THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP 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 SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP Isa Whitney brother of the late Elias Whitney . Principal of the Theological College of St. George s was much addicted to opium. The habit grew upon him as I understand from some foolish freak when he was at college for having read De Quincey s description of his dreams and sensations he had drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the same effects. He found as so many more have done that the practice is easier to attain than to get rid of and for many years he continued to be a slave to the drug an object of mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see him now with yellow pasty face drooping lids and pin-point pupils all huddled in a chair the wreck and ruin of a noble man. One night--it was in June 89--there came a ring to my bell about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the clock. I sat up in my chair and my wife laid her needle-work down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. A patient said she. You ll have to go out. I groaned for I was newly come back from a weary day. We heard the door open a few hurried words and then quick steps upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open and a lady clad in some dark-colored stuff with a black veil entered the room. You will excuse my calling so late she began and then suddenly losing her self-control she ran forward threw her arms about my wife s neck and sobbed upon her shoulder. Oh I m in such trouble she cried I do so want a little help. Why said my wife pulling up her veil it is Kate Whitney. How you startled me Kate I had not an idea who you were when you came in. I didn t know what to do so l came straight to you. That was always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds to a light-house. It was very sweet of you to come. Now you must have some wine and water and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or should you rather that I sent James
