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Vailima Letters Being Correspondence

Chapter XVII · Chapter 17

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_Sunday_, 29_th_ _May_.
HOW am I to overtake events?
On Wednesday, as soon as my mail was finished, I had a wild whirl to look forward to.
Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.
All next day we hung round Apia with our whole house-crowd in Sunday array, hoping for the mail steamer with a menagerie on board.
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Vailima Letters Being Correspondence

Chapter XVII · Chapter 17

Chapter 17 of Vailima Letters Being Correspondence is here in full — 230 sentences across 46 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/46 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
_Sunday_, 29_th_ _May_.
Line 2
HOW am I to overtake events?
Line 3
On Wednesday, as soon as my mail was finished, I had a wild whirl to look forward to.
Line 4
Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.
Line 5
All next day we hung round Apia with our whole house-crowd in Sunday array, hoping for the mail steamer with a menagerie on board.

All words in this reading · 61

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29

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From this reading _Sunday_, 29_th_ _May_.

a

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From this reading On Wednesday, as soon as my mail was finished, I had a wild whirl to look forward to.

after

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

All

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From this reading All next day we hung round Apia with our whole house-crowd in Sunday array, hoping for the mail steamer with a menagerie on board.

am

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From this reading HOW am I to overtake events?

and

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

Apia

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From this reading All next day we hung round Apia with our whole house-crowd in Sunday array, hoping for the mail steamer with a menagerie on board.

array

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From this reading All next day we hung round Apia with our whole house-crowd in Sunday array, hoping for the mail steamer with a menagerie on board.

as

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From this reading On Wednesday, as soon as my mail was finished, I had a wild whirl to look forward to.

Belle

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

board

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From this reading All next day we hung round Apia with our whole house-crowd in Sunday array, hoping for the mail steamer with a menagerie on board.

club

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

day

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From this reading All next day we hung round Apia with our whole house-crowd in Sunday array, hoping for the mail steamer with a menagerie on board.

dinner

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

events

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From this reading HOW am I to overtake events?

finished

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From this reading On Wednesday, as soon as my mail was finished, I had a wild whirl to look forward to.

for

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

forward

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From this reading On Wednesday, as soon as my mail was finished, I had a wild whirl to look forward to.

had

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From this reading On Wednesday, as soon as my mail was finished, I had a wild whirl to look forward to.

Haggard's

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

hoping

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From this reading All next day we hung round Apia with our whole house-crowd in Sunday array, hoping for the mail steamer with a menagerie on board.

horseback

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

hotel

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

house-crowd

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From this reading All next day we hung round Apia with our whole house-crowd in Sunday array, hoping for the mail steamer with a menagerie on board.

HOW

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From this reading HOW am I to overtake events?

hung

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From this reading All next day we hung round Apia with our whole house-crowd in Sunday array, hoping for the mail steamer with a menagerie on board.

I

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From this reading HOW am I to overtake events?

Immediately

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

in

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From this reading All next day we hung round Apia with our whole house-crowd in Sunday array, hoping for the mail steamer with a menagerie on board.

Lloyd

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

look

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From this reading On Wednesday, as soon as my mail was finished, I had a wild whirl to look forward to.

mail

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From this reading On Wednesday, as soon as my mail was finished, I had a wild whirl to look forward to.

May

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From this reading _Sunday_, 29_th_ _May_.

menagerie

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From this reading All next day we hung round Apia with our whole house-crowd in Sunday array, hoping for the mail steamer with a menagerie on board.

my

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From this reading On Wednesday, as soon as my mail was finished, I had a wild whirl to look forward to.

next

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From this reading All next day we hung round Apia with our whole house-crowd in Sunday array, hoping for the mail steamer with a menagerie on board.

On

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From this reading On Wednesday, as soon as my mail was finished, I had a wild whirl to look forward to.

our

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From this reading All next day we hung round Apia with our whole house-crowd in Sunday array, hoping for the mail steamer with a menagerie on board.

out

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

overtake

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From this reading HOW am I to overtake events?

ready

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

round

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From this reading All next day we hung round Apia with our whole house-crowd in Sunday array, hoping for the mail steamer with a menagerie on board.

set

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

soon

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From this reading On Wednesday, as soon as my mail was finished, I had a wild whirl to look forward to.

steamer

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From this reading All next day we hung round Apia with our whole house-crowd in Sunday array, hoping for the mail steamer with a menagerie on board.

Sunday

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From this reading _Sunday_, 29_th_ _May_.

supper

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

th

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From this reading _Sunday_, 29_th_ _May_.

the

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

them

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

thence

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

they

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

to

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From this reading HOW am I to overtake events?

was

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From this reading On Wednesday, as soon as my mail was finished, I had a wild whirl to look forward to.

we

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From this reading All next day we hung round Apia with our whole house-crowd in Sunday array, hoping for the mail steamer with a menagerie on board.

Wednesday

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From this reading On Wednesday, as soon as my mail was finished, I had a wild whirl to look forward to.

where

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From this reading Immediately after dinner, Belle, Lloyd and I, set out on horseback, they to the club, I to Haggard’s, thence to the hotel where I had supper ready for them.

whirl

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From this reading On Wednesday, as soon as my mail was finished, I had a wild whirl to look forward to.

whole

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From this reading All next day we hung round Apia with our whole house-crowd in Sunday array, hoping for the mail steamer with a menagerie on board.

wild

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From this reading On Wednesday, as soon as my mail was finished, I had a wild whirl to look forward to.

with

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From this reading All next day we hung round Apia with our whole house-crowd in Sunday array, hoping for the mail steamer with a menagerie on board.

Chapter 17 of Vailima Letters Being Correspondence by Robert Louis Stevenson holds 230 sentences, grouped into 46 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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Chapter 17 holds 230 sentences of Vailima Letters Being Correspondence, unabridged, divided into 46 reading sections.

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