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The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

Chapter XX · Chapter 20

Chapter 20 of The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice is here in full — 227 sentences across 46 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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Shall I see you again?” she asked, as she held out her hand to take leave.
It is quite understood between us, I suppose, about the play?”
Francis recalled his extraordinary experience of that evening in the re-numbered room.
My stay in Venice is uncertain,” he replied.
If you have anything more to say about this dramatic venture of yours, it may be as well to say it now.
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The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

Chapter XX · Chapter 20

Chapter 20 of The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice is here in full — 227 sentences across 46 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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

Line 1
Shall I see you again?” she asked, as she held out her hand to take leave.
Line 2
It is quite understood between us, I suppose, about the play?”
Line 3
Francis recalled his extraordinary experience of that evening in the re-numbered room.
Line 4
My stay in Venice is uncertain,” he replied.
Line 5
If you have anything more to say about this dramatic venture of yours, it may be as well to say it now.

All words in this reading · 55

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about

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again

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anything

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as

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asked

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be

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between

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dramatic

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evening

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experience

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extraordinary

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Francis

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hand

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have

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he

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held

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her

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his

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I

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If

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in

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is

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It

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leave

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may

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more

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My

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now

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of

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out

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play

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quite

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re-numbered

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recalled

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replied

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room

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say

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see

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Shall

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she

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stay

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suppose

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take

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that

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the

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this

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to

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uncertain

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understood

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us

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Venice

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venture

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well

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you

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yours

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Chapter 20 of The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins holds 227 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 20 of The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice contain?

Chapter 20 holds 227 sentences of The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice, unabridged, divided into 46 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 20 of The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 227 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.

How do I study chapter 20 of The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice?

Work through the 46 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 46 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.

Can chapter 20 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 20 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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Project Gutenberg eBook #170, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 340 minutes of reading across 817 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

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Reputation
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Doctor
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Wybrow
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London
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