TAILIEUCHUNG - THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 26

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 26 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 COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 26 The Pont du Gard Inn. Such of my readers as have made a pedestrian excursion to the south of France may perchance have noticed about midway between the town of Beaucaire and the village of Bellegarde -- a little nearer to the former than to the latter -- a small roadside inn from the front of which hung creaking and flapping in the wind a sheet of tin covered with a grotesque representation of the Pont du Gard. This modern place of entertainment stood on the left-hand side of the post road and backed upon the Rhone. It also boasted of what in Languedoc is styled a garden consisting of a small plot of ground on the side opposite to the main entrance reserved for the reception of guests. A few dingy olives and stunted fig-trees struggled hard for existence but their withered dusty foliage abundantly proved how unequal was the conflict. Between these sickly shrubs grew a scanty supply of garlic tomatoes and eschalots while lone and solitary like a forgotten sentinel a tall pine raised its melancholy head in one of the corners of this unattractive spot and displayed its flexible stem and fan-shaped summit dried and cracked by the fierce heat of the sub-tropical sun. In the surrounding plain which more resembled a dusty lake than solid ground were scattered a few miserable stalks of wheat the effect no doubt of a curious desire on the part of the agriculturists of the country to see whether such a thing as the raising of grain in those parched regions was practicable. Each stalk served as a perch for a grasshopper which regaled the passers by through this Egyptian scene with its strident monotonous note. For about seven or eight years the little tavern had been kept by a man and his wife with two servants -- a chambermaid named Trinette and a hostler called Pecaud. This small staff was quite equal to all the requirements for a canal between Beaucaire and Aiguemortes had revolutionized transportation by substituting .

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