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Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story
Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story

Chapter XXVIII · Chapter 28

Chapter 28 of Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story is here in full — 210 sentences across 42 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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She made no answer, and for a time he debated some problems with himself.
No!” he said aloud at last.
The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, is that we can’t possibly be lovers in the ordinary sense.
That, I think, is manifest.
You know, I’ve done no work at all this afternoon.
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Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story

Chapter XXVIII · Chapter 28

Chapter 28 of Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story is here in full — 210 sentences across 42 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/42 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
She made no answer, and for a time he debated some problems with himself.
Line 2
No!” he said aloud at last.
Line 3
The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, “is that we can’t possibly be lovers in the ordinary sense.
Line 4
That, I think, is manifest.
Line 5
You know, I’ve done no work at all this afternoon.

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a

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From this reading She made no answer, and for a time he debated some problems with himself.

afternoon

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From this reading You know, I’ve done no work at all this afternoon.

all

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From this reading You know, I’ve done no work at all this afternoon.

aloud

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From this reading “No!” he said aloud at last.

and

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From this reading She made no answer, and for a time he debated some problems with himself.

answer

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From this reading She made no answer, and for a time he debated some problems with himself.

at

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From this reading “No!” he said aloud at last.

be

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From this reading “The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, “is that we can’t possibly be lovers in the ordinary sense.

can't

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From this reading “The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, “is that we can’t possibly be lovers in the ordinary sense.

case

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From this reading “The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, “is that we can’t possibly be lovers in the ordinary sense.

common-sense

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From this reading “The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, “is that we can’t possibly be lovers in the ordinary sense.

debated

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From this reading She made no answer, and for a time he debated some problems with himself.

done

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From this reading You know, I’ve done no work at all this afternoon.

for

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From this reading She made no answer, and for a time he debated some problems with himself.

he

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From this reading She made no answer, and for a time he debated some problems with himself.

himself

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From this reading She made no answer, and for a time he debated some problems with himself.

I

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From this reading That, I think, is manifest.

I've

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From this reading You know, I’ve done no work at all this afternoon.

in

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From this reading “The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, “is that we can’t possibly be lovers in the ordinary sense.

is

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From this reading “The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, “is that we can’t possibly be lovers in the ordinary sense.

know

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From this reading You know, I’ve done no work at all this afternoon.

last

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From this reading “No!” he said aloud at last.

lovers

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made

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From this reading She made no answer, and for a time he debated some problems with himself.

manifest

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From this reading That, I think, is manifest.

no

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From this reading She made no answer, and for a time he debated some problems with himself.

of

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From this reading “The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, “is that we can’t possibly be lovers in the ordinary sense.

ordinary

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From this reading “The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, “is that we can’t possibly be lovers in the ordinary sense.

plain

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From this reading “The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, “is that we can’t possibly be lovers in the ordinary sense.

possibly

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From this reading “The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, “is that we can’t possibly be lovers in the ordinary sense.

problems

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said

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sense

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From this reading “The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, “is that we can’t possibly be lovers in the ordinary sense.

She

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From this reading She made no answer, and for a time he debated some problems with himself.

some

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From this reading She made no answer, and for a time he debated some problems with himself.

that

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From this reading “The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, “is that we can’t possibly be lovers in the ordinary sense.

The

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From this reading “The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, “is that we can’t possibly be lovers in the ordinary sense.

think

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From this reading That, I think, is manifest.

this

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From this reading You know, I’ve done no work at all this afternoon.

time

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From this reading She made no answer, and for a time he debated some problems with himself.

we

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From this reading “The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, “is that we can’t possibly be lovers in the ordinary sense.

with

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From this reading She made no answer, and for a time he debated some problems with himself.

work

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From this reading You know, I’ve done no work at all this afternoon.

You

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From this reading You know, I’ve done no work at all this afternoon.

Chapter 28 of Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells holds 210 sentences, grouped into 42 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.

What does chapter 28 of Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story contain?

Chapter 28 holds 210 sentences of Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story, unabridged, divided into 42 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 28 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 210 sentences, grouped into 42 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.

How do I study chapter 28 of Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story?

Work through the 42 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 42 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.

Can chapter 28 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 28 can be played aloud in United States English.

Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #524, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 581 minutes of reading across 1395 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story

Words and structures a reader meets early in Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Ignoring
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Accomplishments
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Every
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Well-bred
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