TAILIEUCHUNG - The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 1 CHAPTER 1

The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 1 CHAPTER 1 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 Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 1 CHAPTER 1 Lord Clancharlie I. There was in those days an old tradition. That tradition was Lord Linneus Clancharlie. Linneus Baron Clancharlie a contemporary of Cromwell was one of the peers of England-few in number be it said--who accepted the republic. The reason of his acceptance of it might indeed for want of a better be found in the fact that for the time being the republic was triumphant. It was a matter of course that Lord Clancharlie should adhere to the republic as long as the republic had the upper hand but after the close of the revolution and the fall of the parliamentary government Lord Clancharlie had persisted in his fidelity to it. It would have been easy for the noble patrician to re-enter the reconstituted upper house repentance being ever well received on restorations and Charles II. being a kind prince enough to those who returned to their allegiance to him but Lord Clancharlie had failed to understand what was due to events. While the nation overwhelmed with acclamation the king come to retake possession of England while unanimity was recording its verdict while the people were bowing their salutation to the monarchy while the dynasty was rising anew amidst a glorious and triumphant recantation at the moment when the past was becoming the future and the future becoming the past that nobleman remained refractory. He turned his head away from all that joy and voluntarily exiled himself. While he could have been a peer he preferred being an outlaw. Years had thus passed away. He had grown old in his fidelity to the dead republic and was therefore crowned with the ridicule which is the natural reward of such folly. He had retired into Switzerland and dwelt in a sort of lofty ruin on the banks of the Lake of Geneva. He had chosen his dwelling in the most rugged nook of the lake between Chillon where is the dungeon of Bonnivard and Vevay where is Ludlow s tomb. The rugged Alps filled with twilight winds .

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