The Armourer's Prentices
The Armourer's Prentices by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge is available here as the complete text, split into 914 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Armourer's Prentices by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #9959.
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The Armourer's Prentices
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- Chapter I The Verdurer’s Lodge
- Chapter II The Grange of Silkstede
- Chapter III Kinsmen and Strangers
- Chapter IV A Hero’s Fall
- Chapter V The Dragon Court
- Chapter VI A Sunday in the City
- Chapter VII York House
- Chapter VIII Quipsome Hal
- Chapter IX Arms Spiritual and Temporal
- Chapter X Two Vocations
- Chapter XI Ay Di Me Grenada
- Chapter XII A King in a Quagmire
- Chapter XIII A London Holiday
- Chapter XIV
- Chapter XV Heave Half a Brick at Him
- Chapter XVI May Eve
- Chapter XVII Ill May Day
- Chapter XVIII Pardon
- Chapter XIX At the Antelope
- Chapter XX Cloth of Gold on the Seamy Side
- Chapter XXI Sword or Smithy
- Chapter XXII
- Chapter XXIII Unwelcome Preferment
- Chapter XXIV The Soldier
- Chapter XXV Old Haunts
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