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The Haunted Bookshop

Chapter VI · Chapter 6

Chapter 6 of The Haunted Bookshop is here in full — 357 sentences across 72 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Christopher Morley • Curated US English Learning Edition

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Titania Learns the Business Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser.

It is only the very young who find satisfaction in lying abed in the morning.

Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

The bookseller's morning routine was brisk and habitual.

He was generally awakened about half-past seven by the jangling bell that balanced on a coiled spring at the foot of the stairs.

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LEARNER DICTIONARY

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A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.

Chapter VI Reading 1/71

The Haunted Bookshop

Chapter VI · Chapter 6

Chapter 6 of The Haunted Bookshop is here in full — 357 sentences across 72 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/71 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

Titania Learns the Business Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser.

Line 2

It is only the very young who find satisfaction in lying abed in the morning.

Line 3

Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

Line 4

The bookseller's morning routine was brisk and habitual.

Line 5

He was generally awakened about half-past seven by the jangling bell that balanced on a coiled spring at the foot of the stairs.

Learner Dictionary

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Taste verb US /teɪst/

To perceive flavor through the mouth.

From this reading “Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.”

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a

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From this reading Titania Learns the Business Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser.

abed

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From this reading It is only the very young who find satisfaction in lying abed in the morning.

about

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From this reading He was generally awakened about half-past seven by the jangling bell that balanced on a coiled spring at the foot of the stairs.

Although

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From this reading Titania Learns the Business Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser.

among

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From this reading Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

and

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From this reading Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

approach

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From this reading Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

are

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From this reading Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

at

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From this reading He was generally awakened about half-past seven by the jangling bell that balanced on a coiled spring at the foot of the stairs.

awakened

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From this reading He was generally awakened about half-past seven by the jangling bell that balanced on a coiled spring at the foot of the stairs.

aware

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From this reading Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

balanced

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From this reading He was generally awakened about half-past seven by the jangling bell that balanced on a coiled spring at the foot of the stairs.

bell

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From this reading He was generally awakened about half-past seven by the jangling bell that balanced on a coiled spring at the foot of the stairs.

blankets

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From this reading Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

bookseller's

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From this reading The bookseller's morning routine was brisk and habitual.

brisk

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From this reading The bookseller's morning routine was brisk and habitual.

Business

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From this reading Titania Learns the Business Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser.

by

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From this reading He was generally awakened about half-past seven by the jangling bell that balanced on a coiled spring at the foot of the stairs.

coiled

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From this reading He was generally awakened about half-past seven by the jangling bell that balanced on a coiled spring at the foot of the stairs.

decade

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From this reading Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

fifth

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From this reading Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

find

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From this reading It is only the very young who find satisfaction in lying abed in the morning.

fluency

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From this reading Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

foot

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From this reading He was generally awakened about half-past seven by the jangling bell that balanced on a coiled spring at the foot of the stairs.

generally

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From this reading He was generally awakened about half-past seven by the jangling bell that balanced on a coiled spring at the foot of the stairs.

habitual

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From this reading The bookseller's morning routine was brisk and habitual.

half-past

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From this reading He was generally awakened about half-past seven by the jangling bell that balanced on a coiled spring at the foot of the stairs.

have

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From this reading Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

he

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From this reading Titania Learns the Business Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser.

hours

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From this reading Titania Learns the Business Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser.

in

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From this reading It is only the very young who find satisfaction in lying abed in the morning.

is

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From this reading It is only the very young who find satisfaction in lying abed in the morning.

It

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From this reading It is only the very young who find satisfaction in lying abed in the morning.

jangling

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From this reading He was generally awakened about half-past seven by the jangling bell that balanced on a coiled spring at the foot of the stairs.

kept

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From this reading Titania Learns the Business Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser.

late

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From this reading Titania Learns the Business Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser.

Learns

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From this reading Titania Learns the Business Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser.

life

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From this reading Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

lying

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From this reading It is only the very young who find satisfaction in lying abed in the morning.

Mifflin

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From this reading Titania Learns the Business Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser.

morning

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From this reading It is only the very young who find satisfaction in lying abed in the morning.

no

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From this reading Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

of

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

on

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading He was generally awakened about half-past seven by the jangling bell that balanced on a coiled spring at the foot of the stairs.

only

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From this reading It is only the very young who find satisfaction in lying abed in the morning.

prompt

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From this reading Titania Learns the Business Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser.

riser

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From this reading Titania Learns the Business Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser.

Roger

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From this reading Titania Learns the Business Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser.

routine

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading The bookseller's morning routine was brisk and habitual.

satisfaction

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From this reading It is only the very young who find satisfaction in lying abed in the morning.

sensitively

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From this reading Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

seven

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From this reading He was generally awakened about half-past seven by the jangling bell that balanced on a coiled spring at the foot of the stairs.

spring

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From this reading He was generally awakened about half-past seven by the jangling bell that balanced on a coiled spring at the foot of the stairs.

squander

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From this reading Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

stairs

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading He was generally awakened about half-past seven by the jangling bell that balanced on a coiled spring at the foot of the stairs.

tasteverbUS /teɪst/

To perceive flavor through the mouth.

From this reading Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

term

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From this reading Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

that

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From this reading He was generally awakened about half-past seven by the jangling bell that balanced on a coiled spring at the foot of the stairs.

the

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From this reading Titania Learns the Business Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser.

Those

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From this reading Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

Titania

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From this reading Titania Learns the Business Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser.

to

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From this reading Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

very

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From this reading It is only the very young who find satisfaction in lying abed in the morning.

was

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From this reading Titania Learns the Business Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser.

who

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From this reading It is only the very young who find satisfaction in lying abed in the morning.

young

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From this reading It is only the very young who find satisfaction in lying abed in the morning.

Chapter 6 of The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley holds 357 sentences, grouped into 72 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 6 of The Haunted Bookshop contain?

Chapter 6 holds 357 sentences of The Haunted Bookshop, unabridged, divided into 72 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 6 of The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 357 sentences, grouped into 72 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.

How do I study chapter 6 of The Haunted Bookshop?

Work through the 72 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 72 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.

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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 6 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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Is this the complete text of The Haunted Bookshop?

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How long does The Haunted Bookshop take to read?

About 342 minutes of reading across 822 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in The Haunted Bookshop

Words and structures a reader meets early in The Haunted Bookshop, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Brooklyn: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Haunted Bookshop; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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