VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 46 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 | VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 46 Struggles and Trials Our friends at Brompton were meanwhile passing their Christmas after their fashion and in a manner by no means too cheerful. Out of the hundred pounds a year which was about the amount of her income the Widow Osborne had been in the habit of giving up nearly three-fourths to her father and mother for the expenses of herself and her little boy. With 120 more supplied by Jos this family of four people attended by a single Irish servant who also did for Clapp and his wife might manage to live in decent comfort through the year and hold up their heads yet and be able to give a friend a dish of tea still after the storms and disappointments of their early life. Sedley still maintained his ascendency over the family of Mr. Clapp his ex-clerk. Clapp remembered the time when sitting on the edge of the chair he tossed off a bumper to the health of Mrs. S Miss Emmy and Mr. Joseph in India at the merchant s rich table in Russell Square. Time magnified the splendour of those recollections in the honest clerk s bosom. Whenever he came up from the kitchen-parlour to the drawing-room and partook of tea or gin- and-water with Mr. Sedley he would say This was not what you was accustomed to once sir and as gravely and reverentially drink the health of the ladies as he had done in the days of their utmost prosperity. He thought Miss Melia s playing the divinest music ever performed and her the finest lady. He never would sit down before Sedley at the club even nor would he have that gentleman s character abused by any member of the society. He had seen the first men in London shaking hands with Mr. S he said He d known him in times when Rothschild might be seen on Change with him any day and he owed him personally everythink. Clapp with the best of characters and handwritings had been able very soon after his master s disaster to find other employment for himself. Such a little fish as me can swim in any bucket
