VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 54 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 54 Sunday After the Battle The mansion of Sir Pitt Crawley in Great Gaunt Street was just beginning to dress itself for the day as Rawdon in his evening costume which he had now worn two days passed by the scared female who was scouring the steps and entered into his brother s study. Lady Jane in her morning-gown was up and above stairs in the nursery superintending the toilettes of her children and listening to the morning prayers which the little creatures performed at her knee. Every morning she and they performed this duty privately and before the public ceremonial at which Sir Pitt presided and at which all the people of the household were expected to assemble. Rawdon sat down in the study before the Baronet s table set out with the orderly blue books and the letters the neatly docketed bills and symmetrical pamphlets the locked account-books desks and dispatch boxes the Bible the Quarterly Review and the Court Guide which all stood as if on parade awaiting the inspection of their chief. A book of family sermons one of which Sir Pitt was in the habit of administering to his family on Sunday mornings lay ready on the study table and awaiting his judicious selection. And by the sermon-book was the Observer newspaper damp and neatly folded and for Sir Pitt s own private use. His gentleman alone took the opportunity of perusing the newspaper before he laid it by his master s desk. Before he had brought it into the study that morning he had read in the journal a flaming account of Festivities at Gaunt House with the names of all the distinguished personages invited by tho Marquis of Steyne to meet his Royal Highness. Having made comments upon this entertainment to the housekeeper and her niece as they were taking early tea and hot buttered toast in the former lady s apartment and wondered how the Rawding Crawleys could git on the valet had damped and folded the paper once more so that it looked quite fresh and .
