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The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance

Chapter XXXV · Chapter 35

Chapter 35 of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance is here in full — 89 sentences across 18 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Richard Le Gallienne • Curated US English Learning Edition

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SIX YEARS AFTER This book is like a woman's letter.

The most important part of it is the postscript.

Six years lie between the end of the last chapter and the beginning of this.

Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

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The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance Richard Le Gallienne

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Chapter XXXV

Chapter 35

Chapter 35 of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance is here in full — 89 sentences across 18 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

SIX YEARS AFTER This book is like a woman's letter. The most important part of it is the postscript. Six years lie between the end of the last chapter and the beginning of this. Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood. I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance

Chapter XXXV · Chapter 35

Chapter 35 of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance is here in full — 89 sentences across 18 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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

Line 1

SIX YEARS AFTER This book is like a woman's letter.

Line 2

The most important part of it is the postscript.

Line 3

Six years lie between the end of the last chapter and the beginning of this.

Line 4

Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

Line 5

I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

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a

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From this reading SIX YEARS AFTER This book is like a woman's letter.

about

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

AFTER

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From this reading SIX YEARS AFTER This book is like a woman's letter.

and

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From this reading Six years lie between the end of the last chapter and the beginning of this.

as

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From this reading I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

bachelorhood

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

back

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From this reading I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

beginning

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From this reading Six years lie between the end of the last chapter and the beginning of this.

being

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From this reading I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

between

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From this reading Six years lie between the end of the last chapter and the beginning of this.

book

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From this reading SIX YEARS AFTER This book is like a woman's letter.

can

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chambers

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

chapter

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From this reading Six years lie between the end of the last chapter and the beginning of this.

city

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clocks

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

come

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From this reading I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

comfortable

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

end

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From this reading Six years lie between the end of the last chapter and the beginning of this.

for

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From this reading I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

had

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

himself

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From this reading I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

I

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

important

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From this reading The most important part of it is the postscript.

Indian-summer

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From this reading I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

into

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

is

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From this reading SIX YEARS AFTER This book is like a woman's letter.

it

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From this reading The most important part of it is the postscript.

just

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From this reading I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

last

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From this reading Six years lie between the end of the last chapter and the beginning of this.

letter

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From this reading SIX YEARS AFTER This book is like a woman's letter.

lie

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From this reading Six years lie between the end of the last chapter and the beginning of this.

life

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

like

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From this reading SIX YEARS AFTER This book is like a woman's letter.

lived

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

lonely

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

long

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From this reading I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

look

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From this reading I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

man

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

Meanwhile

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

more

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

most

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From this reading The most important part of it is the postscript.

moved

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

my

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From this reading I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

of

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From this reading The most important part of it is the postscript.

on

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From this reading I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

part

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From this reading The most important part of it is the postscript.

pilgrimage

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From this reading I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

postscript

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From this reading The most important part of it is the postscript.

reader

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From this reading I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

reckon

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From this reading I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

sinking

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

SIX

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From this reading SIX YEARS AFTER This book is like a woman's letter.

sloth

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

sociable

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

sort

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From this reading I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

sound

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

The

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From this reading The most important part of it is the postscript.

thirty-seven

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From this reading I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

This

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From this reading SIX YEARS AFTER This book is like a woman's letter.

to

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

town

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

upon

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From this reading I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

within

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From this reading Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.

woman's

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From this reading SIX YEARS AFTER This book is like a woman's letter.

YEARS

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From this reading SIX YEARS AFTER This book is like a woman's letter.

youth

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From this reading I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven.

Chapter 35 of The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance by Richard Le Gallienne holds 89 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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