Oliver Twist-CHAPTER XLVIII Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ dành cho trẻ em nổi tiếng của nhà văn Charles Dicken với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | Oliver Twist Charles Dickens CHAPTER XLVIII THE FLIGHT OF SIKES Of all bad deeds that under cover of the darkness had been committed with wide London s bounds since night hung over it that was the worst. Of all the horrors that rose with an ill scent upon the morning air that was the foulest and most cruel. The sun the bright sun that brings back not light alone but new life and hope and freshness to man burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window through cathedral dome and rotten crevice it shed its equal ray. It lighted up the room where the murdered woman lay. It did. He tried to shut it out but it would stream in. If the sight had been a ghastly one in the dull morning what was it now in all that brilliant light He had not moved he had been afraid to stir. There had been a moan and motion of the hand and with terror added to rage he had struck and struck again. Once he threw a rug over it but it was worse to fancy the eyes and imagine them moving towards him than to see them glaring upward as if watching the reflection of the pool of gore that quivered and danced in the sunlight on the ceiling. He had plucked it off again. And there was the body mere flesh and blood nor more but such flesh and so much blood He struck a light kindled a fire and thrust the club into it. There was hair upon the end which blazed and shrunk into a light cinder and caught by the air whirled up the chimney. Even that frightened him sturdy as he was but he held the weapon till it broke and then piled it on the coals to burn away and smoulder into ashes. He washed himself and rubbed his clothes there were spots that would not be removed but he cut the pieces out and burnt them. How those stains were dispersed about the room The very feet of the dog were bloody. All this time he had never once turned his back upon the corpse no not for a moment. Such preparations completed he moved backward towards the door dragging the .
