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The Third Violet STEPHEN CRANE CHAPTER 29 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 . | The Third Violet STEPHEN CRANE CHAPTER 29 When Hawker went again to the house of the great window he looked first at the colossal chandelier and perceiving that it had not moved he smiled in a certain friendly and familiar way. It must be a fine thing said the girl dreamily. I always feel envious of that sort of life. What sort of life Why--I don t know exactly but there must be a great deal of freedom about it. I went to a studio tea once and- A studio tea Merciful heavens---- Go on. Yes a studio tea. Don t you like them To be sure we didn t know whether the man could paint very well and I suppose you think it is an imposition for anyone who is not a great painter to give a tea. Go on. Well he had the dearest little Japanese servants and some of the cups came from Algiers and some from Turkey and some from----- What s the matter Go on. I m not interrupting you. Well that s all excepting that everything was charming in colour and I thought what a lazy beautiful life the man must lead lounging in such a studio smoking monogrammed cigarettes and remarking how badly all the other men painted. Very fascinating. But---- Oh you are going to ask if he could draw. I m sure I don t know but the tea that he gave was charming. I was on the verge of telling you something about artist life but if you have seen a lot of draperies and drunk from a cup of Algiers you know all about it. You then were going to make it something very terrible and tell how young painters struggled and all that. No not exactly. But listen I suppose there is an aristocracy who whether they paint well or paint ill certainly do give charming teas as you say and all other kinds of charming affairs too but when I hear people talk as if that was the whole life it makes my hair rise you know because I am sure that as they get to know me better and better they will see how I fall short of that kind of an existence and I shall probably take a great tumble in their estimation. They might even conclude that I can
