LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-VANITY FAIR -WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY -CHAPTER 54 pptx

... preferring the chance of being shot by his friend, to the certainty of being taken by his enemies, fairly turned tail, and darted off at full speed. Sikes clenched his teeth; took one look around; ... remind them of his superior position in society. But, death, fires, and burglary, make all men equals; so Mr. Giles sat with his legs stretched out before the kitchen fender, leaning his lef...

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... beneath it. It was a lovely spot to which they repaired. Oliver, whose days had been spent among squalid crowds, and in the midst of noise and brawling, seemed buoyed him up, and sustained him, ... however, in the behaviour of his benefactors. After another fortnight, when the fine warm weather had fairly begun, and every tree and flower was putting forth its young leaves and rich blos...

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... it was in the same quarter of the town, and was situated at no great distance from his former lodgings. It was not, in appearance, so desirable a habitation as his old quarters: being a mean ... said the people, turning to look after her as she rushed away. When she reached the more wealthy quarter of the town, the streets were comparatively deserted; and here her headlong progress exci...

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... know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child though equally dependent and friendless Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently; her ... else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessie's evening stories represented as coming out of lone, ferny dells ....

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... considered it a narrative of facts, and discovered in it a vein of interest deeper than what I found in fairy tales: for as to the elves, having I shook my head: I could not see how poor people had the ... appalling, her details of certain accomplishments attained by these same young ladies were, I thought, equally attractive. She boasted of beautiful paintings of landscapes and flowers b...

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... after him, hurried away. The next day, (the family having been meanwhile relieved with a half- quartern loaf and a piece of cheese, left with them by Mr. Bumble himself,) Oliver and his master ... us what a beautiful thing human nature may be made to be; and how impartially the same amiable qualities are developed in the finest lord and the dirtiest charity-boy. Oliver had been sojourni...

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... though not in reality exceeding eighty; they were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks of quaint fashion, and long holland pinafores. It was the hour of study; they were engaged in conning ... taking than the title: "Rasselas" looked dull to my trifling taste; I saw nothing about fairies, nothing about genii; no bright variety seemed spread over the closely-printed pages. I...

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... cold. Breakfast-time came at last, and this morning the porridge was not burnt; the quality was eatable, the quantity small. How small my portion seemed! I wished it had been doubled. In the ... of Miss Scatcherd on the performance. It was English history: among the readers I observed my acquaintance of the verandah: at the commencement of the lesson, her place had been at the top of

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... Miss Temple, the thread I bought at Lowton will do; it struck me that it would be just of the quality for the calico chemises, and I sorted the needles to match. You may tell Miss Smith that ... settled gradually into petrified severity. JANE EYRE CHARLOTTE BRONTE Chapter 7 My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle

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... set, square-made figure, red-haired, and with a hard, plain face: any apparition less romantic or less ghostly could scarcely be conceived. "Too much noise, Grace," said Mrs. Fairfax. ... moi!" We found dinner ready, and waiting for us in Mrs. Fairfax's room. "None that I ever heard of," returned Mrs. Fairfax, smiling. "Nor any traditions of one? no...

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