Emma-Jane Austen Volume II-Chapter 16 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 XVI Every body in and about Highbury who had ever visited Mr. Elton was disposed to pay him attention on his marriage. Dinner-parties and eveningparties were made for him and his lady and invitations flowed in so fast that she had soon the pleasure of apprehending they were never to have a disengaged day. I see how it is said she. I see what a life I am to lead among you. Upon my word we shall be absolutely dissipated. We really seem quite the fashion. If this is living in the country it is nothing very formidable. From Monday next to Saturday I assure you we have not a disengaged day A woman with fewer resources than I have need not have been at a loss. No invitation came amiss to her. Her Bath habits made evening-parties perfectly natural to her and Maple Grove had given her a taste for dinners. She was a little shocked at the want of two drawing rooms at the poor attempt at rout-cakes and there being no ice in the Highbury card-parties. Mrs. Bates Mrs. Perry Mrs. Goddard and others were a good deal behind hand in knowledge of the world but she would soon shew them how every thing ought to be arranged. In the course of the spring she must return their civilities by one very superior party in which her card-tables should be set out with their separate candles and unbroken packs in the true style and more waiters engaged for the evening than their own establishment could furnish to carry round the refreshments at exactly the proper hour and in the proper order. Emma in the meanwhile could not be satisfied without a dinner at Hartfield for the Eltons. They must not do less than others or she should be exposed to odious suspicions and imagined capable of pitiful resentment. A dinner there must be. After Emma had talked about it for ten minutes Mr. Woodhouse felt no unwillingness and only made the usual stipulation of not sitting at the bottom of the table himself with the usual regular difficulty of deciding who should do it for .
