LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-VANITY FAIR -WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY -CHAPTER 42 pot

... to get rid of it ourselves.’ After expressing this opinion, Mr. Claypole looked into the porter -pot with an aspect of deep wisdom; and having well shaken its contents, nodded condescendingly ... doubtful; but as he recollected that, in the event of his refusal, it was in the power of his new acquaintance to give him up to justice immediately (and more unlikely things had come to pass),...

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... safety. At least half a dozen more were severally drawn forth from the same box, and surveyed with equal pleasure; besides rings, brooches, bracelet, and other articles of jewellery, of such magnificent

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... limpid, salubrious: no gush of bilge water had turned it to fetid puddle. I was your equal at eighteen quite your equal. Nature meant me to be, on the whole, a good man, Miss Eyre; one of the better ... won't do to neglect her; she is a Fairfax, or wed to one; and blood is said to be thicker than water." He rang, and despatched an invitation to Mrs. Fairfax, who soon arrived, k...

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... your plebeian bride in the attributes of a peeress. I though how I would carry down to you the square of unembroidered blond I had myself prepared as a covering for my low-born head, and ask ... now?" "No, no, sir; besides the delicacy and richness of the fabric, I found nothing save Fairfax Rochester's pride; and that did not scare me, because I am used to the sight of t...

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... passengers as they turn the corners, rousing up the dogs, and astonishing the fowls: and streets, squares, and courts, re- echo with the sound. ’Stop thief! Stop thief!’ The cry is taken up by a ... rushed upon the boy’s mind. Oliver Twist Charles Dickens CHAPTER X OLIVER BECOMES BETTER ACQUAINTED WITH THE CHARACTERS OF HIS NEW ASSOCIATES; AND PURCHASES EXPERIENCE AT A HIGH PRIC...

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... of the scene. Mr. Fang was a lean, long-backed, stiff-necked, middle-sized man, with no great quantity of hair, and what he had, growing on the back and sides of his head. His face was stern,

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... his head; ‘crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.’ ’But, can you—oh! can you really believe that this delicate ... of parents in your goodness and affection, but that I might have done so, and might have been equally helpless and unprotected with this poor child, have pity upon him before it is too lat...

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... goodness?’ The old lady dropped a curtsey. The doctor, after tasting the cool stuff, and expressing a qualified approval of it, hurried away: his boots creaking in a very important and wealthy manner ... the fire with a saveloy and a small loaf in his hand; a pocket-knife in his right; and a pewter pot on the trivet. There was a rascally smile on his white face as he turned round, and...

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... should think you was rather out of sorts too, unless you mean as little harm when you throw pewter pots about, as you do when you blab and—’ ’She’s a honour to her sex,’ said Mr. Sikes, filling ... agility than could have been anticipated in a man of his apparent decrepitude; and, seizing up the pot, prepared to hurl it at his assailant’s head. But Charley Bates, at this moment, calling...

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... out of the pot. ‘Are you going to Halliford?’ ’Going on to Shepperton,’ replied Sikes. ’I’m your man, as far as I go,’ replied the other. ‘Is all paid, Becky?’ unwashed, unshaven, squalid, and ... were noiseless and empty. By the time they had turned into the Bethnal Green Road, the day had fairly begun to break. Many of the lamps were already extinguished; a few country waggons were...

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