tailieunhanh - VANITY FAIR -WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY -CHAPTER 62

VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 62 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 62 Am Rhein The above everyday events had occurred and a few weeks had passed when on one fine morning Parliament being over the summer advanced and all the good company in London about to quit that city for their annual tour in search of pleasure or health the Batavier steamboat left the Tower-stairs laden with a goodly company of English fugitives. The quarter-deck awnings were up and the benches and gangways crowded with scores of rosy children bustling nursemaids ladies in the prettiest pink bonnets and summer dresses gentlemen in travelling caps and linen-jackets whose mustachios had just begun to sprout for the ensuing tour and stout trim old veterans with starched neckcloths and neat-brushed hats such as have invaded Europe any time since the conclusion of the war and carry the national Goddem into every city of the Continent. The congregation of hatboxes and Bramah desks and dressing-cases was prodigious. There were jaunty young Cambridge-men travelling with their tutor and going for a reading excursion to Nonnenwerth or Konigswinter there were Irish gentlemen with the most dashing whiskers and jewellery talking about horses incessantly and prodigiously polite to the young ladies on board whom on the contrary the Cambridge lads and their pale-faced tutor avoided with maiden coyness there were old Pall Mall loungers bound for Ems and Wiesbaden and a course of waters to clear off the dinners of the season and a little roulette and trente-et-quarante to keep the excitement going there was old Methuselah who had married his young wife with Captain Papillon of the Guards holding her parasol and guide-books there was young May who was carrying off his bride on a pleasure tour Mrs. Winter that was and who had been at school with May s grandmother there was Sir John and my Lady with a dozen children and corresponding nursemaids and the great grandee Bareacres family that sat by themselves near the wheel stared at .