tailieunhanh - Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 29-p2

Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 29-p2 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 . | Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 29-p2 Presently Osborne came upstairs and after his old fashion began to take up new books and to question the girls as to their music. Mrs Gibson had to go out and pay some calls so she left the three together and after a while they adjourned into the garden Osborne lounging on a chair while Molly employed herself busily in tying up carnations and Cynthia gathered flowers in her careless graceful way. I hope you notice the difference in our occupations Mr Hamley. Molly you see devotes herself to the useful and I to the ornamental. Please under what head do you class what you are doing I think you might help one of us instead of looking on like the Grand Seigneur. I don t know what I can do said he rather plaintively. I should like to be useful but I don t know how and my day is past for purely ornamental work. You must let me be I am afraid. Besides I am really rather exhausted by being questioned and pulled about by those good doctors. Why you don t mean to say they have been attacking you since lunch exclaimed Molly. Yes indeed they have and they might have gone on till now if Mrs Gibson had not come in opportunely. I thought mamma had gone out some time ago said Cynthia catching wafts of the conversation as she flitted hither and thither among the flowers. She came into the dining-room not five minutes ago. Do you want her for I see her crossing the hall at this very moment and Osborne half rose. Oh not at all said Cynthia. Only she seemed to be in such a hurry to go out I fancied she had set off long ago. She had some errand to do for Lady Cumnor and she thought she could manage to catch the housekeeper who is always in the town on Thursday. Are the family coming to the Towers this autumn I believe so. But I don t know and I don t much care. They don t take kindly to me continued Cynthia and so I suppose I am not generous enough to take kindly to them. I should have thought that such a very unusual blot in their .