tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –TWENTY YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 85

TWENTY YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 85 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 85 85. The Oubliettes of Cardinal Mazarin. At first on arriving at the door through which Mazarin had passed D Artagnan tried in vain to open it but on the powerful shoulder of Porthos being applied to one of the panels which gave way D Artagnan introduced the point of his sword between the bolt and the staple of the lock. The bolt gave way and the door opened. As I told you everything can be attained Porthos women and doors by proceeding with gentleness. You re a great moralist and that s the fact said Porthos. They entered behind a glass window by the light of the cardinal s lantern which had been placed on the floor in the midst of the gallery they saw the orange and pomegranate trees of the Castle of Rueil in long lines forming one great alley and two smaller side alleys. No cardinal said D Artagnan but only his lantern where the devil then is he Exploring however one of the side wings of the gallery after making a sign to Porthos to explore the other he saw all at once at his left a tub containing an orange tree which had been pushed out of its place and in its place an open aperture. Ten men would have found difficulty in moving that tub but by some mechanical contrivance it had turned with the flagstone on which it rested. D Artagnan as we have said perceived a hole in that place and in this hole the steps of a winding staircase. He called Porthos to look at it. Were our object money only he said we should be rich directly. How s that Don t you understand Porthos At the bottom of that staircase lies probably the cardinal s treasury of which folk tell such wonders and we should only have to descend empty a chest shut the cardinal up in it double lock it go away carrying off as much gold as we could put back this orange-tree over the place and no one in the world would ever ask us where our fortune came from -- not even the cardinal. It would be a happy hit for clowns to make but as it seems to be unworthy of two .