LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY -The Last Leaf

... hair over his eyes, and said he’d know better, by and by; upon which the old gentleman, observing Oliver’s colour mounting, changed the subject by asking whether there had been much of a crowd ... washed himself, and made everything tidy, by emptying the basin out of the window, agreeably to the Jew’s directions, when the Dodger returned: accompanied by a very sprightly young friend,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 22:15

... Archbishop, or Lady Catherine de Bourgh, by venturing to dance. ‘I am by no means of the opinion, I assure you,’ said he, ‘that a ball of this kind, given by a young man of character, to respectable ... anticipated by Catherine and Lydia depended less on any single event, or any particular person, for though they each, like Elizabeth, meant to dance half the evening with Mr. Wickham,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 22:15

... population massed itself and moved toward the river, met the children coming in an open carriage drawn by shouting citizens, thronged around it, joined its homeward march, and swept magnificently up ... get the word to her husband. Tom lay upon a sofa with an eager auditory about him and told the history of the wonderful adventure, putting in many striking additions to adorn it withal; and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 23:15

... spoon and the candles, by the help of the calf and the rats and the mixed-up counting; and as to the candlestick, it warn't no consequence, it would blow over by and by. But that pie was ... moderated. She kept a-raging right along, running her insurrection all by herself, and everybody else mighty meek and quiet; and at last Uncle Silas, looking kind of foolish, fishes up that...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 23:15

... SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Handbook Of Hymen 'Tis the opinion of myself, Sanderson Pratt, who sets this ... attainments apiece. By the time the snow melted, if you had stepped up to me suddenly and said: "Sanderson Pratt, what would it cost per square foot to lay a roof with twenty by twenty- eight ... has been reciting to me a lot of irreligious rhymes by some person he...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 00:15

... When at last he descended, it was with triumph in his eyes, but he said nothing to either of us as to the result of his researches. For my own part, I had followed step by step the methods by which ... the interior of this, the last of the six busts of Napoleon which were manufactured by Gelder & Co., of Stepney. You will remember, Lestrade, the sensation caused by the disappe...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 01:15

... the air of a little nonnette; quaint, quiet, grave, and simple, as you sit with your hands before you, and your eyes generally bent on the carpet (except, by- the-bye, when they are directed piercingly ... would say you don't see it; at least I flatter myself I read as much in your eye (beware, by- the-bye, what you express with that organ; I am quick at interpreting its language). The...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 01:15

... measured a quarter of a mile, I heard the tramp of hoofs; a horseman came on, full gallop; a dog ran by his side. Away with evil presentiment! It was he: here he was, mounted on Mesrour, followed by ... BRONTE Chapter 25 The month of courtship had wasted: its very last hours were being numbered. There was no putting off the day that advanced --the bridal day; and all preparations for...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 01:15

... channel, by a very mysterious change of behaviour on the part of the Dodger. They were just emerging from a narrow court not far from the open square in Clerkenwell, which is yet called, by some ... OLIVER BECOMES BETTER ACQUAINTED WITH THE CHARACTERS OF HIS NEW ASSOCIATES; AND PURCHASES EXPERIENCE AT A HIGH PRICE. BEING A SHORT, BUT VERY IMPORTANT CHAPTER, IN THIS HISTORY For many days,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 16:15

... there, refusing to give evidence, I’ll punish you for disrespect to the bench; I will, by ’ By what, or by whom, nobody knows, for the clerk and jailor coughed very loud, just at the right moment; ... gentleman was reading. The robbery was committed by another boy. I saw it done; and I saw that this boy was perfectly amazed and stupified by it.’ Having by this time recovered a litt...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 16:15