tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –TWENTY YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 69

TWENTY YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 69 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 69 69. Conversational. Though Mordaunt had been so completely taken by surprise and had mounted the stairs in such utter confusion when once seated he recovered himself as it were and prepared to seize any possible opportunity of escape. His eye wandered to a long stout sword on his flank and he instinctively slipped it around within reach of his right hand. D Artagnan was waiting for a reply to his remark and said nothing. Aramis muttered to himself We shall hear nothing but the usual commonplace things. Porthos sucked his mustache muttering A good deal of ceremony to-night about crushing an adder. Athos shrunk into his corner pale and motionless as a bas-relief. The silence however could not last forever. So D Artagnan began Sir he said with desperate politeness it seems to me that you change your costume almost as rapidly as I have seen the Italian mummers do whom the Cardinal Mazarin brought over from Bergamo and whom he doubtless took you to see during your travels in France. Mordaunt did not reply. Just now D Artagnan continued you were disguised -- I mean to say attired -- as a murderer and now - And now I look very much like a man who is going to be murdered. Oh sir said D Artagnan how can you talk like that when you are in the company of gentlemen and have such an excellent sword at your side No sword is excellent enough to be of use against four swords and daggers. Well that is scarcely the question. I had the honor of asking you why you altered your costume. The mask and beard became you very well and as to the axe I do not think it would be out of keeping even at this moment. Why then have you laid it aside Because remembering the scene at Armentieres I thought I should find four axes for one as I was to meet four executioners. Sir replied D Artagnan in the calmest manner possible you are very young I shall therefore overlook your frivolous remarks. What took place at Armentieres has no connection whatever with