TAILIEUCHUNG - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC – LEV TOLSTOY- SHORT STORY 26

LEV TOLSTOY SHORT STORY 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 . | LEV TOLSTOY SHORT STORY Too Dear TOLSTOY S ADAPTATION OF A STORY BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT. NEAR the borders of France and Italy on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea lies a tiny little kingdom called Monaco. Many a small country town can boast more inhabitants than this kingdom for there are only about seven thousand of them all told and if all the land in the kingdom were divided there would not be an acre for each inhabitant. But in this toy kingdom there is a real kinglet and he has a palace and courtiers and ministers and a bishop and generals and an army. It is not a large army only sixty men in all but still it is an army. There were also taxes in this kingdom as elsewhere a tax on tobacco and on wine and spirits and a poll-tax. But though the people there drink and smoke as people do in other countries there are so few of them that the King would have been hard put to it to feed his courtiers and officials and to keep himself if he had not found a new and special source of revenue. This special revenue comes from a gaming house where people play roulette. People play and whether they win or lose the keeper always gets a percentage on the turnover and out of his profits he pays a large sum to the King. The reason he pays so much is that it is the only such gambling establishment left in Europe. Some of the little German Sovereigns used to keep gaming houses of the same kind but some years ago they were forbidden to do so. The reason they were stopped was because these gaming houses did so much harm. A man would come and try his luck then he would risk all he had and lose it then he would even risk money that did not belong to him and lose that too and then in despair he would drown or shoot himself. So the Germans forbade their rulers to make money in this way but there was no one to stop the King of Monaco and he remained with a monopoly of the business. So now every one who wants to gamble goes to Monaco. Whether they win or lose the King gains by it. You can t

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