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Baby Mine

Chapter XX · Chapter 20

Chapter 20 of Baby Mine is here in full — 140 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Margaret Mayo • Curated US English Learning Edition

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With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

Finding the supposedly ill Zoie careering about the centre of the room expostulating with Aggie, the young man stopped dumbfounded on the threshold.

“Zoie,” he cried in astonishment.

“What are you doing out of bed?”

For an instant the startled Zoie gazed at him stupefied.

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Chapter XX Reading 1/28

Baby Mine

Chapter XX · Chapter 20

Chapter 20 of Baby Mine is here in full — 140 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/28 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

Line 2

Finding the supposedly ill Zoie careering about the centre of the room expostulating with Aggie, the young man stopped dumbfounded on the threshold.

Line 3

“Zoie,” he cried in astonishment.

Line 4

“What are you doing out of bed?”

Line 5

For an instant the startled Zoie gazed at him stupefied.

All words in this reading · 54

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about

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From this reading Finding the supposedly ill Zoie careering about the centre of the room expostulating with Aggie, the young man stopped dumbfounded on the threshold.

Aggie

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From this reading Finding the supposedly ill Zoie careering about the centre of the room expostulating with Aggie, the young man stopped dumbfounded on the threshold.

Alfred

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

an

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From this reading For an instant the startled Zoie gazed at him stupefied.

and

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

are

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From this reading “What are you doing out of bed?”

astonishment

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From this reading “Zoie,” he cried in astonishment.

at

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From this reading For an instant the startled Zoie gazed at him stupefied.

babe

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

bed

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From this reading “What are you doing out of bed?”

careering

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From this reading Finding the supposedly ill Zoie careering about the centre of the room expostulating with Aggie, the young man stopped dumbfounded on the threshold.

centre

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From this reading Finding the supposedly ill Zoie careering about the centre of the room expostulating with Aggie, the young man stopped dumbfounded on the threshold.

completed

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

consequent

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

cried

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From this reading “Zoie,” he cried in astonishment.

damage

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

doing

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From this reading “What are you doing out of bed?”

dumbfounded

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From this reading Finding the supposedly ill Zoie careering about the centre of the room expostulating with Aggie, the young man stopped dumbfounded on the threshold.

excitement

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

expostulating

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From this reading Finding the supposedly ill Zoie careering about the centre of the room expostulating with Aggie, the young man stopped dumbfounded on the threshold.

Finding

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From this reading Finding the supposedly ill Zoie careering about the centre of the room expostulating with Aggie, the young man stopped dumbfounded on the threshold.

For

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From this reading For an instant the startled Zoie gazed at him stupefied.

gazed

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From this reading For an instant the startled Zoie gazed at him stupefied.

hastened

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

he

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From this reading “Zoie,” he cried in astonishment.

him

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From this reading For an instant the startled Zoie gazed at him stupefied.

himself

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

his

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

ill

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From this reading Finding the supposedly ill Zoie careering about the centre of the room expostulating with Aggie, the young man stopped dumbfounded on the threshold.

in

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From this reading “Zoie,” he cried in astonishment.

instant

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From this reading For an instant the startled Zoie gazed at him stupefied.

less

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

man

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From this reading Finding the supposedly ill Zoie careering about the centre of the room expostulating with Aggie, the young man stopped dumbfounded on the threshold.

more

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

of

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From this reading Finding the supposedly ill Zoie careering about the centre of the room expostulating with Aggie, the young man stopped dumbfounded on the threshold.

on

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

or

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

out

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From this reading “What are you doing out of bed?”

return

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

room

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From this reading Finding the supposedly ill Zoie careering about the centre of the room expostulating with Aggie, the young man stopped dumbfounded on the threshold.

shaving

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

startled

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From this reading For an instant the startled Zoie gazed at him stupefied.

stopped

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From this reading Finding the supposedly ill Zoie careering about the centre of the room expostulating with Aggie, the young man stopped dumbfounded on the threshold.

stupefied

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From this reading For an instant the startled Zoie gazed at him stupefied.

supposedly

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From this reading Finding the supposedly ill Zoie careering about the centre of the room expostulating with Aggie, the young man stopped dumbfounded on the threshold.

the

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

threshold

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From this reading Finding the supposedly ill Zoie careering about the centre of the room expostulating with Aggie, the young man stopped dumbfounded on the threshold.

to

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

What

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From this reading “What are you doing out of bed?”

wife

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

With

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From this reading With more or less damage to himself consequent on his excitement, Alfred completed his shaving and hastened to return to his wife and the babe.

you

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From this reading “What are you doing out of bed?”

young

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From this reading Finding the supposedly ill Zoie careering about the centre of the room expostulating with Aggie, the young man stopped dumbfounded on the threshold.

Zoie

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From this reading Finding the supposedly ill Zoie careering about the centre of the room expostulating with Aggie, the young man stopped dumbfounded on the threshold.

Chapter 20 of Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo holds 140 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 20 of Baby Mine contain?

Chapter 20 holds 140 sentences of Baby Mine, unabridged, divided into 28 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 20 of Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 140 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 20 of Baby Mine?

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 20 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 20 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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Is this the complete text of Baby Mine?

Yes. All 3304 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #860 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #860, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Baby Mine take to read?

About 275 minutes of reading across 661 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Baby Mine

Words and structures a reader meets early in Baby Mine, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

College: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Baby Mine; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Alfred: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Baby Mine; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Hardy: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Baby Mine; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Young: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Baby Mine; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.