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luyện đọc tiếng anh qua các tác phẩm văn học--THE LITTLE PRINCESS Chapter 16

THE LITTLE PRINCESS công chúa nhỏ Chapter 16 Đây là câu truyện anh ngữ với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc ngoại ngữ này. | THE LITTLE PRINCESS Chapter 16 16. The Visitor Imagine if you can what the rest of the evening was like. How they crouched by the fire which blazed and leaped and made so much of itself in the little grate. How they removed the covers of the dishes and found rich hot savory soup which was a meal in itself and sandwiches and toast and muffins enough for both of them. The mug from the washstand was used as Becky s tea cup and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea. They were warm and full-fed and happy and it was just like Sara that having found her strange good fortune real she should give herself up to the enjoyment of it to the utmost. She had lived such a life of imaginings that she was quite equal to accepting any wonderful thing that happened and almost to cease in a short time to find it bewildering. I don t know anyone in the world who could have done it she said but there has been someone. And here we are sitting by their fire--and--and--it s true And whoever it is--wherever they are--I have a friend Becky--someone is my friend. It cannot be denied that as they sat before the blazing fire and ate the nourishing comfortable food they felt a kind of rapturous awe and looked into each other s eyes with something like doubt. Do you think Becky faltered once in a whisper do you think it could melt away miss Hadn t we better be quick And she hastily crammed her sandwich into her mouth. If it was only a dream kitchen manners would be overlooked. No it won t melt away said Sara. I am eating this muffin and I can taste it. You never really eat things in dreams. You only think you are going to eat them. Besides I keep giving myself pinches and I touched a hot piece of coal just now on purpose. The sleepy comfort which at length almost overpowered them was a heavenly thing. It was the drowsiness of happy well-fed childhood and they sat in the fire glow and luxuriated in it until Sara found herself turning to look at .