tailieunhanh - THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 1 CHAPTER 14

THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 1 CHAPTER 14 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 . | THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 1 CHAPTER 14 Sarah was conservative. Worse she had crystallized at the end of her love-time with the coming of her first child. After that she was as set in her ways as plaster in a mold. Her mold was the prejudices and notions of her girlhood and the house she lived in. So habitual was she that any change in the customary round assumed the proportions of a revolution. Tom had gone through many of these revolutions three of them when he moved house. Then his stamina broke and he never moved house again. So it was that Saxon had held back the announcement of her approaching marriage until it was unavoidable. She expected a scene and she got it. A prizefighter a hoodlum a plug-ugly Sarah sneered after she had exhausted herself of all calamitous forecasts of her own future and the future of her children in the absence of Saxon s weekly four dollars and a half. I don t know what your mother d thought if she lived to see the day when you took up with a tough like Bill Roberts. Bill Why your mother was too refined to associate with a man that was called Bill. And all I can say is you can say good-bye to silk stockings and your three pair of shoes. It won t be long before you ll think yourself lucky to go sloppin around in Congress gaiters and cotton stockin s two pair for a quarter. Oh I m not afraid of Billy not being able to keep me in all kinds of shoes Saxon retorted with a proud toss of her head. You don t know what you re talkin about. Sarah paused to laugh in mirthless discordance. Watch for the babies to come. They come faster than wages raise these days. But we re not going to have any babies . that is at first. Not until after the furniture is all paid for anyway. Wise in your generation eh In my days girls were more modest than to know anything about disgraceful subjects. As babies Saxon queried with a touch of gentle malice. Yes as babies. The first I knew that babies were disgraceful. Why Sarah you with your five how .