VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 11 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 11 Arcadian Simplicity Besides these honest folks at the Hall whose simplicity and sweet rural purity surely show the advantage of a country life over a town one we must introduce the reader to their relatives and neighbours at the Rectory Bute Crawley and his wife. The Reverend Bute Crawley was a tall stately jolly shovel-hatted man far more popular in his county than the Baronet his brother. At college he pulled stroke-oar in the Christchurch boat and had thrashed all the best bruisers of the town. He carried his taste for boxing and athletic exercises into private life there was not a fight within twenty miles at which he was not present nor a race nor a coursing match nor a regatta nor a ball nor an election nor a visitation dinner nor indeed a good dinner in the whole county but he found means to attend it. You might see his bay mare and gig-lamps a score of miles away from his Rectory House whenever there was any dinner-party at Fuddleston or at Roxby or at Wapshot Hall or at the great lords of the county with all of whom he was intimate. He had a fine voice sang A southerly wind and a cloudy sky and gave the whoop in chorus with general applause. He rode to hounds in a pepper-and-salt frock and was one of the best fishermen in the county. Mrs. Crawley the rector s wife was a smart little body who wrote this worthy divine s sermons. Being of a domestic turn and keeping the house a great deal with her daughters she ruled absolutely within the Rectory wisely giving her husband full liberty without. He was welcome to come and go and dine abroad as many days as his fancy dictated for Mrs. Crawley was a saving woman and knew the price of port wine. Ever since Mrs. Bute carried off the young Rector of Queen s Crawley she was of a good family daughter of the late Hector McTavish and she and her mother played for Bute and won him at Harrowgate she had been a prudent and thrifty wife to him. In spite of .
