VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 37 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 37 The Subject Continued In the first place and as a matter of the greatest necessity we are bound to describe how a house may be got for nothing a year. These mansions are to be had either unfurnished where if you have credit with Messrs. Gillows or Bantings you can get them splendidly montees and decorated entirely according to your own fancy or they are to be let furnished a less troublesome and complicated arrangement to most parties. It was so that Crawley and his wife preferred to hire their house. Before Mr. Bowls came to preside over Miss Crawley s house and cellar in Park Lane that lady had had for a butler a Mr. Raggles who was born on the family estate of Queen s Crawley and indeed was a younger son of a gardener there. By good conduct a handsome person and calves and a grave demeanour Raggles rose from the knife-board to the footboard of the carriage from the footboard to the butler s pantry. When he had been a certain number of years at the head of Miss Crawley s establishment where he had had good wages fat perquisites and plenty of opportunities of saving he announced that he was about to contract a matrimonial alliance with a late cook of Miss Crawley s who had subsisted in an honourable manner by the exercise of a mangle and the keeping of a small greengrocer s shop in the neighbourhood. The truth is that the ceremony had been clandestinely performed some years back although the news of Mr. Raggles marriage was first brought to Miss Crawley by a little boy and girl of seven and eight years of age whose continual presence in the kitchen had attracted the attention of Miss Briggs. Mr. Raggles then retired and personally undertook the superintendence of the small shop and the greens. He added milk and cream eggs and country-fed pork to his stores contenting himself whilst other retired butlers were vending spirits in public houses by dealing in the simplest country produce. And having a good connection
