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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Chapter VII · Chapter 7

Chapter 7 of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is here in full — 91 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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An orchestra of yellow silk women and bald-headed men on an elevated stage near the centre of a great green-hued hall, played a popular waltz.

The place was crowded with people grouped about little tables.

A battalion of waiters slid among the throng, carrying trays of beer glasses and making change from the inexhaustible vaults of their trousers pockets.

Little boys, in the costumes of French chefs, paraded up and down the irregular aisles vending fancy cakes.

There was a low rumble of conversation and a subdued clinking of glasses.

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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Stephen Crane

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Chapter VII

Chapter 7

Chapter 7 of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is here in full — 91 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

An orchestra of yellow silk women and bald-headed men on an elevated stage near the centre of a great green-hued hall, played a popular waltz. The place was crowded with people grouped about little tables. A battalion of waiters slid among the throng, carrying trays of beer glasses and making change from the inexhaustible vaults of their trousers pockets. Little boys, in the costumes of French chefs, paraded up and down the irregular aisles vending fancy cakes. There was a low rumble of conversation and a subdued clinking of glasses.

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Chapter VII · Chapter 7

Chapter 7 of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is here in full — 91 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/18 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

An orchestra of yellow silk women and bald-headed men on an elevated stage near the centre of a great green-hued hall, played a popular waltz.

Line 2

The place was crowded with people grouped about little tables.

Line 3

A battalion of waiters slid among the throng, carrying trays of beer glasses and making change from the inexhaustible vaults of their trousers pockets.

Line 4

Little boys, in the costumes of French chefs, paraded up and down the irregular aisles vending fancy cakes.

Line 5

There was a low rumble of conversation and a subdued clinking of glasses.

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a

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about

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aisles

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among

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An

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and

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bald-headed

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battalion

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beer

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boys

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cakes

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carrying

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centre

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change

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chefs

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clinking

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conversation

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costumes

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crowded

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down

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elevated

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fancy

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French

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from

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glasses

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great

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green-hued

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grouped

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hall

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in

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inexhaustible

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irregular

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little

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low

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making

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men

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near

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of

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on

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From this reading An orchestra of yellow silk women and bald-headed men on an elevated stage near the centre of a great green-hued hall, played a popular waltz.

orchestra

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paraded

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people

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place

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played

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pockets

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popular

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From this reading An orchestra of yellow silk women and bald-headed men on an elevated stage near the centre of a great green-hued hall, played a popular waltz.

rumble

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silk

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slid

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stage

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subdued

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tables

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the

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their

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There

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throng

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trays

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trousers

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up

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vaults

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vending

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waiters

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waltz

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was

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with

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women

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yellow

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From this reading An orchestra of yellow silk women and bald-headed men on an elevated stage near the centre of a great green-hued hall, played a popular waltz.

Chapter 7 of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane holds 91 sentences, grouped into 19 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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