Emma-Jane Austen Volume II-Chapter 8 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ tiếng 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 . | Emma Jane Austen Volume II Chapter VIII Frank Churchill came back again and if he kept his father s dinner waiting it was not known at Hartfield for Mrs. Weston was too anxious for his being a favourite with Mr. Woodhouse to betray any imperfection which could be concealed. He came back had had his hair cut and laughed at himself with a very good grace but without seeming really at all ashamed of what he had done. He had no reason to wish his hair longer to conceal any confusion of face no reason to wish the money unspent to improve his spirits. He was quite as undaunted and as lively as ever and after seeing him Emma thus moralised to herself I do not know whether it ought to be so but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness but folly is not always folly. It depends upon the character of those who handle it. Mr. Knightley he is not a trifling silly young man. If he were he would have done this differently. He would either have gloried in the achievement or been ashamed of it. There would have been either the ostentation of a coxcomb or the evasions of a mind too weak to defend its own vanities. No I am perfectly sure that he is not trifling or silly. With Tuesday came the agreeable prospect of seeing him again and for a longer time than hitherto of judging of his general manners and by inference of the meaning of his manners towards herself of guessing how soon it might be necessary for her to throw coldness into her air and of fancying what the observations of all those might be who were now seeing them together for the first time. She meant to be very happy in spite of the scene being laid at Mr. Cole s and without being able to forget that among the failings of Mr. Elton even in the days of his favour none had disturbed her more than his propensity to dine with Mr. Cole. Her father s comfort was amply secured Mrs. Bates as well as Mrs. Goddard being able to come and her
