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

Emma-Jane Austen Volume II-Chapter 2 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ 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 II Chapter II Jane Fairfax was an orphan the only child of Mrs. Bates s youngest daughter. The marriage of Lieut. Fairfax of the regiment of infantry and Miss Jane Bates had had its day of fame and pleasure hope and interest but nothing now remained of it save the melancholy remembrance of him dying in action abroad of his widow sinking under consumption and grief soon afterwards and this girl. By birth she belonged to Highbury and when at three years old on losing her mother she became the property the charge the consolation the fondling of her grandmother and aunt there had seemed every probability of her being permanently fixed there of her being taught only what very limited means could command and growing up with no advantages of connexion or improvement to be engrafted on what nature had given her in a pleasing person good understanding and warm-hearted well-meaning relations. But the compassionate feelings of a friend of her father gave a change to her destiny. This was Colonel Campbell who had very highly regarded Fairfax as an excellent officer and most deserving young man and farther had been indebted to him for such attentions during a severe camp-fever as he believed had saved his life. These were claims which he did not learn to overlook though some years passed away from the death of poor Fairfax before his own return to England put any thing in his power. When he did return he sought out the child and took notice of her. He was a married man with only one living child a girl about Jane s age and Jane became their guest paying them long visits and growing a favourite with all and before she was nine years old his daughter s great fondness for her and his own wish of being a real friend united to produce an offer from Colonel Campbell of undertaking the whole charge of her education. It was accepted and from that period Jane had belonged to Colonel Campbell s family and had lived with them entirely only visiting her grandmother