TAILIEUCHUNG - Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 11-P1

Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 11-P1 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 . | Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 11-P1 Making Friendship Mr Gibson believed that Cynthia Kirkpatrick was to return to England to be present at her mother s wedding but Mrs Kirkpatrick had no such intention. She was not what is commonly called a woman of determination but somehow what she disliked she avoided and what she liked she tried to do or to have. So although in the conversation which she had already led to as to the when and the how she was to be married she had listened quietly to Mr Gibson s proposal that Molly and Cynthia should be the two bridesmaids she had felt how disagreeable it would be to her to have her young daughter flashing out her beauty by the side of the faded bride her mother and as the further arrangements for the wedding became more definite she saw further reasons in her own mind for Cynthia s remaining quietly at her school at Boulogne. Mrs Kirkpatrick had gone to bed that first night of her engagement to Mr Gibson fully anticipating a speedy marriage. She looked to it as a release from the thraldom of keeping school keeping an unprofitable school with barely enough of pupils to pay for house-rent and taxes food washing and the requisite masters. She saw no reason for ever going back to Ashcombe except to wind up her affairs and to pack up her clothes. She hoped that Mr Gibson s ardour would be such that he would press on the marriage and urge her never to resume her school drudgery but to relinquish it now and for ever. She even made up a very pretty very passionate speech for him in her own mind quite sufficiently strong to prevail upon her and to overthrow the scruples which she felt that she ought to have at telling the parents of her pupils that she did not intend to resume school and that they must find another place of education for their daughters in the last week but one of the midsummer holidays. It was rather like a douche of cold water on Mrs Kirkpatrick s plans when the next morning at breakfast Lady Cumnor .

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