WUTHERING HEIGHTS (ĐỒI GIÓ HÚ) EMILY BRONTE CHAPTER 4 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | WUTHERING HEIGHTS ĐỒI GIÓ HÚ EMILY BRONTE CHAPTER 4 What vain weathercocks we are I who had determined to hold myself independent of all social intercourse and thanked my stars that at length I had lighted on a spot where it was next to impracticable - I weak wretch after maintaining till dusk a struggle with low spirits and solitude was finally compelled to strike my colours and under pretence of gaining information concerning the necessities of my establishment I desired Mrs. Dean when she brought in supper to sit down while I ate it hoping sincerely she would prove a regular gossip and either rouse me to animation or lull me to sleep by her talk. You have lived here a considerable time I commenced did you not say sixteen years Eighteen sir I came when the mistress was married to wait on her after she died the master retained me for his housekeeper. Indeed. There ensued a pause. She was not a gossip I feared unless about her own affairs and those could hardly interest me. However having studied for an interval with a fist on either knee and a cloud of meditation over her ruddy countenance she ejaculated - Ah times are greatly changed since then Yes I remarked you ve seen a good many alterations I suppose I have and troubles too she said. Oh I ll turn the talk on my landlord s family I thought to myself. A good subject to start And that pretty girl-widow I should like to know her history whether she be a native of the country or as is more probable an exotic that the surly indgenae will not recognise for kin. With this intention I asked Mrs. Dean why Heathcliff let Thrushcross Grange and preferred living in a situation and residence so much inferior. Is he not rich enough to keep the estate in good order I inquired. Rich sir she returned. He has nobody knows what money and every year it increases. Yes yes he s rich enough to live in a finer house than this but he s very near - close-handed and if he had meant to flit to Thrushcross Grange as soon as he heard of a
