VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 34 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 34 James Crawley s Pipe Is Put Out The amiable behaviour of Mr. Crawley and Lady Jane s kind reception of her highly flattered Miss Briggs who was enabled to speak a good word for the latter after the cards of the Southdown family had been presented to Miss Crawley. A Countess s card left personally too for her Briggs was not a little pleasing to the poor friendless companion. What could Lady Southdown mean by leaving a card upon you I wonder Miss Briggs said the republican Miss Crawley upon which the companion meekly said that she hoped there could be no harm in a lady of rank taking notice of a poor gentlewoman and she put away this card in her work-box amongst her most cherished personal treasures. Furthermore Miss Briggs explained how she had met Mr. Crawley walking with his cousin and long affianced bride the day before and she told how kind and gentle-looking the lady was and what a plain not to say common dress she had all the articles of which from the bonnet down to the boots she described and estimated with female accuracy. Miss Crawley allowed Briggs to prattle on without interrupting her too much. As she got well she was pining for society. Mr. Creamer her medical man would not hear of her returning to her old haunts and dissipation in London. The old spinster was too glad to find any companionship at Brighton and not only were the cards acknowledged the very next day but Pitt Crawley was graciously invited to come and see his aunt. He came bringing with him Lady Southdown and her daughter. The dowager did not say a word about the state of Miss Crawley s soul but talked with much discretion about the weather about the war and the downfall of the monster Bonaparte and above all about doctors quacks and the particular merits of Dr. Podgers whom she then patronised. During their interview Pitt Crawley made a great stroke and one which showed that had his diplomatic career not been blighted by early neglect .
