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LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC – THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 19

THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 19 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 19 The Shadow of Fouquet D Artagnan still confused and oppressed by the conversation he had just had with the King asked himself if he were really in possession of his senses if the scene had occurred at Vaux if he d Artagnan were really the captain of the Musketeers and Fouquet the owner of the château in which Louis XIV was at that moment partaking of his hospitality. These reflections were not those of a drunken man although everything was in prodigal profusion at Vaux and the superintendent s wines had met with a distinguished reception at the fête. The Gascon however was a man of calm self-possession and when he touched his steel blade he was able to assume figuratively the coolness of that steel for his great occasions. Well he said as he quitted the royal apartment I seem now to be mixed up historically with the destinies of the King and of the minister it will be written that M. d Artagnan a younger son of a Gascon family placed his hand on the shoulder of M. Nicholas Fouquet the superintendent of the finances of France. My descendants if I have any will flatter themselves with the distinction which this arrest will confer just as the members of the De Luynes family have done with regard to the estates of the poor Marechal d Ancre. But now the thing to be done is to execute the King s directions in a proper manner. Any man would know how to say to M. Fouquet Your sword monsieur But it is not every one who would be able to take care of M. Fouquet without others knowing anything about it. How am I to manage then so that Monsieur the Superintendent may pass from the height of favor to the direst disgrace so that he may exchange Vaux for a dungeon so that after having been steeped to his lips as it were in all the perfumes and incense of Ahasuerus he may be transferred to the gallows of Haman - in other words of Enguerrand de Marigny And at this reflection d Artagnan s brow became clouded with perplexity. The .