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Holiday Romance

Chapter III · Chapter 3

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ROMANCE.
FROM THE PEN OF LIEUT.-COL.
ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.
We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.
It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin-grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.—Not getting it, he privately withdrew his haughty spirit from such low company, bought a second-hand pocket-pistol, folded up some sandwiches in a paper bag, made a bottle of Spanish liquorice-water, and entered on a career of valour.
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Holiday Romance

Chapter III · Chapter 3

Chapter 3 of Holiday Romance is here in full — 192 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/38 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

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ROMANCE.
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FROM THE PEN OF LIEUT.-COL.
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ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.
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We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.
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It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin-grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.—Not getting it, he privately withdrew his haughty spirit from such low company, bought a second-hand pocket-pistol, folded up some sandwiches in a paper bag, made a bottle of Spanish liquorice-water, and entered on a career of valour.

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266

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

a

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

age

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

and

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From this reading It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin-grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.—Not getting it, he privately withdrew his haughty spirit from such low company, bought a second-hand pocket-pistol, folded up some sandwiches in a paper bag, made a bottle of Spanish liquorice-water, and entered on a career of valour.

another

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appear

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

at

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

bag

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birthday

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bottle

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bought

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by

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career

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COL

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From this reading FROM THE PEN OF LIEUT.-COL.

command

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company

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comparatively

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

considering

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demanded

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devoted

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

due

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early

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

entered

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ere

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From this reading We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.

find

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From this reading We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.

folded

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FROM

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From this reading FROM THE PEN OF LIEUT.-COL.

getting

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guns

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From this reading We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.

had

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From this reading We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.

haughty

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From this reading It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin-grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.—Not getting it, he privately withdrew his haughty spirit from such low company, bought a second-hand pocket-pistol, folded up some sandwiches in a paper bag, made a bottle of Spanish liquorice-water, and entered on a career of valour.

have

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

he

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From this reading We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.

hero

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From this reading It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin-grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.—Not getting it, he privately withdrew his haughty spirit from such low company, bought a second-hand pocket-pistol, folded up some sandwiches in a paper bag, made a bottle of Spanish liquorice-water, and entered on a career of valour.

him

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From this reading We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.

himself

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

his

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From this reading We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.

honour

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From this reading We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.

hundred

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From this reading We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.

in

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From this reading We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.

It

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From this reading It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin-grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.—Not getting it, he privately withdrew his haughty spirit from such low company, bought a second-hand pocket-pistol, folded up some sandwiches in a paper bag, made a bottle of Spanish liquorice-water, and entered on a career of valour.

Latin-grammar

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From this reading It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin-grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.—Not getting it, he privately withdrew his haughty spirit from such low company, bought a second-hand pocket-pistol, folded up some sandwiches in a paper bag, made a bottle of Spanish liquorice-water, and entered on a career of valour.

LIEUT

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From this reading FROM THE PEN OF LIEUT.-COL.

liquorice-water

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loaded

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From this reading We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.

low

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From this reading It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin-grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.—Not getting it, he privately withdrew his haughty spirit from such low company, bought a second-hand pocket-pistol, folded up some sandwiches in a paper bag, made a bottle of Spanish liquorice-water, and entered on a career of valour.

made

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From this reading It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin-grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.—Not getting it, he privately withdrew his haughty spirit from such low company, bought a second-hand pocket-pistol, folded up some sandwiches in a paper bag, made a bottle of Spanish liquorice-water, and entered on a career of valour.

man

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master

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muzzle

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From this reading We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.

narrative

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

Not

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OF

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From this reading FROM THE PEN OF LIEUT.-COL.

on

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From this reading It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin-grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.—Not getting it, he privately withdrew his haughty spirit from such low company, bought a second-hand pocket-pistol, folded up some sandwiches in a paper bag, made a bottle of Spanish liquorice-water, and entered on a career of valour.

one

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From this reading We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.

our

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

paper

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From this reading It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin-grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.—Not getting it, he privately withdrew his haughty spirit from such low company, bought a second-hand pocket-pistol, folded up some sandwiches in a paper bag, made a bottle of Spanish liquorice-water, and entered on a career of valour.

party

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From this reading We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.

PEN

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From this reading FROM THE PEN OF LIEUT.-COL.

pirate

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

pocket-pistol

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present

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

privately

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From this reading It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin-grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.—Not getting it, he privately withdrew his haughty spirit from such low company, bought a second-hand pocket-pistol, folded up some sandwiches in a paper bag, made a bottle of Spanish liquorice-water, and entered on a career of valour.

profession

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

REDFORTH

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

ROBIN

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

ROMANCE

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From this reading ROMANCE.

sandwiches

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satisfaction

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schooner

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second-hand

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seems

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some

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Spanish

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spirit

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From this reading It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin-grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.—Not getting it, he privately withdrew his haughty spirit from such low company, bought a second-hand pocket-pistol, folded up some sandwiches in a paper bag, made a bottle of Spanish liquorice-water, and entered on a career of valour.

spited

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splendid

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From this reading We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.

subject

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

such

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tenth

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From this reading We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.

that

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From this reading It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin-grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.—Not getting it, he privately withdrew his haughty spirit from such low company, bought a second-hand pocket-pistol, folded up some sandwiches in a paper bag, made a bottle of Spanish liquorice-water, and entered on a career of valour.

THE

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From this reading FROM THE PEN OF LIEUT.-COL.

to

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

up

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From this reading It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin-grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.—Not getting it, he privately withdrew his haughty spirit from such low company, bought a second-hand pocket-pistol, folded up some sandwiches in a paper bag, made a bottle of Spanish liquorice-water, and entered on a career of valour.

valour

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We

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From this reading We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.

withdrew

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From this reading It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin-grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.—Not getting it, he privately withdrew his haughty spirit from such low company, bought a second-hand pocket-pistol, folded up some sandwiches in a paper bag, made a bottle of Spanish liquorice-water, and entered on a career of valour.

would

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From this reading ROBIN REDFORTH {266} THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted himself to the pirate profession at a comparatively early age.

yet

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From this reading We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.

Chapter 3 of Holiday Romance by Charles Dickens holds 192 sentences, grouped into 39 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 3 of Holiday Romance contain?

Chapter 3 holds 192 sentences of Holiday Romance, unabridged, divided into 39 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 3 of Holiday Romance by Charles Dickens exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 192 sentences, grouped into 39 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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Can chapter 3 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 3 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.

Questions about reading Holiday Romance

Common questions about reading Holiday Romance by Charles Dickens on this page, its source edition and its audio.

Is this the complete text of Holiday Romance?

Yes. All 824 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #809 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

Which edition of Holiday Romance is used?

Project Gutenberg eBook #809, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Holiday Romance take to read?

About 68 minutes of reading across 165 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

How to read Holiday Romance section by section

How to work through Holiday Romance section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.

  1. Open a chapter

    Choose one of the 4 chapters of Holiday Romance to begin.

  2. Read one section

    Each section holds 5 sentences; read it once through.

  3. Listen and tap

    Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.

Vocabulary met early in Holiday Romance

Words and structures a reader meets early in Holiday Romance, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Beginning-part
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Holiday Romance; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Anybody
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Holiday Romance; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Believe
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Holiday Romance; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Comes
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Holiday Romance; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.