Pride and Prejudice- Chapter 23 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 23 Elizabeth was sitting with her mother and sisters reflecting on what she had heard and doubting whether she was authorised to mention it when Sir William Lucas himself appeared sent by his daughter to announce her engagement to the family. With many compliments to them and much self-gratulation on the prospect of a connection between the houses he unfolded the matter to an audience not merely wondering but incredulous for Mrs. Bennet with more perseverance than politeness protested he must be entirely mistaken and Lydia always unguarded and often uncivil boisterously exclaimed Good Lord Sir William how can you tell such a story Do not you know that Mr. Collins wants to marry Lizzy Nothing less than the complaisance of a courtier could have borne without anger such treatment but Sir William s good breeding carried him through it all and though he begged leave to be positive as to the truth of his information he listened to all their impertinence with the most forbearing courtesy. Elizabeth feeling it incumbent on her to relieve him from so unpleasant a situation now put herself forward to confirm his account by mentioning her prior knowledge of it from Charlotte herself and endeavoured to put a stop to the exclamations of her mother and sisters by the earnestness of her congratulations to Sir William in which she was readily joined by Jane and by making a variety of remarks on the happiness that might be expected from the match the excellent character of Mr. Collins and the convenient distance of Hunsford from London. Mrs. Bennet was in fact too much overpowered to say a great deal while Sir William remained but no sooner had he left them than her feelings found a rapid vent. In the first place she persisted in disbelieving the whole of the matter secondly she was very sure that Mr. Collins had been taken in thirdly she trusted that they would never be happy together and fourthly that the match might be broken off. Two .
