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The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the

Chapter XIII · Chapter 13

Chapter 13 of The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the is here in full — 273 sentences across 55 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.
It began, like nearly everything about that time, with treasure-seeking.
Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.
I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.
We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.
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Archivist
/ˈɑːrkɪvɪst/
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A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.

The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the

Chapter XIII · Chapter 13

Chapter 13 of The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the is here in full — 273 sentences across 55 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/54 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.
Line 2
It began, like nearly everything about that time, with treasure-seeking.
Line 3
Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.
Line 4
I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.
Line 5
We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

Learner Dictionary

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Mind noun US /maɪnd/

The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.

From this reading “We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.”

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a

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From this reading I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.

about

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From this reading The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.

afterwards

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From this reading I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.

Albert's

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From this reading We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

all

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From this reading Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.

and

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From this reading I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.

anything

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From this reading We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

are

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From this reading We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

as

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From this reading Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.

asked

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From this reading We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

at

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From this reading The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.

began

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From this reading The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.

best

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From this reading I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.

bravest

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From this reading I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.

business

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From this reading Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.

but

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From this reading The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.

chipping

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From this reading We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

comes

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From this reading The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.

consult

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From this reading Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.

course

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From this reading Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.

doing

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From this reading I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.

don't

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From this reading I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.

end

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From this reading The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.

even

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From this reading I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.

everything

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From this reading It began, like nearly everything about that time, with treasure-seeking.

Father

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From this reading Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.

gave

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From this reading Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.

glad

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From this reading We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

go

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From this reading Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.

going

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From this reading We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

grown-up

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From this reading I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.

had

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From this reading Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.

having

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From this reading I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.

he

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From this reading We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

him

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From this reading We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

his

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From this reading The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.

how

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From this reading The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.

I

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From this reading I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.

in

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From this reading We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

into

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From this reading Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.

is

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From this reading I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.

it

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From this reading The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.

knew

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From this reading The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.

know

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From this reading I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.

like

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From this reading It began, like nearly everything about that time, with treasure-seeking.

make

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From this reading I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.

matters

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From this reading Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.

mindnounUS /maɪnd/

The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.

From this reading We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

my

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From this reading Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.

nearly

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From this reading It began, like nearly everything about that time, with treasure-seeking.

never

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From this reading We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

nobleness

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From this reading The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.

not

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From this reading The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.

Of

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From this reading Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.

on

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From this reading We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

only

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From this reading The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.

part

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From this reading The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.

people

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From this reading I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.

promise

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From this reading We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

promised

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From this reading Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.

seems

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From this reading I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.

sometimes

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From this reading We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

soon

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From this reading Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.

that

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From this reading It began, like nearly everything about that time, with treasure-seeking.

The

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From this reading The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.

thing

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From this reading I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.

thing's

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From this reading We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

time

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From this reading It began, like nearly everything about that time, with treasure-seeking.

to

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From this reading Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.

treasure-seeking

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From this reading It began, like nearly everything about that time, with treasure-seeking.

uncle

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From this reading We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

understand

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From this reading The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.

unless

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From this reading The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.

up

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From this reading Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.

us

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From this reading We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

wanting

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From this reading Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.

we

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From this reading Of course as soon as we had promised to consult my Father about business matters we all gave up wanting to go into business.

when

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From this reading We don’t mind Albert’s uncle chipping in sometimes when the thing’s going on, but we are glad he never asked us to promise to consult him about anything.

with

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From this reading It began, like nearly everything about that time, with treasure-seeking.

worth

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From this reading I don’t know how it is, but having to consult about a thing with grown-up people, even the bravest and the best, seems to make the thing not worth doing afterwards.

would

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From this reading The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.

you

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From this reading The part about his nobleness only comes at the end, but you would not understand it unless you knew how it began.

Chapter 13 of The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the by E. (Edith) Nesbit holds 273 sentences, grouped into 55 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

What does chapter 13 of The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the contain?

Chapter 13 holds 273 sentences of The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the, unabridged, divided into 55 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 13 of The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the by E. (Edith) Nesbit exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 273 sentences, grouped into 55 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.

How do I study chapter 13 of The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the?

Work through the 55 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 55 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 13 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 13 can be played aloud in United States English.

Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #770, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 248 minutes of reading across 597 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the

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Story
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Different
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Looked
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Treasure
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