tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –TWENTY YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 83

TWENTY YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 83 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 83 83. Strength and Sagacity. Now let us pass the orangery to the hunting lodge. At the extremity of the courtyard where close to a portico formed of Ionic columns were the dog kennels rose an oblong building the pavilion of the orangery a half circle inclosing the court of honor. It was in this pavilion on the ground floor that D Artagnan and Porthos were confined suffering interminable hours of imprisonment in a manner suitable to each different temperament. D Artagnan was pacing to and fro like a caged tiger with dilated eyes growling as he paced along by the bars of a window looking upon the yard of servant s offices. Porthos was ruminating over an excellent dinner he had just demolished. The one seemed to be deprived of reason yet he was meditating. The other seemed to meditate yet he was more than half asleep. But his sleep was a nightmare which might be guessed by the incoherent manner in which he sometimes snored and sometimes snorted. Look said D Artagnan day is declining. It must be nearly four o clock. We have been in this place nearly eighty-three hours. Hem muttered Porthos with a kind of pretense of answering. Did you hear eternal sleeper cried D Artagnan irritated that any one could doze during the day when he had the greatest difficulty in sleeping during the night. What said Porthos. I say we have been here eighty-three hours. Tis your fault answered Porthos. How my fault Yes I offered you escape. By pulling out a bar and pushing down a door Certainly. Porthos men like us can t go out from here purely and simply. Faith said Porthos as for me I could go out with that purity and that simplicity which it seems to me you despise too much. D Artagnan shrugged his shoulders. And besides he said going out of this chamber isn t all. Dear friend said Porthos you appear to be in a somewhat better humor today than you were yesterday. Explain to me why going out of this chamber isn t everything. Because having neither