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Chapter 10 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for is here in full — 202 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Frances Jenkins Olcott • Curated US English Learning Edition

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“Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

said Volumnia, in sorrowful tones.

“But I am too old to endure much longer your shame and my misery.

Think not of me, but of your wife and children, whom you would doom to death or to life in bondage.”

Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

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Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for Frances Jenkins Olcott

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Chapter X

Chapter 10

Chapter 10 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for is here in full — 202 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

“Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?” said Volumnia, in sorrowful tones. “But I am too old to endure much longer your shame and my misery. Think not of me, but of your wife and children, whom you would doom to death or to life in bondage.” Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for

Chapter X · Chapter 10

Chapter 10 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for is here in full — 202 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/40 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

“Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

Line 2

said Volumnia, in sorrowful tones.

Line 3

“But I am too old to endure much longer your shame and my misery.

Line 4

Think not of me, but of your wife and children, whom you would doom to death or to life in bondage.”

Line 5

Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

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a

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all

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From this reading Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

am

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From this reading “But I am too old to endure much longer your shame and my misery.

an

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From this reading “Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

and

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From this reading “But I am too old to endure much longer your shame and my misery.

be

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From this reading “Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

bemoaned

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From this reading Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

bondage

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From this reading Think not of me, but of your wife and children, whom you would doom to death or to life in bondage.”

borne

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From this reading “Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

burst

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From this reading Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

But

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From this reading “But I am too old to endure much longer your shame and my misery.

came

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From this reading Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

camp

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children

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From this reading Think not of me, but of your wife and children, whom you would doom to death or to life in bondage.”

country

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From this reading Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

death

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From this reading Think not of me, but of your wife and children, whom you would doom to death or to life in bondage.”

doom

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From this reading Think not of me, but of your wife and children, whom you would doom to death or to life in bondage.”

endure

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From this reading “But I am too old to endure much longer your shame and my misery.

enemy

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From this reading “Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

forward

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From this reading Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

had

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From this reading “Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

have

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him

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From this reading Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

his

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From this reading Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

I

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From this reading “Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

if

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From this reading “Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

in

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From this reading said Volumnia, in sorrowful tones.

into

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From this reading Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

it

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From this reading “Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

kissed

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From this reading Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

ladies

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From this reading Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

life

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From this reading Think not of me, but of your wife and children, whom you would doom to death or to life in bondage.”

longer

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From this reading “But I am too old to endure much longer your shame and my misery.

me

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From this reading Think not of me, but of your wife and children, whom you would doom to death or to life in bondage.”

misery

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From this reading “But I am too old to endure much longer your shame and my misery.

much

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From this reading “But I am too old to endure much longer your shame and my misery.

Must

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From this reading “Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

my

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From this reading “But I am too old to endure much longer your shame and my misery.

never

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From this reading “Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

noble

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From this reading Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

not

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From this reading Think not of me, but of your wife and children, whom you would doom to death or to life in bondage.”

of

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From this reading “Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

old

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From this reading “But I am too old to endure much longer your shame and my misery.

or

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From this reading Think not of me, but of your wife and children, whom you would doom to death or to life in bondage.”

peril

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From this reading Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

Rome

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From this reading “Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

said

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From this reading said Volumnia, in sorrowful tones.

seen

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From this reading “Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

shame

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From this reading “But I am too old to endure much longer your shame and my misery.

son

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From this reading “Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

sorrowful

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From this reading said Volumnia, in sorrowful tones.

tears

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From this reading Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

that

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From this reading “Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

the

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From this reading “Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

their

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From this reading Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

then

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From this reading “Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

Think

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From this reading Think not of me, but of your wife and children, whom you would doom to death or to life in bondage.”

to

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From this reading “But I am too old to endure much longer your shame and my misery.

tones

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From this reading said Volumnia, in sorrowful tones.

too

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From this reading “But I am too old to endure much longer your shame and my misery.

train

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From this reading Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

Virgilia

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From this reading Then Virgilia, his wife, and his children, came forward and kissed him, and all the noble ladies in the train burst into tears and bemoaned the peril of their country.

Volumnia

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From this reading said Volumnia, in sorrowful tones.

whom

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From this reading Think not of me, but of your wife and children, whom you would doom to death or to life in bondage.”

wife

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From this reading Think not of me, but of your wife and children, whom you would doom to death or to life in bondage.”

would

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From this reading “Must it, then, be that if I had never borne a son, Rome would have never seen the camp of an enemy?”

you

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From this reading Think not of me, but of your wife and children, whom you would doom to death or to life in bondage.”

your

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From this reading “But I am too old to endure much longer your shame and my misery.

Chapter 10 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for by Frances Jenkins Olcott holds 202 sentences, grouped into 41 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 10 holds 202 sentences of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for, unabridged, divided into 41 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 10 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for by Frances Jenkins Olcott exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 202 sentences, grouped into 41 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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