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Miss Billy — Married
Miss Billy — Married

Chapter XXI · Chapter 21

Chapter 21 of Miss Billy — Married is here in full — 230 sentences across 46 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter • Curated US English Learning Edition

Chapter 21 of Miss Billy — Married by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter holds 230 sentences, grouped into 46 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 21 holds 230 sentences of Miss Billy — Married, unabridged, divided into 46 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 21 of Miss Billy — Married by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 230 sentences, grouped into 46 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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Bertram
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Arkwright did not call to see Alice Greggory for some days.
He did not want to see Alice now.
He told himself wearily that she could not help him fight this tiger skin that lay across his path, The very fact of her presence by his side would, indeed, incapacitate himself for fighting.
So he deliberately stayed away from the Annex until the day before he sailed for Germany.
Then he went out to say good-by.
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Miss Billy — Married

Chapter XXI · Chapter 21

Chapter 21 of Miss Billy — Married is here in full — 230 sentences across 46 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/46 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

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Arkwright did not call to see Alice Greggory for some days.
Line 2
He did not want to see Alice now.
Line 3
He told himself wearily that she could not help him fight this tiger skin that lay across his path, The very fact of her presence by his side would, indeed, incapacitate himself for fighting.
Line 4
So he deliberately stayed away from the Annex until the day before he sailed for Germany.
Line 5
Then he went out to say good-by.
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across

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Alice

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Annex

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Arkwright

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away

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before

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by

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call

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could

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day

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days

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From this reading Arkwright did not call to see Alice Greggory for some days.

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deliberately

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did

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fact

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fight

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fighting

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for

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from

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Germany

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good-by

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Greggory

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He

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help

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her

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him

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himself

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his

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incapacitate

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indeed

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lay

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not

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now

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From this reading He did not want to see Alice now.

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of

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out

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path

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presence

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sailed

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say

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see

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she

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side

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skin

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So

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From this reading So he deliberately stayed away from the Annex until the day before he sailed for Germany.

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some

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From this reading Arkwright did not call to see Alice Greggory for some days.

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stayed

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From this reading So he deliberately stayed away from the Annex until the day before he sailed for Germany.

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that

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The

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Then

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this

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tiger

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to

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From this reading Arkwright did not call to see Alice Greggory for some days.

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told

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until

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very

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want

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From this reading He did not want to see Alice now.

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wearily

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From this reading He told himself wearily that she could not help him fight this tiger skin that lay across his path, The very fact of her presence by his side would, indeed, incapacitate himself for fighting.

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went

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would

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From this reading He told himself wearily that she could not help him fight this tiger skin that lay across his path, The very fact of her presence by his side would, indeed, incapacitate himself for fighting.

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