VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 58 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 58 Our Friend the Major Our Major had rendered himself so popular on board the Ramchunder that when he and Mr. Sedley descended into the welcome shore-boat which was to take them from the ship the whole crew men and officers the great Captain Bragg himself leading off gave three cheers for Major Dobbin who blushed very much and ducked his head in token of thanks. Jos who very likely thought the cheers were for himself took off his gold-laced cap and waved it majestically to his friends and they were pulled to shore and landed with great dignity at the pier whence they proceeded to the Royal George Hotel. Although the sight of that magnificent round of beef and the silver tankard suggestive of real British home-brewed ale and porter which perennially greet the eyes of the traveller returning from foreign parts who enters the coffee-room of the George are so invigorating and delightful that a man entering such a comfortable snug homely English inn might well like to stop some days there yet Dobbin began to talk about a post-chaise instantly and was no sooner at Southampton than he wished to be on the road to London. Jos however would not hear of moving that evening. Why was he to pass a night in a post-chaise instead of a great large undulating downy feather-bed which was there ready to replace the horrid little narrow crib in which the portly Bengal gentleman had been confined during the voyage He could not think of moving till his baggage was cleared or of travelling until he could do so with his chillum. So the Major was forced to wait over that night and dispatched a letter to his family announcing his arrival entreating from Jos a promise to write to his own friends. Jos promised but didn t keep his promise. The Captain the surgeon and one or two passengers came and dined with our two gentlemen at the inn Jos exerting himself in a sumptuous way in ordering the dinner and promising to go to town the next day with .
