tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC – THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 15

THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 15 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 MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 15 Colbert History will tell us or rather history has told us of the various events of the following day - of the splendid fetes given by the superintendent to his sovereign. There was nothing but amusement and delight throughout the whole of the following day there was a promenade a banquet a comedy in which to his great amazement Porthos recognized M. Coquelin de Voliere as one of the actors in the piece called Les Facheux. Full of preoccupation after the scene of the previous evening and hardly recovered from the effects of the poison which Colbert had then administered to him the King during the whole of the day so brilliant in its effects so full of unexpected and startling novelties in which all the wonders of the Arabian Nights Entertainments seemed to be reproduced for his especial amusement -the King we say showed himself cold reserved and taciturn. Nothing could smooth the frowns upon his face every one who observed him noticed that a deep feeling of resentment of remote origin increased by slow degrees as the source becomes a river thanks to the thousand threads of water which increase its body was keenly alive in the depths of the King s heart. Towards the middle of the day only did he begin to resume a little serenity of manner by that time he had in all probability made up his mind. Aramis who followed him step by step in his thoughts as in his walk concluded that the event which he was expecting would soon occur. This time Colbert seemed to walk in concert with the Bishop of Vannes and had he received for every annoyance which he inflicted on the King a word of direction from Aramis he could not have done better. During the whole of the day the King who in all probability wished to free himself from some of the thoughts which disturbed his mind seemed to seek La Valliere s society as actively as he sought to avoid that of M. Colbert or M. Fouquet. The evening came. The King had expressed a wish not to