tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC ANH NGỮ QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-THE THREE MUSKERTEERS ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 49

THE THREE MUSKERTEERS ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 49 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 49 49. Fatality Meantime Milady drunk with passion roaring on the deck like a lioness that has been embarked had been tempted to throw herself into the sea that she might regain the coast for she could not get rid of the thought that she had been insulted by D Artagnan threatened by Athos and that she had quit France without being revenged on them. This idea soon became so insupportable to her that at the risk of whatever terrible consequences might result to herself from it she implored the captain to put her on shore but the captain eager to escape from his false position-placed between French and English cruisers like the bat between the mice and the birds--was in great haste to regain England and positively refused to obey what he took for a woman s caprice promising his passenger who had been particularly recommended to him by the cardinal to land her if the sea and the French permitted him at one of the ports of Brittany either at Lorient or Brest. But the wind was contrary the sea bad they tacked and kept offshore. Nine days after leaving the Charente pale with fatigue and vexation Milady saw only the blue coasts of Finisterre appear. She calculated that to cross this corner of France and return to the cardinal it would take her at least three days. Add another day for landing and that would make four. Add these four to the nine others that would be thirteen days lost--thirteen days during which so many important events might pass in London. She reflected likewise that the cardinal would be furious at her return and consequently would be more disposed to listen to the complaints brought against her than to the accusations she brought against others. She allowed the vessel to pass Lorient and Brest without repeating her request to the captain who on his part took care not to remind her of it. Milady therefore continued her voyage and on the very day that Planchet embarked at Portsmouth for France the messenger of