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Chapter XXII
TILDY'S MESSAGE. Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night. Bo-peep was his own delightful self. His jokes were really too good for anything! She regarded him as the wittiest man of her acquaintance.
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any thing at all
From this reading “His jokes were really too good for anything!”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “His jokes were really too good for anything!”
not one thing; not anything
From this reading “Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.”
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From this reading She regarded him as the wittiest man of her acquaintance.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.
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From this reading Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.
any thing at all
From this reading His jokes were really too good for anything!
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading She regarded him as the wittiest man of her acquaintance.
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From this reading Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.
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From this reading Bo-peep was his own delightful self.
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From this reading Bo-peep was his own delightful self.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading His jokes were really too good for anything!
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading His jokes were really too good for anything!
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading She regarded him as the wittiest man of her acquaintance.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Bo-peep was his own delightful self.
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From this reading His jokes were really too good for anything!
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From this reading Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.
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From this reading Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.
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From this reading She regarded him as the wittiest man of her acquaintance.
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From this reading Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.
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From this reading TILDY'S MESSAGE.
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From this reading Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.
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From this reading Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.
not one thing; not anything
From this reading Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.
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From this reading Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading She regarded him as the wittiest man of her acquaintance.
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From this reading Bo-peep was his own delightful self.
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From this reading His jokes were really too good for anything!
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From this reading Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.
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From this reading She regarded him as the wittiest man of her acquaintance.
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From this reading Bo-peep was his own delightful self.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.
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From this reading Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.
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From this reading Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading She regarded him as the wittiest man of her acquaintance.
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From this reading TILDY'S MESSAGE.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.
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From this reading His jokes were really too good for anything!
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Bo-peep was his own delightful self.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading His jokes were really too good for anything!
in the company of; together with
From this reading Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night.
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From this reading She regarded him as the wittiest man of her acquaintance.
