tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC ANH NGỮ QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-THE THREE MUSKERTEERS ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 2

THE THREE MUSKERTEERS ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 2 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 THREE MUSKERTEERS ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 2 2. The Antechamber Of M. De Tréville M. de Troisville as his family was still called in Gascony or M. de Tréville as he has ended by styling himself in Paris had really commenced life as D Artagnan now did that is to say without a sou in his pocket but with a fund of audacity shrewdness and intelligence which makes the poorest Gascon gentleman often derive more in his hope from the paternal inheritance than the richest Perigordian or Berrichan gentleman derives in reality from his. His insolent bravery his still more insolent success at a time when blows poured down like hail had borne him to the top of that difficult ladder called Court Favor which he had climbed four steps at a time. He was the friend of the king who honored highly as everyone knows the memory of his father Henry IV. The father of M. de Tréville had served him so faithfully in his wars against the league that in default of money--a thing to which the Béarnais was accustomed all his life and who constantly paid his debts with that of which he never stood in need of borrowing that is to say with ready wit--in default of money we repeat he authorized him after the reduction of Paris to assume for his arms a golden lion passant upon gules with the motto Fidelis et fortis. This was a great matter in the way of honor but very little in the way of wealth so that when the illustrious companion of the great Henry died the only inheritance he was able to leave his son was his sword and his motto. Thanks to this double gift and the spotless name that accompanied it M. de Treville was admitted into the household of the young prince where he made such good use of his sword and was so faithful to his motto that Louis XIII one of the good blades of his kingdom was accustomed to say that if he had a friend who was about to fight he would advise him to choose as a second himself first and Treville next--or even perhaps before himself. Thus Louis XIII had a real .