tailieunhanh - Camille ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS CHAPTER 1

Camille ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS CHAPTER 1 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | Camille ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS CHAPTER 1 In my opinion it is impossible to create characters until one has spent a long time in studying men as it is impossible to speak a language until it has been seriously acquired. Not being old enough to invent I content myself with narrating and I beg the reader to assure himself of the truth of a story in which all the characters with the exception of the heroine are still alive. Eyewitnesses of the greater part of the facts which I have collected are to be found in Paris and I might call upon them to confirm me if my testimony is not enough. And thanks to a particular circumstance I alone can write these things for I alone am able to give the final details without which it would have been impossible to make the story at once interesting and complete. This is how these details came to my knowledge. On the 12th of March 1847 I saw in the Rue Lafitte a great yellow placard announcing a sale of furniture and curiosities. The sale was to take place on account of the death of the owner. The owner s name was not mentioned but the sale was to be held at 9 Rue d Antin on the 16th from 12 to 5. The placard further announced that the rooms and furniture could be seen on the 13th and 14th. I have always been very fond of curiosities and I made up my mind not to miss the occasion if not of buying some at all events of seeing them. Next day I called at 9 Rue d Antin. It was early in the day and yet there were already a number of visitors both men and women and the women though they were dressed in cashmere and velvet and had their carriages waiting for them at the door gazed with astonishment and admiration at the luxury which they saw before them. I was not long in discovering the reason of this astonishment and admiration for having begun to examine things a little carefully I discovered without difficulty that I was in the house of a kept woman. Now if there is one thing which women in society would like to see and there were society .