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Anne's House of Dreams

Chapter XXXVIII · Chapter 38

Chapter 38 of Anne's House of Dreams is here in full — 120 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery • Curated US English Learning Edition

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RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

One evening Owen Ford found Leslie alone in it.

Anne and Gilbert were away, and Susan, who was expected back that night, had not yet returned.

The northern sky was amber and pale green over the fir tops.

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Anne's House of Dreams L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

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Chapter XXXVIII

Chapter 38

Chapter 38 of Anne's House of Dreams is here in full — 120 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August. The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom. One evening Owen Ford found Leslie alone in it. Anne and Gilbert were away, and Susan, who was expected back that night, had not yet returned. The northern sky was amber and pale green over the fir tops.

Anne's House of Dreams

Chapter XXXVIII · Chapter 38

Chapter 38 of Anne's House of Dreams is here in full — 120 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/24 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

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RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

Line 2

The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

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One evening Owen Ford found Leslie alone in it.

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Anne and Gilbert were away, and Susan, who was expected back that night, had not yet returned.

Line 5

The northern sky was amber and pale green over the fir tops.

Learner Dictionary

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Alone adjective US /əˈloʊn/

Having no one else present.

From this reading “One evening Owen Ford found Leslie alone in it.”

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a

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From this reading RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

about

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

aloneadjectiveUS /əˈloʊn/

Having no one else present.

From this reading One evening Owen Ford found Leslie alone in it.

amber

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From this reading The northern sky was amber and pale green over the fir tops.

and

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From this reading RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

Anne

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From this reading Anne and Gilbert were away, and Susan, who was expected back that night, had not yet returned.

athwart

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

August

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From this reading RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

away

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From this reading Anne and Gilbert were away, and Susan, who was expected back that night, had not yet returned.

back

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From this reading Anne and Gilbert were away, and Susan, who was expected back that night, had not yet returned.

bees

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From this reading RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

beloved

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From this reading RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

beyond

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

brook

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

by

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From this reading RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

corner

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

evening

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From this reading One evening Owen Ford found Leslie alone in it.

expected

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From this reading Anne and Gilbert were away, and Susan, who was expected back that night, had not yet returned.

fir

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From this reading The northern sky was amber and pale green over the fir tops.

folk

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

Ford

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From this reading One evening Owen Ford found Leslie alone in it.

found

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From this reading One evening Owen Ford found Leslie alone in it.

garden

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From this reading RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

Gilbert

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From this reading Anne and Gilbert were away, and Susan, who was expected back that night, had not yet returned.

given

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

gloom

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

grassy

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

great

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

green

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From this reading The northern sky was amber and pale green over the fir tops.

had

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From this reading Anne and Gilbert were away, and Susan, who was expected back that night, had not yet returned.

haunt

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From this reading RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

house

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From this reading RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

in

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

it

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

late

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From this reading RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

Leslie

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From this reading One evening Owen Ford found Leslie alone in it.

little

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From this reading RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

lived

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

moths

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

much

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

night

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

northern

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From this reading The northern sky was amber and pale green over the fir tops.

not

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From this reading Anne and Gilbert were away, and Susan, who was expected back that night, had not yet returned.

of

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From this reading RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

One

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From this reading One evening Owen Ford found Leslie alone in it.

over

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From this reading The northern sky was amber and pale green over the fir tops.

Owen

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From this reading One evening Owen Ford found Leslie alone in it.

pale

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From this reading The northern sky was amber and pale green over the fir tops.

picnic

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

RED

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From this reading RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

reddened

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From this reading RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

returned

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From this reading Anne and Gilbert were away, and Susan, who was expected back that night, had not yet returned.

ROSES

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From this reading RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

sailed

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

sitting

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

sky

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From this reading The northern sky was amber and pale green over the fir tops.

suppers

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

Susan

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From this reading Anne and Gilbert were away, and Susan, who was expected back that night, had not yet returned.

taking

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

that

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From this reading RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

The

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From this reading RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

through

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

to

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

tops

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From this reading The northern sky was amber and pale green over the fir tops.

twilights

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

velvet

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

was

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From this reading RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August.

were

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

when

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From this reading The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.

who

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From this reading Anne and Gilbert were away, and Susan, who was expected back that night, had not yet returned.

yet

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From this reading Anne and Gilbert were away, and Susan, who was expected back that night, had not yet returned.

Chapter 38 of Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery holds 120 sentences, grouped into 24 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.

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Chapter 38 holds 120 sentences of Anne's House of Dreams, unabridged, divided into 24 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 38 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 120 sentences, grouped into 24 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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