tailieunhanh - Night and Day Virginia Woolf Chapter 7

Night and Day Virginia Woolf 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 . | Night and Day Virginia Woolf Chapter 7 And little Augustus Pelham said to me It s the younger generation knocking at the door and I said to him Oh but the younger generation comes in without knocking Mr. Pelham. Such a feeble little joke wasn t it but down it went into his notebook all the same. Let us congratulate ourselves that we shall be in the grave before that work is published said Mr. Hilbery. The elderly couple were waiting for the dinner-bell to ring and for their daughter to come into the room. Their arm-chairs were drawn up on either side of the fire and each sat in the same slightly crouched position looking into the coals with the expressions of people who have had their share of experiences and wait rather passively for something to happen. Mr. Hilbery now gave all his attention to a piece of coal which had fallen out of the grate and to selecting a favorable position for it among the lumps that were burning already. Mrs. Hilbery watched him in silence and the smile changed on her lips as if her mind still played with the events of the afternoon. When Mr. Hilbery had accomplished his task he resumed his crouching position again and began to toy with the little green stone attached to his watch-chain. His deep oval-shaped eyes were fixed upon the flames but behind the superficial glaze seemed to brood an observant and whimsical spirit which kept the brown of the eye still unusually vivid. But a look of indolence the result of skepticism or of a taste too fastidious to be satisfied by the prizes and conclusions so easily within his grasp lent him an expression almost of melancholy. After sitting thus for a time he seemed to reach some point in his thinking which demonstrated its futility upon which he sighed and stretched his hand for a book lying on the table by his side. Directly the door opened he closed the book and the eyes of father and mother both rested on Katharine as she came towards them. The sight seemed at once to give them a motive which