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Anne's House of Dreams
Anne's House of Dreams

Chapter XV · Chapter 15

Chapter 15 of Anne's House of Dreams is here in full — 169 sentences across 34 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.
I want to spend the first Christmas of our life together in our own home,” decreed Anne.
So it fell out that Marilla and Mrs. Rachel Lynde and the twins came to Four Winds for Christmas.
Marilla had the face of a woman who had circumnavigated the globe.
She had never been sixty miles away from home before; and she had never eaten a Christmas dinner anywhere save at Green Gables.
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Anne's House of Dreams

Chapter XV · Chapter 15

Chapter 15 of Anne's House of Dreams is here in full — 169 sentences across 34 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/33 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.
Line 2
I want to spend the first Christmas of our life together in our own home,” decreed Anne.
Line 3
So it fell out that Marilla and Mrs. Rachel Lynde and the twins came to Four Winds for Christmas.
Line 4
Marilla had the face of a woman who had circumnavigated the globe.
Line 5
She had never been sixty miles away from home before; and she had never eaten a Christmas dinner anywhere save at Green Gables.

All words in this reading · 62

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a

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From this reading Marilla had the face of a woman who had circumnavigated the globe.

and

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

Anne

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

anywhere

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From this reading She had never been sixty miles away from home before; and she had never eaten a Christmas dinner anywhere save at Green Gables.

AT

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

Avonlea

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

away

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From this reading She had never been sixty miles away from home before; and she had never eaten a Christmas dinner anywhere save at Green Gables.

been

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From this reading She had never been sixty miles away from home before; and she had never eaten a Christmas dinner anywhere save at Green Gables.

before

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From this reading She had never been sixty miles away from home before; and she had never eaten a Christmas dinner anywhere save at Green Gables.

but

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

came

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From this reading So it fell out that Marilla and Mrs. Rachel Lynde and the twins came to Four Winds for Christmas.

CHRISTMAS

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

circumnavigated

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From this reading Marilla had the face of a woman who had circumnavigated the globe.

decided

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

decreed

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From this reading “I want to spend the first Christmas of our life together in our own home,” decreed Anne.

dinner

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From this reading She had never been sixty miles away from home before; and she had never eaten a Christmas dinner anywhere save at Green Gables.

eaten

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From this reading She had never been sixty miles away from home before; and she had never eaten a Christmas dinner anywhere save at Green Gables.

eventually

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

face

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From this reading Marilla had the face of a woman who had circumnavigated the globe.

fell

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From this reading So it fell out that Marilla and Mrs. Rachel Lynde and the twins came to Four Winds for Christmas.

first

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

for

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

FOUR

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

from

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From this reading She had never been sixty miles away from home before; and she had never eaten a Christmas dinner anywhere save at Green Gables.

Gables

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From this reading She had never been sixty miles away from home before; and she had never eaten a Christmas dinner anywhere save at Green Gables.

Gilbert

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

globe

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From this reading Marilla had the face of a woman who had circumnavigated the globe.

going

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

Green

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From this reading She had never been sixty miles away from home before; and she had never eaten a Christmas dinner anywhere save at Green Gables.

had

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From this reading Marilla had the face of a woman who had circumnavigated the globe.

home

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

I

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From this reading “I want to spend the first Christmas of our life together in our own home,” decreed Anne.

in

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

it

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From this reading So it fell out that Marilla and Mrs. Rachel Lynde and the twins came to Four Winds for Christmas.

life

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From this reading “I want to spend the first Christmas of our life together in our own home,” decreed Anne.

Lynde

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From this reading So it fell out that Marilla and Mrs. Rachel Lynde and the twins came to Four Winds for Christmas.

Marilla

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From this reading So it fell out that Marilla and Mrs. Rachel Lynde and the twins came to Four Winds for Christmas.

miles

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From this reading She had never been sixty miles away from home before; and she had never eaten a Christmas dinner anywhere save at Green Gables.

Mrs

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From this reading So it fell out that Marilla and Mrs. Rachel Lynde and the twins came to Four Winds for Christmas.

never

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From this reading She had never been sixty miles away from home before; and she had never eaten a Christmas dinner anywhere save at Green Gables.

of

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

our

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From this reading “I want to spend the first Christmas of our life together in our own home,” decreed Anne.

out

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From this reading So it fell out that Marilla and Mrs. Rachel Lynde and the twins came to Four Winds for Christmas.

own

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From this reading “I want to spend the first Christmas of our life together in our own home,” decreed Anne.

Rachel

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From this reading So it fell out that Marilla and Mrs. Rachel Lynde and the twins came to Four Winds for Christmas.

save

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From this reading She had never been sixty miles away from home before; and she had never eaten a Christmas dinner anywhere save at Green Gables.

She

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From this reading She had never been sixty miles away from home before; and she had never eaten a Christmas dinner anywhere save at Green Gables.

sixty

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From this reading She had never been sixty miles away from home before; and she had never eaten a Christmas dinner anywhere save at Green Gables.

So

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From this reading So it fell out that Marilla and Mrs. Rachel Lynde and the twins came to Four Winds for Christmas.

spend

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From this reading “I want to spend the first Christmas of our life together in our own home,” decreed Anne.

stay

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

talked

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

that

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From this reading So it fell out that Marilla and Mrs. Rachel Lynde and the twins came to Four Winds for Christmas.

the

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From this reading “I want to spend the first Christmas of our life together in our own home,” decreed Anne.

they

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

to

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

together

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From this reading “I want to spend the first Christmas of our life together in our own home,” decreed Anne.

twins

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From this reading So it fell out that Marilla and Mrs. Rachel Lynde and the twins came to Four Winds for Christmas.

want

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From this reading “I want to spend the first Christmas of our life together in our own home,” decreed Anne.

who

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From this reading Marilla had the face of a woman who had circumnavigated the globe.

WINDS

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From this reading CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds.

woman

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From this reading Marilla had the face of a woman who had circumnavigated the globe.

Chapter 15 of Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery holds 169 sentences, grouped into 34 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 15 of Anne's House of Dreams contain?

Chapter 15 holds 169 sentences of Anne's House of Dreams, unabridged, divided into 34 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 15 of Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 169 sentences, grouped into 34 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 15 of Anne's House of Dreams?

Work through the 34 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 34 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 15 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 15 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 #544, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Anne's House of Dreams take to read?

About 460 minutes of reading across 1106 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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