VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 36 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 36 How to Live Well on Nothing a Year I suppose there is no man in this Vanity Fair of ours so little observant as not to think sometimes about the worldly affairs of his acquaintances or so extremely charitable as not to wonder how his neighbour Jones or his neighbour Smith can make both ends meet at the end of the year. With the utmost regard for the family for instance for I dine with them twice or thrice in the season I cannot but own that the appearance of the Jenkinses in the park in the large barouche with the grenadier-footmen will surprise and mystify me to my dying day for though I know the equipage is only jobbed and all the Jenkins people are on board wages yet those three men and the carriage must represent an expense of six hundred a year at the very least and then there are the splendid dinners the two boys at Eton the prize governess and masters for the girls the trip abroad or to Eastbourne or Worthing in the autumn the annual ball with a supper from Gunter s who by the way supplies most of the first-rate dinners which J. gives as I know very well having been invited to one of them to fill a vacant place when I saw at once that these repasts are very superior to the common run of entertainments for which the humbler sort of J. s acquaintances get cards who I say with the most good-natured feelings in the world can help wondering how the Jenkinses make out matters What is Jenkins We all know Commissioner of the Tape and Sealing Wax Office with 1200 pounds a year for a salary. Had his wife a private fortune Pooh Miss Flint one of eleven children of a small squire in Buckinghamshire. All she ever gets from her family is a turkey at Christmas in exchange for which she has to board two or three of her sisters in the off season and lodge and feed her brothers when they come to town. How does Jenkins balance his income I say as every friend of his must say How is it that he has not been outlawed long since
