Shadowing Practice: Chapter 7 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Chapter 7 Changes at the Castle Wonderful things always happen quickly.
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Letters went to and from America and England, and soon Mr. Hobbs, Dick,
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and Dick's brother Ben were on a ship to England.
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Things happened quickly because Minna, and it was Minna, was a bad woman,
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and a stupid one too.
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When she married Bevis, the Earl's son, she was still Ben's wife,
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and you can't have two husbands.
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Her son Tom was eight years old,
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not five, so he was Ben's son, not Bevis's son.
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She was in a sitting room in the Dorincourt Hotel when the end came.
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The door opened, and in came three people—Mr.
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Havisham, a big young man, and the Earl of Dorincourt.
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Minna jumped to her feet with a cry.
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"'Do you know this woman?' Mr. Havisham said to the big young man.
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Yes, said Ben.
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I know her, and she knows me.
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And that was the end of Minna.
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She left the hotel, and nobody ever saw her again.
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Ben took his son Tom back to California with him, and with the Earl's help, he bought a little farm there.
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When the Earl left the hotel, he went at once to his carriage.
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To Court Lodge, he said to his servant.
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He came into the sitting room at Court Lodge, and found Cedric with his mother.
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The Earl looked taller and younger, and there was a smile in his black eyes.
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He looked at his grandson.
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So here, he said, is Lord Fauntleroy.
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Mrs. Errol stood up.
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Oh, is he truly Lord Fauntleroy? she asked.
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The Earl took her hand.
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Yes, he answered.
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He is.
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Then he put his other hand on Cedric's head.
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Fauntleroy, he said, ask your mother this.
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When is she coming to us at the castle?
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Lord Fauntleroy put his arms round his mother.
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To live with us, he cried.
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To live with us always.
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Mrs. Errol looked at the Earl with her sweet, sad eyes.
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We need you, the Earl said.
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We need you very much.
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Dick and Mr. Hobbs did not go back to America at once.
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The Earl had a talk with Dick, and Dick went back to school, in England this time.
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His writing got much better, and he began to study to be a lawyer.
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Mr. Hobbs liked England very much.
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In the end, he opened a new shop in Dorincourt, and was an important person in the village.
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People at the castle, of course, always went to his shop,
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and Cedric was in and out every day to see his old friend.
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Are you ever going back to America?" Dick asked Mr. Hobbs when he visited one day.
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I don't think so, Mr. Hobbs said.
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I like to be near the boy, you see.
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He's a fine little lord, young Cedric.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

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