VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 6 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 6 Vauxhall I know that the tune I am piping is a very mild one although there are some terrific chapters coming presently and must beg the good- natured reader to remember that we are only discoursing at present about a stockbroker s family in Russell Square who are taking walks or luncheon or dinner or talking and making love as people do in common life and without a single passionate and wonderful incident to mark the progress of their loves. The argument stands thus Osborne in love with Amelia has asked an old friend to dinner and to Vauxhall Jos Sedley is in love with Rebecca. Will he marry her That is the great subject now in hand. We might have treated this subject in the genteel or in the romantic or in the facetious manner. Suppose we had laid the scene in Grosvenor Square with the very same adventures would not some people have listened Suppose we had shown how Lord Joseph Sedley fell in love and the Marquis of Osborne became attached to Lady Amelia with the full consent of the Duke her noble father or instead of the supremely genteel suppose we had resorted to the entirely low and described what was going on in Mr. Sedley s kitchen how black Sambo was in love with the cook as indeed he was and how he fought a battle with the coachman in her behalf how the knife-boy was caught stealing a cold shoulder of mutton and Miss Sedley s new femme de chambre refused to go to bed without a wax candle such incidents might be made to provoke much delightful laughter and be supposed to represent scenes of life. Or if on the contrary we had taken a fancy for the terrible and made the lover of the new femme de chambre a professional burglar who bursts into the house with his band slaughters black Sambo at the feet of his master and carries off Amelia in her nightdress not to be let loose again till the third volume we should easily have constructed a tale of thrilling interest through the fiery chapters of which the reader
