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TEN YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 40 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 40 The Nymphs of the Park of Fontainebleau. The king remained for a moment to enjoy a triumph as complete as it could possibly be. He then turned towards Madame for the purpose of admiring her also a little in her turn. Young persons love with more vivacity perhaps with greater ardor and deeper passion than others more advanced in years but all the other feelings are at the same time developed in proportion to their youth and vigor so that vanity being with them almost always the equivalent of love the latter feeling according to the laws of equipoise never attains that degree of perfection which it acquires in men and women from thirty to five and thirty years of age. Louis thought of Madame but only after he had studiously thought of himself and Madame carefully thought of herself without bestowing a single thought upon the king. The victim however of all these royal affections and affectations was poor De Guiche. Every one could observe his agitation and prostration - a prostration which was indeed the more remarkable since people were not accustomed to see him with his arms hanging listlessly by his side his head bewildered and his eyes with all their bright intelligence bedimmed. It rarely happened that any uneasiness was excited on his account whenever a question of elegance or taste was under discussion and De Guiche s defeat was accordingly attributed by the greater number present to his courtier-like tact and ability. But there were others - keen-sighted observers are always to be met with at court - who remarked his paleness and his altered looks which he could neither feign nor conceal and their conclusion was that De Guiche was not acting the part of a flatterer. All these sufferings successes and remarks were blended confounded and lost in the uproar of applause. When however the queens expressed their satisfaction and the spectators their enthusiasm when the king had retired to his dressing-room to change his .
