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Oliver Twist -CHAPTER XLII Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ dành cho trẻ em nổi tiếng của nhà văn Charles Dicken với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | Oliver Twist Charles Dickens CHAPTER XLII AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE OF OLIVER S EXHIBITING DECIDED MARKS OF GENIUS BECOMES A PUBLIC CHARACTER IN THE METROPOLIS Upon the night when Nancy having lulled Mr. Sikes to sleep hurried on her self-imposed mission to Rose Maylie there advanced towards London by the Great North Road two persons upon whom it is expedient that this history should bestow some attention. They were a man and woman or perhaps they would be better described as a male and female for the former was one of those long-limbed knock-kneed shambling bony people to whom it is difficult to assign any precise age looking as they do when they are yet boys like undergrown men and when they are almost men like overgrown boys. The woman was young but of a robust and hardy make as she need have been to bear the weight of the heavy bundle which was strapped to her back. Her companion was not encumbered with much luggage as there merely dangled from a stick which he carried over his shoulder a small parcel wrapped in a common handkerchief and apparently light enough. This circumstance added to the length of his legs which were of unusual extent enabled him with much ease to keep some half-dozen paces in advance of his companion to whom he occasionally turned with an impatient jerk of the head as if reproaching her tardiness and urging her to greater exertion. Thus they had toiled along the dusty road taking little heed of any object within sight save when they stepped aside to allow a wider passage for the mail-coaches which were whirling out of town until they passed through Highgate archway when the foremost traveller stopped and called impatiently to his companion Come on can t yer What a lazybones yer are Charlotte. It s a heavy load I can tell you said the female coming up almost breathless with fatigue. Heavy What are yer talking about What are yer made for rejoined the male traveller changing his own little bundle as he spoke to the other shoulder. Oh there yer are
