Emma-Jane Austen Volume i -Chapter III Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng cvới 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 | Emma Jane Austen Volume I Chapter III Mr. Woodhouse was fond of society in his own way. He liked very much to have his friends come and see him and from various united causes from his long residence at Hartfield and his good nature from his fortune his house and his daughter he could command the visits of his own little circle in a great measure as he liked. He had not much intercourse with any families beyond that circle his horror of late hours and large dinner-parties made him unfit for any acquaintance but such as would visit him on his own terms. Fortunately for him Highbury including Randalls in the same parish and Donwell Abbey in the parish adjoining the seat of Mr. Knightley comprehended many such. Not unfrequently through Emma s persuasion he had some of the chosen and the best to dine with him but evening parties were what he preferred and unless he fancied himself at any time unequal to company there was scarcely an evening in the week in which Emma could not make up a card-table for him. Real long-standing regard brought the Westons and Mr. Knightley and by Mr. Elton a young man living alone without liking it the privilege of exchanging any vacant evening of his own blank solitude for the elegancies and society of Mr. Woodhouse s drawing-room and the smiles of his lovely daughter was in no danger of being thrown away. After these came a second set among the most come-at-able of whom were Mrs. and Miss Bates and Mrs. Goddard three ladies almost always at the service of an invitation from Hartfield and who were fetched and carried home so often that Mr. Woodhouse thought it no hardship for either James or the horses. Had it taken place only once a year it would have been a grievance. Mrs. Bates the widow of a former vicar of Highbury was a very old lady almost past every thing but tea and quadrille. She lived with her single daughter in a very small way and was considered with all the regard and respect which a harmless old lady under such untoward .
