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Night and Day Virginia Woolf Chapter 20

Night and Day Virginia Woolf Chapter 20 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 . | Night and Day Virginia Woolf Chapter 20 Happily for Mary Datchet she returned to the office to find that by some obscure Parliamentary maneuver the vote had once more slipped beyond the attainment of women. Mrs. Seal was in a condition bordering upon frenzy. The duplicity of Ministers the treachery of mankind the insult to womanhood the setback to civilization the ruin of her life s work the feelings of her father s daughter-all these topics were discussed in turn and the office was littered with newspaper cuttings branded with the blue if ambiguous marks of her displeasure. She confessed herself at fault in her estimate of human nature. The simple elementary acts of justice she said waving her hand towards the window and indicating the foot-passengers and omnibuses then passing down the far side of Russell Square are as far beyond them as they ever were. We can only look upon ourselves Mary as pioneers in a wilderness. We can only go on patiently putting the truth before them. It isn t them she continued taking heart from her sight of the traffic it s their leaders. It s those gentlemen sitting in Parliament and drawing four hundred a year of the people s money. If we had to put our case to the people we should soon have justice done to us. I have always believed in the people and I do so still. But-- She shook her head and implied that she would give them one more chance and if they didn t take advantage of that she couldn t answer for the consequences. Mr. Clacton s attitude was more philosophical and better supported by statistics. He came into the room after Mrs. Seal s outburst and pointed out with historical illustrations that such reverses had happened in every political campaign of any importance. If anything his spirits were improved by the disaster. The enemy he said had taken the offensive and it was now up to the Society to outwit the enemy. He gave Mary to understand that he had taken the measure of their cunning and had already bent his mind to the .