THE LITTLE PRINCESS- công chúa nhỏ Chapter 14 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 14 14. What Melchisedec Heard and Saw On this very afternoon while Sara was out a strange thing happened in the attic. Only Melchisedec saw and heard it and he was so much alarmed and mystified that he scuttled back to his hole and hid there and really quaked and trembled as he peeped out furtively and with great caution to watch what was going on. The attic had been very still all the day after Sara had left it in the early morning. The stillness had only been broken by the pattering of the rain upon the slates and the skylight. Melchisedec had in fact found it rather dull and when the rain ceased to patter and perfect silence reigned he decided to come out and reconnoiter though experience taught him that Sara would not return for some time. He had been rambling and sniffing about and had just found a totally unexpected and unexplained crumb left from his last meal when his attention was attracted by a sound on the roof. He stopped to listen with a palpitating heart. The sound suggested that something was moving on the roof. It was approaching the skylight it reached the skylight. The skylight was being mysteriously opened. A dark face peered into the attic then another face appeared behind it and both looked in with signs of caution and interest. Two men were outside on the roof and were making silent preparations to enter through the skylight itself. One was Ram Dass and the other was a young man who was the Indian gentleman s secretary but of course Melchisedec did not know this. He only knew that the men were invading the silence and privacy of the attic and as the one with the dark face let himself down through the aperture with such lightness and dexterity that he did not make the slightest sound Melchisedec turned tail and fled precipitately back to his hole. He was frightened to death. He had ceased to be timid with Sara and knew she would never throw anything but crumbs and would never make any sound other than the soft low .
