tailieunhanh - Camille ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS CHAPTER 4

Camille ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS CHAPTER 4 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 4 Two days after the sale was ended. It had produced 000 francs. The creditors divided among them two thirds and the family a sister and a grandnephew received the remainder. The sister opened her eyes very wide when the lawyer wrote to her that she had inherited 50 000 francs. The girl had not seen her sister for six or seven years and did not know what had become of her from the moment when she had disappeared from home. She came up to Paris in haste and great was the astonishment of those who had known Marguerite when they saw as her only heir a fine fat country girl who until then had never left her village. She had made the fortune at a single stroke without even knowing the source of that fortune. She went back I heard afterward to her countryside greatly saddened by her sister s death but with a sadness which was somewhat lightened by the investment at four and a half per cent which she had been able to make. All these circumstances often repeated in Paris the mother city of scandal had begun to be forgotten and I was even little by little forgetting the part I had taken in them when a new incident brought to my knowledge the whole of Marguerite s life and acquainted me with such pathetic details that I was taken with the idea of writing down the story which I now write. The rooms now emptied of all their furniture had been to let for three or four days when one morning there was a ring at my door. My servant or rather my porter who acted as my servant went to the door and brought me a card saying that the person who had given it to him wished to see me. I glanced at the card and there read these two words Armand Duval. I tried to think where I had seen the name and remembered the first leaf of the copy of Manon Lescaut. What could the person who had given the book to Marguerite want of me I gave orders to ask him in at once. I saw a young man blond tall pale dressed in a travelling suit which looked as if he had not