tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-Pride and Prejudice -Jane Austen -Chapter 50

Pride and Prejudice- Chapter 50 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 | Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Chapter 50 Mr. Bennet had very often wished before this period of his life that instead of spending his whole income he had laid by an annual sum for the better provision of his children and of his wife if she survived him. He now wished it more than ever. Had he done his duty in that respect Lydia need not have been indebted to her uncle for whatever of honour or credit could now be purchased for her. The satisfaction of prevailing on one of the most worthless young men in Great Britain to be her husband might then have rested in its proper place. He was seriously concerned that a cause of so little advantage to anyone should be forwarded at the sole expense of his brother-in-law and he was determined if possible to find out the extent of his assistance and to discharge the obligation as soon as he could. When first Mr. Bennet had married economy was held to be perfectly useless for of course they were to have a son. The son was to join in cutting off the entail as soon as he should be of age and the widow and younger children would by that means be provided for. Five daughters successively entered the world but yet the son was to come and Mrs. Bennet for many years after Lydia s birth had been certain that he would. This event had at last been despaired of but it was then too late to be saving. Mrs. Bennet had no turn for economy and her husband s love of independence had alone prevented their exceeding their income. Five thousand pounds was settled by marriage articles on Mrs. Bennet and the children. But in what proportions it should be divided amongst the latter depended on the will of the parents. This was one point with regard to Lydia at least which was now to be settled and Mr. Bennet could have no hesitation in acceding to the proposal before him. In terms of grateful acknowledgment for the kindness of his brother though expressed most concisely he then delivered on paper his perfect approbation of all that was done and his