LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-Pride and Prejudice -Jane Austen -Chapter 20

... to and fro; caught her throat; and, uttering a gurgling sound, gasped for breath. ’Nancy!’ cried Oliver, ‘What is it?’ The girl beat her hands upon her knees, and her feet upon the ground; and, ... cried, starting up, and catching sight of a figure standing by the door. ‘Who’s there?’ ’Me. Only me,’ replied a tremulous voice. Oliver raised the candle above his head: and looked...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 02:15

... other, and a watch in his waistcoat pocket, with a guard-chain round his neck, and sticking a mock diamond pin in his shirt: buttoned his coat tight round him, and putting his spectacle-case and ... breakfast, and whistling softly to himself as he stirred it round and round, with an iron spoon. He would stop every now and then to listen when there was the least noise below:...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 22:15

... 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 hundred voices, and the crowd accumulate ... possibly go, to see the Dodger plunge his hand into the old gentleman’s pocket, and draw from thence a handkerchief! To see him hand the same to Charley Bates; and finally to...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 16:15

... office!’ The mandate was obeyed; and the indignant Mr. Brownlow was conveyed out, with the book in one hand, and the bamboo cane in the other: in a perfect phrenzy of rage and defiance. He ... striped waistcoat, who was standing by the bar. He bent over Oliver, and repeated the inquiry; but finding him really incapable of understanding the question; and knowing that his not re...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 16:15

... Oh! as you love me, and know that I have never felt the want of parents in your goodness and affection, but that I might have done so, and might have been equally helpless and unprotected with ... pockets, and took several turns up and down the room; often stopping, and balancing himself on his toes, and frowning frightfully. After various exclamations of ‘I’ve got it now...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 16:15

... of maxim and theory: and, by a very neat and pretty compliment to her exalted wisdom and understanding, putting entirely out of sight any considerations of heart, or generous impulse and feeling. ... friends. The sun rose and sank, and rose and sank again, and many times after that; and still the boy lay stretched on his uneasy bed, dwindling away beneath the dry and...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 14:15

... its being adopted. This was, that the Dodger, and Charley Bates, and Fagin, and Mr. William Sikes, happened, one and all, to entertain a violent and deeply- rooted antipathy to going near a ... striped waistcoat; and with the most piteous wailings and lamentations, rendered more piteous by a prompt and efficient use of the street-door key and the little basket, demanded...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 14:15

... paid, Becky?’ unwashed, unshaven, squalid, and dirty figues constantly running to and fro, and bursting in and out of the throng; rendered it a stunning and bewildering scene, which quite ... off. And here, the cart stopped. Sikes dismounted with great precipitation, holding Oliver by the hand all the while; and lifting him down directly, bestowed a furious look upon him, a...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 14:15

... noise of fire-arms, and the shouts of men, and the sensation of being carried over uneven ground at a rapid pace. And then, the noises grew confused in the distance; and a cold deadly feeling ... under the arms; and in three or four seconds he and Toby were lying on the grass on the other side. Sikes followed directly. And they stole cautiously towards the house. And now, f...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 14:15

... an amiable and handsome daughter of hers, who was married to an amiable and handsome man, and lived in the country; and about a son, who was clerk to a merchant in the West Indies; and who was, ... him, and asked her to sell them to a Jew, and keep the money for herself. This she very readily did; and, as Oliver looked out of the parlour window, and saw the Jew roll them u...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 21:15