tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-JANE EYRE CHARLOTTE BRONTE Chapter 17-2

JANE EYRE CHARLOTTE BRONTE Chapter 17-2 Đây là một tác phẩm 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 | JANE EYRE CHARLOTTE BRONTE Chapter 17-2 Mrs. Colonel Dent was less showy but I thought more lady-like. She had a slight figure a pale gentle face and fair hair. Her black satin dress her scarf of rich foreign lace and her pearl ornaments pleased me better than the rainbow radiance of the titled dame. But the three most distinguished--partly perhaps because the tallest figures of the band--were the Dowager Lady Ingram and her daughters Blanche and Mary. They were all three of the loftiest stature of women. The Dowager might be between forty and fifty her shape was still fine her hair by candle-light at least still black her teeth too were still apparently perfect. Most people would have termed her a splendid woman of her age and so she was no doubt physically speaking but then there was an expression of almost insupportable haughtiness in her bearing and countenance. She had Roman features and a double chin disappearing into a throat like a pillar these features appeared to me not only inflated and darkened but even furrowed with pride and the chin was sustained by the same principle in a position of almost preternatural erectness. She had likewise a fierce and a hard eye it reminded me of Mrs. Reed s she mouthed her words in speaking her voice was deep its inflections very pompous very dogmatical --very intolerable in short. A crimson velvet robe and a shawl turban of some gold-wrought Indian fabric invested her I suppose she thought with a truly imperial dignity. Blanche and Mary were of equal stature --straight and tall as poplars. Mary was too slim for her height but Blanche was moulded like a Dian. I regarded her of course with special interest. First I wished to see whether her appearance accorded with Mrs. Fairfax s description secondly whether it at all resembled the fancy miniature I had painted of her and thirdly--it will out -- whether it were such as I should fancy likely to suit Mr. Rochester s taste. As far as person went she answered point for point .