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The gods of Mars

Chapter XV · Chapter 15

Chapter 15 of The gods of Mars is here in full — 229 sentences across 46 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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THE EYES IN THE DARK My son!
I could not believe my ears.
Slowly I rose and faced the handsome youth.
Now that I looked at him closely I commenced to see why his face and personality had attracted me so strongly.
There was much of his mother’s incomparable beauty in his clear-cut features, but it was strongly masculine beauty, and his grey eyes and the expression of them were mine.
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Archivist
/ˈɑːrkɪvɪst/
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A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.

The gods of Mars

Chapter XV · Chapter 15

Chapter 15 of The gods of Mars is here in full — 229 sentences across 46 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/45 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
THE EYES IN THE DARK My son!
Line 2
I could not believe my ears.
Line 3
Slowly I rose and faced the handsome youth.
Line 4
Now that I looked at him closely I commenced to see why his face and personality had attracted me so strongly.
Line 5
There was much of his mother’s incomparable beauty in his clear-cut features, but it was strongly masculine beauty, and his grey eyes and the expression of them were mine.

All words in this reading · 52

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and

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From this reading Slowly I rose and faced the handsome youth.

at

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From this reading Now that I looked at him closely I commenced to see why his face and personality had attracted me so strongly.

attracted

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From this reading Now that I looked at him closely I commenced to see why his face and personality had attracted me so strongly.

beauty

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From this reading There was much of his mother’s incomparable beauty in his clear-cut features, but it was strongly masculine beauty, and his grey eyes and the expression of them were mine.

believe

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From this reading I could not believe my ears.

but

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From this reading There was much of his mother’s incomparable beauty in his clear-cut features, but it was strongly masculine beauty, and his grey eyes and the expression of them were mine.

clear-cut

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From this reading There was much of his mother’s incomparable beauty in his clear-cut features, but it was strongly masculine beauty, and his grey eyes and the expression of them were mine.

closely

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From this reading Now that I looked at him closely I commenced to see why his face and personality had attracted me so strongly.

commenced

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From this reading Now that I looked at him closely I commenced to see why his face and personality had attracted me so strongly.

could

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From this reading I could not believe my ears.

DARK

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From this reading THE EYES IN THE DARK My son!

ears

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From this reading I could not believe my ears.

expression

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From this reading There was much of his mother’s incomparable beauty in his clear-cut features, but it was strongly masculine beauty, and his grey eyes and the expression of them were mine.

EYES

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From this reading THE EYES IN THE DARK My son!

face

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From this reading Now that I looked at him closely I commenced to see why his face and personality had attracted me so strongly.

faced

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From this reading Slowly I rose and faced the handsome youth.

features

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From this reading There was much of his mother’s incomparable beauty in his clear-cut features, but it was strongly masculine beauty, and his grey eyes and the expression of them were mine.

grey

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From this reading There was much of his mother’s incomparable beauty in his clear-cut features, but it was strongly masculine beauty, and his grey eyes and the expression of them were mine.

had

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handsome

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From this reading Slowly I rose and faced the handsome youth.

him

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his

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I

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IN

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From this reading THE EYES IN THE DARK My son!

incomparable

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From this reading There was much of his mother’s incomparable beauty in his clear-cut features, but it was strongly masculine beauty, and his grey eyes and the expression of them were mine.

it

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From this reading There was much of his mother’s incomparable beauty in his clear-cut features, but it was strongly masculine beauty, and his grey eyes and the expression of them were mine.

looked

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From this reading Now that I looked at him closely I commenced to see why his face and personality had attracted me so strongly.

masculine

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From this reading There was much of his mother’s incomparable beauty in his clear-cut features, but it was strongly masculine beauty, and his grey eyes and the expression of them were mine.

me

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From this reading Now that I looked at him closely I commenced to see why his face and personality had attracted me so strongly.

mine

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From this reading There was much of his mother’s incomparable beauty in his clear-cut features, but it was strongly masculine beauty, and his grey eyes and the expression of them were mine.

mother's

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From this reading There was much of his mother’s incomparable beauty in his clear-cut features, but it was strongly masculine beauty, and his grey eyes and the expression of them were mine.

much

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From this reading There was much of his mother’s incomparable beauty in his clear-cut features, but it was strongly masculine beauty, and his grey eyes and the expression of them were mine.

My

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From this reading THE EYES IN THE DARK My son!

not

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From this reading I could not believe my ears.

Now

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From this reading Now that I looked at him closely I commenced to see why his face and personality had attracted me so strongly.

of

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From this reading There was much of his mother’s incomparable beauty in his clear-cut features, but it was strongly masculine beauty, and his grey eyes and the expression of them were mine.

personality

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From this reading Now that I looked at him closely I commenced to see why his face and personality had attracted me so strongly.

rose

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From this reading Slowly I rose and faced the handsome youth.

see

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From this reading Now that I looked at him closely I commenced to see why his face and personality had attracted me so strongly.

Slowly

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From this reading Slowly I rose and faced the handsome youth.

so

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From this reading Now that I looked at him closely I commenced to see why his face and personality had attracted me so strongly.

son

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From this reading THE EYES IN THE DARK My son!

strongly

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From this reading Now that I looked at him closely I commenced to see why his face and personality had attracted me so strongly.

that

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From this reading Now that I looked at him closely I commenced to see why his face and personality had attracted me so strongly.

THE

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From this reading THE EYES IN THE DARK My son!

them

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From this reading There was much of his mother’s incomparable beauty in his clear-cut features, but it was strongly masculine beauty, and his grey eyes and the expression of them were mine.

There

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From this reading There was much of his mother’s incomparable beauty in his clear-cut features, but it was strongly masculine beauty, and his grey eyes and the expression of them were mine.

to

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From this reading Now that I looked at him closely I commenced to see why his face and personality had attracted me so strongly.

was

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From this reading There was much of his mother’s incomparable beauty in his clear-cut features, but it was strongly masculine beauty, and his grey eyes and the expression of them were mine.

were

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From this reading There was much of his mother’s incomparable beauty in his clear-cut features, but it was strongly masculine beauty, and his grey eyes and the expression of them were mine.

why

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From this reading Now that I looked at him closely I commenced to see why his face and personality had attracted me so strongly.

youth

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From this reading Slowly I rose and faced the handsome youth.

Chapter 15 of The gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs holds 229 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.

What does chapter 15 of The gods of Mars contain?

Chapter 15 holds 229 sentences of The gods of Mars, unabridged, divided into 46 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 15 of The gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 229 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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Twelve
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Years
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Passed
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Since
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