tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-VANITY FAIR -WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY -CHAPTER 23

VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 23 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 23 Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass What is the secret mesmerism which friendship possesses and under the operation of which a person ordinarily sluggish or cold or timid becomes wise active and resolute in another s behalf As Alexis after a few passes from Dr. Elliotson despises pain reads with the back of his head sees miles off looks into next week and performs other wonders of which in his own private normal condition he is quite incapable so you see in the affairs of the world and under the magnetism of friendships the modest man becomes bold the shy confident the lazy active or the impetuous prudent and peaceful. What is it on the other hand that makes the lawyer eschew his own cause and call in his learned brother as an adviser And what causes the doctor when ailing to send for his rival and not sit down and examine his own tongue in the chimney Bass or write his own prescription at his study-table I throw out these queries for intelligent readers to answer who know at once how credulous we are and how sceptical how soft and how obstinate how firm for others and how diffident about ourselves meanwhile it is certain that our friend William Dobbin who was personally of so complying a disposition that if his parents had pressed him much it is probable he would have stepped down into the kitchen and married the cook and who to further his own interests would have found the most insuperable difficulty in walking across the street found himself as busy and eager in the conduct of George Osborne s affairs as the most selfish tactician could be in the pursuit of his own. Whilst our friend George and his young wife were enjoying the first blushing days of the honeymoon at Brighton honest William was left as George s plenipotentiary in London to transact all the business part of the marriage. His duty it was to call upon old Sedley and his wife and to keep the former in good humour to draw Jos and his .