tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-VANITY FAIR -WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY -CHAPTER 20

VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 20 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 20 In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen Without knowing how Captain William Dobbin found himself the great promoter arranger and manager of the match between George Osborne and Amelia. But for him it never would have taken place he could not but confess as much to himself and smiled rather bitterly as he thought that he of all men in the world should be the person upon whom the care of this marriage had fallen. But though indeed the conducting of this negotiation was about as painful a task as could be set to him yet when he had a duty to perform Captain Dobbin was accustomed to go through it without many words or much hesitation and having made up his mind completely that if Miss Sedley was balked of her husband she would die of the disappointment he was determined to use all his best endeavours to keep her alive. I forbear to enter into minute particulars of the interview between George and Amelia when the former was brought back to the feet or should we venture to say the arms of his young mistress by the intervention of his friend honest William. A much harder heart than George s would have melted at the sight of that sweet face so sadly ravaged by grief and despair and at the simple tender accents in which she told her little broken-hearted story but as she did not faint when her mother trembling brought Osborne to her and as she only gave relief to her overcharged grief by laying her head on her lover s shoulder and there weeping for a while the most tender copious and refreshing tears old Mrs. Sedley too greatly relieved thought it was best to leave the young persons to themselves and so quitted Emmy crying over George s hand and kissing it humbly as if he were her supreme chief and master and as if she were quite a guilty and unworthy person needing every favour and grace from him. This prostration and sweet unrepining obedience exquisitely touched and flattered George Osborne. He saw a .