TAILIEUCHUNG - Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 31

Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 31 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 31 A Passive Coquette It is not to be supposed that such an encounter as Mr Preston had just had with Roger Hamley sweetened the regards in which the two young men henceforward held each other. They had barely spoken to each other before and but seldom met for the land-agent s employment had hitherto lain at Ashcombe some sixteen or seventeen miles from Hamley. He was older than Roger by several years but during the time he had been in the county Osborne and Roger had been at school and at college. Mr Preston was prepared to dislike the Hamleys for many unreasonable reasons. Cynthia and Molly had both spoken of the brothers with familiar regard implying considerable intimacy their flowers had been preferred to his on the occasion of the ball most people spoke well of them and Mr Preston had an animal s instinctive jealousy and combativeness against all popular young men. Their position - poor as the Hamleys might be -was far higher than his own in the county and moreover he was agent to the great Whig lord whose political interests were diametrically opposed to those of the old Tory squire. Not that Lord Cumnor troubled himself much about his political interests. His family had obtained property and title from the Whigs at the time of the Hanoverian succession and so traditionally he was a Whig and had belonged in his youth to Whig clubs where he had lost considerable sums of money to Whig gamblers. All this was satisfactory and consistent enough. And if Lord Hollingford had not been returned for the county on the Whig interest - as his father had been before him until he had succeeded to the title -it is quite probable Lord Cumnor would have considered the British constitution in danger and the patriotism of his ancestors ungratefully ignored. But excepting at elections he had no notion of making Whig and Tory a party cry. He had lived too much in London and was of too sociable a nature to exclude any man who jumped .

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