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The Moon and Sixpence

Chapter VI · Chapter 6

Chapter 6 of The Moon and Sixpence is here in full — 51 sentences across 11 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham • Curated US English Learning Edition

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“This is a terrible thing,” he said, the moment we got out into the street.

I realised that he had come away with me in order to discuss once more what he had been already discussing for hours with his sister-in-law.

“We don’t know who the woman is, you know,” he said.

“All we know is that the blackguard’s gone to Paris.”

“I thought they got on so well.”

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The Moon and Sixpence

Chapter VI · Chapter 6

Chapter 6 of The Moon and Sixpence is here in full — 51 sentences across 11 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/10 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

“This is a terrible thing,” he said, the moment we got out into the street.

Line 2

I realised that he had come away with me in order to discuss once more what he had been already discussing for hours with his sister-in-law.

Line 3

“We don’t know who the woman is, you know,” he said.

Line 4

“All we know is that the blackguard’s gone to Paris.”

Line 5

“I thought they got on so well.”

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a

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All

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already

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away

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been

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blackguard's

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come

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discuss

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discussing

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don't

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for

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gone

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got

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had

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he

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his

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hours

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I

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in

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into

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is

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know

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me

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moment

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more

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on

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once

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order

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out

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Paris

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realised

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said

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sister-in-law

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so

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street

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terrible

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that

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the

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they

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thing

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This

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thought

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to

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we

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well

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what

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who

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with

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woman

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you

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Chapter 6 of The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham holds 51 sentences, grouped into 11 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 Moon and Sixpence contain?

Chapter 6 holds 51 sentences of The Moon and Sixpence, unabridged, divided into 11 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 6 of The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 51 sentences, grouped into 11 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 Moon and Sixpence?

Work through the 11 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 11 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 6 be read aloud to me?

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 Moon and Sixpence?

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About 427 minutes of reading across 1026 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in The Moon and Sixpence

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

Confess: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Moon and Sixpence; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
First: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Moon and Sixpence; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Acquaintance: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Moon and Sixpence; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Charles: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Moon and Sixpence; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.