Tài liệu LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY- Buried Treasure pdf

... ’Not a bit of it,’ replied Sikes. ’Not by flash Toby Crackit?’ said the Jew incredulously. ‘Think what women are, Bill,’ ’No; not even by flash Toby Crackit,’ replied Sikes. ‘He says he’s ... should be required to be confirmed and corroborated, in all important particulars, by the testimony of flash Toby Crackit. These preliminaries adjusted, Mr. Sikes proceeded to drink brandy a...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 02:15

... purpose and meaning. He could think of no bad object to be attained by sending him to Sikes, which would not be equally well answered by his remaining with Fagin; and after meditating for a long ... Jew seemed much vexed by Oliver’s not expressing any greater curiosity on the subject; but the truth is, that, although Oliver felt very anxious, he was too much confused by the earne...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 02:15

... dead of night, by a tall man with a black patch over his eye, who had concealed himself under the bed, and after committing the robbery, jumped slap out of window: which was only a story high. ... done by a yokel; eh, Duff?’ ’Certainly not,’ replied Duff. ’And, translating the word yokel for the benefit of the ladies, I apprehend your meaning to be, that this attempt was not made...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... me how to point him out. If you buried him fifty feet deep, and took me across his grave, I fancy I should know, if there wasn’t a mark above it, that he lay buried there?’ The man seemed to ... made a great many other remarks, no less illustrative of his humility, which were received with equal favour and applause, and were, withal, as original and as much to the purpose, as the rem...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... encircled by the deepest gloom and darkness, looked ghastly in the extreme. ’When this woman, that we called old Sally, died,’ the matron began, ‘she and I were alone.’ ’Was there no one by? ’ asked ... from being) by the strange man’s violence; ‘but she clutched my gown, violently, with one hand, which was partly closed; and when I saw that she was dead, and so removed the hand by...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... would be pleasure in meeting my master again, even though broken by the fear that he was so soon to cease to be my master, and by the knowledge that I was nothing to him: but there was ever in ... leave the stile, and I hardly liked to ask to go by. I inquired soon if he had not been to London. "Yes; I suppose you found that out by second-sight." "Mrs. Fairfax told...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... in part, by these representations, but overborne in a much greater degree by his fear of Fagin, Mr. Bolter at length consented, with a very bad grace, to undertake the expedition. By Fagin’s ... conversation among the idlers, by proclaiming silence; or looked sternly up to bid some woman ‘Take that baby out,’ when the gravity of justice was disturbed by feeble cries, half-smoth...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 11:16

... wrestling with him by the way, into a small room adjoining, where he sat himself on a bench, and thrusting her into a chair, held her down by force. She struggled and implored by turns until twelve ... being nabbed by the devil,’ returned Sikes. ‘There never was another man with such a face as yours, unless it was your father, and I suppose HE is singeing his grizzled red beard b...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 11:16

... Oliver Twist Charles Dickens CHAPTER XLV NOAH CLAYPOLE IS EMPLOYED BY FAGIN ON A SECRET MISSION The old man was up, betimes, next morning, and waited impatiently ... remarked Mr. Bolter complacently. ‘The pots I took off airy railings, and the milk-can was standing by itself outside a public-house. I thought it might get rusty with the rain, or catch cold, yer ... respectabl...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 11:16

... the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana ... their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling nor crying) looked perfectly happy. Me,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/01/2014, 01:20