SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY Suite Homes And Their Romance Đây là một serries truyện ngắn 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 | SHORT STORY BY O HENRY Suite Homes And Their Romance FEW young couples in the Big-City-of-Bluff began their married existence with greater promise of happiness than did Mr. and Mrs. Claude Turpin. They felt no especial animosity toward each other they were comfortably established in a handsome apartment house that had a name and accommodations like those of a sleepingcar they were living as expensively as the couple on the next floor above who had twice their income and their marriage had occurred on a wager a ferryboat and first acquaintance thus securing a sensational newspaper notice with their names attached to pictures of the Queen of Roumania and M. Santos-Dumont. Turpin s income was 200 per month. On pay day after calculating the amounts due for rent instalments on furniture and piano gas and bills owed to the florist confectioner milliner tailor wine merchant and cab company the Turpins would find that they still had 200 left to spend. How to do this is one of the secrets of metropolitan life. The domestic life of the Turpins was a beautiful picture to see. But you couldn t gaze upon it as you could at an oleograph of Don t Wake Grandma or Brooklyn by Moonlight. You had to blink when looked at it and you heard a fizzing sound just like the machine with a scope at the end of it. Yes there wasn t much repose about the picture of the Turpins domestic life. It was something like Spearing Salmon in the Columbia River or Japanese Artillery in Action. Every day was just like another as the days are in New York. In the morning Turpin would take bromoseltzer his pocket change from under the clock his hat no breakfast and his departure for the office. At noon Mrs. Turpin would get out of bed and humour put on a kimono airs and the water to boil for coffee. Turpin lunched downtown. He came home at 6 to dress for dinner. They always dined out. They strayed from the chop-house to chop-sueydom from terrace to table d hôte from rathskeller to roadhouse from café to casino
