tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-VANITY FAIR -WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY -CHAPTER 2

VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 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 | VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 2 In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign When Miss Sharp had performed the heroical act mentioned in the last chapter and had seen the Dixonary flying over the pavement of the little garden fall at length at the feet of the astonished Miss Jemima the young lady s countenance which had before worn an almost livid look of hatred assumed a smile that perhaps was scarcely more agreeable and she sank back in the carriage in an easy frame of mind saying So much for the Dixonary and thank God I m out of Chiswick. Miss Sedley was almost as flurried at the act of defiance as Miss Jemima had been for consider it was but one minute that she had left school and the impressions of six years are not got over in that space of time. Nay with some persons those awes and terrors of youth last for ever and ever. I know for instance an old gentleman of sixty-eight who said to me one morning at breakfast with a very agitated countenance I dreamed last night that I was flogged by Dr. Raine. Fancy had carried him back five-and-fifty years in the course of that evening. Dr. Raine and his rod were just as awful to him in his heart then at sixty-eight as they had been at thirteen. If the Doctor with a large birch had appeared bodily to him even at the age of threescore and eight and had said in awful voice Boy take down your pant Well well Miss Sedley was exceedingly alarmed at this act of insubordination. How could you do so Rebecca at last she said after a pause. Why do you think Miss Pinkerton will come out and order me back to the black-hole said Rebecca laughing. No but I hate the whole house continued Miss Sharp in a fury. I hope I may never set eyes on it again. I wish it were in the bottom of the Thames I do and if Miss Pinkerton were there I wouldn t pick her out that I wouldn t. O how I should like to see her floating in the water yonder turban and all with her train streaming after her and her nose like .