VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 53 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh | VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 53 A Rescue and a Catastrophe Friend Rawdon drove on then to Mr. Moss s mansion in Cursitor Street and was duly inducted into that dismal place of hospitality. Morning was breaking over the cheerful house-tops of Chancery Lane as the rattling cab woke up the echoes there. A little pink-eyed Jew-boy with a head as ruddy as the rising morn let the party into the house and Rawdon was welcomed to the ground-floor apartments by Mr. Moss his travelling companion and host who cheerfully asked him if he would like a glass of something warm after his drive. The Colonel was not so depressed as some mortals would be who quitting a palace and a placens uxor find themselves barred into a spunging-house for if the truth must be told he had been a lodger at Mr. Moss s establishment once or twice before. We have not thought it necessary in the previous course of this narrative to mention these trivial little domestic incidents but the reader may be assured that they can t unfrequently occur in the life of a man who lives on nothing a year. Upon his first visit to Mr. Moss the Colonel then a bachelor had been liberated by the generosity of his aunt on the second mishap little Becky with the greatest spirit and kindness had borrowed a sum of money from Lord Southdown and had coaxed her husband s creditor who was her shawl velvet-gown lace pocket-handkerchief trinket and gim-crack purveyor indeed to take a portion of the sum claimed and Rawdon s promissory note for the remainder so on both these occasions the capture and release had been conducted with the utmost gallantry on all sides and Moss and the Colonel were therefore on the very best of terms. You ll find your old bed Colonel and everything comfortable that gentleman said as I may honestly say. You may be pretty sure its kep aired and by the best of company too. It was slep in the night afore last by the Honorable Capting Famish of the Fiftieth Dragoons whose Mar took him out .
