SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Rose Of Dixie 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 The Rose Of Dixie When The Rose of Dixie magazine was started by a stock company in Toombs City Georgia there was never but one candidate for its chief editorial position in the minds of its owners. Col. Aquila Telfair was the man for the place. By all the rights of learning family reputation and Southern traditions he was its foreordained fit and logical editor. So a committee of the patriotic Georgia citizens who had subscribed the founding fund of 100 000 called upon Colonel Telfair at his residence Cedar Heights fearful lest the enterprise and the South should suffer by his possible refusal. The colonel received them in his great library where he spent most of his days. The library had descended to him from his father. It contained ten thousand volumes some of which had been published as late as the year 1861. When the deputation arrived Colonel Telfair was seated at his massive white-pine centre-table reading Burton s Anatomy of Melancholy. He arose and shook hands punctiliously with each member of the committee. If you were familiar with The Rose of Dixie you will remember the colonel s portrait which appeared in it from time to time. You could not forget the long carefully brushed white hair the hooked high-bridged nose slightly twisted to the left the keen eyes under the still black eyebrows the classic mouth beneath the drooping white mustache slightly frazzled at the ends. The committee solicitously offered him the position of managing editor humbly presenting an outline of the field that the publication was designed to cover and mentioning a comfortable salary. The colonel s lands were growing poorer each year and were much cut up by red gullies. Besides the honor was not one to be refused. In a forty-minute speech of acceptance Colonel Telfair gave an outline of English literature from Chaucer to Macaulay re-fought the battle of Chancellorsville and said that God helping him he would so conduct The Rose of Dixie that its fragrance
