VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 59 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 59 The Old Piano The Major s visit left old John Sedley in a great state of agitation and excitement. His daughter could not induce him to settle down to his customary occupations or amusements that night. He passed the evening fumbling amongst his boxes and desks untying his papers with trembling hands and sorting and arranging them against Jos s arrival. He had them in the greatest order his tapes and his files his receipts and his letters with lawyers and correspondents the documents relative to the wine project which failed from a most unaccountable accident after commencing with the most splendid prospects the coal project which only a want of capital prevented from becoming the most successful scheme ever put before the public the patent saw-mills and sawdust consolidation project c. c. All night until a very late hour he passed in the preparation of these documents trembling about from one room to another with a quivering candle and shaky hands. Here s the wine papers here s the sawdust here s the coals here s my letters to Calcutta and Madras and replies from Major Dobbin . and Mr. Joseph Sedley to the same. He shall find no irregularity about ME Emmy the old gentleman said. Emmy smiled. I don t think Jos will care about seeing those papers Papa she said. You don t know anything about business my dear answered the sire shaking his head with an important air. And it must be confessed that on this point Emmy was very ignorant and that is a pity some people are so knowing. All these twopenny documents arranged on a side table old Sedley covered them carefully over with a clean bandanna handkerchief one out of Major Dobbin s lot and enjoined the maid and landlady of the house in the most solemn way not to disturb those papers which were arranged for the arrival of Mr. Joseph Sedley the next morning Mr. Joseph Sedley of the Honourable East India Company s Bengal Civil Service. Amelia found him up very early the
