tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –TEN YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 64

TEN YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 64 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 . | TEN YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 64 Madame s Four Chances. Anne of Austria had begged the young queen to pay her a visit. For some time past suffering most acutely and losing both her youth and beauty with that rapidity which signalizes the decline of women for whom life has been one long contest Anne of Austria had in addition to her physical sufferings to experience the bitterness of being no longer held in any esteem except as a surviving remembrance of the past amidst the youthful beauties wits and influential forces of her court. Her physician s opinions her mirror also grieved her far less than the inexorable warnings which the society of the courtiers afforded who like rats in a ship abandon the hold into which on the very next voyage the water will infallibly penetrate owing to the ravages of decay. Anne of Austria did not feel satisfied with the time her eldest son devoted to her. The king a good son more from affectation than from affection had at first been in the habit of passing an hour in the morning and one in the evening with his mother but since he had himself undertaken the conduct of state affairs the duration of the morning and evening s visit had been reduced by one half and then by degrees the morning visit had been suppressed altogether. They met at mass the evening visit was replaced by a meeting either at the king s assembly or at Madame s which the queen attended obligingly enough out of regard to her two sons. The result of this was that Madame gradually acquired an immense influence over the court which made her apartments the true royal place of meeting. This Anne of Austria perceived knowing herself to be very ill and condemned by her sufferings to frequent retirement she was distressed at the idea that the greater part of her future days and evenings would pass away solitary useless and in despondency. She recalled with terror the isolation in which Cardinal Richelieu had formerly left her those dreaded and insupportable .