TAILIEUCHUNG - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-Oliver Twist -Charles Dickens -CHAPTER 37

Oliver Twist-CHAPTER XXXVII Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ dành cho trẻ em nổi tiếng của nhà văn Charles Dicken 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 . | Oliver Twist Charles Dickens CHAPTER XXXVII IN WHICH THE READER MAY PERCEIVE A CONTRAST NOT UNCOMMON IN MATRIMONIAL CASES Mr. Bumble sat in the workhouse parlour with his eyes moodily fixed on the cheerless grate whence as it was summer time no brighter gleam proceeded than the reflection of certain sickly rays of the sun which were sent back from its cold and shining surface. A paper fly-cage dangled from the ceiling to which he occasionally raised his eyes in gloomy thought and as the heedless insects hovered round the gaudy net-work Mr. Bumble would heave a deep sigh while a more gloomy shadow overspread his countenance. Mr. Bumble was meditating it might be that the insects brought to mind some painful passage in his own past life. Nor was Mr. Bumble s gloom the only thing calculated to awaken a pleasing melancholy in the bosom of a spectator. There were not wanting other appearances and those closely connected with his own person which announced that a great change had taken place in the position of his affairs. The laced coat and the cocked hat where were they He still wore kneebreeches and dark cotton stockings on his nether limbs but they were not THE breeches. The coat was wide-skirted and in that respect like THE coat but oh how different The mighty cocked hat was replaced by a modest round one. Mr. Bumble was no longer a beadle. There are some promotions in life which independent of the more substantial rewards they offer require peculiar value and dignity from the coats and waistcoats connected with them. A field-marshal has his uniform a bishop his silk apron a counsellor his silk gown a beadle his cocked hat. Strip the bishop of his apron or the beadle of his hat and lace what are they Men. Mere men. Dignity and even holiness too sometimes are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. Mr. Bumle had married Mrs. Corney and was master of the workhouse. Another beadle had come into power. On him the cocked hat gold-laced coat and .

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