tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC ANH NGỮ QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-THE THREE MUSKERTEERS ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 14

THE THREE MUSKERTEERS ALEXANDRE DUMAS 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 THREE MUSKERTEERS ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 14 14. The Man Of Meung The crowd was caused not by the expectation of a man to be hanged but by the contemplation of a man who was hanged. The carriage which had been stopped for a minute resumed its way passed through the crowd threaded the Rue St. Honoré turned into the Rue des Bons Enfants and stopped before a low door. The door opened two guards received Bonacieux in their arms from the officer who supported him. They carried him through an alley up a flight of stairs and deposited him in an antechamber. All these movements had been effected mechanically as far as he was concerned. He had walked as one walks in a dream he had a glimpse of objects as through a fog. His ears had perceived sounds without comprehending them he might have been executed at that moment without his making a single gesture in his own defense or uttering a cry to implore mercy. He remained on the bench with his back leaning against the wall and his hands hanging down exactly on the spot where the guards placed him. On looking around him however as he could perceive no threatening object as nothing indicated that he ran any real danger as the bench was comfortably covered with a well-stuffed cushion as the wall was ornamented with a beautiful Cordova leather and as large red damask curtains fastened back by gold clasps floated before the window he perceived by degrees that his fear was exaggerated and he began to turn his head to the right and the left upward and downward. At this movement which nobody opposed he resumed a little courage and ventured to draw up one leg and then the other. At length with the help of his two hands he lifted himself from the bench and found himself on his feet. At this moment an officer with a pleasant face opened a door continued to exchange some words with a person in the next chamber and then came up to the prisoner. Is your name Bonacieux said he. Y es Monsieur Officer stammered the mercer more dead than .