tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –TWENTY YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 19

TWENTY YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 19 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 . | TWENTY YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 19 19. In which the Contents of the Pates made by the Successor of Father Marteau are described. In half an hour La Ramee returned full of glee like most men who have eaten and more especially drank to their heart s content. The pates were excellent the wine delicious. The weather was fine and the game at tennis took place in the open air. At two o clock the tennis balls began according to Grimaud s directions to take the direction of the moat much to the joy of La Ramee who marked fifteen whenever the duke sent a ball into the moat and very soon balls were wanting so many had gone over. La Ramee then proposed to send some one to pick them up but the duke remarked that it would be losing time and going near the rampart himself and looking over he saw a man working in one of the numerous little gardens cleared out by the peasants on the opposite side of the moat. Hey friend cried the duke. The man raised his head and the duke was about to utter a cry of surprise. The peasant the gardener was Rochefort whom he believed to be in the Bastile. Well Who s up there said the man. Be so good as to collect and throw us back our balls said the duke. The gardener nodded and began to fling up the balls which were picked up by La Ramee and the guard. One however fell at the duke s feet and seeing that it was intended for him he put it into his pocket. La Ramee was in ecstasies at having beaten a prince of the blood. The duke went indoors and retired to bed where he spent indeed the greater part of every day as they had taken his books away. La Ramee carried off all his clothes in order to be certain that the duke would not stir. However the duke contrived to hide the ball under his bolster and as soon as the door was closed he tore off the cover of the ball with his teeth and found underneath the following letter My Lord -- Your friends are watching over you and the hour of your deliverance is at hand. Ask day after to-morrow to have a