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LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-VANITY FAIR -WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY -CHAPTER 48

VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 48 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh | VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 48 In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company At last Becky s kindness and attention to the chief of her husband s family were destined to meet with an exceeding great reward a reward which though certainly somewhat unsubstantial the little woman coveted with greater eagerness than more positive benefits. If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue and we know that no lady in the genteel world can possess this desideratum until she has put on a train and feathers and has been presented to her Sovereign at Court. From that august interview they come out stamped as honest women. The Lord Chamberlain gives them a certificate of virtue. And as dubious goods or letters are passed through an oven at quarantine sprinkled with aromatic vinegar and then pronounced clean many a lady whose reputation would be doubtful otherwise and liable to give infection passes through the wholesome ordeal of the Royal presence and issues from it free from all taint. It might be very well for my Lady Bareacres my Lady Tufto Mrs. Bute Crawley in the country and other ladies who had come into contact with Mrs. Rawdon Crawley to cry fie at the idea of the odious little adventuress making her curtsey before the Sovereign and to declare that if dear good Queen Charlotte had been alive she never would have admitted such an extremely ill-regulated personage into her chaste drawing-room. But when we consider that it was the First Gentleman in Europe in whose high presence Mrs. Rawdon passed her examination and as it were took her degree in reputation it surely must be flat disloyalty to doubt any more about her virtue. I for my part look back with love and awe to that Great Character in history. Ah what a high and noble appreciation of Gentlewomanhood there must have been in Vanity Fair when that revered and august being was invested by the universal acclaim of the refined and .