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THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (3) Đây là một tác phẩm 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 . | THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Adventure of the Copper Beeches 3 There was a little passage in front of me unpapered and uncarpeted which turned at a right angle at the farther end. Round this corner were three doors in a line the first and third of which were open. They each led into an empty room dusty and cheerless with two windows in the one and one in the other so thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through them. The centre door was closed and across the outside of it had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed padlocked at one end to a ring in the wall and fastened at the other with stout cord. The door itself was locked as well and the key was not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the shuttered window outside and yet I could see by the glimmer from beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it might veil I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight Mr. Holmes. My overstrung nerves failed me suddenly and I turned and ran--ran as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage through the door and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle who was waiting outside. So said he smiling it was you then. I thought that it must be when I saw the door open. Oh I am so frightened I panted. My dear young lady my dear young lady --you cannot think how caressing and soothing his manner was-- and what has frightened you my dear young lady But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I was keenly on my guard against him. I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing I answered. But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim
