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The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance
The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance

Chapter VIII · Chapter 8

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AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.
So I was up and out of the town while as yet most of the inhabitants were in the throes of getting up.
Somewhere too SHE, the Golden One, the White Woman, was drowsily tossing the night-clothes from her limbs and rubbing her sleepy eyes.
William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."
Perhaps she was in the very town I was leaving behind.
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The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance

Chapter VIII · Chapter 8

Chapter 8 of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance is here in full — 86 sentences across 18 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/17 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

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AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.
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So I was up and out of the town while as yet most of the inhabitants were in the throes of getting up.
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Somewhere too SHE, the Golden One, the White Woman, was drowsily tossing the night-clothes from her limbs and rubbing her sleepy eyes.
Line 4
William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."
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Perhaps she was in the very town I was leaving behind.

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Mind noun US /maɪnd/

The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.

From this reading “William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."”

Waking adjective US /ˈweɪ.kɪŋ/

Risen from sleep; conscious.

From this reading “William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."”

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a

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

afoot

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

afraid

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

AGAIN

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

agree

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

all

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

am

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

and

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

arms

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

as

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From this reading So I was up and out of the town while as yet most of the inhabitants were in the throes of getting up.

BE

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

been

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

before

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

behind

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From this reading Perhaps she was in the very town I was leaving behind.

bent

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

came

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

CAN

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

day

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

diligent

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

doth

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

dreaming

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

drowsily

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From this reading Somewhere too SHE, the Golden One, the White Woman, was drowsily tossing the night-clothes from her limbs and rubbing her sleepy eyes.

early

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

earnest

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

eyes

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From this reading Somewhere too SHE, the Golden One, the White Woman, was drowsily tossing the night-clothes from her limbs and rubbing her sleepy eyes.

feeling

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

FOOT

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

for

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

Forgetting

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

from

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From this reading Somewhere too SHE, the Golden One, the White Woman, was drowsily tossing the night-clothes from her limbs and rubbing her sleepy eyes.

gently

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

getting

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From this reading So I was up and out of the town while as yet most of the inhabitants were in the throes of getting up.

GIRLS

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

Golden

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From this reading Somewhere too SHE, the Golden One, the White Woman, was drowsily tossing the night-clothes from her limbs and rubbing her sleepy eyes.

good

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

had

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

her

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From this reading Somewhere too SHE, the Golden One, the White Woman, was drowsily tossing the night-clothes from her limbs and rubbing her sleepy eyes.

I

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

in

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

inhabitants

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From this reading So I was up and out of the town while as yet most of the inhabitants were in the throes of getting up.

into

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

Is

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

leagues

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

leaving

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From this reading Perhaps she was in the very town I was leaving behind.

limbs

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From this reading Somewhere too SHE, the Golden One, the White Woman, was drowsily tossing the night-clothes from her limbs and rubbing her sleepy eyes.

love

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

lovely

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

me

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

midst

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

mindnounUS /maɪnd/

The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.

From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

MINE

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

moralising

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

morning

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

Morris's

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

most

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From this reading So I was up and out of the town while as yet most of the inhabitants were in the throes of getting up.

move

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

much

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

my

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

NEVER

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

Next

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

night-clothes

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From this reading Somewhere too SHE, the Golden One, the White Woman, was drowsily tossing the night-clothes from her limbs and rubbing her sleepy eyes.

not

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

of

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From this reading So I was up and out of the town while as yet most of the inhabitants were in the throes of getting up.

ON

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

One

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From this reading Somewhere too SHE, the Golden One, the White Woman, was drowsily tossing the night-clothes from her limbs and rubbing her sleepy eyes.

opinion

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

out

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From this reading So I was up and out of the town while as yet most of the inhabitants were in the throes of getting up.

perchance

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

Perhaps

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From this reading Perhaps she was in the very town I was leaving behind.

quest

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

reader

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

remorseful

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

right

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

rubbing

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From this reading Somewhere too SHE, the Golden One, the White Woman, was drowsily tossing the night-clothes from her limbs and rubbing her sleepy eyes.

sea

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

SHE

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From this reading Somewhere too SHE, the Golden One, the White Woman, was drowsily tossing the night-clothes from her limbs and rubbing her sleepy eyes.

sleepy

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From this reading Somewhere too SHE, the Golden One, the White Woman, was drowsily tossing the night-clothes from her limbs and rubbing her sleepy eyes.

So

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From this reading So I was up and out of the town while as yet most of the inhabitants were in the throes of getting up.

soft

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

Somewhere

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From this reading Somewhere too SHE, the Golden One, the White Woman, was drowsily tossing the night-clothes from her limbs and rubbing her sleepy eyes.

song

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

spent

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

stretch

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

sufficiently

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

THAT

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

THE

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

them

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

thousand

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

throes

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From this reading So I was up and out of the town while as yet most of the inhabitants were in the throes of getting up.

time

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

to

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

too

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

tossing

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From this reading Somewhere too SHE, the Golden One, the White Woman, was drowsily tossing the night-clothes from her limbs and rubbing her sleepy eyes.

town

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From this reading So I was up and out of the town while as yet most of the inhabitants were in the throes of getting up.

up

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From this reading So I was up and out of the town while as yet most of the inhabitants were in the throes of getting up.

very

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From this reading Perhaps she was in the very town I was leaving behind.

wakingadjectiveUS /ˈweɪ.kɪŋ/

Risen from sleep; conscious.

From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

was

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

were

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From this reading So I was up and out of the town while as yet most of the inhabitants were in the throes of getting up.

which

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

while

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From this reading So I was up and out of the town while as yet most of the inhabitants were in the throes of getting up.

White

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From this reading Somewhere too SHE, the Golden One, the White Woman, was drowsily tossing the night-clothes from her limbs and rubbing her sleepy eyes.

will

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From this reading AGAIN ON FOOT--THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE Next morning I was afoot early, bent on my quest in right good earnest; for I had a remorseful feeling that I had not been sufficiently diligent the day before, had spent too much time in dreaming and moralising, in which opinion I am afraid the reader will agree.

William

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From this reading William Morris's lovely song came into my mind,-- 'And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea."

Woman

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From this reading Somewhere too SHE, the Golden One, the White Woman, was drowsily tossing the night-clothes from her limbs and rubbing her sleepy eyes.

yet

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From this reading So I was up and out of the town while as yet most of the inhabitants were in the throes of getting up.

Chapter 8 of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance by Richard Le Gallienne holds 86 sentences, grouped into 18 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.

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House
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