Pride and Prejudice- Chapter 18 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 18 Till Elizabeth entered the drawing-room at Netherfield and looked in vain for Mr. Wickham among the cluster of red coats there assembled a doubt of his being present had never occurred to her. The certainty of meeting him had not been checked by any of those recollections that might not unreasonably have alarmed her. She had dressed with more than usual care and prepared in the highest spirits for the conquest of all that remained unsubdued of his heart trusting that it was not more than might be won in the course of the evening. But in an instant arose the dreadful suspicion of his being purposely omitted for Mr. Darcy s pleasure in the Bingleys invitation to the officers and though this was not exactly the case the absolute fact of his absence was pronounced by his friend Denny to whom Lydia eagerly applied and who told them that Wickham had been obliged to go to town on business the day before and was not yet returned adding with a significant smile I do not imagine his business would have called him away just now if he had not wanted to avoid a certain gentleman here. This part of his intelligence though unheard by Lydia was caught by Elizabeth and as it assured her that Darcy was not less answerable for Wickham s absence than if her first surmise had been just every feeling of displeasure against the former was so sharpened by immediate disappointment that she could hardly reply with tolerable civility to the polite inquiries which he directly afterwards approached to make. Attendance forbearance patience with Darcy was injury to Wickham. She was resolved against any sort of conversation with him and turned away with a degree of ill-humour which she could not wholly surmount even in speaking to Mr. Bingley whose blind partiality provoked her. But Elizabeth was not formed for ill-humour and though every prospect of her own was destroyed for the evening it could not dwell long on her spirits and having told all her .
