THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER CHAPTER 22 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi 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 . | THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER CHAPTER 22 TOM joined the new order of Cadets of Temperance being attracted by the showy character of their regalia. He promised to abstain from smoking chewing and profanity as long as he remained a member. Now he found out a new thing -- namely that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. Tom soon found himself tormented with a desire to drink and swear the desire grew to be so intense that nothing but the hope of a chance to display himself in his red sash kept him from withdrawing from the order. Fourth of July was coming but he soon gave that up -- gave it up before he had worn his shackles over forty-eight hours -- and fixed his hopes upon old Judge Frazer justice of the peace who was apparently on his deathbed and would have a big public funeral since he was so high an official. During three days Tom was deeply concerned about the Judge s condition and hungry for news of it. Sometimes his hopes ran high -- so high that he would venture to get out his regalia and practise before the looking-glass. But the Judge had a most -212- discouraging way of fluctuating. At last he was pronounced upon the mend - - and then convalescent. Tom was disgusted and felt a sense of injury too. He handed in his resignation at once -- and that night the Judge suffered a relapse and died. Tom resolved that he would never trust a man like that again. The funeral was a fine thing. The Cadets paraded in a style calculated to kill the late member with envy. Tom was a free boy again however -- there was something in that. He could drink and swear now -- but found to his surprise that he did not want to. The simple fact that he could took the desire away and the charm of it. Tom presently wondered to find that his coveted vacation was beginning to hang a little heavily on his hands. He attempted a diary -- but nothing happened during three days and so he abandoned it. The first of all the
