tailieunhanh - The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 1 CHAPTER 7

The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 1 CHAPTER 7 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 2 BOOK 1 CHAPTER 7 Barkilphedro Gnaws His Way There is one thing the most pressing of all to be ungrateful. Barkilphedro was not wanting therein. Having received so many benefits from Josiana he had naturally but one thought--to revenge himself on her. When we add that Josiana was beautiful great young rich powerful illustrious while Barkilphedro was ugly little old poor dependent obscure he must necessarily revenge himself for all this as well. When a man is made out of night how is he to forgive so many beams of light Barkilphedro was an Irishman who had denied Ireland--a bad species. Barkilphedro had but one thing in his favour--that he had a very big belly. A big belly passes for a sign of kind-heartedness. But his belly was but an addition to Barkilphedro s hypocrisy for the man was full of malice. What was Barkilphedro s age None. The age necessary for his project of the moment. He was old in his wrinkles and gray hairs young in the activity of his mind. He was active and ponderous a sort of hippopotamus-monkey. A royalist certainly a republican--who knows a Catholic perhaps a Protestant without doubt. For Stuart probably for Brunswick evidently. To be For is a power only on the condition of being at the same time Against. Barkilphedro practised this wisdom. The appointment of drawer of the bottles of the ocean was not as absurd as Barkilphedro had appeared to make out. The complaints which would in these times be termed declamations of Garcia Fernandez in his Chart-Book of the Sea against the robbery of jetsam called right of wreck and against the pillage of wreck by the inhabitants of the coast had created a sensation in England and had obtained for the shipwrecked this reform--that their goods chattels and property instead of being stolen by the country-people were confiscated by the Lord High Admiral. All the débris of the sea cast upon the English shore--merchandise broken hulls of ships bales chests to