tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-Oliver Twist -Charles Dickens -CHAPTER 4

Oliver Twist-CHAPTER IV Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ dành cho trẻ em nổi tiếng của nhà văn Charles Dicken 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 | Oliver Twist Charles Dickens CHAPTER IV OLIVER BEING OFFERED ANOTHER PLACE MAKES HIS FIRST ENTRY INTO PUBLIC LIFE In great families when an advantageous place cannot be obtained either in possession reversion remainder or expectancy for the young man who is growing up it is a very general custom to send him to sea. The board in imitation of so wise and salutary an example took counsel together on the expediency of shipping off Oliver Twist in some small trading vessel bound to a good unhealthy port. This suggested itself as the very best thing that could possibly be done with him the probability being that the skipper would flog him to death in a playful mood some day after dinner or would knock his brains out with an iron bar both pastimes being as is pretty generally known very favourite and common recreations among gentleman of that class. The more the case presented itself to the board in this point of view the more manifold the advantages of the step appeared so they came to the conclusion that the only way of providing for Oliver effectually was to send him to sea without delay. Mr. Bumble had been despatched to make various preliminary inquiries with the view of finding out some captain or other who wanted a cabin-boy without any friends and was returning to the workhouse to communicate the result of his mission when he encountered at the gate no less a person than Mr. Sowerberry the parochial undertaker. Mr. Sowerberry was a tall gaunt large-jointed man attired in a suit of threadbare black with darned cotton stockings of the same colour and shoes to answer. His features were not naturally intended to wear a smiling aspect but he was in general rather given to professional jocosity. His step was elastic and his face betokened inward pleasantry as he advanced to Mr. Bumble and shook him cordially by the hand. I have taken the measure of the two women that died last night Mr. Bumble said the undertaker. You ll make your fortune Mr. Sowerberry said the beadle

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