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SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY- THE REFORMATION OF CALLIOPE Đây là một serries truyện ngắn anh ngữ nổi tiếng 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 | SHORT STORY BY O HENRY THE REFORMATION OF CALLIOPE Calliope Catesby was in his humours again. Ennui was upon him. This goodly promontory the earth--particularly that portion of it known as Quicksand--was to him no more than a pestilent congregation of vapours. Overtaken by the megrims the philosopher may seek relief in soliloquy my lady find solace in tears the flaccid Easterner scold at the millinery bills of his women folk. Such recourse was insufficient to the denizens of Quicksand. Calliope especially was wont to express his ennui according to his lights. Over night Calliope had hung out signals of approaching low spirits. He had kicked his own dog on the porch of the Occidental Hotel and refused to apologise. He had become capricious and fault-finding in conversation. While strolling about he reached often for twigs of mesquite and chewed the leaves fiercely. That was always an ominous act. Another symptom alarming to those who were familiar with the different stages of his doldrums was his increasing politeness and a tendency to use formal phrases. A husky softness succeeded the usual penetrating drawl in his tones. A dangerous courtesy marked his manners. Later his smile became crooked the left side of his mouth slanting upward and Quicksand got ready to stand from under. At this stage Calliope generally began to drink. Finally about midnight he was seen going homeward saluting those whom he met with exaggerated but inoffensive courtesy. Not yet was Calliope s melancholy at the danger point. He would seat himself at the window of the room he occupied over Silvester s tonsorial parlours and there chant lugubrious and tuneless ballads until morning accompanying the noises by appropriate maltreatment of a jangling guitar. More magnanimous than Nero he would thus give musical warning of the forthcoming municipal upheaval that Quicksand was scheduled to endure. A quiet amiable man was Calliope Catesby at other times--quiet to indolence and amiable to .
