How Long to Read One Man in a Million

How Long Does it Take to Read One Man in a Million?

It takes the average reader and 24 minutes to read One Man in a Million by Robert W. Chambers

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

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Do you desire me to marry him?” asked Miss Castle, quietly.“Let me finish,” said her uncle. “Jane,” he added, turning on his sister, “if you could avoid sneezing for a few moments, I should be indebted to you.”Miss Jane Garcide, a sallow lady of forty, who suffered with colds all winter and hay-fever all summer, meekly left the room.Miss Castle herself leaned on the piano, tearing the pink petals from a half-withered rose, while her guardian, the Hon. John Garcide, finished what he had to say and pulled out his cigar-case with decision.“I have only to add,” he said, “that James J. Crawford is one man in a million.”Her youthful adoration of Garcide had changed within a few years to a sweet-tempered indifference. He was aware of this; he was anxious to learn whether the change had also affected her inherited passion for truthfulness.“Do you remember a promise you once made?” he inquired, lighting his cigar with care.“Yes,” she said, calmly.“When was it?”“On my tenth birthday.”He looked out of the heavily curtained window.“Of course you could not be held to such a promise,” he remarked.“There is no need to hold me to it,” she answered, flushing up.Her delicate sense of honor amused him; he lay back in his arm-chair, enjoying his cigar.“It is curious,” he said, “that you cannot recall meeting Mr. Crawford last winter.”“A girl has an opportunity to forget hundreds of faces after her first season,” she said.There was another pause; then Garcide went on: “I am going to ask you to marry him.”Her face paled a trifle; she bent her head in acquiescence. Garcide smiled. It had always been that way with the Castles. Their word, once given, ended all matters. And now Garcide was gratified to learn the value of a promise made by a child of ten.“I wonder,” said Garcide, plaintively, “why you never open your heart to me, Hilda?”“I wonder, too,” she said; “my father did.”Garcide turned his flushed face to the window.Years before, when the firm of Garcide & Castle went to pieces, Peter Castle stood by the wreck to the end, patching it with his last dollar. But the wreck broke up, and he drifted piteously with the débris until a kindly current carried him into the last harbor of all—the port of human derelicts.Garcide, however, contrived to cling to some valuable flotsam and paddle into calm water, and anchor.After a few years he built a handsome house above Fiftieth Street; after a few more years he built a new wing for Saint Berold's Hospital; and after a few more years he did other things equally edifying, but which, if mentioned, might identify him.Church work had always interested him. As a speculation in moral obligation, he adopted Peter Castle's orphan, who turned to him in a passion of gratitude and blind devotion. And as she bade fair to rival her dead mother in beauty, and as rich men marry beauty when it is in the market, the Hon. John Garcide decided to control the child's future. A promise at ten years is quickly made, but he had never forgotten it, and she could not forget.

How long is One Man in a Million?

One Man in a Million by Robert W. Chambers is 24 pages long, and a total of 6,096 words.

This makes it 8% the length of the average book. It also has 7% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read One Man in a Million Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes and 33 minutes to read One Man in a Million aloud.

What Reading Level is One Man in a Million?

One Man in a Million is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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