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

Emma-Jane Austen Volume I-Chapter 17 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng 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 . | Emma Jane Austen Volume I Chapter XVII Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley were not detained long at Hartfield. The weather soon improved enough for those to move who must move and Mr. Woodhouse having as usual tried to persuade his daughter to stay behind with all her children was obliged to see the whole party set off and return to his lamentations over the destiny of poor Isabella which poor Isabella passing her life with those she doated on full of their merits blind to their faults and always innocently busy might have been a model of right feminine happiness. The evening of the very day on which they went brought a note from Mr. Elton to Mr. Woodhouse a long civil ceremonious note to say with Mr. Elton s best compliments that he was proposing to leave Highbury the following morning in his way to Bath where in compliance with the pressing entreaties of some friends he had engaged to spend a few weeks and very much regretted the impossibility he was under from various circumstances of weather and business of taking a personal leave of Mr. Woodhouse of whose friendly civilities he should ever retain a grateful sense and had Mr. Woodhouse any commands should be happy to attend to them. Emma was most agreeably surprized. Mr. Elton s absence just at this time was the very thing to be desired. She admired him for contriving it though not able to give him much credit for the manner in which it was announced. Resentment could not have been more plainly spoken than in a civility to her father from which she was so pointedly excluded. She had not even a share in his opening compliments. Her name was not mentioned and there was so striking a change in all this and such an ill-judged solemnity of leave-taking in his graceful acknowledgments as she thought at first could not escape her father s suspicion. It did however. Her father was quite taken up with the surprize of so sudden a journey and his fears that Mr. Elton might never get safely to the end of it and saw nothing .