tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY- Georgia's Ruling

SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY Georgia's Ruling Đây là một serries truyện ngắn 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 | SHORT STORY BY O HENRY Georgia s Ruling If you should chance to visit the General Land Office step into the draughtsmen s room and ask to be shown the map of Salado County. A leisurely German -- pos- sibly old Kampfer himself -- will bring it to you. It will be four feet square on heavy drawing-cloth. The lettering and the figures will be beautifully clear and distinct. The title will be in splendid undecipherable German text ornamented with classic Teutonic designs -very likely Ceres or Pomona leaning against the initial letters with cornucopias venting grapes and wieners. You must tell him that this is not the map you wish to see that he will kindly bring you its official predecessor. He will then say Ach so and bring out a map half the size of the first dim old tattered and faded. By looking carefully near its northwest corner you will presently come upon the worn contours of Chiquito River and maybe if your eyes are good discern the silent witness to this story. The Commissioner of the Land Office was of the old style his antique courtesy was too formal for his day. He dressed in fine black and there was a suggestion of Roman drapery in his long coat-skirts. His collars were undetached blame haberdashery for the word his tie was a narrow funereal strip tied in the same knot as were his shoe-strings. His gray hair was a trifle too long behind but he kept it smooth and orderly. His face was clean-shaven like the old statesmen s. Most people thought it a stern face but when its official expression was off a few had seen altogether a different countenance. Especially tender and gentle it had appeared to those who were about him during the last illness of his only child. The Commissioner had been a widower for years and his life outside his official duties had been so devoted to little Georgia that people spoke of it as a touching and admirable thing. He was a reserved man and dignified almost to austerity but the child had come below it all and rested upon his very