tailieunhanh - THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 37

THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 37 ,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 37 The Two Lighters D Artagnan had set off Fouquet likewise was gone and he with a rapidity which the tender interest of his friends increased. The first moments of this journey or better to say of this flight were troubled by the incessant fear of all the horses and all the carriages which could be perceived behind the fugitive. It was not natural in fact if Louis XIV was determined to seize this prey that he should allow it to escape the young lion was already accustomed to the chase and he had bloodhounds ardent enough to be depended on. But insensibly all fears were dispersed the superintendent by hard travelling placed such a distance between himself and his persecutors that no one of them could reasonably be expected to overtake him. As to his position his friends had made it excellent for him. Was he not traveling to join the King at Nantes and what did the rapidity prove but his zeal to obey He arrived fatigued but reassured at Orleans where he found thanks to the care of a courier who had preceded him a handsome lighter of eight oars. These lighters in the shape of gondolas rather wide and rather heavy containing a small cuddy covered by the deck and a chamber in the poop formed by a tent then acted as passage-boats from Orleans to Nantes by the Loire and this passage a long one in our days appeared then more easy and convenient than the high-road with its post-hacks or its bad insecurely hung carriages. Fouquet went on board this lighter which set out immediately. The rowers knowing they had the honor of conveying the Superintendent of the Finances pulled with all their strength and that magic phrase the finances promised them a liberal gratification of which they wished to prove themselves worthy. The lighter bounded over the waters of the Loire. Magnificent weather one of those sun-risings that empurple landscapes left the river all its limpid serenity. The current and the rowers carried Fouquet along as