tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC – THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 30

THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 30 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 30 The Inventory of M. de Beaufort To have talked of d Artagnan with Planchet to have seen Planchet quit Paris to bury himself in his country retreat had been for Athos and his son like a last farewell to the noise of the capital - to their life of former days. What in fact did these men leave behind them one of whom had exhausted the past age in glory and the other the present age in misfortune Evidently neither of them had anything to ask of his contemporaries. They had only to pay a visit to M. de Beaufort and arrange with him the particulars of the departure. The duke was lodged magnificently in Paris. He had one of those superb establishments pertaining to great fortunes which certain old men remembered to have seen flourish in the times of wasteful liberality in Henry III s reign. Then in fact several great nobles were richer than the King. They knew it they made use of their wealth and never deprived themselves of the pleasure of humiliating his royal Majesty when they had an opportunity. It was this egotistical aristocracy which Richelieu had constrained to contribute with its blood its purse and its duties to what was from his time styled the King s service. From Louis XI- that terrible mower down of the great- to Richelieu how many families had raised their heads How many from Richelieu to Louis XIV had bowed their heads never to raise them again But M. de Beaufort was born a Prince and of a blood which is not shed upon scaffolds unless by the decree of peoples. This Prince had kept up a grand style of living. How did he maintain his horses his people and his table Nobody knew - himself less than others. Only there were then privileges for the sons of kings to whom nobody refused to become a creditor whether from respect devotedness or a persuasion that they would some day be paid. Athos and Raoul found the mansion of the duke in as much confusion as that of Planchet. The duke likewise was making his .