tailieunhanh - A Prince of Sinners E. Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 1 CHAPTER 20

A Prince of Sinners E. Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 1 CHAPTER 20 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 . | A Prince of Sinners E Philips Oppenheim BOOK 1 CHAPTER 20 THE CONFIDENCE OF LORD ARRANMORE The servants had left the room and the doors were fast closed. Lord Arranmore sat a little forward in his high-backed chair one hand grasping the arm the other stretched flat upon the table before him. By his side neglected was a cedar-wood box of his favourite cigarettes. I am going he said thoughtfully to tell you a story of whom the hero is--myself. A poor sort of entertainment perhaps but then there is a little tragedy and a little comedy in what I have to tell. And you three are the three people in the world to whom certain things were better told. They bent forward fascinated by the cold directness of his speech by the suggestion of strange things to come. The mask of their late gaiety had fallen away. Lady Caroom grave and sad-eyed was listening with an anxiety wholly unconcealed. Under the shaded lamplight their faces dominated by that cold masterly figure at the head of the table were almost Rembrandtesque. You have heard a string of incoherent but sufficiently damaging accusations made against me to-day by a young lady whose very existence I may say was a surprise to me. It suited me then to deny them. Nevertheless they were in the main true. The announcement was no shock. Every one of the three curiously enough had believed the girl. I must go a little further back than the time of which she spoke. At twenty-six years old I was an idle young man of good family but scant expectations supposed to be studying at the Bar but in reality idling my time about town. In those days Lady Caroom you had some knowledge of me. Up to the time of your disappearance--yes. I remember Arranmore she continued her manner losing for a moment some of its restraint and her eyes and tone suddenly softening dancing with you that evening. We arranged to meet at Ranelagh the next day and when the next day came you had vanished gone as completely as though the earth had swallowed you up. For .