VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 60 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 60 Returns to the Genteel World Good fortune now begins to smile upon Amelia. We are glad to get her out of that low sphere in which she has been creeping hitherto and introduce her into a polite circle not so grand and refined as that in which our other female friend Mrs. Becky has appeared but still having no small pretensions to gentility and fashion. Jos s friends were all from the three presidencies and his new house was in the comfortable Anglo-Indian district of which Moira Place is the centre. Minto Square Great Clive Street Warren Street Hastings Street Ochterlony Place Plassy Square Assaye Terrace gardens was a felicitous word not applied to stucco houses with asphalt terraces in front so early as 1827 who does not know these respectable abodes of the retired Indian aristocracy and the quarter which Mr. Wenham calls the Black Hole in a word Jos s position in life was not grand enough to entitle him to a house in Moira Place where none can live but retired Members of Council and partners of Indian firms who break after having settled a hundred thousand pounds on their wives and retire into comparative penury to a country place and four thousand a year he engaged a comfortable house of a second or third-rate order in Gillespie Street purchasing the carpets costly mirrors and handsome and appropriate planned furniture by Seddons from the assignees of Mr. Scape lately admitted partner into the great Calcutta House of Fogle Fake and Cracksman in which poor Scape had embarked seventy thousand pounds the earnings of a long and honourable life taking Fake s place who retired to a princely park in Sussex the Fogles have been long out of the firm and Sir Horace Fogle is about to be raised to the peerage as Baron Bandanna admitted I say partner into the great agency house of Fogle and Fake two years before it failed for a million and plunged half the Indian public into misery and ruin. Scape ruined honest and .
