tailieunhanh - Ivanhoe -Sir Walter Scott -Chapter 10

Ivanhoe- Sir Walter Scott -Chapter 10 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 10 Thus like the sad presaging raven that tolls The sick man s passport in her hollow beak And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings Vex d and tormented runs poor Barrabas With fatal curses towards these Christians. Jew of Malta The Disinherited Knight had no sooner reached his pavilion than squires and pages in abundance tendered their services to disarm him to bring fresh attire and to offer him the refreshment of the bath. Their zeal on this occasion was perhaps sharpened by curiosity since every one desired to know who the knight was that had gained so many laurels yet had refused even at the command of Prince John to lift his visor or to name his name. But their officious inquisitiveness was not gratified. The Disinherited Knight refused all other assistance save that of his own squire or rather yeoman---a clownish-looking man who wrapt in a cloak of dark-coloured felt and having his head and face half-buried in a Norman bonnet made of black fur seemed to affect the incognito as much as his master. All others being excluded from the tent this attendant relieved his master from the more burdensome parts of his armour and placed food and wine before him which the exertions of the day rendered very acceptable. The Knight had scarcely finished a hasty meal ere his menial announced to him that five men each leading a barbed steed desired to speak with him. The Disinherited Knight had exchanged his armour for the long robe usually worn by those of his condition which being furnished with a hood concealed the features when such was the pleasure of the wearer almost as completely as the visor of the helmet itself but the twilight which was now fast darkening would of itself have rendered a disguise unnecessary unless to persons to whom the face of an individual chanced to be particularly well known. The Disinherited Knight therefore stept boldly forth to the front of his tent and found in .