Chapter 30 of The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories is here in full — 2027 sentences across 406 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 30 of The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories is here in full — 2027 sentences across 406 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The fairy came, bringing again four of the gifts, but Death was wanting. She said: “I gave it to a mother's pet, a little child. It was ignorant, but trusted me, asking me to choose for it. You did not ask me to choose.”
Chapter 30 of The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories is here in full — 2027 sentences across 406 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/405 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
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From this reading “I gave it to a mother's pet, a little child.
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From this reading The fairy came, bringing again four of the gifts, but Death was wanting.
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From this reading You did not ask me to choose.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It was ignorant, but trusted me, asking me to choose for it.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The fairy came, bringing again four of the gifts, but Death was wanting.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The fairy came, bringing again four of the gifts, but Death was wanting.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The fairy came, bringing again four of the gifts, but Death was wanting.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I gave it to a mother's pet, a little child.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It was ignorant, but trusted me, asking me to choose for it.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The fairy came, bringing again four of the gifts, but Death was wanting.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading You did not ask me to choose.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The fairy came, bringing again four of the gifts, but Death was wanting.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It was ignorant, but trusted me, asking me to choose for it.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The fairy came, bringing again four of the gifts, but Death was wanting.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I gave it to a mother's pet, a little child.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The fairy came, bringing again four of the gifts, but Death was wanting.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I gave it to a mother's pet, a little child.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It was ignorant, but trusted me, asking me to choose for it.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I gave it to a mother's pet, a little child.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I gave it to a mother's pet, a little child.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It was ignorant, but trusted me, asking me to choose for it.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I gave it to a mother's pet, a little child.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading You did not ask me to choose.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The fairy came, bringing again four of the gifts, but Death was wanting.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I gave it to a mother's pet, a little child.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She said:
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She said:
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The fairy came, bringing again four of the gifts, but Death was wanting.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I gave it to a mother's pet, a little child.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It was ignorant, but trusted me, asking me to choose for it.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The fairy came, bringing again four of the gifts, but Death was wanting.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The fairy came, bringing again four of the gifts, but Death was wanting.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading You did not ask me to choose.”
Chapter 30 of The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories by Mark Twain holds 2027 sentences, grouped into 406 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.
Chapter 30 holds 2027 sentences of The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories, unabridged, divided into 406 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 30 of The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories by Mark Twain exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 2027 sentences, grouped into 406 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.
Work through the 406 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 406 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 30 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.
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