Ivanhoe -Sir Walter Scott -Chapter 19 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 19 A train of armed men some noble dame Escorting so their scatter d words discover d As unperceived I hung upon their rear Are close at hand and mean to pass the night Within the castle. Orra a Tragedy The travellers had now reached the verge of the wooded country and were about to plunge into its recesses held dangerous at that time from the number of outlaws whom oppression and poverty had driven to despair and who occupied the forests in such large bands as could easily bid defiance to the feeble police of the period. From these rovers however notwithstanding the lateness of the hour Cedric and Athelstane accounted themselves secure as they had in attendance ten servants besides Wamba and Gurth whose aid could not be counted upon the one being a jester and the other a captive. It may be added that in travelling thus late through the forest Cedric and Athelstane relied on their descent and character as well as their courage. The outlaws whom the severity of the forest laws had reduced to this roving and desperate mode of life were chiefly peasants and yeomen of Saxon descent and were generally supposed to respect the persons and property of their countrymen. As the travellers journeyed on their way they were alarmed by repeated cries for assistance and when they rode up to the place from whence they came they were surprised to find a horse-litter placed upon the ground beside which sat a young woman richly dressed in the Jewish fashion while an old man whose yellow cap proclaimed him to belong to the same nation walked up and down with gestures expressive of the deepest despair and wrung his hands as if affected by some strange disaster. To the enquiries of Athelstane and Cedric the old Jew could for some time only answer by invoking the protection of all the patriarchs of the Old Testament successively against the sons of Ishmael who were coming to smite them hip and thigh with the edge of the sword. When he began to come to .
