VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 44 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 44 A Round-about Chapter between London and Hampshire Our old friends the Crawleys family house in Great Gaunt Street still bore over its front the hatchment which had been placed there as a token of mourning for Sir Pitt Crawley s demise yet this heraldic emblem was in itself a very splendid and gaudy piece of furniture and all the rest of the mansion became more brilliant than it had ever been during the late baronet s reign. The black outer-coating of the bricks was removed and they appeared with a cheerful blushing face streaked with white the old bronze lions of the knocker were gilt handsomely the railings painted and the dismallest house in Great Gaunt Street became the smartest in the whole quarter before the green leaves in Hampshire had replaced those yellowing ones which were on the trees in Queen s Crawley Avenue when old Sir Pitt Crawley passed under them for the last time. A little woman with a carriage to correspond was perpetually seen about this mansion an elderly spinster accompanied by a little boy also might be remarked coming thither daily. It was Miss Briggs and little Rawdon whose business it was to see to the inward renovation of Sir Pitt s house to superintend the female band engaged in stitching the blinds and hangings to poke and rummage in the drawers and cupboards crammed with the dirty relics and congregated trumperies of a couple of generations of Lady Crawleys and to take inventories of the china the glass and other properties in the closets and store-rooms. Mrs. Rawdon Crawley was general-in-chief over these arrangements with full orders from Sir Pitt to sell barter confiscate or purchase furniture and she enjoyed herself not a little in an occupation which gave full scope to her taste and ingenuity. The renovation of the house was determined upon when Sir Pitt came to town in November to see his lawyers and when he passed nearly a week in Curzon Street under the roof of his .
