tailieunhanh - Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 50-p2

Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 50-p2 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 . | Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 50-p2 However I will speak to her I will get to the bottom of the whole affair. Pray tell Lady Cumnor that it has so fluttered me the way she spoke about my dress and all. And it only cost five guineas after all reduced from eight Well never mind now. You are looking very much flushed quite feverish I left you too long in mamma s hot room. But do you know she is so much pleased to have you here And so Lady Cumnor really was in spite of the continual lectures which she gave Clare and which poor Mrs Gibson turned under as helplessly as the typical worm. Still it was something to have a countess to scold her and that pleasure would endure when the worry was past. And then Lady Harriet petted her more than usual to make up for what she had to go through in the convalescent s room and Lady Cuxhaven talked sense to her with dashes of science and deep thought intermixed which was very flattering although generally unintelligible and Lord Cumnor good-natured good-tempered kind and liberal was full of gratitude to her for her kindness in coming to see Lady Cumnor and his gratitude took the tangible shape of a haunch of venison to say nothing of lesser game. When she looked back upon her visit as she drove home in the solitary grandeur of the Towers carriage there had been but one great enduring rub - Lady Cumnor s crossness - and she chose to consider Cynthia as the cause of that instead of seeing the truth which had been so often set before her by the members of her ladyship s family that it took its origin in her state of health. Mrs Gibson did not exactly mean to visit this one discomfort upon Cynthia nor did she quite mean to upbraid her daughter for conduct as yet unexplained and which might have some justification but finding her quietly sitting in the drawing-room she sate down despondingly in her own little easy chair and in reply to Cynthia s quick pleasant greeting of - Well mamma how are you We did not expect you so .