VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 14 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 14 Miss Crawley at Home About this time there drove up to an exceedingly snug and well-appointed house in Park Lane a travelling chariot with a lozenge on the panels a discontented female in a green veil and crimped curls on the rumble and a large and confidential man on the box. It was the equipage of our friend Miss Crawley returning from Hants. The carriage windows were shut the fat spaniel whose head and tongue ordinarily lolled out of one of them reposed on the lap of the discontented female. When the vehicle stopped a large round bundle of shawls was taken out of the carriage by the aid of various domestics and a young lady who accompanied the heap of cloaks. That bundle contained Miss Crawley who was conveyed upstairs forthwith and put into a bed and chamber warmed properly as for the reception of an invalid. Messengers went off for her physician and medical man. They came consulted prescribed vanished. The young companion of Miss Crawley at the conclusion of their interview came in to receive their instructions and administered those antiphlogistic medicines which the eminent men ordered. Captain Crawley of the Life Guards rode up from Knightsbridge Barracks the next day his black charger pawed the straw before his invalid aunt s door. He was most affectionate in his inquiries regarding that amiable relative. There seemed to be much source of apprehension. He found Miss Crawley s maid the discontented female unusually sulky and despondent he found Miss Briggs her dame de compagnie in tears alone in the drawingroom. She had hastened home hearing of her beloved friend s illness. She wished to fly to her couch that couch which she Briggs had so often smoothed in the hour of sickness. She was denied admission to Miss Crawley s apartment. A stranger was administering her medicines a stranger from the country an odious Miss . . . tears choked the utterance of the dame de compagnie and she buried her crushed .
