Emma-Jane Austen Volume II-Chapter 15 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 XV Emma was not required by any subsequent discovery to retract her ill opinion of Mrs. Elton. Her observation had been pretty correct. Such as Mrs. Elton appeared to her on this second interview such she appeared whenever they met again self-important presuming familiar ignorant and ill-bred. She had a little beauty and a little accomplishment but so little judgment that she thought herself coming with superior knowledge of the world to enliven and improve a country neighbourhood and conceived Miss Hawkins to have held such a place in society as Mrs. Elton s consequence only could surpass. There was no reason to suppose Mr. Elton thought at all differently from his wife. He seemed not merely happy with her but proud. He had the air of congratulating himself on having brought such a woman to Highbury as not even Miss Woodhouse could equal and the greater part of her new acquaintance disposed to commend or not in the habit of judging following the lead of Miss Bates s good-will or taking it for granted that the bride must be as clever and as agreeable as she professed herself were very well satisfied so that Mrs. Elton s praise passed from one mouth to another as it ought to do unimpeded by Miss Woodhouse who readily continued her first contribution and talked with a good grace of her being very pleasant and very elegantly dressed. In one respect Mrs. Elton grew even worse than she had appeared at first. Her feelings altered towards Emma. Offended probably by the little encouragement which her proposals of intimacy met with she drew back in her turn and gradually became much more cold and distant and though the effect was agreeable the ill-will which produced it was necessarily increasing Emma s dislike. Her manners too and Mr. Elton s were unpleasant towards Harriet. They were sneering and negligent. Emma hoped it must rapidly work Harriet s cure but the sensations which could prompt such behaviour sunk them both very much. It was
