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VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 18 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 | VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 18 Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought Our surprised story now finds itself for a moment among very famous events and personages and hanging on to the skirts of history. When the eagles of Napoleon Bonaparte the Corsican upstart were flying from Provence where they had perched after a brief sojourn in Elba and from steeple to steeple until they reached the towers of Notre Dame I wonder whether the Imperial birds had any eye for a little corner of the parish of Bloomsbury London which you might have thought so quiet that even the whirring and flapping of those mighty wings would pass unobserved there Napoleon has landed at Cannes. Such news might create a panic at Vienna and cause Russia to drop his cards and take Prussia into a corner and Talleyrand and Metternich to wag their heads together while Prince Hardenberg and even the present Marquis of Londonderry were puzzled but how was this intelligence to affect a young lady in Russell Square before whose door the watchman sang the hours when she was asleep who if she strolled in the square was guarded there by the railings and the beadle who if she walked ever so short a distance to buy a ribbon in Southampton Row was followed by Black Sambo with an enormous cane who was always cared for dressed put to bed and watched over by ever so many guardian angels with and without wages Bon Dieu I say is it not hard that the fateful rush of the great Imperial struggle can t take place without affecting a poor little harmless girl of eighteen who is occupied in billing and cooing or working muslin collars in Russell Square You too kindly homely flower is the great roaring war tempest coming to sweep you down here although cowering under the shelter of Holborn Yes Napoleon is flinging his last stake and poor little Emmy Sedley s happiness forms somehow part of it. In the first place her father s fortune was swept down with that fatal news. All his speculations had of .