Tài liệu LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY- Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen docx

... ’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...

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... 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...

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... party being somewhat re- assured by the discovery (made on throwing open the shutters) that it was now broad day, took their way upstairs; with the dogs in front. The two women, who were afraid ... Bill!’ cried Toby; ‘drop the kid, and show ‘em your heels.’ With this parting advice, Mr. Crackit, preferring the chance of being shot by his friend, to the certainty of being taken by...

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... watch, which he drew forth by a black ribbon. ’He is always slow,’ remarked the old lady. ’Brittles always was a slow boy, ma’am,’ replied the attendant. And seeing, by the bye, that Brittles had ... gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by post, a day or two previous. ’And you, Miss Rose,’ said the doctor, turning to th...

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... door,’ replied a man outside; ‘it’s the officers from Bow Street, as was sent to to -day. ’ Much comforted by this assurance, Brittles opened the door to its full width, and confronted a portly ... 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...

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... once into a new state of being. Crawling forth, from day to day, to some green sunny spot, they have had such memories wakened up within them by the sight of the sky, and hill and plain, and glistening ... times as these; and Oliver would sit by one of the windows, listening to the sweet music, in a perfect rapture. And when Sunday came, how differently the day was spent, from a...

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... idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance! Oh! the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick, by ... disappeared, like the shadow thrown by a passing cloud; and she was once more deadly pale. Oliver, who watched the old lady anxiously, observed that she was alarmed by these appearances;...

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... mental agony I have suffered, during the last two days, wrings from me the avowal to you of a passion which, as you well know, is not one of yesterday, nor one I have lightly formed. On Rose, ... expressively, as he set forth on his morning’s walk. Pending these observations, the days were flying by; and Rose was rapidly recovering. Nor did Oliver’s time hang heavy on his hands, alth...

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... I loved you, as almost bore down sense and reason in its course. You recovered. Day by day, and almost hour by hour, some drop of health came back, and mingling with the spent and feeble stream ... over, just there; and the Jew, running a few paces to the right, crept through that gap.’ The two gentlemen watched Oliver’s earnest face, as he spoke, and looking from him to each...

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... breakfast-table. ‘Why, you are not in the same mind or intention two half-hours together!’ ’You will tell me a different tale one of these days,’ said Harry, colouring without any perceptible reason. ... or sweepstakes.’ Harry Maylie looked as if he could have followed up this short dialogue by one or two remarks that would have staggered the doctor not a little; but he contented...

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