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Chapter IX
FIRST LOVE. WE are under very changeful influences in this world! The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court. Within one little week from that time my eagerness was wonderfully abated. The sagacious reader will readily discover the cause of this alteration.
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an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “FIRST LOVE.”
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Within one little week from that time my eagerness was wonderfully abated.”
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading “Within one little week from that time my eagerness was wonderfully abated.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “The sagacious reader will readily discover the cause of this alteration.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Within one little week from that time my eagerness was wonderfully abated.”
below or beneath something; less than
From this reading “WE are under very changeful influences in this world!”
inside; before a period of time has passed
From this reading “Within one little week from that time my eagerness was wonderfully abated.”
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From this reading The sagacious reader will readily discover the cause of this alteration.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading WE are under very changeful influences in this world!
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From this reading The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.
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From this reading The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.
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From this reading The sagacious reader will readily discover the cause of this alteration.
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From this reading WE are under very changeful influences in this world!
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From this reading The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.
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From this reading The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.
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From this reading The sagacious reader will readily discover the cause of this alteration.
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From this reading Within one little week from that time my eagerness was wonderfully abated.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading FIRST LOVE.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Within one little week from that time my eagerness was wonderfully abated.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading WE are under very changeful influences in this world!
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From this reading WE are under very changeful influences in this world!
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From this reading The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.
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From this reading The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.
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From this reading The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Within one little week from that time my eagerness was wonderfully abated.
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From this reading FIRST LOVE.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Within one little week from that time my eagerness was wonderfully abated.
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From this reading The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.
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From this reading The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.
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From this reading The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The sagacious reader will readily discover the cause of this alteration.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading Within one little week from that time my eagerness was wonderfully abated.
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From this reading The sagacious reader will readily discover the cause of this alteration.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The sagacious reader will readily discover the cause of this alteration.
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From this reading The sagacious reader will readily discover the cause of this alteration.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading WE are under very changeful influences in this world!
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Within one little week from that time my eagerness was wonderfully abated.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.
below or beneath something; less than
From this reading WE are under very changeful influences in this world!
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From this reading WE are under very changeful influences in this world!
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading WE are under very changeful influences in this world!
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From this reading Within one little week from that time my eagerness was wonderfully abated.
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading The sagacious reader will readily discover the cause of this alteration.
in the company of; together with
From this reading The night on which occurred the interview with Aubrey that I have just narrated, I was burning to leave Devereux Court.
inside; before a period of time has passed
From this reading Within one little week from that time my eagerness was wonderfully abated.
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From this reading Within one little week from that time my eagerness was wonderfully abated.
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From this reading WE are under very changeful influences in this world!
