TAILIEUCHUNG - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY- Tommy's Burglar

SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY Tommy's Burglar 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 Tommy s Burglar AT TEN o clock P. M. Felicia the maid left by the basement door with the policeman to get a raspberry phosphate around the corner. She detested the police- man and objected earnestly to the arrangement. She pointed out not unreasonably that she might have been allowed to fall asleep over one of St. George Rathbone s novels on the third floor but she was overruled. Raspberries and cops were not created for nothing. The burglar got into the house without much difficulty because we must have action and not too much descrip- tion in a 2 000-word story. In the dining room he opened the slide of his dark lantern. With a brace and centrebit he began to bore into the lock of the silver-closet. Suddenly a click was heard. The room was flooded with electric light. The dark velvet portières parted to admit a fair-haired boy of eight in pink pajamas bearing a bottle of olive oil in his hand. Are you a burglar he asked in a sweet childish voice. Listen to that exclaimed the man in a hoarse voice. Am I a burglar Wot do you suppose I have a three- days growth of bristly bread on my face for and a cap with flaps Give me the oil quick and let me grease the bit so I won t wake up your mamma who is lying down with a headache and left you in charge of Felicia. who has been faithless to her trust. Oh dear said Tommy with a sigh. I thought you would be more up-to-date. This oil is for the salad when I bring lunch from the pantry for you. And mamma and papa have gone to the Metropolitan to hear De Reszke. But that isn t my fault. It only shows how long the story has been knocking around among the editors. If the author had been wise he d have changed it to Caruso in the proofs. Be quiet hissed the burglar under his breath. If you raise an alarm I ll wring your neck like a rabbit s. Like a chicken s corrected Tommy. You had that wrong. You don t wring rabbits necks. Aren t you afraid of me asked the burglar. You know I m not answered Tommy. Don t you

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