VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 35 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 35 Widow and Mother The news of the great fights of Quatre Bras and Waterloo reached England at the same time. The Gazette first published the result of the two battles at which glorious intelligence all England thrilled with triumph and fear. Particulars then followed and after the announcement of the victories came the list of the wounded and the slain. Who can tell the dread with which that catalogue was opened and read Fancy at every village and homestead almost through the three kingdoms the great news coming of the battles in Flanders and the feelings of exultation and gratitude bereavement and sickening dismay when the lists of the regimental losses were gone through and it became known whether the dear friend and relative had escaped or fallen. Anybody who will take the trouble of looking back to a file of the newspapers of the time must even now feel at second-hand this breathless pause of expectation. The lists of casualties are carried on from day to day you stop in the midst as in a story which is to be continued in our next. Think what the feelings must have been as those papers followed each other fresh from the press and if such an interest could be felt in our country and about a battle where but twenty thousand of our people were engaged think of the condition of Europe for twenty years before where people were fighting not by thousands but by millions each one of whom as he struck his enemy wounded horribly some other innocent heart far away. The news which that famous Gazette brought to the Osbornes gave a dreadful shock to the family and its chief. The girls indulged unrestrained in their grief. The gloom-stricken old father was still more borne down by his fate and sorrow. He strove to think that a judgment was on the boy for his disobedience. He dared not own that the severity of the sentence frightened him and that its fulfilment had come too soon upon his curses. Sometimes a shuddering terror
