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The Price She Paid
The Price She Paid

Chapter XXIV · Chapter 24

Chapter 24 of The Price She Paid is here in full — 216 sentences across 44 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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"No, I didn't come for a lesson--at least not the usual kind," said she.
He was not one to yield without a struggle.
Also he wished to feel his way to the meaning of this new mood.
He put her music on the rack.
"We'll begin where we--" "This half-hour of your time is mine, is it not?" said she quietly.
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The Price She Paid

Chapter XXIV · Chapter 24

Chapter 24 of The Price She Paid is here in full — 216 sentences across 44 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/43 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
"No, I didn't come for a lesson--at least not the usual kind," said she.
Line 2
He was not one to yield without a struggle.
Line 3
Also he wished to feel his way to the meaning of this new mood.
Line 4
He put her music on the rack.
Line 5
"We'll begin where we--" "This half-hour of your time is mine, is it not?" said she quietly.

All words in this reading · 48

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a

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From this reading "No, I didn't come for a lesson--at least not the usual kind," said she.

Also

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From this reading Also he wished to feel his way to the meaning of this new mood.

at

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From this reading "No, I didn't come for a lesson--at least not the usual kind," said she.

begin

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From this reading "We'll begin where we--" "This half-hour of your time is mine, is it not?" said she quietly.

come

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From this reading "No, I didn't come for a lesson--at least not the usual kind," said she.

didn't

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From this reading "No, I didn't come for a lesson--at least not the usual kind," said she.

feel

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From this reading Also he wished to feel his way to the meaning of this new mood.

for

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From this reading "No, I didn't come for a lesson--at least not the usual kind," said she.

half-hour

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From this reading "We'll begin where we--" "This half-hour of your time is mine, is it not?" said she quietly.

He

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From this reading He was not one to yield without a struggle.

her

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From this reading He put her music on the rack.

his

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From this reading Also he wished to feel his way to the meaning of this new mood.

I

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From this reading "No, I didn't come for a lesson--at least not the usual kind," said she.

is

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From this reading "We'll begin where we--" "This half-hour of your time is mine, is it not?" said she quietly.

it

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From this reading "We'll begin where we--" "This half-hour of your time is mine, is it not?" said she quietly.

kind

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From this reading "No, I didn't come for a lesson--at least not the usual kind," said she.

least

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From this reading "No, I didn't come for a lesson--at least not the usual kind," said she.

lesson

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From this reading "No, I didn't come for a lesson--at least not the usual kind," said she.

meaning

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From this reading Also he wished to feel his way to the meaning of this new mood.

mine

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From this reading "We'll begin where we--" "This half-hour of your time is mine, is it not?" said she quietly.

mood

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From this reading Also he wished to feel his way to the meaning of this new mood.

music

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From this reading He put her music on the rack.

new

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From this reading Also he wished to feel his way to the meaning of this new mood.

No

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From this reading "No, I didn't come for a lesson--at least not the usual kind," said she.

not

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From this reading "No, I didn't come for a lesson--at least not the usual kind," said she.

of

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From this reading Also he wished to feel his way to the meaning of this new mood.

on

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From this reading He put her music on the rack.

one

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From this reading He was not one to yield without a struggle.

put

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From this reading He put her music on the rack.

quietly

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From this reading "We'll begin where we--" "This half-hour of your time is mine, is it not?" said she quietly.

rack

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From this reading He put her music on the rack.

said

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From this reading "No, I didn't come for a lesson--at least not the usual kind," said she.

she

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From this reading "No, I didn't come for a lesson--at least not the usual kind," said she.

struggle

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From this reading He was not one to yield without a struggle.

the

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From this reading "No, I didn't come for a lesson--at least not the usual kind," said she.

this

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From this reading Also he wished to feel his way to the meaning of this new mood.

time

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From this reading "We'll begin where we--" "This half-hour of your time is mine, is it not?" said she quietly.

to

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From this reading He was not one to yield without a struggle.

usual

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From this reading "No, I didn't come for a lesson--at least not the usual kind," said she.

was

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From this reading He was not one to yield without a struggle.

way

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From this reading Also he wished to feel his way to the meaning of this new mood.

we

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From this reading "We'll begin where we--" "This half-hour of your time is mine, is it not?" said she quietly.

We'll

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From this reading "We'll begin where we--" "This half-hour of your time is mine, is it not?" said she quietly.

where

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From this reading "We'll begin where we--" "This half-hour of your time is mine, is it not?" said she quietly.

wished

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From this reading Also he wished to feel his way to the meaning of this new mood.

without

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From this reading He was not one to yield without a struggle.

yield

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From this reading He was not one to yield without a struggle.

your

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From this reading "We'll begin where we--" "This half-hour of your time is mine, is it not?" said she quietly.

Chapter 24 of The Price She Paid by David Graham Phillips holds 216 sentences, grouped into 44 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 24 of The Price She Paid contain?

Chapter 24 holds 216 sentences of The Price She Paid, unabridged, divided into 44 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 24 of The Price She Paid by David Graham Phillips exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 216 sentences, grouped into 44 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 24 of The Price She Paid?

Work through the 44 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 44 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 24 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 24 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 Price She Paid?

Yes. All 7349 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #457 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #457, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does The Price She Paid take to read?

About 600 minutes of reading across 1470 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in The Price She Paid

Words and structures a reader meets early in The Price She Paid, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Henry
A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Price She Paid; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Gower
A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Price She Paid; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Sixty-one--the
A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Price She Paid; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Lifelong
A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Price She Paid; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.