VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 38 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 38 A Family in a Very Small Way We must suppose little George Osborne has ridden from Knightsbridge towards Fulham and will stop and make inquiries at that village regarding some friends whom we have left there. How is Mrs. Amelia after the storm of Waterloo Is she living and thriving What has come of Major Dobbin whose cab was always hankering about her premises And is there any news of the Collector of Boggley Wollah The facts concerning the latter are briefly these Our worthy fat friend Joseph Sedley returned to India not long after his escape from Brussels. Either his furlough was up or he dreaded to meet any witnesses of his Waterloo flight. However it might be he went back to his duties in Bengal very soon after Napoleon had taken up his residence at St. Helena where Jos saw the ex-Emperor. To hear Mr. Sedley talk on board ship you would have supposed that it was not the first time he and the Corsican had met and that the civilian had bearded the French General at Mount St. John. He had a thousand anecdotes about the famous battles he knew the position of every regiment and the loss which each had incurred. He did not deny that he had been concerned in those victories that he had been with the army and carried despatches for the Duke of Wellington. And he described what the Duke did and said on every conceivable moment of the day of Waterloo with such an accurate knowledge of his Grace s sentiments and proceedings that it was clear he must have been by the conqueror s side throughout the day though as a non-combatant his name was not mentioned in the public documents relative to the battle. Perhaps he actually worked himself up to believe that he had been engaged with the army certain it is that he made a prodigious sensation for some time at Calcutta and was called Waterloo Sedley during the whole of his subsequent stay in Bengal. The bills which Jos had given for the purchase of those unlucky horses were paid
