tailieunhanh - The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 1 BOOK 3 CHAPTER 3

The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 1 BOOK 3 CHAPTER 3 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 Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 1 BOOK 3 CHAPTER 3 The Duchess Josiana Towards 1705 although Lady Josiana was twenty-three and Lord David forty-four the wedding had not yet taken place and that for the best reasons in the world. Did they hate each other Far from it but what cannot escape from you inspires you with no haste to obtain it. Josiana wanted to remain free David to remain young. To have no tie until as late as possible appeared to him to be a prolongation of youth. Middle-aged young men abounded in those rakish times. They grew gray as young fops. The wig was an accomplice later on powder became the auxiliary. At fifty-five Lord Charles Gerrard Baron Gerrard one of the Gerrards of Bromley filled London with his successes. The young and pretty Duchess of Buckingham Countess of Coventry made a fool of herself for love of the handsome Thomas Bellasys Viscount Falconberg who was sixty-seven. People quoted the famous verses of Corneille the septuagenarian to a girl of twenty-- Marquise si mon visage. Women too had their successes in the autumn of life. Witness Ninon and Marion. Such were the models of the day. Josiana and David carried on a flirtation of a particular shade. They did not love they pleased each other. To be at each other s side sufficed them. Why hasten the conclusion The novels of those days carried lovers and engaged couples to that kind of stage which was the most becoming. Besides Josiana while she knew herself to be a bastard felt herself a princess and carried her authority over him with a high tone in all their arrangements. She had a fancy for Lord David. Lord David was handsome but that was over and above the bargain. She considered him to be fashionable. To be fashionable is everything. Caliban fashionable and magnificent would distance Ariel poor. Lord David was handsome so much the better. The danger in being handsome is being insipid and that he was not. He betted boxed ran into debt. Josiana thought great things of his horses .