Chapter 23 of Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story is here in full — 200 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 23 of Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story is here in full — 200 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“A woman wants a proper alliance with a man, a man who is better stuff than herself. She wants that and needs it more than anything else in the world. It may not be just, it may not be fair, but things are so. It isn’t law, nor custom, nor masculine violence settled that. It is just how things happen to be.
Chapter 23 of Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story is here in full — 200 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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From this reading “A woman wants a proper alliance with a man, a man who is better stuff than herself.
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From this reading “A woman wants a proper alliance with a man, a man who is better stuff than herself.
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From this reading She wants that and needs it more than anything else in the world.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She wants that and needs it more than anything else in the world.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It may not be just, it may not be fair, but things are so.
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From this reading It may not be just, it may not be fair, but things are so.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “A woman wants a proper alliance with a man, a man who is better stuff than herself.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It may not be just, it may not be fair, but things are so.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It isn’t law, nor custom, nor masculine violence settled that.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She wants that and needs it more than anything else in the world.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It may not be just, it may not be fair, but things are so.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It is just how things happen to be.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “A woman wants a proper alliance with a man, a man who is better stuff than herself.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It is just how things happen to be.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She wants that and needs it more than anything else in the world.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “A woman wants a proper alliance with a man, a man who is better stuff than herself.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It isn’t law, nor custom, nor masculine violence settled that.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She wants that and needs it more than anything else in the world.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It may not be just, it may not be fair, but things are so.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It isn’t law, nor custom, nor masculine violence settled that.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “A woman wants a proper alliance with a man, a man who is better stuff than herself.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It isn’t law, nor custom, nor masculine violence settled that.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It may not be just, it may not be fair, but things are so.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She wants that and needs it more than anything else in the world.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She wants that and needs it more than anything else in the world.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It isn’t law, nor custom, nor masculine violence settled that.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It may not be just, it may not be fair, but things are so.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “A woman wants a proper alliance with a man, a man who is better stuff than herself.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It isn’t law, nor custom, nor masculine violence settled that.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She wants that and needs it more than anything else in the world.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It may not be just, it may not be fair, but things are so.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “A woman wants a proper alliance with a man, a man who is better stuff than herself.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “A woman wants a proper alliance with a man, a man who is better stuff than herself.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She wants that and needs it more than anything else in the world.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She wants that and needs it more than anything else in the world.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It may not be just, it may not be fair, but things are so.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It is just how things happen to be.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It isn’t law, nor custom, nor masculine violence settled that.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “A woman wants a proper alliance with a man, a man who is better stuff than herself.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “A woman wants a proper alliance with a man, a man who is better stuff than herself.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “A woman wants a proper alliance with a man, a man who is better stuff than herself.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “A woman wants a proper alliance with a man, a man who is better stuff than herself.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She wants that and needs it more than anything else in the world.
Chapter 23 of Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells holds 200 sentences, grouped into 40 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 23 holds 200 sentences of Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story, unabridged, divided into 40 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 23 of Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 200 sentences, grouped into 40 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
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