tailieunhanh - Night and Day Virginia Woolf Chapter 4

Night and Day Virginia Woolf Chapter 4 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 . | Night and Day Virginia Woolf Chapter 4 At about nine o clock at night on every alternate Wednesday Miss Mary Datchet made the same resolve that she would never again lend her rooms for any purposes whatsoever. Being as they were rather large and conveniently situated in a street mostly dedicated to offices off the Strand people who wished to meet either for purposes of enjoyment or to discuss art or to reform the State had a way of suggesting that Mary had better be asked to lend them her rooms. She always met the request with the same frown of well-simulated annoyance which presently dissolved in a kind of half-humorous half- surly shrug as of a large dog tormented by children who shakes his ears. She would lend her room but only on condition that all the arrangements were made by her. This fortnightly meeting of a society for the free discussion of everything entailed a great deal of moving and pulling and ranging of furniture against the wall and placing of breakable and precious things in safe places. Miss Datchet was quite capable of lifting a kitchen table on her back if need were for although well-proportioned and dressed becomingly she had the appearance of unusual strength and determination. She was some twenty-five years of age but looked older because she earned or intended to earn her own living and had already lost the look of the irresponsible spectator and taken on that of the private in the army of workers. Her gestures seemed to have a certain purpose the muscles round eyes and lips were set rather firmly as though the senses had undergone some discipline and were held ready for a call on them. She had contracted two faint lines between her eyebrows not from anxiety but from thought and it was quite evident that all the feminine instincts of pleasing soothing and charming were crossed by others in no way peculiar to her sex. For the rest she was brown-eyed a little clumsy in movement and suggested country birth and a descent from respectable .