VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 65 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 65 Full of Business and Pleasure The day after the meeting at the play-table Jos had himself arrayed with unusual care and splendour and without thinking it necessary to say a word to any member of his family regarding the occurrences of the previous night or asking for their company in his walk he sallied forth at an early hour and was presently seen making inquiries at the door of the Elephant Hotel. In consequence of the fetes the house was full of company the tables in the street were already surrounded by persons smoking and drinking the national small-beer the public rooms were in a cloud of smoke and Mr. Jos having in his pompous way and with his clumsy German made inquiries for the person of whom he was in search was directed to the very top of the house above the first-floor rooms where some travelling pedlars had lived and were exhibiting their jewellery and brocades above the second-floor apartments occupied by the etat major of the gambling firm above the third-floor rooms tenanted by the band of renowned Bohemian vaulters and tumblers and so on to the little cabins of the roof where among students bagmen small tradesmen and country-folks come in for the festival Becky had found a little nest as dirty a little refuge as ever beauty lay hid in. Becky liked the life. She was at home with everybody in the place pedlars punters tumblers students and all. She was of a wild roving nature inherited from father and mother who were both Bohemians by taste and circumstance if a lord was not by she would talk to his courier with the greatest pleasure the din the stir the drink the smoke the tattle of the Hebrew pedlars the solemn braggart ways of the poor tumblers the sournois talk of the gambling-table officials the songs and swagger of the students and the general buzz and hum of the place had pleased and tickled the little woman even when her luck was down and she had not wherewithal to pay her bill. How pleasant
