The Clever Woman of the Family
The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge is available here as the complete text, split into 1606 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #3292.
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The Clever Woman of the Family
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- Chapter I In Search of a Mission
- Chapter II Rachel’s Discipline
- Chapter III Mackarel Lane
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V Military Society
- Chapter VI Ermine’s Resolution
- Chapter VII Waitng for Rose
- Chapter VIII Woman’s Mission Discovered
- Chapter IX The New Sport
- Chapter X The Philanthropist
- Chapter XI Lady Temple’s Troubles
- Chapter XII A Change at the Parsonage
- Chapter XIII The Fox and the Crow
- Chapter XIV The Gowanbrae Ball
- Chapter XV Go and Bray
- Chapter XVI An Apparition
- Chapter XVII
- Chapter XVIII The Forlorn Hope
- Chapter XIX
- Chapter XX The Saracen’s Head
- Chapter XXI The Quarter Sessions
- Chapter XXII The After Clap
- Chapter XXIII Dear Alexander
- Chapter XXIV The Honeymoon
- Chapter XXV The Huntsford Croquet
- Chapter XXVI
- Chapter XXVII The Post Bag
- Chapter XXVIII Vanity of Vanities
- Chapter XXIX At Last
- Chapter XXX Who Is the Clever Woman?
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- Didst
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- Refuse
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- Daily
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- Round
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