VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 39 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 39 A Cynical Chapter Our duty now takes us back for a brief space to some old Hampshire acquaintances of ours whose hopes respecting the disposal of their rich kinswoman s property were so woefully disappointed. After counting upon thirty thousand pounds from his sister it was a heavy blow. to Bute Crawley to receive but five out of which sum when he had paid his own debts and those of Jim his son at college a very small fragment remained to portion off his four plain daughters. Mrs. Bute never knew or at least never acknowledged how far her own tyrannous behaviour had tended to ruin her husband. All that woman could do she vowed and protested she had done. Was it her fault if she did not possess those sycophantic arts which her hypocritical nephew Pitt Crawley practised She wished him all the happiness which he merited out of his ill-gotten gains. At least the money will remain in the family she said charitably. Pitt will never spend it my dear that is quite certain for a greater miser does not exist in England and he is as odious though in a different way as his spendthrift brother the abandoned Rawdon. So Mrs. Bute after the first shock of rage and disappointment began to accommodate herself as best she could to her altered fortunes and to save and retrench with all her might. She instructed her daughters how to bear poverty cheerfully and invented a thousand notable methods to conceal or evade it. She took them about to balls and public places in the neighbourhood with praiseworthy energy nay she entertained her friends in a hospitable comfortable manner at the Rectory and much more frequently than before dear Miss Crawley s legacy had fallen in. From her outward bearing nobody would have supposed that the family had been disappointed in their expectations or have guessed from her frequent appearance in public how she pinched and starved at home. Her girls had more milliners furniture than they had ever enjoyed .
