VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 25 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 25 In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton Conducted to the ladies at the Ship Inn Dobbin assumed a jovial and rattling manner which proved that this young officer was becoming a more consummate hypocrite every day of his life. He was trying to hide his own private feelings first upon seeing Mrs. George Osborne in her new condition and secondly to mask the apprehensions he entertained as to the effect which the dismal news brought down by him would certainly have upon her. It is my opinion George he said that the French Emperor will be upon us horse and foot before three weeks are over and will give the Duke such a dance as shall make the Peninsula appear mere child s play. But you need not say that to Mrs. Osborne you know. There mayn t be any fighting on our side after all and our business in Belgium may turn out to be a mere military occupation. Many persons think so and Brussels is full of fine people and ladies of fashion. So it was agreed to represent the duty of the British army in Belgium in this harmless light to Amelia. This plot being arranged the hypocritical Dobbin saluted Mrs. George Osborne quite gaily tried to pay her one or two compliments relative to her new position as a bride which compliments it must be confessed were exceedingly clumsy and hung fire woefully and then fell to talking about Brighton and the sea-air and the gaieties of the place and the beauties of the road and the merits of the Lightning coach and horses all in a manner quite incomprehensible to Amelia and very amusing to Rebecca who was watching the Captain as indeed she watched every one near whom she came. Little Amelia it must be owned had rather a mean opinion of her husband s friend Captain Dobbin. He lisped he was very plain and homely-looking and exceedingly awkward and ungainly. She liked him for his attachment to her husband to be sure there was very little merit in that and she thought George .
