tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –The Black Tulip ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 7

The Black Tulip ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 7 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 Black Tulip ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 7 7. The Happy Man makes Acquaintance with Misfortune Cornelius de Witt after having attended to his family affairs reached the house of his godson Cornelius van Baerle one evening in the month of January 1672. De Witt although being very little of a horticulturist or of an artist went over the whole mansion from the studio to the green-house inspecting everything from the pictures down to the tulips. He thanked his godson for having joined him on the deck of the admiral s ship The Seven Provinces during the battle of Southwold Bay and for having given his name to a magnificent tulip and whilst he thus with the kindness and affability of a father to a son visited Van Baerle s treasures the crowd gathered with curiosity and even respect before the door of the happy man. All this hubbub excited the attention of Boxtel who was just taking his meal by his fireside. He inquired what it meant and on being informed of the cause of all this stir climbed up to his post of observation where in spite of the cold he took his stand with the telescope to his eye. This telescope had not been of great service to him since the autumn of 1671. The tulips like true daughters of the East averse to cold do not abide in the open ground in winter. They need the shelter of the house the soft bed on the shelves and the congenial warmth of the stove. Van Baerle therefore passed the whole winter in his laboratory in the midst of his books and pictures. He went only rarely to the room where he kept his bulbs unless it were to allow some occasional rays of the sun to enter by opening one of the movable sashes of the glass front. On the evening of which we are speaking after the two Corneliuses had visited together all the apartments of the house whilst a train of domestics followed their steps De Witt said in a low voice to Van Baerle -- My dear son send these people away and let us be alone for some minutes. The younger Cornelius bowing assent said .