Emma-Jane Austen Volume II-Chapter 17 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 XVII When the ladies returned to the drawing-room after dinner Emma found it hardly possible to prevent their making two distinct parties with so much perseverance in judging and behaving ill did Mrs. Elton engross Jane Fairfax and slight herself. She and Mrs. Weston were obliged to be almost always either talking together or silent together. Mrs. Elton left them no choice. If Jane repressed her for a little time she soon began again and though much that passed between them was in a half-whisper especially on Mrs. Elton s side there was no avoiding a knowledge of their principal subjects The post-office catching cold fetching letters and friendship were long under discussion and to them succeeded one which must be at least equally unpleasant to Jane inquiries whether she had yet heard of any situation likely to suit her and professions of Mrs. Elton s meditated activity. Here is April come said she I get quite anxious about you. June will soon be here. But I have never fixed on June or any other month merely looked forward to the summer in general. But have you really heard of nothing I have not even made any inquiry I do not wish to make any yet. Oh my dear we cannot begin too early you are not aware of the difficulty of procuring exactly the desirable thing. I not aware said Jane shaking her head dear Mrs. Elton who can have thought of it as I have done But you have not seen so much of the world as I have. You do not know how many candidates there always are for the first situations. I saw a vast deal of that in the neighbourhood round Maple Grove. A cousin of Mr. Suckling Mrs. Bragge had such an infinity of applications every body was anxious to be in her family for she moves in the first circle. Wax-candles in the schoolroom You may imagine how desirable Of all houses in the kingdom Mrs. Bragge s is the one I would most wish to see you in. Colonel and Mrs. Campbell are to be in town again by midsummer said Jane. I must spend .
