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Chapter IV · Chapter 4

Chapter 4 of Beasts and Super-Beasts is here in full — 158 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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“I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

That’s why I mentioned the matter to you.”

“This is awful,” said Jane; “your mother must be told about it at once.”

“My mother mustn’t hear a word about it,” said Clovis earnestly; “it would upset her dreadfully.

She relies on Sturridge for everything.”

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Beasts and Super-Beasts

Chapter IV · Chapter 4

Chapter 4 of Beasts and Super-Beasts is here in full — 158 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/31 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

“I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

Line 2

That’s why I mentioned the matter to you.”

Line 3

“This is awful,” said Jane; “your mother must be told about it at once.”

Line 4

“My mother mustn’t hear a word about it,” said Clovis earnestly; “it would upset her dreadfully.

Line 5

She relies on Sturridge for everything.”

All words in this reading · 63

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a

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

about

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

ago

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

alarmed

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

and

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

at

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

awful

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From this reading “This is awful,” said Jane; “your mother must be told about it at once.”

be

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

caught

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

Clovis

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

dead

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

didn't

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

dreadfully

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From this reading “My mother mustn’t hear a word about it,” said Clovis earnestly; “it would upset her dreadfully.

earnestly

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From this reading “My mother mustn’t hear a word about it,” said Clovis earnestly; “it would upset her dreadfully.

everything

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From this reading She relies on Sturridge for everything.”

for

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From this reading She relies on Sturridge for everything.”

get

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

glowering

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

hear

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From this reading “My mother mustn’t hear a word about it,” said Clovis earnestly; “it would upset her dreadfully.

her

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From this reading “My mother mustn’t hear a word about it,” said Clovis earnestly; “it would upset her dreadfully.

him

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

I

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

is

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From this reading “This is awful,” said Jane; “your mother must be told about it at once.”

it

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

Jane

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From this reading “This is awful,” said Jane; “your mother must be told about it at once.”

long

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

look

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

lunch

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

matter

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From this reading That’s why I mentioned the matter to you.”

mentioned

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From this reading That’s why I mentioned the matter to you.”

mother

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From this reading “This is awful,” said Jane; “your mother must be told about it at once.”

must

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From this reading “This is awful,” said Jane; “your mother must be told about it at once.”

mustn't

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From this reading “My mother mustn’t hear a word about it,” said Clovis earnestly; “it would upset her dreadfully.

muttering

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

My

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From this reading “My mother mustn’t hear a word about it,” said Clovis earnestly; “it would upset her dreadfully.

on

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From this reading She relies on Sturridge for everything.”

once

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From this reading “This is awful,” said Jane; “your mother must be told about it at once.”

one

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

Ought

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

really

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

relies

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From this reading She relies on Sturridge for everything.”

said

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

see

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

she

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

should

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

sinister

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

some

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

Sturridge

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From this reading She relies on Sturridge for everything.”

That's

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From this reading That’s why I mentioned the matter to you.”

the

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From this reading That’s why I mentioned the matter to you.”

This

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From this reading “This is awful,” said Jane; “your mother must be told about it at once.”

till

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

to

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

to-day

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

told

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From this reading “This is awful,” said Jane; “your mother must be told about it at once.”

upset

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From this reading “My mother mustn’t hear a word about it,” said Clovis earnestly; “it would upset her dreadfully.

very

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

why

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From this reading That’s why I mentioned the matter to you.”

with

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

word

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From this reading “My mother mustn’t hear a word about it,” said Clovis earnestly; “it would upset her dreadfully.

would

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From this reading “My mother mustn’t hear a word about it,” said Clovis earnestly; “it would upset her dreadfully.

you

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From this reading “I didn’t get really alarmed about it till lunch to-day,” said Clovis; “I caught him glowering at you with a very sinister look and muttering: ‘Ought to be dead long ago, she ought, and some one should see to it.’

your

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From this reading “This is awful,” said Jane; “your mother must be told about it at once.”

Chapter 4 of Beasts and Super-Beasts by Saki holds 158 sentences, grouped into 32 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 4 of Beasts and Super-Beasts contain?

Chapter 4 holds 158 sentences of Beasts and Super-Beasts, unabridged, divided into 32 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 4 of Beasts and Super-Beasts by Saki exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 158 sentences, grouped into 32 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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Vocabulary met early in Beasts and Super-Beasts

Words and structures a reader meets early in Beasts and Super-Beasts, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Window: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Beasts and Super-Beasts; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Schartz-metterklume: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Beasts and Super-Beasts; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Method: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Beasts and Super-Beasts; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Clovis: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Beasts and Super-Beasts; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.