VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 55 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 55 In Which the Same Subject is Pursued Becky did not rally from the state of stupor and confusion in which the events of the previous night had plunged her intrepid spirit until the bells of the Curzon Street Chapels were ringing for afternoon service and rising from her bed she began to ply her own bell in order to summon the French maid who had left her some hours before. Mrs. Rawdon Crawley rang many times in vain and though on the last occasion she rang with such vehemence as to pull down the bell- rope Mademoiselle Fifine did not make her appearance no not though her mistress in a great pet and with the bell-rope in her hand came out to the landing-place with her hair over her shoulders and screamed out repeatedly for her attendant. The truth is she had quitted the premises for many hours and upon that permission which is called French leave among us After picking up the trinkets in the drawing-room Mademoiselle had ascended to her own apartments packed and corded her own boxes there tripped out and called a cab for herself brought down her trunks with her own hand and without ever so much as asking the aid of any of the other servants who would probably have refused it as they hated her cordially and without wishing any one of them good-bye had made her exit from Curzon Street. The game in her opinion was over in that little domestic establishment. Fifine went off in a cab as we have known more exalted persons of her nation to do under similar circumstances but more provident or lucky than these she secured not only her own property but some of her mistress s if indeed that lady could be said to have any property at all and not only carried off the trinkets before alluded to and some favourite dresses on which she had long kept her eye but four richly gilt Louis Quatorze candlesticks six gilt albums keepsakes and Books of Beauty a gold enamelled snuff-box which had once belonged to Madame du Barri and the .
