Oliver Twist-CHAPTER LIII 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 LIII AND LAST The fortunes of those who have figured in this tale are nearly closed. The little that remains to their historian to relate is told in few and simple words. Before three months had passed Rose Fleming and Harry Maylie were married in the village church which was henceforth to be the scene of the young clergyman s labours on the same day they entered into possession of their new and happy home. Mrs. Maylie took up her abode with her son and daughter-in-law to enjoy during the tranquil remainder of her days the greatest felicity that age and worth can know the contemplation of the happiness of those on whom the warmest affections and tenderest cares of a well-spent life have been unceasingly bestowed. It appeared on full and careful investigation that if the wreck of property remaining in the custody of Monks which had never prospered either in his hands or in those of his mother were equally divided between himself and Oliver it would yield to each little more than three thousand pounds. By the provisions of his father s will Oliver would have been entitled to the whole but Mr. Brownlow unwilling to deprive the elder son of the opportunity of retrieving his former vices and pursuing an honest career proposed this mode of distribution to which his young charge joyfully acceded. Monks still bearing that assumed name retired with his portion to a distant part of the New World where having quickly squandered it he once more fell into his old courses and after undergoing a long confinement for some fresh act of fraud and knavery at length sunk under an attack of his old disorder and died in prison. As far from home died the chief remaining members of his friend Fagin s gang. Mr. Brownlow adopted Oliver as his son. Removing with him and the old housekeeper to within a mile of the parsonage-house where his dear friends resided he gratified the only remaining wish of Oliver s warm and earnest heart and thus linked together
