How Long to Read The KEY NOTE, New Edition

How Long Does it Take to Read The KEY NOTE, New Edition?

It takes the average reader 2 hours to read The KEY NOTE, New Edition by Clara Louise Burnham

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The sea glittered in all directions. The grassy field, humpy with knolls and lumpy with gray rock, sloped down toward the near-by water. Bunches of savin and bay and groups of Christmas trees flourished in the fresh June air, and exhilarating balsamic odors assailed Miss Burridge's nostrils as she stood in the doorway viewing the landscape o'er and reflectively picking her teeth with a pin."It's an awful sightly place to fail in, anyway," she thought.Her one boarder came and stood beside her. She was a young woman with a creamy skin, regular features, dark, dreaming eyes, and a pleasant, slow smile."Are you gathering inspiration, Miss Burridge?" she asked, settling a white tam-o'-shanter on her smooth brown locks."I hope so, Miss Wilbur. I need it.""How could any one help it!" was Diana Wilbur's soft exclamation, as she took a deep breath and gazed at the illimitable be-diamonded blue.Priscilla Burridge turned her middle-aged gaze upon the enthusiasm of the twentieth year beside her."Do you know of any inspiration that would make me able to get the carpenter to come and jack up the saggin' corner of that piazza?" she asked. "Or get the plumber to mend the broken pipe in the kitchen?"Miss Wilbur's dreaming gaze came back to the bony figure in brown calico."It seems almost sacrilege, doesn't it," she said in a voice of awe, "to speak of carpenters and plumbers in a place like this? Such odors, such crystal beauty untouched by the desecrating hand of man."Miss Priscilla snorted. "If I don't get hold of the desecrating hand of man pretty soon, you'll be havin' a stream o' water come down on your bed, the first rain."The girl's attitude of adoration remained unchanged."I noticed that little rift," she said slowly. "As I lay in bed this morning, I looked up at a spot of sapphire that seemed like a day-star full of promise of this transcendent beauty."Miss Wilbur's pretty lips moved but little when she spoke and her slow utterance gave the effect of a recitation.Miss Priscilla, for all her harassment, could not forbear a smile."I'm certainly glad you're so easily pleased, but you don't know Casco Bay as well as I do, or that day-star would look powerful stormy to you. When it rains here, all other rains are mere imitations. It comes down from the sky and up from the ground, and the wind blows it east and west, and the porch furniture turns somersets out into the field, and windows and doors go back on you and give up the fight and let the water in everywhere, while the thunder rolls like the day o' judgment."The ardent light in the depths of the young girl's eyes glowed deeper."I should expect a storm here to be inexorably superb!" she declared.Miss Priscilla heaved a sigh, half dejection, half exasperation, and turned into the house."Drat that plumber!" she said. "I've only had a few days of it, but I'm sick of luggin' water in from that well.""Why, Miss Burridge," said her boarder solicitously, "I haven't fully realized-let me bring in a supply.""No, no, indeed, Miss Wilbur," exclaimed Miss Priscilla, as she moved through the living-room of the house into the kitchen, closely followed by Diana. "It ain't that I ain't able to do it, but it makes me darned mad when I know there's no need of it.""But I desire to, Miss Burridge," averred the young girl. "Any form of movement here cannot fail to be one of joy." She seized an empty bucket from the sink and went out the back door.Small groves of evergreen dotted the incline behind the house, and on the right hand soon became a wood-road of stately fir and spruce, which led to a sun-warmed grassy slope which, like every hill of the lovely isle, led down to the jagged rocks that fringed its irregular shore."My muscular strength is not excessive," panted Diana, struggling up to the back door with her heavy bucket. "I'll fill it only half-full next time."

How long is The KEY NOTE, New Edition?

The KEY NOTE, New Edition by Clara Louise Burnham is 120 pages long, and a total of 30,000 words.

This makes it 40% the length of the average book. It also has 37% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The KEY NOTE, New Edition Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 43 minutes to read The KEY NOTE, New Edition aloud.

What Reading Level is The KEY NOTE, New Edition?

The KEY NOTE, New Edition is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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