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

Chapter XXII · Chapter 22

Chapter 22 of Anne's House of Dreams is here in full — 136 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.
Anne protested at first.
Life here with just the two of us is so sweet, Gilbert.
It spoils it a little to have anyone else.
Susan is a dear soul, but she is an outsider.
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Anne's House of Dreams

Chapter XXII · Chapter 22

Chapter 22 of Anne's House of Dreams is here in full — 136 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/27 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.
Line 2
Anne protested at first.
Line 3
Life here with just the two of us is so sweet, Gilbert.
Line 4
It spoils it a little to have anyone else.
Line 5
Susan is a dear soul, but she is an outsider.

Learner Dictionary

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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.

Outsider noun US /ˌaʊtˈsaɪ.dər/

A person who does not belong to a particular group or community; a stranger.

From this reading “Susan is a dear soul, but she is an outsider.”

All words in this reading · 44

Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.

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a

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading It spoils it a little to have anyone else.

an

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From this reading Susan is a dear soul, but she is an outsider.

Anne

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From this reading Anne protested at first.

anyone

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From this reading It spoils it a little to have anyone else.

ARRANGES

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From this reading MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.

at

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From this reading MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.

be

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From this reading MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.

but

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From this reading Susan is a dear soul, but she is an outsider.

CORNELIA

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From this reading MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.

dear

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From this reading Susan is a dear soul, but she is an outsider.

else

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From this reading It spoils it a little to have anyone else.

first

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From this reading Anne protested at first.

for

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From this reading MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.

Gilbert

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From this reading MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.

have

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From this reading It spoils it a little to have anyone else.

here

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From this reading “Life here with just the two of us is so sweet, Gilbert.

house

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.

insisted

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From this reading MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.

is

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From this reading “Life here with just the two of us is so sweet, Gilbert.

It

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From this reading It spoils it a little to have anyone else.

just

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From this reading “Life here with just the two of us is so sweet, Gilbert.

kept

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From this reading MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.

Life

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From this reading “Life here with just the two of us is so sweet, Gilbert.

little

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From this reading MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.

MATTERS

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From this reading MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.

MISS

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From this reading MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.

of

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From this reading “Life here with just the two of us is so sweet, Gilbert.

on

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From this reading MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.

outsidernounUS /ˌaʊtˈsaɪ.dər/

A person who does not belong to a particular group or community; a stranger.

From this reading Susan is a dear soul, but she is an outsider.

protested

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Anne protested at first.

she

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Susan is a dear soul, but she is an outsider.

should

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.

so

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading “Life here with just the two of us is so sweet, Gilbert.

soul

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Susan is a dear soul, but she is an outsider.

spoils

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading It spoils it a little to have anyone else.

summer

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.

Susan

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.

sweet

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading “Life here with just the two of us is so sweet, Gilbert.

that

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.

the

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer.

to

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading It spoils it a little to have anyone else.

two

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading “Life here with just the two of us is so sweet, Gilbert.

us

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From this reading “Life here with just the two of us is so sweet, Gilbert.

with

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From this reading “Life here with just the two of us is so sweet, Gilbert.

Chapter 22 of Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery holds 136 sentences, grouped into 28 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 22 of Anne's House of Dreams contain?

Chapter 22 holds 136 sentences of Anne's House of Dreams, unabridged, divided into 28 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 22 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 136 sentences, grouped into 28 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 22 of Anne's House of Dreams?

Work through the 28 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 28 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 22 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 22 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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About 460 minutes of reading across 1106 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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