tailieunhanh - Camille ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS CHAPTER 16

Camille ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS CHAPTER 16 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 16 I might have told you of the beginning of this liaison in a few lines but I wanted you to see every step by which we came I to agree to whatever Marguerite wished Marguerite to be unable to live apart from me. It was the day after the evening when she came to see me that I sent her Manon Lescaut. From that time seeing that I could not change my mistress s life I changed my own. I wished above all not to leave myself time to think over the position I had accepted for in spite of myself it was a great distress to me. Thus my life generally so calm assumed all at once an appearance of noise and disorder. Never believe however disinterested the love of a kept woman may be that it will cost one nothing. Nothing is so expensive as their caprices flowers boxes at the theatre suppers days in the country which one can never refuse to one s mistress. As I have told you I had little money. My father was and still is receveur general at C. He has a great reputation there for loyalty thanks to which he was able to find the security which he needed in order to attain this position. It is worth forty thousand francs a year and during the ten years that he has had it he has paid off the security and put aside a dowry for my sister. My father is the most honourable man in the world. When my mother died she left six thousand francs a year which he divided between my sister and myself on the very day when he received his appointment then when I was twenty-one he added to this little income an annual allowance of five thousand francs assuring me that with eight thousand francs a year I might live very happily at Paris if in addition to this I would make a position for myself either in law or medicine. I came to Paris studied law was called to the bar and like many other young men put my diploma in my pocket and let myself drift as one so easily does in Paris. My expenses were very moderate only I used up my year s income in eight months and .