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TEN YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 37 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 . | TEN YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 37 The Butterfly-Chase. The king on retiring to his apartments to give some directions and to arrange his ideas found on his toilette-glass a small note the handwriting of which seemed disguised. He opened it and read - Come quickly I have a thousand things to say to you. The king and Madame had not been separated a sufficiently long time for these thousand things to be the result of the three thousand which they had been saying to each other during the route which separated Vulaines from Fontainebleau. The confused and hurried character of the note gave the king a great deal to reflect upon. He occupied himself but slightly with his toilette and set off to pay his visit to Madame. The princess who did not wish to have the appearance of expecting him had gone into the gardens with the ladies of her suite. When the king was informed that Madame had left her apartments and had gone for a walk in the gardens he collected all the gentlemen he could find and invited them to follow him. He found Madame engaged in chasing butterflies on a large lawn bordered with heliotrope and flowering broom. She was looking on as the most adventurous and youngest of her ladies ran to and fro and with her back turned to a high hedge very impatiently awaited the arrival of the king with whom she had appointed the rendezvous. The sound of many feet upon the gravel walk made her turn round. Louis XIV. was hatless he had struck down with his cane a peacock butterfly which Monsieur de Saint-Aignan had picked up from the ground quite stunned. You see Madame said the king as he approached her that I too am hunting on your behalf and then turning towards those who had accompanied him said Gentlemen see if each of you cannot obtain as much for these ladies a remark which was a signal for all to retire. And thereupon a curious spectacle might have been observed old and corpulent courtiers were seen running after butterflies losing their hats as they ran and
