tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-Oliver Twist -Charles Dickens -CHAPTER 29

Oliver Twist-CHAPTER XXIX 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 XXIX HAS AN INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF THE INMATES OF THE HOUSE TO WHICH OLIVER RESORTED In a handsome room though its furniture had rather the air of old-fashioned comfort than of modern elegance there sat two ladies at a well-spread breakfast-table. Mr. Giles dressed with scrupulous care in a full suit of black was in attendance upon them. He had taken his station some half-way between the side-board and the breakfast-table and with his body drawn up to its full height his head thrown back and inclined the merest trifle on one side his left leg advanced and his right hand thrust into his waist-coat while his left hung down by his side grasping a waiter looked like one who laboured under a very agreeable sense of his own merits and importance. Of the two ladies one was well advanced in years but the high-backed oaken chair in which she sat was not more upright than she. Dressed with the utmost nicety and precision in a quaint mixture of by-gone costume with some slight concessions to the prevailing taste which rather served to point the old style pleasantly than to impair its effect she sat in a stately manner with her hands folded on the table before her. Her eyes and age had dimmed but little of their brightness were attentively upon her young companion. The younger lady was in the lovely bloom and spring-time of womanhood at that age when if ever angels be for God s good purposes enthroned in mortal forms they may be without impiety supposed to abide in such as hers. She was not past seventeen. Cast in so slight and exquisite a mould so mild and gentle so pure and beautiful that earth seemed not her element nor its rough creatures her fit companions. The very intelligence that shone in her deep blue eye and was stamped upon her noble head seemed scarcely of her age or of the world and yet the changing expression of sweetness and good humour the thousand lights that played about the face and left no shadow there above all the .