Ivanhoe -Sir Walter Scott- Chapter 18 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott Chapter 18 Away our journey lies through dell and dingle Where the blithe fawn trips by its timid mother Where the broad oak with intercepting boughs Chequers the sunbeam in the green-sward alley---Up and away ---for lovely paths are these To tread when the glad Sun is on his throne Less pleasant and less safe when Cynthia s lamp With doubtful glimmer lights the dreary forest. Ettrick Forest When Cedric the Saxon saw his son drop down senseless in the lists at Ashby his first impulse was to order him into the custody and care of his own attendants but the words choked in his throat. He could not bring himself to acknowledge in presence of such an assembly the son whom he had renounced and disinherited. He ordered however Oswald to keep an eye upon him and directed that officer with two of his serfs to convey Ivanhoe to Ashby as soon as the crowd had dispersed. Oswald however was anticipated in this good office. The crowd dispersed indeed but the knight was nowhere to be seen. It was in vain that Cedric s cupbearer looked around for his young master---he saw the bloody spot on which he had lately sunk down but himself he saw no longer it seemed as if the fairies had conveyed him from the spot. Perhaps Oswald for the Saxons were very superstitious might have adopted some such hypothesis to account for Ivanhoe s disappearance had he not suddenly cast his eye upon a person attired like a squire in whom he recognised the features of his fellow-servant Gurth. Anxious concerning his master s fate and in despair at his sudden disappearance the translated swineherd was searching for him everywhere and had neglected in doing so the concealment on which his own safety depended. Oswald deemed it his duty to secure Gurth as a fugitive of whose fate his master was to judge. Renewing his enquiries concerning the fate of Ivanhoe the only information which the cupbearer could collect from the bystanders was that the knight had been raised with care by .
