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The Black Tulip ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 16 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 Black Tulip ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 16 16. Master and Pupil The worthy Master Gryphus as the reader may have seen was far from sharing the kindly feeling of his daughter for the godson of Cornelius de Witt. There being only five prisoners at Loewestein the post of turnkey was not a very onerous one but rather a sort of sinecure given after a long period of service. But the worthy jailer in his zeal had magnified with all the power of his imagination the importance of his office. To him Cornelius had swelled to the gigantic proportions of a criminal of the first order. He looked upon him therefore as the most dangerous of all his prisoners. He watched all his steps and always spoke to him with an angry countenance punishing him for what he called his dreadful rebellion against such a clement prince as the Stadtholder. Three times a day he entered Van Baerle s cell expecting to find him trespassing but Cornelius had ceased to correspond since his correspondent was at hand. It is even probable that if Cornelius had obtained his full liberty with permission to go wherever he liked the prison with Rosa and his bulbs would have appeared to him preferable to any other habitation in the world without Rosa and his bulbs. Rosa in fact had promised to come and see him every evening and from the first evening she had kept her word. On the following evening she went up as before with the same mysteriousness and the same precaution. Only she had this time resolved within herself not to approach too near the grating. In order however to engage Van Baerle in a conversation from the very first which would seriously occupy his attention she tendered to him through the grating the three bulbs which were still wrapped up in the same paper. But to the great astonishment of Rosa Van Baerle pushed back her white hand with the tips of his fingers. The young man had been considering about the matter. Listen to me he said. I think we should risk too much by embarking our whole fortune .
