From this reading To her enters her brother, fresh and bright, a smile on his lips and a flower in his button-hole.
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From this reading To her enters her brother, fresh and bright, a smile on his lips and a flower in his button-hole.
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From this reading Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.
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From this reading To her enters her brother, fresh and bright, a smile on his lips and a flower in his button-hole.
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From this reading It was early in the forenoon, and she still wore a simple muslin cap and a morning gown of gray cashmere.
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From this reading Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.
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From this reading It was early in the forenoon, and she still wore a simple muslin cap and a morning gown of gray cashmere.
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From this reading Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.
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From this reading TAKING COUNSEL.
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From this reading Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.
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From this reading It was early in the forenoon, and she still wore a simple muslin cap and a morning gown of gray cashmere.
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From this reading To her enters her brother, fresh and bright, a smile on his lips and a flower in his button-hole.
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From this reading Her mouth looked very rigid and her eyes gloomy.
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From this reading To her enters her brother, fresh and bright, a smile on his lips and a flower in his button-hole.
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From this reading It was early in the forenoon, and she still wore a simple muslin cap and a morning gown of gray cashmere.
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From this reading To her enters her brother, fresh and bright, a smile on his lips and a flower in his button-hole.
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From this reading Her mouth looked very rigid and her eyes gloomy.
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From this reading It was early in the forenoon, and she still wore a simple muslin cap and a morning gown of gray cashmere.
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From this reading It was early in the forenoon, and she still wore a simple muslin cap and a morning gown of gray cashmere.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading To her enters her brother, fresh and bright, a smile on his lips and a flower in his button-hole.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was early in the forenoon, and she still wore a simple muslin cap and a morning gown of gray cashmere.
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From this reading Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.
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From this reading To her enters her brother, fresh and bright, a smile on his lips and a flower in his button-hole.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Her mouth looked very rigid and her eyes gloomy.
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From this reading Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.
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From this reading Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading It was early in the forenoon, and she still wore a simple muslin cap and a morning gown of gray cashmere.
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From this reading Her mouth looked very rigid and her eyes gloomy.
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From this reading It was early in the forenoon, and she still wore a simple muslin cap and a morning gown of gray cashmere.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading It was early in the forenoon, and she still wore a simple muslin cap and a morning gown of gray cashmere.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.
above and across; more than
From this reading Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.
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From this reading Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.
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From this reading Her mouth looked very rigid and her eyes gloomy.
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From this reading Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading It was early in the forenoon, and she still wore a simple muslin cap and a morning gown of gray cashmere.
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From this reading It was early in the forenoon, and she still wore a simple muslin cap and a morning gown of gray cashmere.
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From this reading Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.
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From this reading To her enters her brother, fresh and bright, a smile on his lips and a flower in his button-hole.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading It was early in the forenoon, and she still wore a simple muslin cap and a morning gown of gray cashmere.
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From this reading TAKING COUNSEL.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading It was early in the forenoon, and she still wore a simple muslin cap and a morning gown of gray cashmere.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading To her enters her brother, fresh and bright, a smile on his lips and a flower in his button-hole.
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From this reading Her mouth looked very rigid and her eyes gloomy.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.
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From this reading It was early in the forenoon, and she still wore a simple muslin cap and a morning gown of gray cashmere.
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From this reading Miss Payne was busy looking over several cards which lay in a small china dish on her work-table.
