tailieunhanh - THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 2 CHAPTER 10

THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 2 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 . | THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 2 CHAPTER 10 Billy could never get over the shock during that period of Saxon s appearance. Morning after morning and evening after evening when he came home from work he would enter the room where she lay and fight a royal battle to hide his feelings and make a show of cheerfulness and geniality. She looked so small lying there so small and shrunken and weary and yet so child-like in her smallness. Tenderly as he sat beside her he would take up her pale hand and stroke the slim transparent arm marveling at the smallness and delicacy of the bones. One of her first questions puzzling alike to Billy and Mary was Did they save little Emil Olsen And when she told them how he had attacked singlehanded the whole twenty-four fighting men Billy s face glowed with appreciation. The little cuss he said. That s the kind of a kid to be proud of. He halted awkwardly and his very evident fear that he had hurt her touched Saxon. She put her hand out to his. Billy she began then waited till Mary left the room. I never asked before--not that it matters . now. But I waited for you to tell me. Was it . He shook his head. No it was a girl. A perfect little girl. Only . it was too soon. She pressed his hand and almost it was she that sympathized with him in his affliction. I never told you Billy--you were so set on a boy but I planned just the same if it was a girl to call her Daisy. You remember that was my mother s name. He nodded his approbation. Say Saxon you know I did want a boy like the very dickens . well I don t care now. I think I m set just as hard on a girl an well here s hopin the next will be called . you wouldn t mind would you What If we called it the same name Daisy Oh Billy I was thinking the very same thing. Then his face grew stern as he went on. Only there ain t goin to be a next. I didn t know what havin children was like before. You can t run any more risks like that. Hear the big strong afraid-man talk she jeered with a .