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

Chapter XVIII · Chapter 18

Chapter 18 of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance is here in full — 68 sentences across 14 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.
Not without reason, for, like any really charming personality, she was very difficult to picture.
Paint a woman! as our young friend Alastor said.
Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.
Now the face of Nicolete, as I learnt in time to call her, was just soul and bloom, perhaps mainly bloom.
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The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance

Chapter XVIII · Chapter 18

Chapter 18 of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance is here in full — 68 sentences across 14 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/13 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.
Line 2
Not without reason, for, like any really charming personality, she was very difficult to picture.
Line 3
Paint a woman! as our young friend Alastor said.
Line 4
Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.
Line 5
Now the face of Nicolete, as I learnt in time to call her, was just soul and bloom, perhaps mainly bloom.

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a

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From this reading Paint a woman! as our young friend Alastor said.

Alastor

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From this reading Paint a woman! as our young friend Alastor said.

all

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

AND

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

angler

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

any

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

as

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From this reading Paint a woman! as our young friend Alastor said.

at

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

bloom

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

BOWER

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

But

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

call

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From this reading Now the face of Nicolete, as I learnt in time to call her, was just soul and bloom, perhaps mainly bloom.

can

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

change

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

changing

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

charming

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From this reading Not without reason, for, like any really charming personality, she was very difficult to picture.

consist

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

describe

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

descriptive

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

difficult

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From this reading Not without reason, for, like any really charming personality, she was very difficult to picture.

ebbs

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

effect

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

events

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

every

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

everything

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

face

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From this reading Now the face of Nicolete, as I learnt in time to call her, was just soul and bloom, perhaps mainly bloom.

Faces

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

fall

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

flows

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

for

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From this reading Not without reason, for, like any really charming personality, she was very difficult to picture.

formal

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

friend

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From this reading Paint a woman! as our young friend Alastor said.

have

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

HER

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

I

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

identify

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

IN

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

into

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

introduction

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

IS

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

just

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From this reading Now the face of Nicolete, as I learnt in time to call her, was just soul and bloom, perhaps mainly bloom.

know

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

label

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

lady

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

learnt

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From this reading Now the face of Nicolete, as I learnt in time to call her, was just soul and bloom, perhaps mainly bloom.

left

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

light

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

like

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From this reading Not without reason, for, like any really charming personality, she was very difficult to picture.

look

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

love

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

mainly

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

NICOLETE

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

Not

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From this reading Not without reason, for, like any really charming personality, she was very difficult to picture.

Now

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From this reading Now the face of Nicolete, as I learnt in time to call her, was just soul and bloom, perhaps mainly bloom.

OF

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

or

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

our

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From this reading Paint a woman! as our young friend Alastor said.

Paint

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From this reading Paint a woman! as our young friend Alastor said.

perhaps

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From this reading Now the face of Nicolete, as I learnt in time to call her, was just soul and bloom, perhaps mainly bloom.

personality

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From this reading Not without reason, for, like any really charming personality, she was very difficult to picture.

physical

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

picture

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From this reading Not without reason, for, like any really charming personality, she was very difficult to picture.

portray

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

reader

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

really

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From this reading Not without reason, for, like any really charming personality, she was very difficult to picture.

reason

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From this reading Not without reason, for, like any really charming personality, she was very difficult to picture.

said

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From this reading Paint a woman! as our young friend Alastor said.

she

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From this reading Not without reason, for, like any really charming personality, she was very difficult to picture.

soul

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

spiritual

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

such

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

T

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

that

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

THE

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

them

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

these

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

they

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

this

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

those

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

tide

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

time

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

to

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

types

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

upon

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

very

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From this reading Not without reason, for, like any really charming personality, she was very difficult to picture.

was

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From this reading Not without reason, for, like any really charming personality, she was very difficult to picture.

way

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

which

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

whimsical

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

WILDWOOD

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

with

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

without

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

woman

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From this reading Paint a woman! as our young friend Alastor said.

worship

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

you

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From this reading Faces that fall into types you can describe, or at all events label in such a way that the reader can identify them; but those faces that consist mainly of spiritual effect and physical bloom, that change with everything they look upon, the light in which ebbs and flows with every changing tide of the soul,--these you have to love to know, and to worship to portray.

young

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From this reading 'T IS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.

Chapter 18 of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance by Richard Le Gallienne holds 68 sentences, grouped into 14 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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How do I study chapter 18 of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance?

Work through the 14 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 14 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 18 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 18 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.

Questions about reading The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance

Common questions about reading The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance by Richard Le Gallienne on this page, its source edition and its audio.

Is this the complete text of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance?

Yes. All 2256 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #461 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

Which edition of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance is used?

Project Gutenberg eBook #461, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance take to read?

About 188 minutes of reading across 452 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

How to read The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance section by section

How to work through The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.

  1. Open a chapter

    Choose one of the 36 chapters of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance to begin.

  2. Read one section

    Each section holds 5 sentences; read it once through.

  3. Listen and tap

    Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.

Vocabulary met early in The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance

Words and structures a reader meets early in The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

House
A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Bachelor
A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Knell
A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Thirtieth
A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.