tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –TEN YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 65

TEN YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 65 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 65 The Lottery. By eight o clock in the evening every one had assembled in the queenmother s apartments. Anne of Austria in full dress beautiful still from former loveliness and from all the resources coquetry can command at the hands of clever assistants concealed or rather pretended to conceal from the crowd of courtiers who surrounded her and who still admired her thanks to the combination of circumstances which we have indicated in the preceding chapter the ravages which were already visible of the acute suffering to which she finally yielded a few years later. Madame almost as great a coquette as Anne of Austria and the queen simple and natural as usual were seated beside her each contending for her good graces. The ladies of honor united in a body in order to resist with greater effect and consequently with more success the witty and lively conversations which the young men held about them were enabled like a battalion formed in a square to offer each other the means of attack and defense which were thus at their command. Montalais learned in that species of warfare which consists of sustained skirmishing protected the whole line by a sort of rolling fire she directed against the enemy. Saint-Aignan in utter despair at the rigor which became almost insulting from the very fact of her persisting in it Mademoiselle de Tonnay-Charente displayed tried to turn his back upon her but overcome by the irresistible brilliancy of her eyes he every moment returned to consecrate his defeat by new submissions to which Mademoiselle de Tonnay-Charente did not fail to reply by fresh acts of impertinence. Saint-Aignan did not know which way to turn. La Valliere had about her not exactly a court but sprinklings of courtiers. Saint-Aignan hoping by this maneuver to attract Athenais s attention towards him approached the young girl and saluted her with a respect that induced some to believe that he wished to balance Athenais by Louise. But