Chapter 19 of The Twilight of the Souls is here in full — 214 sentences across 43 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 19 of The Twilight of the Souls is here in full — 214 sentences across 43 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral. Constance went straight to her mother. "Oh, you mustn't leave me alone again so long!" Mrs. van Lowe complained. "I can't do without you for so long.
Chapter 19 of The Twilight of the Souls is here in full — 214 sentences across 43 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Having no one else present.
From this reading “"Oh, you mustn't leave me alone again so long!"”
past form of “complain” — express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
From this reading “Mrs. van Lowe complained.”
a lake in southeastern Germany on the northern side of the Swiss Alps; forms part of the Rhine River
From this reading “Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.”
a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated
From this reading “Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.”
past form of “return” — go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
From this reading “Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.”
successive (without a break)
From this reading “Constance went straight to her mother.”
any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
From this reading “Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.”
any period of seven consecutive days
From this reading “Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
In this reading “Constance went straight to her mother.”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.
later than; following
From this reading Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.
anew
From this reading "Oh, you mustn't leave me alone again so long!"
Having no one else present.
From this reading "Oh, you mustn't leave me alone again so long!"
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "I can't do without you for so long.
past form of “complain” — express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
From this reading Mrs. van Lowe complained.
a lake in southeastern Germany on the northern side of the Swiss Alps; forms part of the Rhine River
From this reading Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading "I can't do without you for so long.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading "I can't do without you for so long.
a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated
From this reading Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Constance went straight to her mother.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "I can't do without you for so long.
go away from a place
From this reading "Oh, you mustn't leave me alone again so long!"
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading "Oh, you mustn't leave me alone again so long!"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Mrs. van Lowe complained.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "Oh, you mustn't leave me alone again so long!"
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading Constance went straight to her mother.
a form of address for a married woman
From this reading Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Oh, you mustn't leave me alone again so long!"
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading "Oh, you mustn't leave me alone again so long!"
past form of “return” — go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
From this reading Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading "Oh, you mustn't leave me alone again so long!"
successive (without a break)
From this reading Constance went straight to her mother.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.
any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
From this reading Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.
any period of seven consecutive days
From this reading Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Constance and Henri returned to the Hague a week after Mrs. van der Welcke's funeral.
inflected form of “go” — change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading Constance went straight to her mother.
not having, not using, or not accompanied by
From this reading "I can't do without you for so long.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Oh, you mustn't leave me alone again so long!"
Chapter 19 of The Twilight of the Souls by Louis Couperus holds 214 sentences, grouped into 43 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, 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.
Chapter 19 holds 214 sentences of The Twilight of the Souls, unabridged, divided into 43 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 19 of The Twilight of the Souls by Louis Couperus exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 214 sentences, grouped into 43 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.
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