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

Emma-Jane Austen Volume III-Chapter 12 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 III Chapter XII Till now that she was threatened with its loss Emma had never known how much of her happiness depended on being first with Mr. Knightley first in interest and affection. Satisfied that it was so and feeling it her due she had enjoyed it without reflection and only in the dread of being supplanted found how inexpressibly important it had been. Long very long she felt she had been first for having no female connexions of his own there had been only Isabella whose claims could be compared with hers and she had always known exactly how far he loved and esteemed Isabella. She had herself been first with him for many years past. She had not deserved it she had often been negligent or perverse slighting his advice or even wilfully opposing him insensible of half his merits and quarrelling with him because he would not acknowledge her false and insolent estimate of her own but still from family attachment and habit and thorough excellence of mind he had loved her and watched over her from a girl with an endeavour to improve her and an anxiety for her doing right which no other creature had at all shared. In spite of all her faults she knew she was dear to him might she not say very dear When the suggestions of hope however which must follow here presented themselves she could not presume to indulge them. Harriet Smith might think herself not unworthy of being peculiarly exclusively passionately loved by Mr. Knightley. She could not. She could not flatter herself with any idea of blindness in his attachment to her. She had received a very recent proof of its impartiality. How shocked had he been by her behaviour to Miss Bates How directly how strongly had he expressed himself to her on the subject Not too strongly for the offence but far far too strongly to issue from any feeling softer than upright justice and clear-sighted goodwill. She had no hope nothing to deserve the name of hope that he could have that sort of affection for .