tailieunhanh - Ivanhoe -Sir Walter Scott -Chapter 24

Ivanhoe- Sir Walter Scott- Chapter 24 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott Chapter 24 I ll woo her as the lion woos his bride. Douglas While the scenes we have described were passing in other parts of the castle the Jewess Rebecca awaited her fate in a distant and sequestered turret. Hither she had been led by two of her disguised ravishers and on being thrust into the little cell she found herself in the presence of an old sibyl who kept murmuring to herself a Saxon rhyme as if to beat time to the revolving dance which her spindle was performing upon the floor. The hag raised her head as Rebecca entered and scowled at the fair Jewess with the malignant envy with which old age and ugliness when united with evil conditions are apt to look upon youth and beauty. Thou must up and away old house-cricket said one of the men our noble master commands it---Thou must e en leave this chamber to a fairer guest. Ay grumbled the hag even thus is service requited. I have known when my bare word would have cast the best man-at-arms among ye out of saddle and out of service and now must I up and away at the command of every groom such as thou. Good Dame Urfried said the other man stand not to reason on it but up and away. Lords hests must be listened to with a quick ear. Thou hast had thy day old dame but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old war-horse turned out on the barren heath thou hast had thy paces in thy time but now a broken amble is the best of them---Come amble off with thee. Ill omens dog ye both said the old woman and a kennel be your burying-place May the evil demon Zernebock tear me limb from limb if I leave my own cell ere I have spun out the hemp on my distaff Answer it to our lord then old housefiend said the man and retired leaving Rebecca in company with the old woman upon whose presence she had been thus unwillingly forced. What devil s deed have they now in the wind said the old hag murmuring to herself yet from time to time casting a sidelong and malignant glance at Rebecca but