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LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC -THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 107

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 107 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 . | THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 107 The Lions Den. One division of La Force in which the most dangerous and desperate prisoners are confined is called the court of Saint-Bernard. The prisoners in their expressive language have named it the Lions Den probably because the captives possess teeth which frequently gnaw the bars and sometimes the keepers also. It is a prison within a prison the walls are double the thickness of the rest. The gratings are every day carefully examined by jailers whose herculean proportions and cold pitiless expression prove them to have been chosen to reign over their subjects for their superior activity and intelligence. The court-yard of this quarter is enclosed by enormous walls over which the sun glances obliquely when it deigns to penetrate into this gulf of moral and physical deformity. On this paved yard are to be seen -- pacing to and fro from morning till night pale careworn and haggard like so many shadows -- the men whom justice holds beneath the steel she is sharpening. There crouched against the side of the wall which attracts and retains the most heat they may be seen sometimes talking to one another but more frequently alone watching the door which sometimes opens to call forth one from the gloomy assemblage or to throw in another outcast from society. The court of Saint-Bernard has its own particular apartment for the reception of guests it is a long rectangle divided by two upright gratings placed at a distance of three feet from one another to prevent a visitor from shaking hands with or passing anything to the prisoners. It is a wretched damp nay even horrible spot more especially when we consider the agonizing conferences which have taken place between those iron bars. And yet frightful though this spot may be it is looked upon as a kind of paradise by the men whose days are numbered it is so rare for them to leave the Lions Den for any other place than the barrier Saint-Jacques or the galleys In the .