tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-Emma Jane Austen Volume I Chapter XVI

Emma-Jane Austen Volume I-Chapter 16 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng cvới 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 . | Emma Jane Austen Volume I Chapter XVI The hair was curled and the maid sent away and Emma sat down to think and be miserable. It was a wretched business indeed Such an overthrow of every thing she had been wishing for Such a development of every thing most unwelcome Such a blow for Harriet that was the worst of all. Every part of it brought pain and humiliation of some sort or other but compared with the evil to Harriet all was light and she would gladly have submitted to feel yet more mistaken more in error more disgraced by mis-judgment than she actually was could the effects of her blunders have been confined to herself. If I had not persuaded Harriet into liking the man I could have borne any thing. He might have doubled his presumption to me but poor Harriet How she could have been so deceived He protested that he had never thought seriously of Harriet never She looked back as well as she could but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea she supposed and made every thing bend to it. His manners however must have been unmarked wavering dubious or she could not have been so misled. The picture How eager he had been about the picture and the charade and an hundred other circumstances how clearly they had seemed to point at Harriet. To be sure the charade with its ready wit but then the soft eyes in fact it suited neither it was a jumble without taste or truth. Who could have seen through such thick-headed nonsense Certainly she had often especially of late thought his manners to herself unnecessarily gallant but it had passed as his way as a mere error of judgment of knowledge of taste as one proof among others that he had not always lived in the best society that with all the gentleness of his address true elegance was sometimes wanting but till this very day she had never for an instant suspected it to mean any thing but grateful respect to her as Harriet s friend. To Mr. John Knightley was she indebted for her first idea on the subject for the first .