Pride and Prejudice- Chapter 7 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 | Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Chapter 7 Mr. Bennet s property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year which unfortunately for his daughters was entailed in default of heirs male on a distant relation and their mother s fortune though ample for her situation in life could but ill supply the deficiency of his. Her father had been an attorney in Meryton and had left her four thousand pounds. She had a sister married to a Mr. Phillips who had been a clerk to their father and succeeded him in the business and a brother settled in London in a respectable line of trade. The village of Longbourn was only one mile from Meryton a most convenient distance for the young ladies who were usually tempted thither three or four times a week to pay their duty to their aunt and to a milliner s shop just over the way. The two youngest of the family Catherine and Lydia were particularly frequent in these attentions their minds were more vacant than their sisters and when nothing better offered a walk to Meryton was necessary to amuse their morning hours and furnish conversation for the evening and however bare of news the country in general might be they always contrived to learn some from their aunt. At present indeed they were well supplied both with news and happiness by the recent arrival of a militia regiment in the neighbourhood it was to remain the whole winter and Meryton was the headquarters. Their visits to Mrs. Phillips were now productive of the most interesting intelligence. Every day added something to their knowledge of the officers names and connections. Their lodgings were not long a secret and at length they began to know the officers themselves. Mr. Phillips visited them all and this opened to his nieces a store of felicity unknown before. They could talk of nothing but officers and Mr. Bingley s large fortune the mention of which gave animation to their mother was worthless in their eyes when opposed to the regimentals of an ensign. After .
