tailieunhanh - luyện đọc tiếng anh qua các tác phẩm văn học- -THE LITTLE PRINCESS Chapter 5

THE LITTLE PRINCESS- công chúa nhỏ Chapter 5 Đây là câu truyện anh ngữ với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc ngoại ngữ này. | THE LITTLE PRINCESS Chapter 5 5. Becky Of course the greatest power Sara possessed and the one which gained her even more followers than her luxuries and the fact that she was the show pupil the power that Lavinia and certain other girls were most envious of and at the same time most fascinated by in spite of themselves was her power of telling stories and of making everything she talked about seem like a story whether it was one or not. Anyone who has been at school with a teller of stories knows what the wonder means--how he or she is followed about and besought in a whisper to relate romances how groups gather round and hang on the outskirts of the favored party in the hope of being allowed to join in and listen. Sara not only could tell stories but she adored telling them. When she sat or stood in the midst of a circle and began to invent wonderful things her green eyes grew big and shining her cheeks flushed and without knowing that she was doing it she began to act and made what she told lovely or alarming by the raising or dropping of her voice the bend and sway of her slim body and the dramatic movement of her hands. She forgot that she was talking to listening children she saw and lived with the fairy folk or the kings and queens and beautiful ladies whose adventures she was narrating. Sometimes when she had finished her story she was quite out of breath with excitement and would lay her hand on her thin little quick-rising chest and half laugh as if at herself. When I am telling it she would say it doesn t seem as if it was only made up. It seems more real than you are--more real than the schoolroom. I feel as if I were all the people in the story--one after the other. It is queer. She had been at Miss Minchin s school about two years when one foggy winter s afternoon as she was getting out of her carriage comfortably wrapped up in her warmest velvets and furs and looking very much grander than she knew she caught sight as she crossed the pavement of a .