Pride and Prejudice- Chapter 16 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 16 As no objection was made to the young people s engagement with their aunt and all Mr. Collins s scruples of leaving Mr. and Mrs. Bennet for a single evening during his visit were most steadily resisted the coach conveyed him and his five cousins at a suitable hour to Meryton and the girls had the pleasure of hearing as they entered the drawing-room that Mr. Wickham had accepted their uncle s invitation and was then in the house. When this information was given and they had all taken their seats Mr. Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment that he declared he might almost have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings a comparison that did not at first convey much gratification but when Mrs. Phillips understood from him what Rosings was and who was its proprietor when she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine s drawing-rooms and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds she felt all the force of the compliment and would hardly have resented a comparison with the housekeeper s room. In describing to her all the grandeur of Lady Catherine and her mansion with occasional digressions in praise of his own humble abode and the improvements it was receiving he was happily employed until the gentlemen joined them and he found in Mrs. Phillips a very attentive listener whose opinion of his consequence increased with what she heard and who was resolving to retail it all among her neighbours as soon as she could. To the girls who could not listen to their cousin and who had nothing to do but to wish for an instrument and examine their own indifferent imitations of china on the mantelpiece the interval of waiting appeared very long. It was over at last however. The gentlemen did approach and when Mr. Wickham walked into the room Elizabeth felt that she had neither been seeing him .
