THE LITTLE PRINCESS - công chúa nhỏ Chapter 19 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 19 19. Anne Never had such joy reigned in the nursery of the Large Family. Never had they dreamed of such delights as resulted from an intimate acquaintance with the little-girl-who-was-not-a-beggar. The mere fact of her sufferings and adventures made her a priceless possession. Everybody wanted to be told over and over again the things which had happened to her. When one was sitting by a warm fire in a big glowing room it was quite delightful to hear how cold it could be in an attic. It must be admitted that the attic was rather delighted in and that its coldness and bareness quite sank into insignificance when Melchisedec was remembered and one heard about the sparrows and things one could see if one climbed on the table and stuck one s head and shoulders out of the skylight. Of course the thing loved best was the story of the banquet and the dream which was true. Sara told it for the first time the day after she had been found. Several members of the Large Family came to take tea with her and as they sat or curled up on the hearth-rug she told the story in her own way and the Indian gentleman listened and watched her. When she had finished she looked up at him and put her hand on his knee. That is my part she said. Now won t you tell your part of it Uncle Tom He had asked her to call him always Uncle Tom. I don t know your part yet and it must be beautiful. So he told them how when he sat alone ill and dull and irritable Ram Dass had tried to distract him by describing the passers by and there was one child who passed oftener than any one else he had begun to be interested in her--partly perhaps because he was thinking a great deal of a little girl and partly because Ram Dass had been able to relate the incident of his visit to the attic in chase of the monkey. He had described its cheerless look and the bearing of the child who seemed as if she was not of the class of those who were treated as drudges and servants. Bit by bit Ram .
