tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –TWENTY YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 25

TWENTY YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 25 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 25 25. An Adventure on the High Road. The musketeers rode the whole length of the Faubourg Saint Antoine and of the road to Vincennes and soon found themselves out of the town then in a forest and then within sight of a village. The horses seemed to become more lively with each successive step their nostrils reddened like glowing furnaces. D Artagnan freely applying his spurs was in advance of Porthos two feet at the most Musqueton followed two lengths behind the guards were scattered according to the varying excellence of their respective mounts. From the top of an eminence D Artagnan perceived a group of people collected on the other side of the moat in front of that part of the donjon which looks toward Saint Maur. He rode on convinced that in this direction he would gain intelligence of the fugitive. In five minutes he had arrived at the place where the guards joined him coming up one by one. The several members of that group were much excited. They looked at the cord still hanging from the loophole and broken at about twenty feet from the ground. Their eyes measured the height and they exchanged conjectures. On the top of the wall sentinels went and came with a frightened air. A few soldiers commanded by a sergeant drove away idlers from the place where the duke had mounted his horse. D Artagnan went straight to the sergeant. My officer said the sergeant it is not permitted to stop here. That prohibition is not for me said D Artagnan. Have the fugitives been pursued Yes my officer unfortunately they are well mounted. How many are there Four and a fifth whom they carried away wounded. Four said D Artagnan looking at Porthos. Do you hear baron They are only four A joyous smile lighted Porthos s face. How long a start have they Two hours and a quarter my officer. Two hours and a quarter -- that is nothing we are well mounted are we not Porthos Porthos breathed a sigh he thought of what was in store for his poor horses. .